This year’s choice had to be the final Harry Potter book. The reasons are as varied as the different wizards’ wands found in …  More

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As of Jan. 1, 1908, one century ago, many Americans still had not seen a movie, ridden in an automobile or grasped that people …  More

Okay, look…. Michael Crichton writes REALLY scary novels. The monsters are the characters we read in our newspapers.
I’m reading “NEXT” right now. Its amazing. I don’t know how much of the book is based on “real events”, or if this is just a completely made up plotline; but I gotta tell ya, […]

Sixty-four percent of accredited book reviewers feel that critics who write an unpaid blurb for a book should be banned from publishing a full review. And 76% of critics feel that if you haven’t read a work cover to cover you shouldn’t be critiquing it in print. These are just some of the findings of […]

This week we look back with an NPR commentator and ahead with the 2008 presidential candidates, waste time with a bike punk and four Wisconsin sisters, marvel at 40+ years of stunning boxing photos, and face death with famous chefs.
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