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Last July, The Stew told you about Pottermore, JK Rowling’s “interactive reading experience” for Potter fans. The site has now gone live for Muggles the world over, and after signing up myself, it looks to be a wondrous place, which promises exclusive new content from Rowling. You’ll be placed by the Sorting Hat, you can brew your own potions, and have fun with a host of other activities.
The Muppets star in this parody of the new blockbuster film “The Hunger Games,” which serves as a clever promotional reminder that “The Muppets” movie that Fox News hates so much is still showing in theaters. Watch “Feel The Hunger”
There’s no denying that social media plays a critical role in countering mainstream media’s sometimes slanted reporting style. In this entertaining, dark and creative video (with a nod to the Occupy movement), The Guardian‘s open journalism project imagines how today’s news outlets and citizen-powered social media campaigns might cover the classic children’s story of “The [...]
It’s nice to enjoy the convenience of modern eBooks, but as this beautifully entertaining video reminds us, we must remember to take time to enjoy the feel, smell, and ‘joy of books’ by supporting independent bookstores, authors and publishers.
“Considering that she was a member of Congress and he was the highest-ranking member, we thought he’d ask to visit Gabby or at least give a call to see how she was doing,” Kelly writes in Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope. “Our only contact with him had been a simple get-well card he’d sent a few days after Gabby was injured.”
The Tea Party members and conservatives who love Ayn Rand and embrace her philosophy of selfishness and blind faith in a market economy, are not very pleased with the production company responsible for the failed move adaption of Rand’s 1957 novel “Atlas Shrugged.” It seems that the DVD version of the horrible film has been distributed with a very big mistake!
If campaigns have the potential to become vehicles for candidates to advance themselves financially, far more often they serve as veritable bank accounts for associates or friends of those candidates.
When we began to lay the groundwork for Veracity Media two years ago, we imagined a multi-tiered company focused on the free exchange of ideas….Now, after many moons of preparation, we present the next phase in our evolution: Veracity Press. Sharing ideas and inspiration with our peers will no longer be confined only to websites. We want to free the press, and make it available to aspiring thinkers and creators like you.
Now that former vice president Dick Cheney is releasing his memoirs full of revelations and confirmations of the dark deeds associated with his political career, we thought it was appropriate to find out what readers would consider Dick’s biggest offense.
When I was about 15-years old, my ballet instructor walked up to me, pinched my side and told me I needed to lose weight. I was 5’4” and weighed 100 pounds. At my thinnest, I weighed 88 pounds. I had an eating disorder that began long before puberty, long before I even understood why I [...]
The Obama family, much to the chagrin of Republicans, is on vacation. And like most Americans, President Obama took along a few books to read while trying to relax at the beach. The interesting thing about this president’s summer reading list is that it is mostly made up of fiction. The one non-fiction book, “The [...]
Time Magazine’s new cover story explores the newest “greatest generation” of warriors who have a different world perspective than World War II or Vietnam veterans. This group of veterans who served in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars will change the world in ways that we can’t begin to fathom. (larger image after the jump)
The folks over at HowItShouldHaveEnded.com (HISHE) have put their unique twist on the Harry Potter film franchise with this suggestion that things might have been a little different if Dumbledore had been honest about all the dangerous pitfalls to the children attending Hogwarts, or if someone like Professor Snape had just gone back in time [...]
One of the most divisive, yet effective battles in this country has been the culture wars. Whether they’re over race, religion, gender, you name it, the politicians and their stooges in the nation’s punditocracy have used them all as an emotional cudgel on the noggins of the American public to further their chosen agendas, which [...]
The scariest book I have ever read is “It” by Stephen King. I could not close my eyes without seeing Pennywise, the child killing clown who lived in the storm drains. I loaned the book to a friend of mine, and she had the same reaction. It would never occur to me to say say [...]
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