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Frankenstein: Lost Souls by Dean Koontz

Lost Souls, the fourth book in Dean Koontz' Frankenstein series, to be released 15 June 20...

movies
TCM Thrillers (June 14 – 20)

This week: * Monday—Books are hot stuff. * Tuesday—Natalie Wood gets bombed. * Wednesd...

culture101
Appreciating Robert Bresson: ‘Seemingly Simple but with Mystery at the Heart of It’

Shmuel Ben-Gad commemorates filmmaker Robert Bresson, one of the greats. “But I firmly b...

books
Convincing a Book-Loving Luddite to Pick Up a Kindle

Hi. My name is Daniel Crandall, and I’m a Biblio-holic. When I go into a bookstore I of...

books
Dean Koontz’ Relentless, an Odd Mix of Genres

Dean Koontz is a bold writer when it comes to experimenting with genres.  In Relentles...

books
“Just One More Thing . . . .”—Lt. Columbo Is on the Case

The Columbo Collection by William Link Crippen & Landru Publishers Hardcover: ISBN-97...

web
“We Con the World”

A nice bit of political satire is loose in the blogosphere: the Flotilla Choir's rendition...

movies
TCM Thrillers (June 7 – 13)

This week: * Monday—Sometimes ex-cons do pretty well for themselves. * Tuesday and Wedne...

journalism
‘TV Diversity Scorecard’ Published

For those with a politically progressive bean-counting mentality, TV Squad has published a...

journalism
Lynch ‘Marries’, USA Today Reports

From our ever-expanding Transvaluation of All Values file: actress Jane Lynch has gotten m...

music
Emerson-Lake Praised

Keith Emerson and Greg Lake of the great progressive rock band Emerson, Lake, and Palmer r...

journalism
FTC Staff “Potential Policy Recommendations to Support the Reinvention of Journalism”

A Federal Trade Commission Staff Discussion Draft (link opens a PDF document) was discusse...

books
John Sandford Shakes Things Up in ‘Wicked Prey’

Minnesota author John Sandford (real name John Camp) has established a nice little fran...

manners-and-morals
Silly Bans

From our fast-growing "Oh, for f-ck's sake!" file: schools around the nation are banning S...

commerce
Ricochet, A Pay-to-Play Blog

The internet has one more venue for conservative thinkers. It’s an interesting entrepr...

culture101
Michael Caine Delivers Old Testament Justice in “Harry Brown”

Let me make this perfectly clear: Harry Brown is not for the faint of heart. Although the ...

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For Memorial Day

On WorldNetDaily, pastor Dave Welch puts our secular holiday in a spiritual context. Also...

movies
Dennis Hopper, RIP: Update

America lost one of Hollywood’s few proud conservatives today. Dennis Hopper died of com...

movies
TCM Thrillers (May 31 – June 6)

This week: * Monday—Spend the day with Clint Eastwood. * Tuesday—Harry gets dirty and ...

journalism
Inconvenient Facts About Global Warming

As promised yesterday, here is my report from the fourth International Conference on ...

noteworthy
Gary Coleman, 1968 – 2010 R.I.P

Actor Gary Coleman has died at age 42. (more…)

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Climate Realism: Not to Be Denied Any Longer

Last week's meeting of 700+ scientists, policymakers, and concerned citizens in Chicago ...

movies
‘Airbender’, ‘Persia’ Casting Attacked

Ethnic activists are protesting The Last Airbender and Prince of Persia. Amusingly predict...

art
“Lost”… and Found

It began with an eye opening. It ended with an eye closing. In "The End," love conquered a...

music
Steve Kilbey’s Intimate Musical Diary

Let me tell you a little bit about Steve Kilbey... A long, long time ago--in the late 1...

art
Roger Scruton Chronicles Modern Art’s War on Beauty

Inform a museum’s curator that she should request a refund from her plumber who foolish...

movies
British Filmmakers Mock Islamic Radicals

There are some brave souls in the film industry. They just aren’t getting huge budgets a...

worldviews
The Inconsequentiality of Contemporary Atheism

Yes, I know that sounds kind of counterintuitive, given the bestseller lists the “New...

movies
TCM Thrillers (May 24 – 30)

* Monday—Victor Hugo gets the deluxe treatment. * Tuesday—Audie Murphy or Bogie—who'...

commerce
Bronte Films on the Rise

Filmmakers are moving on from Jane Austen to the more romantic and emotionally explicit no...

music
Reissued ‘Exile’ Brings It All Back Home

Imagine finding a manuscript of unpublished poems by Dylan Thomas 40 years after he compos...

worldviews
Reading the Tea Party Leaves in Yesterday’s Elections

Yesterday's primary (and some general) elections across the nation confirmed that we liv...

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Rand Paul and the Fed

Republican Party primary winner from Kentucky Rand Paul is already starting to backtrack o...