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Building a Swimming Pool: Five Things to Consider First
A swimming pool might be great for your lifestyle and property values, but don’t start building until you’re 100 percent sure it’s the right choice.
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At the very heart of the average person’s fear of the dentist is a lack of trust.
Read More »Theater Review (DC): Jonathan Pryce in ‘The Merchant of Venice’ at the Kennedy Center
In the touring production from Shakespeare's Globe, Jonathan Pryce stands out as a thought-provoking and humanized Shylock.
Read More »Comic-Con Independent Film Festival: ‘Alistair 1918’
In "Alistair 1918," which screened at this year's San Diego Comic-Con Independent Film Festival, a film crew encounters a homeless man claiming to have been transported to present-day Los Angeles from a WW I battlefield.
Read More »Theater Review (Off Broadway-NYC): ‘Quietly’ by Owen McCafferty at the Irish Rep
When is reconciliation and forgiveness meaningful?
Read More »Seattle International Film Festival Movie Review: ‘Ants on a Shrimp’
Have you traveled to award winning restaurant NOMA in Japan to have their roast duck or ants on a shrimp?
Read More »NCAA Fact or Fanatic: The Star Rating Edition
Do five-star players really correlate with a team's success? Mean tweets aside, we take a look at the facts.
Read More »Christmas in July Arrives for Ohio Charity
A Cincinnati charity got an unexpected surprise from a local farm this July.
Read More »Interview: Talking About Music with Composer Bear McCreary
One-on-one with film and television composer Bear McCreary (Battlestar Galactica, The Walking Dead, Outlander, etc.)
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