Most of the popular athletic activities our society invests itself in are the realm of the super-jock: the all-American quarterback, the super-stud swimmer, and the genetically-superior tennis star. But not ‘American Ninja Warrior.’
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There’s more than enough new and recent Haunted Mansion-based books to satisfy all your happy haunts.
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You meet the eyes of another kid at a grownup party, someone you’ve never met before and might never meet again, and your eyes say, “The kid that is me recognizes and acknowledges the kid that is you: let’s play.”
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There are books that are perennial favorites on high school reading lists. But sometimes they’re a challenge on the page for students, and audiobooks are a huge help.
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Dear Summer: I’m changing our Facebook status to “It’s complicated.”
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I’ve got a competitive kid who just turned ten. Maybe it’s because he’s the youngest of three, or because he’s the shortest of three, or maybe it’s something altogether different. But four years back, his family birthday party took on a creative–and competitive–new format, and we’ve never turned back. My son shares a birthday with […]
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I wear a high tech foot. It’s worth every penny of its $8,000 price tag. As much as I love my awesome foot, I am blown away by the technology that will be packed in suitcases, headed to Rio soon.
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You think the Convention Season has finished? Not when we have 4x family tickets to giveaway for Oz Comic-Con!
Continue ReadingLook sharp, ‘Scrabble’ fans! ‘Word Domination’ hit Kickstarter today. This letter-snatching game of creative word building is a great challenge for gamers and word lovers alike.
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We’ve gone to many museums to visit dinosaurs — the Smithsonian in DC,the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History in New Haven, the Museum of Science in Boston — but one of our favorites is just next door, in the Connecticut River Valley.
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Author Alex de Campi is a true superheroine in comics.
Continue ReadingWhere would the Kustom Kulture movement be without Ed Roth? A lot less weird, for sure.
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If your number’s up, whether victim or perpetrator, they’ll find you. And if you haven’t found this show, you should.
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Three recommended, very different YA novels have this in common: a strong heroine discovering the power of stories.
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Melody reviews The Circle with Disney and takes her first steps into the world of online parental controls.
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Puke is my parenting kryptonite; it makes me feel like a failure, powerless.
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‘Unbelievable!!!!!’ is a sci-fi parody film featuring 40 ‘Star Trek’ actors, Gilbert Gottfried, a marionette that looks more or less like Captain Kirk, and a Gorn. And it gets weirder from there.
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Can’t even shout. Can’t even cry. The power of silence in an emotionally abusive relationship.
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Save your Islanders, save the world…
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Please welcome award winning science fiction and fantasy author Emma Newman to Geek Speaks… Fiction!
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