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While not particularly a fan of Anne Murray’s mellow croonings about love and loss, I was curious about her latest effort “‘Duets: Friends and Legends.” I enjoy it when unlikely combination of singers join together to create a fresh twist on classic songs. On “Duets” Murray has attempted to do just that by lining up…

Warning: This review contains spoilers. Halfway through watching “Snow Angels,” I began asking myself, “When is this movie going to end?” My listlessness foreshadowed my feelings when I walked out of the theater: bewildered, numbed, and absolutely depressed. Based on the novel by Stewart O’Nan, the film adaptation of “Snow Angels” centers on an unnamed,…

The inspirational comedy series, “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne” about a multigenerational family living under one roof, returns tomorrow night on TBS (9 p.m. EST). Madea (Tyler Perry, himself) is set to make a guest appearance. Cast members from the show, including LaVan Davis (Curtis “Pops” Payne), Cassi Davis (Ella Payne), Lance Gross (Calvin Payne)…

Last year during Lent I gave up the Internet. That’s right! I got myself off email, web-surfing, all of it between starting Ash Wednesday and ending on Easter Sunday. The one consession I made, for work purposes only, was to log on to email once a day at 3pm to check for any important mail…

Click on the photo below to listen to a song from the album “Down in New Orleans” by the critically acclaimed gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Then, click here to read Paul O’Donnell’s interview with the band’s drummer, Ricky McKinnie.

The reverb from their 10th anniversary DVD/compilation album hasn’t completely died down (in my car at least) when Third Day, one of the most successful Christian bands to come out of Nashville, announced that rhythm guitarist Brad Avery was quitting the band to pursue solo projects. The band’s press release was terse but seemingly supportive…

Remember the heady days of the new millenium when every self-respecting teen star was declaring that they were saving themselves for marriage? Now remember how you felt when it was discovered that shocker, one pop princess did not in fact remain pure until marriage? It’s true that not many of us were really suprised that…

Ricky McKinnie has been playing with the gospel legends The Blind Boys of Alabama for more than three decades, and that makes him one of the new guys. First recorded in the 1940s, the Blind Boys were known mostly to traditional gospel audiences until the early ’80s, when they were cast in the Broadway show…

Last week’s episode of “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles,” got all apocalyptic. Well, not that it’s not already a show about a coming apocalypse, but “The Demon Hand” episode got explicitly Christian this time, evoking the Book of Revelation, and revealing that Detective Ellison–the man who is searching for Sarah, and beginning to believe her…

“Oprah’s Big Give,” which debuted last night on ABC, offers reality TV the Winfrey way–sans back-stabbing, snarkiness, and rauchiness. So, will anyone watch it as it proceeds through its eight-week run? Put another way, does wholesome reality TV have a place amid the abundance of sleaze that typifies the genre? In the show, contestants compete…
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