Author Archives | Karen Datangel

How to Throw a Rockin’ New Year’s Eve Party on a Budget

If holiday shopping has your wallet burnt out and you have to spend the monetary gifts you did receive on rent/your car/your cell phone bill, you can still ring in 2014 boisterously without breaking the bank. All you need are odds and ends that are already in your home, some cooperative buddies, and you and […]

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Lady Gaga’s ‘Artpop’: Masterpiece or Messy?

The pop superstar is back with a new album full of hot and unfiltered tracks set to loud electronic beats with some surprises. But is Lady Gaga truly better than ever on ‘Artpop’? Check out our track-by-track review to break it down for you.

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Karen Watches the 2013 World Series: From Worst to First, Boston Red Sox Clinch Third Championship in Ten Years

Stellar pitching. Solid defense. Clutch hitting. Chemistry. The will to win. These are things that baseball championship teams are made of. This is what made up the 2013 Boston Red Sox, and what turned them into the 2013 World Champion Boston Red Sox.

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Karen Watches the 2013 World Series: Another Wild Ending in Game 4 as Boston Ties the Series

For the second night in a row, it was not your typical ballgame.

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Karen Watches the 2013 World Series: Cardinals Tie Series With Come-From-Behind Rally and Game 2 Win

I guess the Red Sox sometimes make similar mistakes to the Cardinals. St. Louis tied the World Series by taking advantage of Red Sox errors.

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Karen Watches the 2013 World Series: Red Sox Turn Cardinals Into Feathers in Game 1 Rout

The Red Sox can hit, Jon Lester knows how to throw baseballs, Carlos Beltran creates miracles but must sacrifice himself, LOL Cardinals again and again and again

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Karen Watches the 2013 World Series: How to Tell Two Red Teams Apart—A Guide for the Casual Baseball Fan

The St. Louis Cardinals have 11, the Boston Red Sox have 7, but how else are they different? See how the 2013 World Series competitors stack up against each other. We’ll be bringing game recaps all throughout the week!

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s ‘Don Jon’ is a Bold, Enticing, and Unexpected First Feature

The legend of the womanizing Don Juan has been told in many ways throughout the course of time, but art has never presented him as a modern-day, online porn-addicted Italian Catholic guy from Jersey—till Joseph Gordon-Levitt brought him to life. The thespian makes his first feature film foray into directing and screenwriting with the unconventional […]

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How Will ‘Breaking Bad’ End?

They are images that will be ingrained in modern television history: A Southwestern desert. RV. A frightened middle-aged man sporting glasses, a green collared shirt, no pants, and a gun pointing towards the camera. In the course of five years, the desert remained a prominent setting as the RV became obsolete. But most startling—yet thrilling—is […]

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Backstreet’s Back, All Right!: Celebrating 20 Years of BSB

Boy band mania has dawned upon the world once again. Though modern groups like One Direction have captivated a new generation of frenzied fans, it’s arguably more exciting to see groups of yesteryear reunite to fulfill those nostalgic for the hottest male talents of the good old days.  The Package Tour, for a recent example, […]

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‘Fruitvale Station’ is Gutwrenching Cinematic Take on Real-Life Drama

The news headlines come in every day—some trivial, some celebratory, some groundbreaking, some shocking, some devastating—and every now and then comes a story that especially ignites massive outrage and calls for change and justice. The year 2009 started off with one of these stories, with a 22-year-old man named Oscar Grant at the center. Oscar […]

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Revisiting Battle Arena Toshinden

Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat were the household names in fighting games back in the 90s, but if you owned the original Sony PlayStation, chances are you got a glimpse of a new kind of beat-em-up—one in the third dimension. Battle Arena Toshinden was one of the titles included in select demo discs packaged with […]

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The 3 MLB Wives You Should Be Following on Twitter

“Behind every married baseball player is a woman who didn’t know what she was getting herself into.” The headline of Dallas Latos‘ blog provokes questions about what it means to be bound together for life with a traveling pro athlete and opens the page for a never-ending story to be told. The term “baseball wife” […]

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