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How much do video games—especially violent ones—influence young players? That’s an ongoing question in our culture, and one that we hear in the media virtually

Shortly after I read Bob Hoose’s blog on the troubled post-pubescence of Justin Bieber, I learned that Shirley Temple Black—the first and perhaps greatest of

You may feel like you’ve heard more than enough about gone-slightly-crazy young celebs as of late, but, hey, the “fun” never seems to stop in

Sure, it’s only been out for one weekend. But it’s still not too early to call The LEGO Movie a real blockbuster. One hundred minutes

For those of you reading who are in your teens or twenties, let me say this: When you get to be about 50, I can

Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman died Feb. 2, found in his New York apartment with, we’re told, a heroin syringe sticking out of his arm. He

Every 21st-century parent has to deal with the issue of technology at some point. And even if your stance is a conservative one—strictly limiting, say,

There’s been lots of bad news lately about the Grammys. (And the Denver Broncos, too, but that’s another subject entirely.) So with such a dark

Even though the nation’s collective attention was turned toward a certain football game in New Jersey, most movie theaters across the country were still open

“He was dangerous to the government. If he had said, ‘Bomb the White House tomorrow,’ there would have been 10,000 people who would have done