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Season 1, Episode 6: The Return When I first saw the promo for “The Return,” I hoped that it would focus solely on Hannah. It’s not that I’m not interested in Marnie, Shoshanna and Jessa; it’s just...
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Season 1, Episode 7: Welcome to Bushwick a.k.a. The Crackcident While watching “Welcome to Bushwick” I was struck by a disappointing realization: the girls who populate Girls rarely ever engage with...
View ArticleGarfunkel and Oates: Slippery When Moist
As a genre, comedic music has never held much appeal for me. Music you can laugh to is perfect for an evening out at a live show, but no matter how much I love Flight of the Conchords, their songs just...
View ArticleNot All Heroes Wear Capes And Tights: A Review of Brian K. Vaughan’s The...
With The Avengers fever currently sweeping the nation there’s a good chance you’ve caught the superhero bug, and if you haven’t, then Hollywood has new installments of the Batman and Spiderman...
View ArticleGirls: Can You Really Trust A Guy Who Doesn’t Like Ice Cream?
Season 1, Episode 8: Weirdos Need Girlfriends Too Last week I complained that the characters on Girls never seem to spend any significant amount of time with each other and that when they did, the...
View ArticleDoodling Without A Pen: Doodle.ly Invites You To Get Your Art On(line)
Social media sites tend to be driven by words; we blog, we tweet and we update our Facebook statuses naively assuming our friends care that we just ate awesome tacos, all the while trying our best to...
View ArticleFairy Tales With A Twist: A Review Of A Wolf At The Door And Other Fairy...
A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales was a bottom of a box discovery for me. It’s a book that came into my possession when I was just entering my teen years, but for some reason it...
View ArticleThe Mis-Adventures of Awkward Black Girl: A Comedy of (Awesome) Awkwardness
This year’s winner for best web series at the Shorty Awards is a quirky-cool series with a really long title: The Mis-Adventures of Awkward Black Girl & Friends. Created by and starring Issa Rae,...
View ArticleGirls: Time for a Change
Season 1, Episode 9: Leave Me Alone Girls hasn’t had a bad episode thus far in its first season. It has had episodes that left me feeling vaguely dissatisfied, like the excursion to Bushwick, but on...
View ArticleGirls: The Most Scared
Season 1, Episode 10: She Did When we met Hannah Horvath, she was living with her best friend, toiling away at an unpaid internship and living off her parents’ cash. She had no boyfriend, just an Adam,...
View ArticleYou’ll Like Him When He’s Not Angry Too: 5 Movies Every Mark Ruffalo Fan...
The Avengers has broken records, earned itself critical devotion and charmed comic book and non-comic book fans alike, but its greatest feat was in finally giving audiences a Hulk worth cheering for....
View ArticleGot Klout? (And Does it Matter?)
Occasionally, I get what one might kindly call internet tunnel vision. As a certified pop culture junkie, I gravitate toward web series and sites that enhance my love of all things fictional. That’s...
View ArticleWomen On The Rise: 5 Up-and-Coming Female Filmmakers You Should Know
Of the 22 films that were vying for the top prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, not one was directed by a woman. The sad truth of the matter is even as more stories about women are starting to...
View ArticleAre You Ready To Win the Game of Thrones or Die Trying on Facebook?
The end of Game of Thrones’s second season heralded the beginning of a long ten month winter for fans of the HBO show based on George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series. With the show over for...
View ArticleThe Woman in Black: Old-Fashioned Scares and Modern Problems
The Woman in Black, directed by James Watkins and starring Harry Potter himself, Daniel Radcliffe, is at its best when it is channeling the spirit of an old-fashioned Gothic ghost story. The best of...
View ArticleWilfred: The Bromance Continues
Season 2, Episode 1/2: Progress and Letting Go Last week, FX quietly slipped in a “preview” episode of Wilfred’s second season, so quietly in fact that I missed it. In truth, “Progress” wasn’t so much...
View ArticleThe Poetry of Obsession: A Review of Richard Siken’s Crush
My love of reading encompasses fiction, nonfiction, essays, short stories and a multitude of genres and styles. I’ve even found amusement from the back of potato chip bags with particularly pithy ad...
View ArticleWilfred: Office Dog
Season 2, Episode 3: Dignity Wilfred is one of the most multi-faceted comedies on television, and there are some facets that I like more than others, with my favorite gears being the mythology, the...
View ArticleNo-Bake Banana Pudding Two Ways
One of my all-time favorite desserts is banana pudding. But not just any banana pudding – the simple but delicious no-bake banana pudding I grew up on. Is it a fancy dessert? No, but it is a comforting...
View ArticleBrave: The Story of How One Princess Subverted Her Disneyfied Fate
Disney princesses have been permanent residents in the realm of popular culture since Snow White took a bite out of that poisoned apple way back in 1937. As a result, generations of children have grown...
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