Category: Culture

Not Worth Mentioning?

Want to watch a trailer? They’re all on YouTube. Need to know where you’ve seen that balding character actor before? Cross-reference him on IMDb.com. It’s

The ‘Shut Up’ Label

“Don’t listen to him, he’s just a [fill in blank here]” You may not have noticed as the world has subtly changed, but labels have

Have Movie, Will Text?

My wife and I both like going to a good movie. She may not ramble on afterwards about a pic’s artistic nuances and production values

Actresses Without Makeup

Every parent of a teenage daughter has, at some point, wrestled with the makeup issue. Should it be allowed? If so, when? What kind? And

Girls With Bows

Call it the Katniss Effect. Around the country, anecdotal evidence suggests that a fair number of girls are picking up Hunger Games heroine Katniss Everdeen’s

Dick Clark: 1929-2012

“Dick Clark died today” I said last night as my family put dinner together. “Who?” my daughter-in-law asked. Who? Who’s Dick Clark?! That was what

A Changing (Miss) Universe

If you’ve had any questions about whether or not our society is going through some cultural twistings and turnings, here’s another news story that lands

Age Before Beauty

Jennifer Aniston is old. Not old old, mind you—but at 43, she’s older than Shaquille O’Neal, and he’s been retired for years. She’s older than

Plugged In Parent’s Guide to Today’s Technology

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