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I've already talked about my immigration to ACB's The Voice from FOX's American Idol, but I'm still watching the latter and as The Voice moves out of those awesome auditions…
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Community was once a groundbreaking show,…
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Having devoured the books in a matter of days, I was more than excited about the film adaptation of The Hunger Games. With the inevitable elimination of that all-too-troublesome first…
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Okay. So I went to the bookstore recently, and I was just browsing around the bookstore, looking for something new and exciting to read, like I do, and I noticed…
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The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
By Elizabeth Ramirez // Games
After much bitter complaining that there would never be a Zelda game as good as Ocarina of Time, I gave in to the colorful failing that is The Legend of …
Season Wrap Up: Vampire Diaries
By Rachael Nisenkier // TV
First of all, let me say Kudos to Vampire Diaries. Throughout much of the back half of the show’s third season, I was ready to expound on how the show …
Season Wrap Up: How I Met Your Mother
By Rachael Nisenkier // TV
I get what you were going for, How I Met Your Mother. It’s actually kind of clever. Have Barney flat out tell the audience that he is all about the …
Mad Men’s Dark Shadows
By Rachael Nisenkier // TV
This week’s episode of Mad Men (both amusingly and aptly named “Dark Shadows”) was concerned with hunger. Don’s lack of hunger at work, a byproduct of the complacency of happiness, …
The Blame Game
By Peter Lowry // Sports
Being a professional athlete is a dream that most children aspire to, and I’ll be the first to admit that I was no different. I grew up watching athletes do …
The 5 Year Engagement
By Kelly Bedard // Cinema
I was really looking forward to The 5 Year Engagement. I was convinced it would be the movie that would finally make me love Emily Blunt (I’ve never warmed to …
Grey’s Anatomy Finale Predictions
By Tim Collins // TV
Some of the most notable character deaths in television came as a surprise. Great writers know how to rip apart your heart by taking away a beloved character without any …
“A Man Without Honor”
By Rachael Nisenkier // TV
Sometimes writing weekly about a show whose every major plot point I know in advanced is difficult. This week is one of those times. There are certain developments that I …
Think Like a Man
By Kelly Bedard // Cinema
Think Like a Man is the ensemble comedy that Gary Marshall keeps trying to direct. It’s funny and clever with a cast of interconnected characters who are at least marginally …
Semele at the COC
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre
This has been a bit of a rough repertory period for the Canadian Opera Company- the full-length Offenbach they presented earlier this month was obnoxiously long and unforgivably dull and …
In Stratford: MacHomer
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre
Rick Miller’s wackado Macbeth retelling, currently masquerading as a fourth Shakespeare production at the Stratford Festival, uses a comprehensive cast of voices from one of TV’s most successful crazy experiments, …
Korra Diary: And the Winner is….
By Borah Coburn // TV
So, you know, this is my Korra diary, it’s essentially me live-blogging my feelings as I watch the show (except, not… live), blah blah blah, there will be lots of …
“The Hound of the Baskervilles”
By Saiya Floyd // TV
It’s time for another recap for the latest installment of Sherlock. This week, Sherlock and John investigate ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’, based on one of Conan Doyle’s more famous …
Oh, It’s Already been Broughten*
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre
My friends always laugh at me when I tell them Bring it On is about race relations. Because, you know, it’s about cheerleaders. But it actually IS about race relations. …
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