18 May 2012
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 …
17 May 2012
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 …
17 May 2012
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, …
15 May 2012
“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 …
11 May 2012
“The Old Gods and the New”
By Rachael Nisenkier // TV
This episode was almost entirely invented. It all works, obviously, within the confines of the book, but I found the fact that most of it was made up for the …
10 May 2012
Green for Life by Victoria Boutenko
By Rachael Nisenkier // Books
Maybe it’s in the water here. I mean, mostly I’ve read that Los Angeles water is filled with parasites and toxins, but maybe it’s actually filled with a desire to …
10 May 2012
Joss Whedon: The Real Avenger
By Rachael Nisenkier // Cinema
As a film fan, it is one of the great pleasures in life to get to see the intersection of your favorite person producing entertainment and your favorite genre of …
10 May 2012
Lazy Lazarus
By Rachael Nisenkier // TV
I picked a hell of a week to be too busy to write. Last week’s episode was one of my all time favorites, a roller coaster ride of surprising highs …
06 May 2012
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
By Rachael Nisenkier // Books
Young adult romance is an art form like any other, and despite the lack of respect it often gets from mainstream audiences, it is certainly capable of being just as …
03 May 2012
Drop Dead Healthy by AJ Jacobs
By Rachael Nisenkier // Books
A.J. Jacobs likes to use his life, body, and family as a template for thoughtful experiments on a myriad of issues. His past two, bestselling books were The Know It …
30 April 2012
The Ghosts of Harrenhall
By Rachael Nisenkier // TV
For the first few episodes of their second season, Game of Thrones focused on one unifying theme to help bring their episodes cohesion. The last two, however, were pulled together …
28 April 2012
Summer Movie Preview- May
By Rachael Nisenkier // Cinema
Since Hollywood has apparently decided that the Summer movie season begins in March now (both 21 Jump Street and The Hunger Games would normally be playing to the sold out …
28 April 2012
Sadness and Struggle, in Three Parts
By Rachael Nisenkier // TV
This week’s episode of Mad Men was kind of a bummer. A beautiful, poignant, heart wrenching bummer. After last week’s Lane and Pete apalooza, this week focused on Roger, Don …
26 April 2012
For the Night Is Dark, and Full of Terrors
By Rachael Nisenkier // TV
What exactly terrorizes Westeros? Tonight’s episode focused on this question. I was kind of dreading tonight’s episode of Game Of Thrones, “Garden of Bones.” Like most weeks, I was excited …
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