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Sonic Youth Survives Aydin Guner In terms of their age, one could compare Sonic Youth to the dinosaurs, albeit with cool hairstyles and a knack for loud guitars. However, Sonic Youth actually survived the extinction. And there must be a reason for this. After the mid 90s grunge movement was washed away by the baggy trousers and pop rap of […]

A ‘lucky to be alive’ passenger’s story By David Schilke From CNN.com [(CNN.com) Editor’s note: David Schilke and his family were passengers on Flight 253. He and his wife Iliana work for Ford Motor Co. The following is from an e-mail he plans to send his co-workers on January 4.] (CNN) — As most of you already know my wife, […]

Office Romances: Are They Working? By Stevie Sobieski We all gasped in horror when Phyllis walked in on Dwight and Angela in flagrante delicto during the season four finale of The Office. But, are office romances really all that shocking? According to a 2003 survey by the American Management Association (AMA), the answer is no. Sixty-seven percent of respondents said […]

Best & Worst Movies of 2009 by Scott Marks Usually I scramble to put together an annual Top Ten, but for the first time in over a decade there is an overabundance of quality movies, enough to warrant a Top Twenty! There is one qualification for a film to appear on this list. It must have screened in a San […]

Photos from the end of 2009 It’s going to be a new decade, and here’s hoping that 2010 will be a lot better. Not that 2009 was all that bad, but let’s admit it, it could have been better. As the economy has had a year to recover from the global banking meltdown as they’ve called it, we can only […]