Who’s Listening to Your Voicemail?
For some time now, reporters, writers and the many scribes of our day have been nervously worrying over the changing face, and apparent declining market share, of journalism. The dreaded Internet has been sucking the air out of media’s sails, especially on the print side. And a few years back the biz buzz was that […]
The Face of Things to Come
We Americans have had our share of entertaining pretenders. From yesteryear’s The Monkees to Disney’s Lemonade Mouth, there have been plenty of producer-created bands and groups designed to charm us with their pretty faces and captivate us with well-turned tunes (even when, in some cases, they weren’t even singing). But even our best crowd-pleasing Svengalis […]
A Gunman’s Facebook Status
In one of the more bizarre examples of social networking give and take, an armed 36-year-old guy named Jason Valdez recently held a woman hostage at a Utah motel in a 16-hour standoff with police … while regularly updating his Facebook status. “I’m currently in a standoff … kinda ugly, but ready for whatever,” Valdez […]
The Difference a Teen Mom Makes
Recently, a new report called “The Millennials, Religion, and Abortion Survey” was released by the Public Religion Research Institute. It’s being characterized as one of the largest surveys ever to measure the relationships between people’s moral and spiritual values and their views on abortion. In addition to correlating young people’s views on abortion with demographic […]
The Current Cautionary Call
Let’s face facts. If you take everything we watch, read and hear at face value, our modern life is out to get us. It’s like that movie moment that’s been filmed and re-filmed at least a hundred times. You know the one I’m talking about. Some guy or gal finally gets past a threatening danger, […]
A New Kind of Pitch
Writer/director/producer J.J. Abrams is, of course, the guy behind mysterious and spooky sci-fi faves such as Lost and Cloverfield. And you’ve probably heard that he’s got a new flick called Super 8 coming out June 10. But you may not have heard about the film’s viral marketing that’s swirling around in the digital wind and […]
The Next Big Wave?
For those of you still wondering what wooden stake or silver cross might finally send all the vampires scurrying from our entertainment landscape, it appears the answer is gurgling up from the deep. If the rumors and messages in floating bottles are true, mermaids will soon be the next big thing. Starting with this week’s […]
Sit and Die
I’ve got some bad news for you. Right now, while you’re sitting there reading this … you’re killing yourself. Yep, a study published in Medicine & Science in Sports and Exercise found that those who sit for most of the day are 54% more likely to die of heart attacks than those who are up […]
Just Forget It
Whether you were a fan or not, 2004’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was something of a mind-blower (pun intended). A logline description of the Jim Carrey indy pic might read: A couple, both devastated by their failed relationship, have memories of each other wiped from their brains. For all of its problems, the […]
The Stranger On the Other End
Think about this for a second: When you plug into the Internet and chat with people from potentially anywhere around the world, do you really know who you’re connected with? Can you be sure of who’s using who’s phone or signed in on who’s email account? The Web offers us fabulous access, but even teens […]