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I loved Jennifer Egan's The Keep and wrote about it back in 2010 . It's amazing how the same strengths and weaknesses of that nove...

This article was originally published at  Mobility Lab . OPTION OPPORTUNITIES Leaders can reach green initiatives and improve traff...

Will Ferrell stretches the limits of comedy just a little bit with Ferrell Takes the Field, currently airing on HBO.  It's a mockum...

What do General Motors, Samsung, and Duke and Ohio State universities all have in common? They have each launched bikeshare syste...

"In my waxed up hair and my painted shoes," in the words of The Replacements, who remain a major glaring omission from the Rock ...

George Eliot, whose real name was Mary Ann Evans, loved rural society more than the urban areas of the time that she saw as pushed aside b...

Being a passionate journalist and communications professional, it's flat-out crazy that I don't visit the Newseum in Washington D...

Nebraska It takes a while to finally see any good in Bruce Dern's character in Nebraska, but there sure are a lot of laughs before we ...

The music rag  Magnet is my absolute favorite magazine in existence today. But one of its columnists, Andrew Earles , seems to have gone...

The benefit of having a 103-degree fever this week was that I had the time while lying in bed to watch Gravity , which turned into an unex...