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Race to Nowhere on DVD!
Just about two years ago I was assigned to write a story on “Race to Nowhere,” a documentary highlighting the culture of testing and stress happening in American schools. I brought my then-14-year-old son to the screening. We were both...
Tags: Movies, Entertainment, DVDs
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There's Always A Sequel
CTNow.com"Who Killed The Electric Car?" might have ended with it's main character no longer among the living; but like Freddy, electric cars have risen from the dead. A new documentary, "Revenge of the Electric Car," directed by Chris Paine, opened last week...Tags: Tesla, New York, Film Festivals, General Motors Corp., Fuel-efficient Vehicles
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GODSMACK: Sully Gets Own Guitar
Godsmack frontman Sully Erna is the latest musician to get his own signature guitar.
Gibson's Sully Erna Les Paul Studio model is ebony black with a Godsmack sun emblem on the body...Tags: Kentucky Fried Chicken, Apple iPhone, Sundance Film Festival, United Center, 2016 Olympic Games
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Bullied to tears, bored to death
Here's the thing about directing our attention so fully and passionately toward bullying: The people most affected by it are sick of talking about it. "Kids are at the eye-rolling stage with bullying," says Cynthia Lowen, producer and writer of the 2011...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Teaching and Learning, Bully (movie), Psychology, Bullying
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Why Al Jazeera buying Current is a good thing for media, country
The Baltimore SunI don’t care if Al Gore got more money than he ever deserved for his pathetic channel, or Glenn Beck got the short end of the stick in trying to buy it as an escape from his prison of media marginalization. All of that is ideological and...Tags: Al Jazeera English (tv network), Verizon Communications, George W. Bush, Television, Al Gore
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Downers Grove North students combat stereotypes
Inside North High School in Downers Grove on a recent afternoon, a group of young women made plans for a like/dislike board they wanted to post inside the school. One side would feature a positive image about women they wanted to promote among their...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Students, Movies, Brave (movie), Entertainment
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'Neuqua on Drugs' chronicles school's drug problems
Knowing the three Neuqua Valley High School students who died of heroin overdoses within seven months, two teens decided to produce a documentary showing the extent of the school's drug problem. "Neuqua on Drugs" was screened for a third time at the...
Tags: Movies, Heroin, Entertainment, DVDs, Police Arrests
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Lady Gaga documentary is in the works
Looks like Lady Gaga is tearing another page out of the Madonna platinum-blond, pop-superstar playbook. In the early '90s, Madonna launched a new phase of her career by allowing director Alek Keshishian to make a documentary, "Truth or Dare," about the...Tags: Lady Gaga, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Warren Beatty, Madonna
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Fereshta Kazemi takes a risky stand for acting in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan — Coarse mud was clinging to Fereshta Kazemi's high-heeled boots as she tottered on a slippery footpath. No one noticed. Everyone was staring at her legs. Her legs! They were exposed! And worse — she wore sheer hosiery...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Human Interest, Film Festivals, Entertainment, Thriller (genre)
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Songs hope to hit a high note at Oscars again
The Academy Awards haven't been kind to songs of late. The last few years, the category has been treated as an after-thought, with either one film dominating the slate of nominees or voters struggling to find five songs worthy of contention. After the...
Tags: Chasing Ice (movie), Alain Boublil, Entertainment, Silver Linings Playbook (movie), Katy Perry
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'Zero Dark Thirty' named best 2012 film by National Board of Review
"Zero Dark Thirty," Kathryn Bigelow's drama about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, was named the best film of the year Wednesday by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. The movie, set to open in limited release Dec. 19, took home two other...
Tags: Leonardo DiCaprio, Human Interest, The Impossible (movie), The Perks of Being a Wallflower (movie), Searching for Sugar Man (movie)
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Review: 'Room 237' is open to obsession with Kubrick's 'Shining'
We love movies, those of us who do, because of how deeply they burrow into our psyches, of how they seem to be speaking to us and us alone in a very particular way. But, as the intriguing documentary "Room 237" illustrates, when it comes to some films,...Tags: Movies, Room 237 (movie), The Holocaust (1934-1945), Entertainment, ABC (tv network)
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