Archive | February, 2016

American Idol XV: Top 24, Group 1 Show

This week we got a double dose of our first twelve contestants before the judges cut them from an even dozen to the lucky seven who would move on to the Top 14 show next week. On Wednesday night, we saw each of them sing solo then on Thursday night’s results show, they sang with […]

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‘Sweet Hearts’ — A Playlist for Valentine’s Day

Conversation hearts are a staple of Valentine’s Day confections. This year, Sweethearts celebrates 150 years of those sugary sweet, pastel colored, and heart-shaped candies stamped with fun, friendly, and flirty statements. If you’re not one for long declarations of love, candy hearts are a way to say more with less (while putting sweet words in your sweetheart’s […]

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The FlashBack: ‘The Flash’ – Episode 13 ‘Welcome to Earth-2’

This week the team heads off to Earth-2 to stop Zoom and rescue Jesse. It’s an action-packed episode with a lot of great Easter eggs for comics fans, but as always this recap contains spoilers. If you’re not into that it’s time to get off the ride because it’s full speed ahead to Earth-2 from here!

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Fly Like a Girl: ‘Supergirl’ – Episode 13 ‘For The Girl Who Has Everything’

Last night’s episode was a riff off of the classic Superman story “For the Man Who Has Everything.” It was an ambitious undertaking and ultimately felt as organic to Supergirl as true to the classic Alan Moore material. Spoilers beyond this point.

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Marvel’s Wil Traval Discusses ‘Jessica Jones’ Taking Over Netflix

In recent years, the world of entertainment has been touched more and more by non-American performers, writers, and artists. Look at any award show, and many of the nominees and presenters will deliver speeches in various, lovely accents. Television has certainly been no exception. And thanks to Australian actor Wil Traval, Marvel is one of the […]

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American Idol XV: Hollywood Week Concludes

Last week, we saw some of our favorite contestants from the auditions rise and fall when asked to sing in lines of ten with other contestants and in groups. This week, Hollywood Week reached its climax as the contestants performed twice more: once before the infamous division of them into three rooms with one of […]

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Decadently Rich Recipes to Celebrate World Nutella Day

Ladies and gentlemen, Friday is a very important day. It’s the 10th annual World Nutella Day, a day originally created by blogger Sara Rosso to celebrate the deliciousness of Nutella. Now officially adopted by Nutella’s parent company, Ferrero, World Nutella Day even has an official Nutella Ambassador. There’s only one way to truly celebrate World Nutella […]

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The FlashBack: ‘The Flash’ – Episode 12 “’Fast Lane’

The episode opens up two years ago at night in an industrial building. A couple of bad guys have a man tied up and are dangling him over a vat of hot, bubbling tar. The bound guy has money that the thugs want and if he doesn’t give it up, they will drop him into the tar below.

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Fly Like a Girl: ‘Supergirl’ – Episode 12 ‘Bizarro’

Last night’s episode opens up three months into the past. Maxwell Lord enters Lab 52 (a nice nod to the 52 universes in DC Comics). Inside he looks upon the unconscious girl we have seen in the past few episodes.

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50:50? Why Super Bowl 50 Is Anything But a Toss-Up

This year’s NFL season has been anything but predictable. However, when it comes to Super Bowl 50 there will likely be only one result that would be truly surprising and that is a win for the Denver Broncos. That’s not to take anything away from Gary Kubiak’s team, but there are a lot of things that would […]

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