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eBook-Only Publishers Cropping Up Everywhere

Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 11.12.2009 | Books

Read More: Harlequin, Samhain, Or Books, Kindle, Book Publishing, Romance, Lulu, Ereaders, Publishing, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Going Rouge, Carina Press, Iuniverse, Scribd, Atlantic Bridge, eBook Publishing, Publishers, Ebooks, Books, Romance Novels, Self-Publishing, Nook, Uncial, Smashwords, Books News

A recent article from Publishers Weekly announced the launch of Carina Press, a new imprint of romance publisher Harlequin that will exclusively publi...

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Shrieks from the '80s: Ti West on The House of the Devil

Dan Persons | Posted 10.31.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Violence, Mary Woronov, Murder, Horror, Drama, Suspense, Death, Ti West, Indie, The House of the Devil, Fantasy, Off Beat, The House of the Devil Movie Review, Art, Tom Noonan, Larry Fessenden, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

The Saw franchise may be more efficient in logging a body count, but The House of the Devil is the kind of film that reminds you how cool it is to settle back and just let the dread soak in.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Lars von Trier's Antichrist: A Conversation

Dan Persons | Posted 10.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Violence, Earth, Justice, Repression, World, Murder, Horror, Emotion, Lars Von Trier, Sex, Drama, Suspense, Controversy, Death, Indie, Environment, Gore, Antichrist, Acting Legend, Fantasy, Off Beat, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willem Dafoe, Art, Love, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

"Lars von Trier isn't going to talk to a lot of press." Yeah, yeah; yadda-yadda. But just because he isn't talking to us doesn't mean we can't talk about him, particularly about his childhood.

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Wild Things Is Where the Entertainment Isn't

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 10.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Single Mother, Wild Things, Children's Book, Fantasy, Maurice Sendak, Spike Jonze, Movie Review, Where the Wild Things Are, Max Records, Catherine Keener, James Gandolfini, Dave Eggers, Catherine O'hara, Chris Cooper, Entertainment News
Jackie K. Cooper

Where the Wild Things Are sounds like a fun film for the kids and an emotional one for adults, but it isn't. The film is much too scary for younger children and much too boring for older ones.

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World of Warcraft in Colorado

Ef Rodriguez | Posted 10.12.2009 | Denver

Read More: Geeks, Boulder, World of Warcraft, Gaming, Video Games, Mmorpg, Denver, Fantasy, Hiking, Outdoors, Outdoor Exercise, Denver News
Ef Rodriguez

So among the millions of Americans prancing around the online world of Azeroth, casting fire spells against the undead, there are only five Mile High players? Nonsense. I think they're hiding.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: A Brisk Trade in Paul Giamatti: Sophie Barthes on Cold Souls

Dan Persons | Posted 09.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Russia, Stanislavski, Soul, Being John Malkovich, Charlie Kaufman, Black Market, Paul Giamatti, Film, Interview, Movies, New York, Exclusive, St. Petersburg, David Strathairn, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Russian Mafia, Acting, Morality, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

Barthes was willing to give us some insight into her definition of soul and what it's like dealing with actors raised in the land of Stanislavski.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: The Love That Haunts: Monika Treut on Ghosted

Dan Persons | Posted 08.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Taiwan, Ke Huan-Ru, Lesbian, Ting-Ting Hu, Gay, Sexuality, Exclusive, Monika Treut, Homosexuality, Chinese Taipei, Interview, Germany, Sex, Hamburg, Inga Busch, Fantasy, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

Treut took a pause in her globe-hopping to speak to us about lesbian love stories, Taiwanese ghosts, and the life of the world filmmaker.

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Dream a Little Dream...

Leeat Granek, PhD | Posted 08.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Achievement, Wishing, Living Your Dream, Dreams, Fantasy, Aspirations, Personal-Success, Success, Dream Job, Dream Interpretation, Fulfillment, Aspirational Goal, Living News
Leeat Granek, PhD

I always thought that if you worked really hard and put your whole heart into achieving your dreams, they would come true. It turns out, this is not so.

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Movie review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Marshall Fine | Posted 08.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: J.K. Rowling, Marshall Fine, The Two Towers, The Empire Strikes Back, Fantasy, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

It's hard to imagine anyone who isn't already engrossed in the Harry Potter series of films deciding, "Oh, gee, I think I'll see the new one -- even though I haven't seen any of the others."

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Reading The Pictures: Obama-Putin Not in Love!

