Feature: The Hot Topic

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• Hot Topic: Persistent Reading Decisions

  With the world drowning in books, what criteria does one wield when choosing which one to read?

  Opinion by Aaron Fleming — on Aug 29, 2007

• Hot Topic: Travel and Adventure

  Devoted to travel and getting away either to escape the heat, the cold, or to start a new adventure.

  Opinion by Mary K. Williams — on Aug 02, 2007

• The Hot Topic: Selling Out

  Your crack team of investigative pop culture reporters tackle the hot topic of the day: When is selling out, really selling out?

  Opinion by Mat Brewster — on Feb 08, 2007

• The Hot Topic: Foreign Language Films

  Don't be afraid; they're only subtitles.

  Opinion by Mat Brewster — on Apr 10, 2006

• The Hot Topic: Kleenex or Adrenaline - A Look at Chick Flicks

  So, here I am, yakking about movies. A gurl at that, in the midst of the Boys of Mondo.

  Opinion by Mary K. Williams — on Mar 24, 2006

• The Hot Topic: Writing Ambitions

  What are your creative ambitions and how do you express them?

  Opinion by Greg Smyth — on Feb 06, 2006

• The Hot Topic: FM Is STEREO. Does That Really Mean Anything?

  How art and technology devolves from one generation to the next because everyone basically forgets how it was done before.

  Opinion by Bennett Dawson — on Jan 09, 2006

• The Hot Topic: Literary vs. Popular Fiction

  ...does it make me a bad person because I enjoy a story that involves an insane, murderous clown?

  Opinion by Mark Saleski — on Dec 15, 2005

• The Hot Topic: Technology

  Will technology eat us alive?

  Opinion by Mat Brewster — on Nov 24, 2005

• The Hot Topic - Creativity

  From the composite intellectual consciousness of a mighty entity comes the weekly sneering perusal of the issues of the day.

  Opinion by Aaron Fleming — on Nov 17, 2005

• The Hot Topic - Secret Pop Cult Shames!

  We haven't seen it / read it / heard it, but don't tell anyone...

  Opinion by Duke De Mondo — on Nov 10, 2005

• The Hot Topic: What's Your Vibe, What's Your Scene?

  There're a thousand crooked avenues and twisty turns to take on this little journey into the scenic past and vibe-ic present.

  Opinion by Eric Berlin — on Nov 04, 2005

• The Hot Topic: The Death Of Cooking?

  It looks like microwavable foods are taking over the gastro tracts of the world...

  Opinion by Bennett Dawson — on Oct 28, 2005

• The Hot Topic: Coffee and CDs

  Would you be willing to buy music from a coffee company?

  Opinion by Greg Smyth — on Oct 21, 2005