07/29/08

Terror Twilight

As pop-culture editor, I feel like I should keep tabs on all of the rabid fan groups out there. You have your Trekkies, your comics addicts, wizard rock bands, and so on. Not that I belong to all of these groups. I just try to be aware of them the way ecologists might tag flocks of birds. I observe, and then move on.

Which is why I'm flabbergasted that one big fandom missed me completely: Twilight fans. If you're unaware as I was, the Twilight series is a set of young-adult books by writer Stephenie Meyer. The books follow a star-crossed romance between Bella, a teen transplanted from Arizona to Washington State, and the dreamy...

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07/22/08

American Teen EP Gives His Secrets to Producing

Are you sick of big-budget mega-blockbusters yet? (Not counting The Dark Knight, of course, because who could get sick of that?) Dial it down this weekend by heading out to see American Teen, Nanette Burstein's documentary about five high-school seniors out in Indiana. When the film screened at Sundance earlier this year, Entertainment Weekly's Owen Gleiberman wrote: "The teenagers in American Teen are such full, eager, vulnerable human beings that watching the movie makes you gasp, quietly, at what they're up against: not just the usual...

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07/15/08

Oh My God, It's Almost Time for Batman!

If you're a real fan of popular culture, there's only one thing on your mind this week (and it ain't Brangelina's twins). It's Batman. Batman! BATMAN! THE DARK KNIGHT COMES OUT THIS WEEKEND!

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07/08/08

Any Emmys?

Emmy nominees won't be announced officially until July 17, but the "short lists" of finalists already have leaked and circulated on the blogosphere. What would we do without the Internet? Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it's going to be...

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07/01/08

At the Drive-In

Even though I have 20 years of living in Westchester under my belt, old-timers still feel the need to tell me what the county used to be like. The only thing they mention that I really feel I missed out on is the Elmsford Drive-In.

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