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What It Really Means to Eat a Big Mac at the Arctic Circle

It is a classic archetype, exemplified by Dorothy, only realizing what you have in your own backyard when you are faced with losing it. That's why this girl was eating McDonald's at nine o'clock at night, after a big dinner, at the end of a day of ...

What made Super Mario 64 so special?

The many worlds are (mostly) accessed through the brilliant conceit of jumping into paintings, and this playfulness shows how intertwined Super Mario 64 and that idea of first principles is. You don't choose where to go from a menu, but by doing My ...

Boats, butlers, gender roles and fading romance in Southern Charm's second ...

While live tweeting during the second episode of Bravo's “Southern Charm” last night, the battery on the laptop died and after scrambling through several extension cords, I noticed it had that big three-pronged plug and I could only plug it into the ...

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Will Be Added to the Library of Congress

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill has been a classic and timeless work in the music community since its release. The album, which features a young Hill in one of the most honest and vulnerable places in her life, garnered five record-setting Grammy Awards....

@ The Movies With Mark Hinson

Follow along like a fly on the wall while one young choreographer creates a new work for The New York City Ballet using Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu's 1935 Sinfonietta de la Jolla. The clock is ticking in this behind-the-scenes documentary. Opens ...

Steve Martin, The Doors and Radiohead Albums Named to National Recording ...

Albums from The Doors, Radiohead, Steve Martin and Joan Baez, Ben K. King's classic R&B tune “Stand by Me” and the original-cast recording of Cole Porter's Broadway sensation Kiss Me, Kate have been selected for induction into Library of Congress ...

The 12 greatest video game 'Easter eggs'

Whenever lead protagonist Henry Townshend peeps through the hole in his bedroom wall to spy on his attractive neighbour Eileen Galvin (look, this is a Silent Hill game – this sort of thing just happens) he can see Robbie slumped on her bed. However ...