Michael Fassbender: Portraying An Addict’s ‘Shame’
In the past year, actor Michael Fassbender has played a mutant villain in X-Men: First Class, psychoanalyst Carl Jung in …
Dolly Parton Makes A ‘Joyful Noise’ On Big Screen
Joyful Noise shows audiences just how saucy two church divas can get when trying to save something they believe in. …
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‘The Fault In Our Stars’: Love In A Time Of Cancer
In his Pulitzer Prize–winning book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee writes that as recently …
Bread Redux: Don’t Throw Out Those Stale Loaves
In our home, the start of the New Year represents a fair amount of house cleaning. It’s an opportunity to …
‘The Flame Alphabet’: When Language Turns Toxic
In an election year, nasty rhetoric is par for the course. But what if all that toxic language was, well, …
‘Tuesdays With Dorie’: A Community In The Kitchen
New Year’s resolutions have notoriously short lifetimes, but for a blogger in Pittsburgh named Laura Woodward, a promise to herself …
The Little Willies: For The Wrenching ‘Good Times’
It’s been six years since The Little Willies released an eponymous debut album. The New York City band is best …
‘A Separation’ Of Hearts, Minds And Ideas In Iran
Over the past 30-odd years, we’ve grown used to thinking of Iran and the United States as enemies — from …
The State Of The Tiara: What Ever Happened To Miss America?
The most intriguing ratings news about the telecast of Saturday night’s Miss America pageant is that the ratings grew significantly …
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