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Johnny shares the very best of TV holiday episodes

Now that it’s the beginning of December, the holiday season that starts with Halloween and culminates in the Hallmark-sanctioned lovefest of February…

December 1, 2011
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Working out the “kinks” in non-conventional sex

Kink is where soft core meets Sophocles. Okay, not exactly. But, it is the subsection of sex that is the most cerebral.…

November 17, 2011
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Sweet eatables make the holidays go ’round

Alright, so Valentine’s Day isn’t exactly a holiday. But it sure as well might be one, with all the attention it gets…

November 17, 2011
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Oscar’s crying game: the use & abuse of melancholy

Well, once again it’s the bleakest time of the year — mid-November, and Oscar season. Cold, dreary capitalism settles in as marketers…

November 17, 2011
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Behind the covers we judge: how books are marketed

Any well-seasoned book is likely to have a few book covers to its name: the hardcover edition, the trade paperback, the mass…

November 10, 2011
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On Mitchell and Ivanek: when good actors go bad

As any avid television fan knows, one of the most disheartening events in one’s life is realizing that a personally beloved actor…

November 10, 2011
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Donald Glover as Childish Gambino

Hip-hop music developed through street culture in New York in the late 1960’s emerging from a rhythm once highly electronic in nature.…

November 10, 2011
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A rundown of frozen dessert options in Philadelphia

Frozen and sweet and never out of season: Jen Johnson describes the local favorites Granted, ice cream is not the most seasonal…

November 10, 2011
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‘Let them eat cake,’ she says…and vanilla ice cream

There are two common customs back home in Korea involving actions that are paradoxically related to the context in which they are…

November 3, 2011
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Must we make a friend of horror, Colonel Kurtz?

In one of the most memorable scenes from “Apocalypse Now,” Marlon Brando, shrouded in shadow, hisses out (amidst other drug-fueled demagogic babblings)…

November 3, 2011
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