Michael Shaw | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Herbert, 10 Downing Street, Obama Putin, Moscow, Russia, Slovenia, Pickup, Obama, Blair, Dacha, Crawford, Brdo Castle, ALEXEY DRUZHININ, Fantasy, Putin, Bush, Politics News
Michael Shaw

2009-07-08-obamaputin.jpgThis week, we had the opportunity to contrast Bush and Obama in terms of a first encounter with Putin.

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Murdoch and Fox Portray Black Men as Terrorists on 24

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 04.13.2009 | Media

Read More: New York Post Monkey Cartoon, Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh, Black President, Revenge Fantasy, Palin and Secession, Chimp, Liberal, Conservative, Sarah Palin, War Crimes, Sean Hannity, Ron Robinson, Jefferson Davis, Rupert Murdoch, Alaska Secessionist Party, Abc, Disney, 24, Fox, Fantasy, Phillip Goff, White Spiritual Supremacy, White Liberal, White Supremacy, Race, Plausible Deniability, Racism, Dittoeads, Gop, Implicit Bias, Stereotype, Fantasy Bond, Robert Firestone, Frantz Fanon, Racial Categorization, Ashley Todd, Ny Post Chimp Cartoon, Eric Holder, Boycott, Media News, World News, News of the Day, Race Consciousness, Top News, Angry Black Man, Socio-Spiritual Liberation and Justice, Cultural Consciousness, Fundamentalist, Candace Shivers-Morgan, Landmark Forum, Racist, Landmark, White Fantasy Bond, Twenty-Foured, White Privilege, White Entitlement, Guidance Church, Agape International Spiritual Center, Huffington Post, Agape, Self Empowerment, Black Tax, Self Help, Reparations, Latest Headlines, White Fantasy Bond With Obama, Whiteness, Rev. Michael Beckwith, Barack Obama, Rev. Nirvana Gayle, Evolution of Consciousness, Media Analysis, Media Matters, Lynching, Fox News, Lf, Implicit Social Cogntion, Implicit Race Bias, Implicit Association, Emotional Freedom, Happy Victimizer, Santa Barbara, Linkedin, Facebook, Scapegoat, Glendon Association, Media News
Ronald B. Robinson

The first two Presidents on 24 were Black men. The first was assassinated and the second was responsible for allowing nuclear bombs into the country, causing mass destruction.

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Rupert Murdoch and Fox Use 24 to Portray Black Men as Terrorists

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 03.15.2009 | World

Read More: New York Post Monkey Cartoon, Abc, Karl Rove, Ape, Rush Limbaugh, Black President, Palin and Secession, Chimp, Conservative, Liberal, Fox, Obama, Sarah Palin, War Crimes, Angry Black Men, Sean Hannity, New York Post, Jefferson Davis, Ron Robinson, Rupert Murdoch, Disney, Alaska Secessionist Party, 24, Revenge Fantasy, Fantasy, Dittoheads, Implicit Bias, Phillip Goff, World News
Ronald B. Robinson

Can somebody spell the words, "advertisers" and "boycott," and then can the congregation give me a resounding, amen?

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Distraught Conservatives Retreating into the Realm of Fantasy

Brandon Friedman | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Redstate, Joe the Plumber, Defense Mechanisms, Conservatives, Humor, Fantasy, Jack Bauer, Torture, 24 and Torture, Primetime Torture Project, 24, Politics News
Brandon Friedman

For conservative talking heads and bloggers, 24's Jack Bauer has become a surrogate -- a stand-in -- for the leaders they wish they had.

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Confessions of a Recovering Twilight Addict

Kimberly Burger Capozzi | Posted 01.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Kids, Working Mothers, Mothering, Stephenie Meyer Twilight, Motherhood, Twilight, Twilight Books, Mothers, Fantasy, Entertainment News
Kimberly Burger Capozzi

My favorite fairy tale before Twilight was the one where the 1970s girl grows up to have a stunning career and a family.

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The Rise of Scifi TV

Christine Huang | Posted 01.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: True Blood, Television, Heroes, Science Fiction, Scifi, Battlestar Galactica, Psfk, Fantasy, Lost, Entertainment News
Christine Huang

Networks are now treating the once stigmatized scifi genre (and its followers) as the powerful, profitable force it has grown to be.

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Photography Undergoes a Sex Change: The Art Of Tom Chambers

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.17.2008 | Living

Read More: Photoshop Art, Tom Chambers, The Inner Life, Photoshop Photography, Painting, Loretta Lux, Van Cleef Jewelry, Fantasy, Flickr, Henri Cartier Bresson, Kimberly Brooks, Andrew Wyeth, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

Over the last ten years, the art of photography has undergone a sex change. The rather masculine act of capturing or "shooting" a moment ("the hunt")...

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