Crossbones starts with some good old pirate-style melodrama, a flashback that explains the origins of this version of the story. Though we don’t know yet how Blackbeard’s capture occurred, ...

Skull and crossbones fashions are all the rage this fall and winter — not just on Halloween! The trend started with the release this summer of "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," the ...

It was once the stuff of bikers and rebels. It meant danger. Poison. Trouble ahead. Now the skull-and-crossbones design more likely means “Pirates of the Caribbean” and a boatload of re… ...

John Malkovich as a low-talking, pajama-wearing Col. Kurtzian Blackbeard is certainly the main draw of NBC’s new pirate drama, “Crossbones,” but he’s not the only attraction. Slipstreaming ...

LOS ANGELES — The real Blackbeard was a notorious English-born pirate who was chased down and beheaded by a Colonial naval force off the coast of North Carolina in 1718, when he was believed ...