Contributor: Plugged In Staff

Here’s a fact: If you don’t watch TV for about a year, it’s amazing how weird turning it back on feels. Your once desensitized self notices everything that goes on in that tube. I know this because when I lived abroad I didn’t often have access to Engl …

“Mine” is Miss Swift’s account of her first, sweet realization that she’s in a committed relationship. She ends up lauding two great ideas … and one bad habit.

Sin, judgment and a strangled plea for salvation consume Linkin Park’s “The Catalyst,” the first single from the September 2010 album A Thousand Suns.

Almost 10 years after the original movie, canines everywhere are in big trouble—if dogs and cats can’t figure out a way to play nice for long enough to stop the mean cats from taking over.

Even though “teen toxing,” as Botox use among teenagers has been dubbed, is still relatively rare, it’s on the rise. In 2009, 11,889 teenagers ages 13 through 19 used Botox, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. That’s a 2% increase si …

Trey Songz’s hit song “Bottoms Up” tips the barkeep for a whole lot more than just Jell-O shots.

For the past week I’ve been looking for guinea pigs. No, pet rodents are not running around my house. I’m looking for people to help me with a study of sorts. I wanted someone—whether an individual or a family—to do a media fast for, ideally, a month. …

You tell me. The world doesn’t make much sense anymore, and I need some guidance: Is Colton Harris-Moore a role model? Until his capture in the Bahamas on Sunday, this 19-year-old “Barefoot Bandit” from Washington state had been on a two-year crime spr …

The Newsboys have been reborn with new frontman Michael Tait. Can this former dcTalk singer continue the Australian band’s long history of Christian rock that makes people wonder what they’ve got?

Kidnapped from earth, dropped onto a faraway planet and then hunted by giant, nasty, sometimes-invisible aliens. It’s a human safari in this sequel.

After a long week (and it was only Tuesday), I was tired enough to get under the covers and curl up with a cat before the sky was dark. Instead of snoozing, though, I turned on the TV and was introduced to ABC’s Downfall. Oh, it was bad. Really bad. Co …

The nations of Air, Water, Earth and Fire are at war. And only a young avatar named Aang can bring stability and harmony back to this war-torn world. Will he succeed, or should this film (based on a popular Nickelodeon animated series) be left out in the elements?

Facebook and other social networking resources are becoming big factors when it comes to divorce, according to a new study by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. In fact, four out of every five  attorneys say they’ve seen an increase in the nu …

As I type, my right shoulder blade feels like a World Cup player is dribbling it. For the last three days my favorite companions have been a heating pad, an ice pack and some aspirin. Why? Well, it’s not because I played anything fun like softball or u …

Jonah Hex is cursed. But as he shoots, stabs, burns and pummels his enemies, it really doesn’t seem to bother him too much.