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Bartender Derek Brown suggests bitters to enliven your cocktails.  "Whenever you taste bitters, there's this visceral reaction [that] sends a signal directly to your brain: 'These are going to kill you -- or these could be fun,'" he says. Jim Webb hide caption

Emily and Barbara, played by Kelley Menighan Hensley and Colleen Zenk, spend some of their last broadcast time together on As the World Turns. CBS.com hide caption

How much would you pay to live here? Farmville Facebook Photo hide caption

A New Orleans citizen waves the city's flag in a scene from Spike Lee's documentary If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise. Charley Varley / HBO hide caption

Josh Henderson makes his burgers with grass-fed beef from Oregon, cambazola cheese, fresh arugula and a homemade condiment called "bacon jam." Charla Bear/KPLU hide caption

Wendell Pierce, a veteran of David Simon's The Wire, plays trombonist Antoine Batiste on Simon's new HBO series, Treme. He's also working to revive Pontchartrain Park, the New Orleans neighborhood where he grew up. Paul Schiraldi/HBO hide caption

Philip Rosedale created the virtual world of "Second Life" based on the "Metaverse" of Neal Stephenson's science fiction novel Snow Crash. AFP/AFP hide caption