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By Craig Detweiler James Cameron’s “Avatar” lives up to its eye-popping, three-dimensional promise. It offers massive spectacle, thrilling set pieces, and seamless special effects. In fact, the entire movie is a special effect, a tribute to what’s possible. The dinosaurs in “Jurassic Park” were just a warm up for the ferocious creatures lurking in “Avatar.”…

Meet the kid who beat out Michael J. Fox, Youtube sensation Jill and Kevin, Captain Sully, and more of the year’s most inspirational people to win Beliefnet’s annual award. Zach Bonner, a 12-year-old committed to helping homeless kids, is the winner of Beliefnet’s Most Inspiring Person of the 2009 Award. Read more about this amazing,…

David Michael Slater’s first book, “Cheese Louise,” was about a piece of Swiss cheese who doesn’t like her holes. You’d think the cheese lobby would get up in arms about that calumny, but no, it wasn’t until the Oregon public-school teacher had published a young adult novel that questions the factuality of the Bible that…

Roy E. Disney, son of Roy O. Disney and nephew of Walt Disney (who together founded Disney), died in Newport Beach, CA today at the age of 79. He worked in the family business for years, as an editor, screenwriter and producer, and was on and off the board of directors for the company due…

A review of some new (and nearly new) Hanukkah songs.

Are you ready to rock??? Presenting…ABBA! If those two sentences are confusing you, you’re not alone. Today, the LA Times announced that ABBA – among others, including the less shrug-inducing Genesis, The (almost Air Supply sounding) Hollies, reggae-ska-pop artist Jimmy Cliff and the Stooges (the band where Iggy Pop got his start) – was set…

Academics are known to get geeky about popular culture, especially if we’re talking about the mythologies of Joss Whedon across his many shows, especially Buffy, or anything to do with Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and lately, professors are jumping on the “let’s talk about the greater significance of Twilight” bandwagon. But black metal?…

It’s been a tough year. if you had any doubt about it, look at what the world watched on YouTube. If future historians want to know what recession, terrorist threats, environmental worries and partisan strife did to the public mood in 2009, they might want to consult the list of YouTube’s most-watched videos of the…

"The Advent Conspiracy" - a new way to look at Christmas - has interest explodng on the internet.

Watch the trailer for "Creation," the new movie about the life of scientist Charles Darwin.
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