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I Want It Cheap, and I Want It Now!
One of the ways technology and consumerism interact in our culture is this: Technology is ever advancing, it seems, in its ability to give us
Movie Tuesday: The Dark Knight Rises
As promised, here’s a quick wrap of the weekend’s top money-earners. No bad puns this time around, though. 1. The Dark Knight Rises, $160.9 million
Living in Gotham
Out of respect for the people killed or injured during the theater shooting in Aurora, Colo., July 20, Warner Bros. (the company behind The Dark
A Dark Night
Early this morning, a shooter—allegedly 24-year-old James Holmes, according to police—opened fire in an Aurora, Colo., movie theater midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises.
Emmy Nominees: Rated TV-MA
Nominees for this year’s Emmy awards were released this morning, and many of the nominees have been showered with Emmy love many times before. AMC’s
The Bright Future of Video Gaming (Really!)
If you’ve seen almost any sci-fi movie set in the future, you know what kind of a bleak, dismal place it’s going to be. According
Out of India
I just got back from India. Along with a handful of other folks, I was a guest of Friends Church of Yorba Linda, Calif., on
Movie Monday: Ice Age Drifts to the Front
Wedged between two iconic superheroes, Manny made the most of it. The lumbering mammoth and his motley band of prehistoric pals pulled Ice Age: Continental
Seventeen’s Pledge: Do You Buy It?
Julia Bluhm is one of my heroes. Recently, the 14-year-old took on Seventeen magazine, armed only with an online petition and a passion for seeing
Why Batman Must Die
The Dark Knight Rises lands in theaters on July 20. And already there’s feverish speculation regarding just how high the opening-weekend box office will go—specifically,
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