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Watch a video clip from “The 11th Hour,” a new documentary narrated and produced by Leonardo DiCaprio about the environmental crisis–and what we can do about it: Click to Watch the Video

MxPx‘s first album, 1994’s “Pokinatcha,” was one of the first releases on Tooth and Nail Records, a label which has since become the juggernaut of Christian indie imprints. A few years back, MxPx and the label’s owner, Brandon Ebel, had a public falling out over the band’s contract, which led the band to jump ship…

The second installment of ABC.com’s summer scifi series, “Masters of the Universe,” aired this past Saturday, and I was surprised at how much spirituality was packed into the short hour. In “The Awakening,” a mysterious cocoon-wrapped golden creature with human-like properties is discovered in Iraq. To determine whether the humanoid–and others like it falling into…

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I was in a bad mood on Friday afternoon, and it didn’t get any better when I learned that “Stardust,” the novel by Neil Gaiman, as a new film was over two hours long. The water-logged week in New York City was finally getting to me. Between the steamy humidity, the subway floods, and the…

In case the name wasn’t a big enough tip-off, the opening of “Californication” (debuting tonight at 10:30 p.m. on Showtime)–with a most unholy visit to a church (cue the cigarette in the holy water and the hot nun) while the choral prelude to “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” plays–tells you that things are…

Is Time Magazine trying to make sublimal suggestions about its recent coverboy the Reverend Billy Graham? The question comes from none other than celebrity gossip website TMZ.com. “Rev. Billy Graham’s cover photo for Time magazine is innocent enough in and of itself,” the site notes, “but when you look at it superimposed over the Time…

The number one song in Pakistan right now is “Ne Hum Naheen,” or “This isn’t Us,” a moving anti-terrorism music video made by the top eight Pakistani pop stars. As it gains popularity, the song is starting to sweep the world. Check out the video on YouTube here.

Parenting magazines and the vast marketing landscape that target new parents have always pushed that children’s videos, like “Baby Einstein” and “Bee Smart Baby,” are a crucial part of the educational upbringing for your babies. These days, the prevailaing theory is that if you don’t show educational videos to your babies and children, they will…

Summertime is a time for rashes–poison ivy, heat rash–but this summer there’s been a rash of religion on reality shows. Why, just in the last week alone I’ve seen a group of former boy band members go through a Native American blessing ceremony on VH1’s “Mission: Manband” and watched a real estate speculator perform a…

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