Captained by David Fincher, and anchored by Kevin Spacey as morally ambiguous politician Frank Underwood, the maiden voyage of Netflix's streaming-only political thriller House of Cards has safely sailed into port as perhaps the most dynamic new series we've seen in the past year. Traditional television networks, terrified that they...

My favorite class from high school is being cut.

There are few courses that I remember fondly. Whether disillusioned geriatric teachers or bland curriculums revolving around standardized testing goals are to blame is up for debate. But I was devastated to see the following message posted on Facebook the...

While most might remember November 6, 2012 as the day Barack Obama won his reelection, I will always think of it as the day I drove two ex-convicts to the polls.

Prior to Election Day, my participation in the the Obama campaign was nearly non-existent. Aside from a FORWARD magnet...

Liam Neeson has a very particular set of skills. Skills he has acquired over a long career. Skills that make him a box office titan, and quite possibly the defining action hero of the past decade. To dip into his dossier is to browse the badass hall of fame, with...

I'm no prude, as my browser history can attest, but the best-selling pop-erotica novel Fifty Shades of Grey has seared a scarlet letter into my brain. 

Up until a few month ago, I was only vaguely aware of the book's popularity, pegging it as a passing fad. Then I learned that...

A hurricane hovers over the 2012 NBA Finals as Heat and Thunder converge. And in the eye of the storm stands a solitary figure: Lebron James.

Call him Benedict Arnold for the way he plunged a bayonet into the back of the Cleveland Cavaliers when he signed with Miami...

"Children should never be seen nor heard from -- ever again." - W.C. Fields

Last week, an article was published on Salon.com proclaiming now to be "Child acting's new golden age," citing the surge of kid characters in popular movies and TV shows. But the writer is confusing...

With Rick Santorum finally vacating the examination table, we can now turn the stethoscope to Mitt Romney. And who can say for sure, if you listen carefully, that the soft hum tickling your eardrums isn't the whirring of a thousand cogs and gears inside the challenger's chest?

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Whether it was stealing stray Oreos from the pantry or sneaking spoonfuls of JIF in the bathroom, my childhood sweet tooth was insatiable.

I remember one specific photo -- a picture taken cerca 1998 at a family reunion in Newport, Oregon. In the center my great-grandparents sit...

Peter Pan was the boy who wouldn't grow up. We are the generation that can't.

The Great Recession took adulthood off the table for Millenials, as the post-college timeline is no longer predicated by age. Not that we are the first to live through economic instability, but...