At the very heart of the average person’s fear of the dentist is a lack of trust.
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In the touring production from Shakespeare's Globe, Jonathan Pryce stands out as a thought-provoking and humanized Shylock.
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In "Alistair 1918," which screened at this year's San Diego Comic-Con Independent Film Festival, a film crew encounters a homeless man claiming to have been transported to present-day Los Angeles from a WW I battlefield.
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When is reconciliation and forgiveness meaningful?
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Have you traveled to award winning restaurant NOMA in Japan to have their roast duck or ants on a shrimp?
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Do five-star players really correlate with a team's success? Mean tweets aside, we take a look at the facts.
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A Cincinnati charity got an unexpected surprise from a local farm this July.
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One-on-one with film and television composer Bear McCreary (Battlestar Galactica, The Walking Dead, Outlander, etc.)
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What did I learn in 2016? How can I sum it up?
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I wanted to travel off the edge of the world. Kamchatka, at Russia's far eastern edge, is probably as close as today's globetrotter can get.
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