RISE Skillet (Warner) As politically conscious as Skillet try to be, they have a tendency to ruin a potentially good lyric such as “sometimes it’s crazy to fight for what you believe” with a fade-out kiddy chorus that’s just plain corny. Likewise Sick Of It
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Herzigova welcomes boy
Eva Herzigova has given birth to a baby boy.
Film review: Olympus has fallen
A man knew where he stood in the 80s and early 90s. With Willis, Stallone and Schwarzenegger in the top tier, Van Damme and Seagal fighting it out for the scraps, and a legion of disposable pretenders going straight to video behind them, a bloke could queue up with confidence at the multiplex, safe in the knowledge that a chisel-featured white guy would be taking on an ethnically diverse pack of villains, and saving the world in time to get a couple of pints in on the way home before the pubs all closed at 11pm.
Album review: Opposites – Biffy Clyro
OPPOSITES Biffy Clyro (Warner) After five previous full-lengthers, these Scots rockers have hit a pinnacle of sorts with this grandiose, swaggering album stacked full of stadium-sized anthemic belters, primetime alt-rock and heartstring tugging ballads.
Pottermore: Is New J.K. Rowling Website Good for Readers?
The big reveal has been revealed: Pottermore is … an interactive thingy.
The No Child Left Behind Showdown
Is it finally the beginning of the end for No Child Left Behind?
Heavy Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers, Study Finds
Correction Appended: Aug.
Backing Up Files Online: Why It’s Good to Mozy Along
If you’re like most computer users, your PC or Mac is loaded with a gazillion family photos and other prized documents.
How to Buy an Oriental Rug
One of the fringe benefits of being a Middle East correspondent is that my travels in the region have allowed me to start a decent little collection of oriental rugs.
‘Lucky’ tortoise survives busy motorway
No one knows where he started his slow, lonely journey, but it ended this week when a quick-thinking driver scooped him up and rescued him from a busy motorway south of London. Freeway the tortoise, as he has since come to be known, is now living comfortably at an animal rescue center in Worthing, along England’s south coast, while staff try to find his owner