The thwack of a golf ball getting hit by a club has a certain melody, at least for some. Golf enthusiasts often just want to hear that melody played as many times as possible, creating a symphony of soaring balls set over vistas of carefully landscaped greens. If you are among them, then the Golf […]

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 […]

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 […]