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Even though he’s been gone for more than 40 years, Jackie Robinson can still smash one out of the park. The baseball biopic 42 circled

Roopa Raju began working roughly 10 hours a day as a rag picker when she was just a little girl. What’s a rag picker? Well,

What would you do if you found out you had an identical twin sibling on the other side of the world that you never knew

I went to a meeting at my daughter’s middle school on Monday that I really didn’t want to go to. No, she hadn’t done anything

One of the questions we’re regularly asked by Plugged In constituents is why we review a particular movie, TV show, album, song or video game

We must open the book. It’s frightening, I know. Its pages likely hold profane secrets—secrets so terrible that we hesitate to mention them. And yet,

Film critic Roger Ebert died yesterday, just a couple of days after he announced he was taking a step back from his job to battle

We at Plugged In often mull over the effects that some new media release might have on our families. And all too often we’ll have to,

An alien dropped by the other day. His name was Fred. He was nice enough, this Fred. As soon as he set down his sparkly

When I was a teen I could not wait to get my learner’s permit. Then I was on pins and needles the whole time I had