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Before I go listing my YA novel picks for 2008, I have one caveat: I am rather tired of the way people slap the word “spiritual” on everything including the kitchen sink, without really telling you what they mean by the usage. So, in the process of giving you my Top 5 Best Spiritual YA Reads…

If you could give advice to Britney Spears to correct her mistakes in 2009, what would it be? How about Madonna, Robert Pattinson of “Twilight” fame, and, yes, even Sarah Palin? Idol Chatter blogger Esther Kustanowitz offers suggested resolutions to these celebs (and more) on how to have a healthier and happier New Year. Check…

A few weeks ago I received an invitation from Beliefnet co-founder and editor-in-chief teve Waldman to make note of my “Best Spiritual Read of 2008.”  One book clearly came to mind. It’s a pretty simple, straightforward book, though I’ve tried to remember a better or more challenging, more sublime, or more esoteric book to put…

George Clooney, one of the world’s sexiest men, is apparently a huge whiner when he doesn’t get his way. Does this make him any less sexy? View the following clip, featuring Richard Kind’s account of Clooney as one of the more annoying house guests on record.   Is this a true or false Hollywood story? Is…

The New York Times has a story about Muslim punk rockers, the amazing life-imitates-art phenomenon of “The Taqwacores,” a novel by Michael Muhammad Knight.  They didn’t exist until Knight’s novel started circulating in the Muslim teen community. “This book helped me create my identity,” one Muslim teen told the Times. The punks object equally to how…

Moviephone.com has made the confident pronouncement that Brad Pitt’s turn in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” is not only excellent, but it is his best role ever. That’s saying something–and it’s an interesting question for us to ask about any actor we follow. . “Pitt plays Benjamin at each stage of his life– from…

Initially I went to see the family comedy “Marley & Me” for a rather unusual reason. My physical therapist’s Florida home was featured in the movie. (Hey, where I’m from, that’s almost front page news.) I hadn’t read the book and I own three cats, so a story about an unruly golden retriever and his…

In this upcoming award season, there will be much talk about the major categories but not nearly enough about, what I like to call, The Forgotten Category, the one that should exist: “Most Inspiring.” Movies, after all, exist not only to entertain and to provide a break from reality, but also to inspire us to…

December 23 was the imaginary holiday, Festivus, created on that infamous “Seinfield” episode where Frank Costanza invents the annual ceremony of telling your loved ones how they have disappointed you in the previous months.  Alan Sepinwall over at the Star-Ledger has listed his own pop cullture grievances as he looks back over the 2008 television…

Set in 1955, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet play a couple who each dreams of a bigger and better life. In this clip they discuss moving to Paris.
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