How we watch news keeps on evolving. Gone are the days of Walter Cronkite speaking to us all every evening on our TVs. Today, news comes a mile a minute from every source imaginable. On social media, news sites, and in news programming, every source has a different spin. Among them is HLN, aka CNN’s […]

Just seeing the yellow rectangle of National Geographic is enough for me to start hearing the signature fanfare notes of its signature theme song. Triumphant and brassy, the song immediately makes you feel like proper enlightenment is about the occur. The same goes for the magazine. Glossy, yellow-rectangle-emblazed magazines sat in stacks in my parents’ […]

Rubber necking on the highway causes serious delays – and questionable privacy issues for the unfortunate people in the car accident. Watching Investigation Discovery, however, gives you the same wide-eyed “can’t look away” experience without endangering traffic or actually seeing the suffering of real people. On ID you get actors portraying the worst of what […]

A bright purple bedroom was our first big design decision after my husband and I got married in 2003. It had “Trading Spaces” on TLC to thank. Back then, pre-Marie Kondo, it was Paige Davis and her crew of designers and carpenters that we turned to for household advice.  On a limited budget, they helped […]

Read on to discover all the ways you can watch Comedy Central without signing up for a cable plan. Philo Is The Cheapest Way to Watch Comedy Central Of all the ways to watch Comedy Central without cable, the cheapest option is Philo. Philo provides Comedy Central as well as 57 other channels for $20/month. […]

Just saying the words “Lifetime movie” is enough to immediately conjure flashy images: the scorned wife, the thwarted lover, the pregnant teen. Lifetime has become synonymous with a certain melodrama of the distinctly feminine variety. If action movies feature a surplus of masculine energy, these go the opposite route. Interpersonal dramas go bonkers in plots […]