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Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Laurie Lindsay @ Tuesday, 6th May 2008 @ 8:30 AM

Watching movies is a neat escape from the stressful lifestyle we live in. Watching movies in a wide screen and surround sound take you far away and into the movie scene you are watching. You watch it as if you were there in the movie scene. Of late, we can only experience this escape in a cinema. However, modern technology may be able to provide this same sight and sound experience right in your own living room. We will discuss the basic components of a home theatre system in this articl... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Kyle Newton @ Sunday, 27th April 2008 @ 5:08 AM

Every year major blockbusters open into theatres that seem to instantly capture the limelight. And if it is an action oriented film, than you can almost guarantee a video game not too far behind. And no matter how well the film is reviewed and accepted by critics and the audience, the video game that follows it usually receives overwhelmingly negative reviews. Every now and then there is a game based on a film that is actually good and manages to capture the spirit of the film and bring ... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Kyle Newton @ Sunday, 27th April 2008 @ 5:03 AM

Pixar animation studios is the leading producer of computer animated films in the world. Pixar's creative director is John Lasseter, who has been hailed as the modern day Walt Disney. Their first full length film Toy Story was a landmark film for being the first ever feature length computer animated film. Pixar has managed to work with Disney to produce some of the most popular and critically acclaimed films of the past 13 years. And ever since the Academy Awards have had a best ani... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Kyle Newton @ Sunday, 27th April 2008 @ 4:59 AM

Michael Winship, the president of the Writer's Guild of America East, and Patric M. Verrone, the president of the Writer's Guild of America West announced in a letter to all involved with the strike of the past three months that has crippled much of the entertainment industry that the WGA had indeed reached a deal with the AMPTP on the basis of if they get paid, we get paid. The strike has been going on since November 5, 2007 over the royalties that were to be made from DVD sal... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Kyle Newton @ Sunday, 27th April 2008 @ 4:49 AM

Stephenie Meyer is a writer who has been picking up a lot of steam in the past few years. Her books are most often aimed at the teenage to young adult audience and are noted for using themes that people in that age group would identify with in the form of supernatural flights of fancy. Her most popular books are in the Twilight Trilogy which revolves around the world of vampires who live side by side with normal people, albeit secretly. The novel, along with its sequels New Moon, and Ecl... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Kyle Newton @ Sunday, 27th April 2008 @ 4:29 AM

In September of 1993 a television show premiered on Fox that became a cultural phenomenon all around the world. The show focused on FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Skully as they investigated paranormal activity, often centered around extraterrestrial origins. The show was called The X-Files. The show became popular among UFO enthusiasts, science fiction fans, and mystery fans due to its interesting mixture of science fiction, mystery, and conspiracy theories as topics of investigation fo... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Kyle Newton @ Sunday, 27th April 2008 @ 4:21 AM

Every week on the Fox network, audiences around the world hear a familiar chorus as voices say The Simpsons as an all too familiar theme plays. The Simpsons, for almost twenty years now, is the longest running animated program in the history of television. It is the characters of Homer, Marge, Lisa, Maggie, and, of course, Bart Simpson who bring audiences back to the town of Springfield with the crazy predicaments offered up by the towns folk. There have been fans of the Simpsons for yea... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Kyle Newton @ Sunday, 27th April 2008 @ 4:16 AM

Mankind has been fascinated with the concept of life existing on other worlds for hundreds of years. Incidents such as the Roswell phenomenon have done nothing but further inspire this fascination in the extraterrestrial. The concept of life on other worlds has held people's imagination largely due to the question of what if we were to be visited by people from one of those places to be inhabited. Perhaps the first book to ever speculate what could transpire given that situation was... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Kyle Newton @ Sunday, 27th April 2008 @ 3:22 AM

The comic book medium is one that has flourished around the world as just as viable as any other form of entertainment such as books, music, or film. Everywhere in the world, that is, except for America, where comic books are looked at, predominantly, as a children's medium. However, in the late 1970s, several comic book writers who were fed up with not being taken seriously sought to change the way people look at comics. They sought to receive the same respect that comic book write... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Kyle Newton @ Sunday, 27th April 2008 @ 3:10 AM

In 1982, David Hasselhoff was launched to stardom with the debut of the television series Knight Rider. Knight Rider was a story about a modern day Lone Ranger named Michael Knight who was formerly Officer Michael Long, until he was nearly killed in duty and resurrected by a group called FLAG (Foundation for the Law and Government). FLAG was founded by billionaire Wilton Knight, who was a philanthropist and owner of Knight Industries. When Wilton Knight dies, Michael vows to continue his... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Kyle Newton @ Sunday, 27th April 2008 @ 3:07 AM

Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick have been behind some of the most popular TV series in recent history. They have brought TV shows that showed realistic characters with normal motivations and quirks. The shows were Thirtysomething, My So-Called Life, and Once and Again. The shows dealt mostly with people trying to reaffirm their stances in their own lives through events that took place around them. Their new series Quarterlife seeks to do the same thing, except it keeps up with the t... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Kyle Newton @ Sunday, 27th April 2008 @ 3:02 AM

In 2005, author C.S. Lewis popular epic book series The Chronicles of Narnia was brought to the big screen for the first time with an adaptation of the first book in the series The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. The film tells the story of four children who are sent away to live with distant relatives in a mansion in order to stay safe during the turmoil of World War 2. While staying at the mansion, they discover a wardrobe which is actually a doorway to a ... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Kyle Newton @ Sunday, 27th April 2008 @ 2:57 AM

When Academy Award nominated actor Heath Ledger died on January 22, 2008, the entertainment industry stood still to mourn an actor who passed long before his time. Ledger's death has already affected the marketing campaign of the film The Dark Knight, and it has also severely affected the production of his last film, Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Ledger's Death temporarily halted production on the fantasy film. Having already spent a large amount of ... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Kyle Newton @ Sunday, 27th April 2008 @ 2:06 AM

Since 1985 the Discovery Channel has been bringing fascinating scientific and historical facts to TV viewers around the world. The channel has become renowned for bringing facts to people who may not have acquired them otherwise. With a focus on scientific application to daily life, the Discovery Channel has a worldwide following of people who can't get enough. The channel brings reality based programs that not only educate, but entertain. The entertainment aspect has been k... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Kyle Newton @ Sunday, 27th April 2008 @ 2:02 AM

In September 2006, CBS debuted a new series about defense attorney Sebastian Stark, who has earned the nickname Shark due to his cutthroat nature. Stark is notorious for never losing a case, until he defends a man who abused his wife who after getting out of prison kills her. Disgusted with how he has aided guilty men without giving it a second thought, Stark seeks to redeem himself by becoming a district attorney for the same district that despises him for the people he had gotten acqui... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Kyle Newton @ Sunday, 27th April 2008 @ 1:19 AM

Free roaming video games have become quite popular in the past few years due to the go anywhere, do anything feel that they give the game player. These games give the player a sense of freedom that level based games do not. However, most of these games involve merely driving, or shooting. It is in the realm of characters with superpowers that these games thrive due to the larger than life nature of games like these. A good example of this would be Activision's Spider-Man games, and ... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Kyle Newton @ Sunday, 27th April 2008 @ 1:03 AM

Sweeney Todd is a character who has been present in literature, films, urban legends, and plays since the late 1800s. The stories that are told usually follow the same basic structure of a mad barber who murders his customers with a straight razor, and then dumps them into a pit below his shop where the bodies are turned into meat pies by his partner in crime, love, or merely friend depending on the version, Mrs. Lovett. Where this legend came from, nobody quite knows for sure, but the b... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Jason OConnor @ Friday, 25th April 2008 @ 10:15 PM

For any lover of music - whether it is rock and roll, hip hop, or country, or anything else under the sun, the spring and summer concert schedule of 2008 is set to blow your mind and give you a chance to see many different acts out there on the road. No matter where you live or where you'd like to travel to see shows, you'll be able to find plenty of great spring and summer concerts, and you'll be able to end the summer knowing you've seen the best that the music industry has... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Ann Knapp @ Friday, 25th April 2008 @ 11:03 AM

Like so many other things, horse-racing both legitimized, and was legitimized by, the new medium of television during the 1950s. What horse-racing offered TV was the chance for this upstart medium, criticized from its inception, to broadcast a venerable and time-honored American pastime, the "Sport of Kings" which so many Americans associated with upward mobility. What TV offered Thoroughbred horse-racing was a chance to be seen by a vastly expanded audience, and a whole new generation.<... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment | By Christine Harrell @ Thursday, 24th April 2008 @ 4:33 PM

Carnivals are one of the most popular fundraising events that schools hold. The difference between a "blah" carnival and a wildly successful one is often a matter of proper organization. Winning events involve more than setting up a couple of inflatable rentals and ordering pizza. Marketing and recruiting in particular are critical if you want the carnival to meet your fundraising goals. Creating the Plan: Carnivals involve a lot people and activity, so it's easy f... more...