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Music Videos Shape Teens’ Values
MTV doesn’t focus much on music these days. But the medium that the cable channel helped pioneer back in the 1980s, the music video, continues
Interstellar Stares at the Stars. And So Can We.
There is something in the stars that stirs us. We see the infinite space crease and fold and stretch and twist, the sky both so
Home’ is Where the Money Is
All right now, click your heels together and repeat after me: There’s no movie like Home. There’s no movie like Home. There’s no movie like
The Phenomenon That Is Garth Brooks
There aren’t a lot of musicians these days that can sell out arenas. But as of last fall, and coming out of “retirement,” Garth Brooks
The Cost of Cutting Cable
This past weekend, I cut the cable cord. And immediately broke into a cold sweat. “Could I do it?” I wondered while fighting the urge
A Tweet Birthday Message
Twitter can be mean. It can be nasty. But sometimes it can be the little ray of sunshine that I imagine its creators always hoped
A Conversation With Beyond the Mask Screenwriter Paul McCusker
In Beyond the Mask, a new Christian action-adventure movie set before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a former assassin for the East India
Insurgent Conquers Box Office
In the Divergent franchise, people typically fill one of five primary factions: Abnegation, Amity, Candor, Dauntless and Erudite. But this weekend, another faction was in
Unpacking Madonna’s Spiritual Beliefs
Madonna’s 13th album, Rebel Heart, includes quite a lot of spiritual imagery—sometimes couching temptation in terms of a struggle requiring divine assistance, other times merging
Stepping Into the Cool, Creepy World of Health Tech
I recently upgraded my phone to a snazzy iPhone 6. It works just as well as my old iPhone did, only with a bigger screen. I
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