UNDERWORLD. The term underworld refers to the subterranean region inhabited by the dead. It is often the place of punishment of the wicked, the unrighteous, the unredeemed, the unbelieving, or the lost. The concept of an underworld is an ingredient in...

In the study of mythology and religion, the underworld is a generic term approximately equivalent to the lay term afterlife, referring to any place to which newly dead souls go. See also: descent to the underworld and psychopomp Rulers of the...

"... Bigness is a theoretical domain at this fin de siecle: in a landscape of disarray, disassembly, dissociation, disclamation, the attraction of Bigness is its potential to reconstruct the Whole, resurrect the Real, reinvent the collective, reclaim maximum possibility." - Rem Koolhaas...

36 319 Auf der Nachtseite der Welt hausen Vampire und Werwölfe. Seit Jahrtausenden führen sie einen Vernichtungskrieg gegeneinander. Da dieser bei aller Brutalität doch gewissen Regeln unterliegt, blieben die Menschen bislang unberührt. Doch eines Tages beginnen die Werwölfe einen Menschen zu jagen: Hier...

Some underworld figures whose stories will be told when Las Vegas opens its mob museum:Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel.Pioneered Las Vegas as America's glamorous gambling capital, opening the lavish Flamingo hotel-casino in 1946. Rubbed out in 1947 in Beverly Hills, Calif. Hollywood handsome, he was played by...

Baby-faced author Vikram Chandra, in brown V-neck sweater and sipping a skimmed latte, does not immediately strike you as a guy who has spent most of the past decade hanging out with gangsters.Nor does the soft-spoken novelist swagger like someone who has become an international...