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One of the things I am thankful for is Viewpoints.

Yes, I'm one of the people who was asked in 2006 to be part of the Beta Testing team to launch this site, but I was an outsider... nowhere near the Chicago...

Subject: The Prisoner 2009.  The good news:  AMC's new reboot of the classic, influential Patrick McGoohan series:  The Prisoner is pretty good.  Episodes 1, 2 and 5 are very enjoyable.  Ian McKellen...

Visiting my parents for a week, I was able to put the Oster 6331 2-Slice Toaster through quite the challenge.  My children like their peanut butter and jelly sandwiches toasted (as do their grandfather)....

I recently had an opportunity to wear a formal gown.  I admit that wearing a dress is something I avoid, after several weeks of my daughters (now 4 and 3) pulling up my skirts during mass to play hide...

Put the lime in the coconut, then you feel better
Put the lime in the coconut, drink 'em both up. 

Imagine this, laying on the beach slathered in cocoa butter.  That's pretty much the scent you get when...

I recently attended a birthday party where Mikes Harder Cranberry Lemonade was served to the adults.  It was surprisingly fun and refreshing, so I decided to give it a try at home on my own to see if...

Really good beer is the preferred drink in my household for my husband and I like to "mix" things up.  Since it is the season, I decided to give Smirnoff Vodka Cranberry Twist a try since I do enjoy...

 Film Geek is a movie based on an idea that 20 years ago might have made a good 20 minute short movie or SNL comedy sketch.   At 70 minutes, the 'cute' dated idea is stretched way too far and the film's...

Only 2 of the 15 songs on Grown Backwards are opera--well David Byrne's skewed version of opera, with the help of Rufus Wainwright.

Grown Backwards is a pastiche of influences and styles that seem to be...

"You know, I hate to advocate drugs liquor, violence, or insanity to anyone--but in my case it's worked."
-- Bill Murray as Hunter S. Thompson

Where the Buffalo Roam (1980) is a relentlessly anarchistic...