According to most Oscar prognosticators, this year’s race to the Academy Awards Best Picture statuette may be a two-horse affair between The King’s Speech and The Social Network. Both are based on true stories. The question is just how true both adapta …
Dr. Dre has spent the last decade or so practicing his hip-hop medicine on others. His own work’s been mostly on hold. Why? The obscenity-riddled, angel-enhanced and Eminem-related story’s all on this track.
A friend of mine tells me his 3-year-old loves to play computer games. He shares that fact with equal parts pride, alarm and shock that she can navigate some of them better than he can. He’s not alone. According to a new survey, 61% of American childre …
Despite all the accolades Brandon Heath has received and the opportunities he’s been given, he seems pretty grounded, as evidenced by song lyrics firmly planted in humility, service and God’s majesty.
Nope, that headline is not my own witty turn of phrase. (I wish.) It’s been floating around the media for the last few weeks—ever since thousands of birds mysteriously died and fell out of the sky over various U.S. states, as well as several other coun …
How do you go about telling your best friend about his wife and … a guy named Zip? This dreadful dilemma, though, isn’t even the biggest in the film.
There are several things that I don’t cross: pit bulls, grouchy neighbors and the early-morning lineup of people at Starbucks. The latter haven’t had their caffeine yet. Starbucks will turn 40 this year. As an anniversary promotion that will “carry thi …
Britney takes a cue from—of all the odd musical inspirations—the Bellamy Brothers. Well, at least her lyrics do.
This just in, ripped from the week’s headlines: “Justin Bieber is more influential than Barack Obama and Dalai Lama.” Yeah, I had to question that statement at first, too. So let me qualify: It’s in terms of social media sway, according to the online m …
There’s a profound question lurking in this twangy tearjerker: Why is the word strong in its title? Gwyneth Paltrow’s crooning character may claim she’s hearty, but she’s far from it. Is her story?
With 550 million members and counting, Facebook has enough people to be the world’s third largest country. And if you doubt the site’s influence over communication and behavior, an Oxygen Media study found that about 33% of women aged 18-34 check Faceb …
For more than 20 years, my father had osteoarthritis in both hips. It slowed him down, caused constant pain and frustrated him greatly—you could tell at times by the look on his face. But I never heard him talk about it, let alone complain. Ever. I did …
Ah, the DSM. Or, for the less initiated, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, otherwise known as the psychiatrist’s bible of mental disorders. It sat on the bookshelves of several former roommates who were either medical students or psychologists. An …
It was just a shopping bag from Neiman Marcus! A big sack that was tattered at its corners and sprawled inconveniently across the kitchen counter. One of my old college roommates lugged everything in that heavy-duty catchall: books, groceries, mail or …
