Dan Brown’s new novel The Lost Symbol picks up right where The Da Vinci Code left off in another thrilling, puzzle-solving, authorities-eluding mystery.  The only difference is that it’s set in the capital of the United States of America, Washington D.C., a city which this reviewer had the pleasure of visiting twice this summer.  Brown’s [...]

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Leave it to Wes Anderson to turn classic Roald Dahl characters into quirky claymation renditions of his normative actors like Bill Murray or Jason Schwartzman.  In Fantastic Mr. Fox, Anderson proves that he’s got a much firmer grip on American nostalgia than, oh say, Spike Jonze, whose Where the Wild Things Are provoked a hip response to [...]

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In the last few months, speculation has abounded regarding the November 2010 Michigan gubernatorial election. But both sides face the same issue: electability in a general election for a likely primary winner. For the Democratic Party, the frontrunner seems to be Lieutenant Governor John Cherry, who despite his support from the party establishment is staring [...]

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