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The Maze Runner dashes into theaters this Friday. And while Thomas and his buddies are hoping to leave their green glade in the movie, its

My wife and I regularly have conversations about whether something on TV is appropriate for our children (ages 4, 5 and 7). I’m not going

I love the library. Ever since I was a kid, the library has been a wonderland of knowledge, art and hardcover-bound literary adventure. It was

One featured a creepy killer. The other featured a tail-less dolphin. Together, they managed to do something that even a certain megalomaniacal villain with an

September is a month of tradition—of rote ceremony that we observe to mark the beginning of another fall. School has just begun or is beginning.

The movie Dolphin Tale 2, which releases tomorrow, is a secular story. You won’t find preachers laying hands on injured dolphins or anyone discovering eternal

We spend a fair bit of time at Plugged In keeping tabs on stories and studies correlating how entertainment and culture influence the choices we make.

Addictions and hard-to-break habits have been around forever. When I was a kid, for instance, one of the country’s big addiction problems involved that leafy,

They don’t call the universe the “black void of space” for nothing. Everything we see and can detect out there—stars, planets, galaxies—makes up just 4%

Earlier this summer, former Nickelodeon actress turned pop/R&B singer Ariana Grande nearly topped the charts with her catchy throwback hit “Problem.” And after reviewing the