With a slow turn of the knob, you open the door of whatever sucker in your family decided to open their house to drunken relatives, gravy stains, and a pile of dishes that will take Christmas to clean up. The smell of roasting meat and piles of desserts assault your...

Source: Eros Hoagland/HBO (NY Times) It was an awkward silence; only broken by a cough in the back of the room. A week after the 9/11 attacks and my freshman journalist class had settled into a routine of homework and facetious inquiry; the result of the boredom and...

Source: EW.com Everything was the same. The sticky theater floor beneath my feet  The smell of artificial butter wafting through the carpeted building. The cacophony of squeals, teenie-bop catch-phrases, and professions of love for actors that will never even know...

(Photo by Jeffrey Phelps/Associated Press) "This is an assault on American values."-Malkit Gill, President of the NE Sikh Study Circle of Milford, MA As far as the Sikh's I've spoken too are concerened, when Wade Michael Page allegedly openned fire on a temple just...

(Photo courtesy cartoonstock.com) "Researchers from Canada found that physical punishment (such as slapping, hitting, pushing and shoving) -- even without child neglect or physical, sexual or emotional abuse -- was linked to mood disorders, anxiety disorders,...

(Photo courtesy Google Images) "I look like snuggles accountant."- Ted (the animated teddy bear) Wildy inapropriate and a laugh-out loud riot, Ted is like that buddy from the South shore that cracks you up every time you go out and usually gets you arrested for a...

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” ― Bob Marley  But when it does hits you, really good music can touch on the inside in a very special way. The room was dimly lit; the smell of ale and richly prepared food filling the air and the low...

After a series of slap-together-coasting-on-nostalgia-big-box-office-names movies as a set up, Avengers was a pleasant and unexpected surprise. The plots was believable (as far as comic book movies go,) the dialogue was smart and funny, and the action scenes did not...

Flipping through the movie channels after satisfying day of doing nothing but eat, sleep and read a few chapters of my latest book, my twitching thumb found itself at a dead stop; captivated by the images on the screen and the dialogue, rather conversation, ALL...