Want a free and legal way to expand your music collection? All you need is a Queens Library card! All card holders are now eligible to download three free songs a week. Have your library card number and PIN handy? Head here and get instant access to hundreds of thousands of…
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As true cinephiles, we’re glad to see silent films making a small, but significant comeback with the 2011 Academy Award winner for Best Picture, The Artist, a French-American production that has already won a number of accolades and looks poised to pick up a few Academy Awards…
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“Shut it down? By the end of tonight, I will be a hero, just like you … Batman.” These are the words spoken by Hugo Strange during the title screen of Batman: Arkham City, but it isn’t Batman he’s speaking to — it’s Bruce Wayne, who is handcuffed to a chair and about to be…
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Recently on NPR, I heard a scientist who is involved in the building of the 10,000 Year Clock remark that his own son seemed to be incapable of imagining a future where the human race was still around any longer than about a hundred years from now. That’s interesting, and…
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The Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher, is an urban horror/fantasy series featuring private eye Harry Dresden, who also happens to be the only wizard listed in the Chicago Yellow Pages. He’s a very grounded wizard, mind you — he keeps his spell tools in one pocket and a revolver in…
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