June 11, 2009 Archive

Video

• DVD Review: Penn & Teller B.S. - The Complete Sixth Season

  Penn & Teller tackle ten more topics and dig through the b.s.

  Review in Video — by Cinema Sentries — on Jun 11, 2009

• DVD Review: Alphabet Exercise

  A fun way to combine letter recognition and with simple printing instruction and physical activity; perfect for hands-on learners.

  Review in Video — by Jennifer Bogart — on Jun 11, 2009

• DVD Review: RiffTrax - Reefer Madness

  an unintentionally funny and overly serious look at the drug once dubbed in the 1930s as public enemy number one.

  Review in Video — by Derek Fleek — on Jun 11, 2009

• New Movies and Box Office Predictions: Imagine That, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

  New movies are here again; blockbuster week seven.

  News in Video — by Chris Beaumont — on Jun 11, 2009

• DVD Review: RiffTrax: Reefer Madness and RiffTrax: Little Shop of Horrors

  More making-fun-of-movies goodness from the guys who brought you MST3K.

  Review in Video — by Dusty Somers — on Jun 11, 2009

• DVD Review: No Country for Old Men (3-Disc Collector's Edition)

  No Country for Old Men receives the royal 3-Disc treatment.

  Review in Video — by Joshua Wiebe — on Jun 11, 2009

• Movie Review: The Last International Playboy

  This romantic drama's biggest shocker: nudity, indie rock and a NYC setting can’t cover up it's weak plot.

  Review in Video — by Kevin Gustafson — on Jun 11, 2009

• Unhappy Trails: Suicide at the Movies

  No way out?

  Opinion in Video — by The Crow — on Jun 11, 2009

• DVD Review: Passengers

  Hathaway can't save this meaningless stinker.

  Review in Video — by Jordan Richardson — on Jun 11, 2009

Music

• Music Review: Heather Kropf – Hestia

  Evocative and fragile, Kropf sounds like she’s tapping into subconscious terrain, unearthing impressions that aren’t yet crystallized.

  Review in Music — by Donald Gibson — on Jun 11, 2009

• Music Review: Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus

  Two albums, ten tracks, and not a bad one among them. Saxophone Colossus, indeed.

  Review in Music — by Greg Barbrick — on Jun 11, 2009

• Music Review: Rancid - Let the Dominoes Fall

  Rancid returns with an album of depth, honesty, and joy.

  Review in Music — by Jordan Richardson — on Jun 11, 2009

• Music Review – The Warlocks: The Mirror Explodes

  You’ve Reached Nirvana.

  Review in Music — by Lou Novacheck — on Jun 11, 2009

Sports

• Columbus Clippers Lose To The Louisville Bats 6-1

  The start of a 3-game battle for Ohio began, as the Indians and the Reds AAA teams battled it out.

  News in Sports — by Robert M. Barga — on Jun 11, 2009

Books

• Book Review: Dred Scott's Revenge: A Legal History by Judge Andrew Napolitano

  Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst Andrew Napolitano looks at the history of race and exposes both the good and the bad in this thought-provoking book.

  Review in Books — by Daddypundit — on Jun 11, 2009

• Book Review: The Book of Grandparents: A Celebration of a Very Special Kind of Love

  A lovely and powerful reflection on grandparenting.

  Review in Books — by Maggie Ball — on Jun 11, 2009

• Book Review: Hunter S. Thompson: An Insider's View by Jay Cowan

  A memoir of a shared experience and a seemingly balanced assessment of Thompson.

  Review in Books — by Gordon S. Miller — on Jun 11, 2009

• Book Review: Vamped by Lucienne Diver

  Hip, perky teenage vampires are comfortably familiar in this literary agent’s first YA novel.

  Review in Books — by Vyrdolak — on Jun 11, 2009

• Book Review: Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson

  An easy, entertaining biography of the English language's greatest writer.

  Review in Books — by CB — on Jun 11, 2009

• Graphic Novel Review: The Umbrella Academy by Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba

  My Chemical Romance rocker Gerard Way branches out to comics with a fantastic first miniseries.

  Review in Books — by Patrick — on Jun 11, 2009

• Book Review: Faith and Will: Weathering the Storms by Julia Cameron

  The author tells gutsy, personal, authentic things about herself that other people typically hide.

  Review in Books — by Karen Bentley — on Jun 11, 2009

• Book Review: How to Sell When Nobody's Buying by Dave Lakhani

  How to sell in this inconvenient economy.

  Review in Books — by Dr. Rachna D. Jain — on Jun 11, 2009

• Book Review: Knitting in Tuscany by Nicky Epstein and Japanese Inspired Knits by Marianne Isager

  Two knitting books inspired by faraway lands...

  Review in Books — by Alyse Wax — on Jun 11, 2009

Gaming

• iPhone Game Review: Wordology

  It is like scrabble, text twist, and a crossword puzzle all rolled into one

  Review in Gaming — by Robert M. Barga — on Jun 11, 2009

Sci/Tech

• Your Sex: How Lesbian or Gay Are You?

  All men and women are attracted to their same sex; it is merely a matter of degree.

  Opinion in Sci/Tech — by Regis Schilken — on Jun 11, 2009

• You Can Sculpt Your Brain Like You Sculpt Your Muscles

  Can changing your mind really change what happens to you?

  Opinion in Sci/Tech — by antoniothornton — on Jun 11, 2009

Politics

• Warnings, Alerts and the Bogeyman

  The Government warns us to wash our hands when we sneeze but not about a much more dangerous hazard.

  Opinion in Politics — by Maureen Jeanson — on Jun 11, 2009

• Colin Powell: The Most Misunderstood Man in Politics

  Colin Powell is in an interesting individual: a paradox. And now, he is reemerging on America's political stage.

  Opinion in Politics — by Ink and Virtue — on Jun 11, 2009

Culture

• Satire: Economic News You Can Use

  Airplane windows replaced with duct tape and a sheet of plastic.

  Satire in Culture — by The Crow — on Jun 11, 2009