Twilight Zone

What Marathons Are On This New Year's Weekend?

TVLine | Posted 03.01.2012

If your New Year's resolution is to watch less TV, you can pretty much consider it broken already. The networks are pulling out all the stops to lure ...

The Twilight Zone: At the Threshold of the Fifth Dimension

John W. Whitehead | Posted 11.29.2011

John W. Whitehead

Even though it was never a top 25 show, The Twilight Zone was an oasis in television wasteland that captured a generation. However, it almost didn't happen.

Famous Authors Related by Blood or Marriage

Dave Astor | Posted 10.21.2011

Dave Astor

The Bronte sisters weren't alone in blood being as thick as ink.

Mighty Movie Podcast: Brad Anderson on Vanishing on 7th Street

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011

Dan Persons

Brad Anderson knows his way around old school horror. "Watch this with the lights on," is an old cliché, but in this case, it's all too applicable.

Magical Cornfield Burns Down, Millions Without Place to Wish Things Into

Spencer Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Spencer Green

The famed Peaksville, Ohio cornfield, which provided a safe haven for people to wish unwanted things into, has burned down. "It all happened so fast,"...

The Sadness of Conformity

Kristen Houghton | Posted 11.17.2011

Kristen Houghton

There is something very dangerous about total conformity. We don't celebrate who we already are because, according to statistics, we want to be like everyone else!

Matthew Day Jackson: Artist as Stuntman

Dorothy Spears | Posted 05.25.2011

Dorothy Spears

"We see ourselves in order to exist," states the narrator-host, in Matthew Day Jackson's new video In Search Of, a 30-minute mock TV show, modeled aft...

Vampires Among Us or Are We Entering the Twilight Zone?

Cicily Janus | Posted 05.25.2011

Cicily Janus

As a writer and an intern with Folio Literary Agency, I see way too many manuscripts with rip-off vampire-esque tales. Can we, as a human race, please obsess about something else?

Rugged Collectivism

John Feffer | Posted 05.25.2011

John Feffer

Whether it's a relatively minor crisis like two feet of snow dumped on Washington DC or a terrifying disaster like Hurricane Katrina, altruism frequently trumps our basic instincts.

Bears Beat Vikings -- Alternate Universe Only Explanation

Sandy Kaczmarski | Posted 05.25.2011

Sandy Kaczmarski

I tried to find the Bears vs. Vikings game on Monday Night Football, and wound up with a fantasy game where the Bears actually played an impressive game and won.

A Secret to Happiness? Discovering the Pleasures of Uncertainty

Todd Kashdan | Posted 11.17.2011

Todd Kashdan

Who wants all the answers? Who wants effortless moments? Who wants to be given the warm, humble feeling atop Mount Kilimanjaro without the climb?

New Study: Wal-Mart Brings Zero Jobs to Chicago

Al Norman | Posted 05.25.2011

Al Norman

More than three years after coming to Chicago, Wal-Mart has produced no new jobs, no new opportunities --just a great big shift in market share.

Children of The Twilight Zone: 10 Best Episodes

John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.25.2011

John W. Whitehead

Even though it was never a top twenty show, The Twilight Zone was a jewel that captured a generation.

Bad Dreams From My Grandfather

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 11.17.2011

Daniel Bruno Sanz

Shadowy non-state actors contemplate flattening an American city with a device smuggled into the United States at one hundred possible ports of entry.

The Answer for Amazon's Kindle Catastrophe Can Be Found In The Twilight Zone

Art Brodsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Art Brodsky

Amazon folded like a flimsy book page on the issue whether their new Kindle should be able to sound out words.

40 Years Of Creedence Clearwater Revival

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Mike Ragogna

Decades before Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, Son Volt and The Jayhawks re-introduced and expanded the parameters of roots-rock, there was a scrappy little group, originally hailing from El Cerrito, California.

Old TV Shows Find New Homes On The Web

New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 05.25.2011

Is there still money to be made from "Matlock"? Within the last few months, television distributors have opened up their libraries of classic content...