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Breaking Dawn: Breaking Horror

Friday, November 18th, 2011
by Winnefred Ann Frolik on Playing Around

Does a record-breaking box office translate into great art or even a mediocre film worth your $10? Sometimes the hoopla surrounding a movie cons us

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The Book Club Play: What’s Your Favorite Book?

Sunday, October 16th, 2011
by Winnefred Ann Frolik on Playing Around

“Book clubs are such an American phenomenon,” says one of the characters in Karen Zacarias’s hysterically funny ode to books, food, and friendships now playing

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Fright Night—Bloody Good Time

Sunday, August 21st, 2011
by Winnefred Ann Frolik on Playing Around

Let’s get it out of the way: Hollywood makes way, WAY too many remakes and reboots. There was no need for Rob Zombie to re-do

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True Blood Takes A Bite Out of “Traditional” Romance

Monday, July 4th, 2011
by Winnefred Ann Frolik on Playing Around

Vampires have been a passion of mine for as long as I can remember. As a child I had a dogeared copy of the Mammoth

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YA Literature – Beyond Harry Potter

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
by Jocelyn Lucas Rosenberg on Reading Around

Young-adult fiction or young adult literature (often abbreviated as YA) is fiction written for, published for, or marketed to adolescents and young adults, roughly ages

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“I Don’t Drink—Wine”

Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around

In 1977, long before Interview with a Vampire, Twilight, True Blood and dozens of other blood lust permutations, Frank Langella took the Broadway stage as

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Children’s Books Grownups Can Enjoy, Too

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
by Michall Jeffers on Shopping Around

As the time left until Christmas dwindles down, we turn once again to some of the outstanding children’s books available this season. Why not buy

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Books to Give for the Holidays: Fiction

Monday, November 22nd, 2010
by Michall Jeffers on Shopping Around

I’m a great believer in taking mental, as well as physical, holidays. There’s no better gift to give than a good work of fiction, preferably

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