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Contributor: Plugged In Staff

You’re Pierced Now?!

My first thought was, Eww. She looked dirty. Like her hair was matted and could have used a long visit with Head & Shoulders. Then there was that huge nose ring. I hadn’t seen many pierced nostrils before—and only “bad girls” did it then—but Christ …

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Guessed List?

Last week, Virginia couple Tareq and Michaela Salahi allegedly crashed a state dinner in honor of India’s prime minister. The Salahis—who also are said to have invaded the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Awards Dinner—claim they were uncertain …

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Ninja Assassin

Fast-forward this fierce film past its vicious and violent bits and you’d end up with about the equivalent of a TV sitcom. Not that these ninjas are a laughing matter.

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Doctors and Secretaries and Moms, Oh, My!

Last month on a flight to the West Coast I sat next to a young woman who’d just gotten her Ph.D. in sociology. She was also a Christian, and like me, she’d spent serious time overseas. But unlike me, she was appalled by how American women are “marginal …

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The Fame Monster

After cutting her teeth in NYC nightclubs, the now superstar Lady Gaga is trying to “out Madonna” Madonna on the pop scene. So will her second release, an EP titled The Fame Monster, become … infamous?

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For Your Entertainment

If American Idol didn’t make Adam Lambert a household name. His S&M-infused performance at the American Music Awards did. So just how far does he take things on his debut album?

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Battle Studies

You never know what’s going to come out of John Mayer’s mouth next—when he’s talking or singing. So we were eager to investigate whether Battle Studies was more thoughtful introspection or an unapologetic nod to obvious vice.

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Echo

There was a lot to like about Leona Lewis’ first album, Spirit, in 2007. Does her second studio album, Echo, offer as much?

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Axl Rose Meets Jesus?

I’m wrestling with something. A couple of weeks ago, an acquaintance said that her Denver-area church had sung the Guns N’ Roses’ hit “Paradise City” during its worship service. I considered those lyrics and wondered how they could inspire Christians. …

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Amelia

Amelia Earhart is one of the world’s most intriguing missing persons. Her life captivates millions even seven decades after her disappearance. Does the movie that bears her name do her justice?

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Southern Voice

Vice and virtue are both modulate the tone of Southern Voice as Mr. Faith Hill talks up Billy Graham, Jesus, NASCAR, dancin’ drinkin’ and last call romps.

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The Balloon Boy Has Landed (in Court)

Last week, 6-year-old Falcon Heene and his weird-science family made headlines when the boy was thought to have been caught up inside a helium balloon. For more than two hours the silver saucer-shaped craft drifted from Ft. Collins, Colo., to the field …

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Where the Wild Things Are

Nine-year-old Max sails away to an imaginary island after an argument with his mother. Will the Wild Things living there eat him or love him? Maybe both …

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Why The Beatles Are More Important Than Pie

That Monday night, like most Monday nights, the Walnut Grove community was going through a dire dilemma. I can’t remember what their trial was during that episode, but I know that I, a child who’d savored each Little House on the Prairie book, was entr …

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An Education

Sixteen-year-old Jenny wants more verve in her life than her staid English schoolgirl existence is delivering. Her salvation seems to arrive in charming sophisticate David, a man more than twice her age.

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