After serving as an associate editor at NavPress’ Discipleship Journal and consulting editor for Current Thoughts and Trends, Adam now oversees the editing and publishing of Plugged In’s reviews as the site’s director. He and his wife, Jennifer, have three children. In their free time, the Holzes enjoy playing games, a variety of musical instruments, swimming and … watching movies.
Last week, Common Sense Media published the results of a new survey about young children and how much screen time they’re getting these days. In short, they’re getting a lot of it. Chalk it up to the proliferation of screens of all kinds. Once upon a t …
It’s all in the title of Justin Bieber’s Christmas album—where liplocks get more play than the season itself.
Firebrand Miranda Lambert recently married fellow country singer Blake Shelton. But if you think her music’s been similarly domesticated, you’d better read this review.
The latest offering from this rising British alt-rock act plunges listeners into an ocean of romanticized melancholy that drifts into some very dark places.
Hunter S. Thompson’s story about a journalist struggling to save his soul and find his voice blends alcohol-fueled hedonism with equal parts absurdity and social outrage.
‘The Fly’ director David Cronenberg is once again bludgeoning theatergoers. This time with a dark tale of mass murder, combative sex and deadly deception.
Coldplay’s latest is a concept album grasping (sometimes beyond its reach) at transcendent meaning as a young couple struggles against a dystopian government.
Yesterday I posted on a spat of sorts between Maroon 5’s Adam Levine and American Idol producer Nigel Lythgoe over how American Idol and The Voice differ when it comes to handling contestants’ sexuality. I’d like to now add this: Our postmodern culture …
A little over a month ago, two high-profile folks in the music industry got into an interesting argument about the place of homosexuality in our culture. And I think it’s a conversation that deserves a bit more scrutiny: What it says about our society …
Turn off the TV. That’s the blunt message from the American Academy of Pediatrics to parents of children under the age of 2. And even though the organization has been delivering essentially the same message since 1999, new research in the last 12 years …
Evanescence frontwoman Amy Lee has built her career on brooding, melodramatic angst. And nearly a decade after she got started, not much has changed.
It’s easy to get all misty-eyed about the past. After all, we don’t call them the “good ol’ days” for nothing. But memory is a funny thing. And sometimes we don’t remember things quite as clearly as we might think. Nor, for that matter, were the so-cal …
