The problem with standardized testing and state assessments has been glaringly obvious for years – they test students as if they are all the same student.
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Music Review: Billy Bragg – ‘Live at the Union Chapel’ [CD+DVD]
This over two-and-a-half-hour performance demonstrates Bragg's top-notch talent as well as the fact that over 30 years of writing songs about love and politics hasn't slowed his passion or creativity one iota.
Read More »PAX East 2014 Review: ‘Knuckle Sammich: Kobolds Ate My Baby’
If you are looking for a quick and off the wall card game, I highly recommend Knuckle Sammich: A Kobolds Ate My Baby! Card Game.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Mind Games’ by Christine Amsden
Mind Games is the much awaited third installment in the new adult mystery series, Cassie Scot: ParaNormal Detective
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Speakeasy Dollhouse: The Brothers Booth’ by Cynthia von Buhler
This electric phantasmagoria that will keep you engrossed as you step back in time and witness little-known events about the Booth family that shed new light on the Lincoln assassination.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Imagine There’s No Heaven’ by Mitchell Stephens
The author examines the often overlooked role of atheism in the history of Western civilization.
Read More »Record Store Day a Constellation of Stars, from One Direction to Dolly Parton
From Deer Tick to The Doors, Dolly Parton to Kings of Leon, artists both active and historic have new releases coming out for Record Store Day
Read More »From Field Holler to Mass Movement to Concert Halls
The black people of Hollywood, South Carolina, like black people all over America, loved this music for the power it instilled in them; for the hope it engendered and for the spiritual feeling it awakened in them.
Read More »Theatre Review (Singapore): Singapore Repertory Theatre’s ‘Rising Son’ by Dick Lee
Lee's play doesn't quite work as a character-study nor as a unique story.
Read More »Pope Francis Asks for Forgiveness for Priests Who Abused Children – But What About Justice?
Perhaps we should all pray for theses abusive priests and forgive them, but that does not mean forgetting – now or ever.
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