Posted in Books, News on Mar 4th, 2010

Any book is a good book because it gets people reading. Seth Grahame-Smith got people reading with his kooky literary mashup Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which has a million copies in print. Now he’s back with Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. The genre is hot. Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters followed Zombies last year. Pride and [...]
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Posted in Books on Mar 3rd, 2010

Sometimes I think that the greatest thrill of a Peanuts cartoon strip came not from the characters it had, but rather from the characters it didn’t have. Namely grown-ups. There was not a grown-up to be found anywhere in the lives of Charlie Brown and his chums. Not even one. No parents, no teachers no [...]
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Posted in Books, DVD, Film, Music, Television on Feb 28th, 2010

TV: “The Pacific”
The $200 million follow-up miniseries to the award-winning World War II miniseries “Band of Brothers,” from Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. March 14, HBO.
Movie: “Alice In Wonderland”
Johnny Depp and director Tim Burton take on the Lewis Carroll classic. March 5.
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Posted in Books, Music, News, Pop Culture, Television on Feb 26th, 2010

SNL has three new shows in a row. Saturday: Jennifer Lopez (host and musical guest); Zack Galifianakis and Vampire Weekend (March 6); Jude Law and Pearl Jam (March 13).
Conan O’Brien has opened a Twitter account… and already has over 300,000 followers.
John Grisham is going to write his first children’s book series. The first book [...]
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Posted in Books, Pop Culture, Television on Feb 19th, 2010

Winter Olympics
Every four years we’re captivated by the drama and beauty of The Games on snow and ice.
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Posted in Books on Feb 3rd, 2010

by Elizabeth Bard
Little, Brown
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In the first few pages of Elizabeth’s Bard’s delectable and enchanting memoir, she writes: “I like to think I was born in the wrong century.” Thus begins her story of leaving the familiar terrain of the northeastern United States to study and later work in Europe. In [...]
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Posted in Books on Jan 25th, 2010

Flammarion
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Had you been in my living when I first opened this book, you may have caught a glimpse of me actually trying to lick the pages. While the oh-so-delicate Parisian treats may be small in the flesh, in the pages of “Paris Patisseries,” they are larger-than-life. In fact, the book should [...]
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