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NASCAR’s 2012 season certainly didn’t take long to get warmed up. We went from zero to awesome in one race. Kyle Busch almost wrecked -– by all measure should have wrecked -– twice in the second stanza of the Budweiser Shootout. Twice he slid toward the infield, car sliding wildly. Twice he somehow managed to right the vehicle and avoid certain disaster. And once –- once is… Read more

The ascension of Jeremy Lin from nothing to superstar was a whole lot of fun to watch this week, but it didn’t take the top spot in the Buzzer Eagle Top 5. Read on to see what we loved even more than Lin this week.

#5 Northern Trust Open
Phil Mickelson almost pulled off back-to-back victories worthy of a Hollywood movie. Almost. But didn’t. There is only one thing in the world of golf that… Read more

My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business: A Memoir is written by the famous Dick Van Dyke. Van Dyke became a television celebrity for his role on the  Dick Van Dyke Show with co-star Mary Tyler Moore. His latest television roles were for the Diagnosis Murder series that appeared on the air from 1993 to 2001. While he isn’t a well-known star to this generation, he certainly made a splash. At the… Read more

Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace in 3D is Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, in 3D.  Rumors of new scenes featuring Darth Maul’s back story were unfounded (and kind of cruel).   The film is exactly what it always has been.  If you hated li’l Anakin and Jar Jar Binks before, well, they aren’t any better in 3D.

Maybe it’s an expectation thing.  When it comes to Star Wars, the whole “critic’s objectivity”… Read more

This past Monday I rushed over to Killian Hall at MIT, hoping to slip in and find a seat just before Vicky Chow would be formally presented to the audience to play John Cage‘s Sonatas and Interludes. My plan was unsuccessful. A crowd was building near the doorways, because the small concert hall was already overflowing. I joined a line of people who were grabbing chairs and awkwardly carrying them to the front of… Read more

From NYC comedian, Rob Michael Hugel, comes a new webseries about bouncing back and moving on after a breakup. I Hate Being Single follows Rob (played by Rob Michael Hugel), a 20-something who just got dumped by his girlfriend. He turns to his friends for comfort and gets a hard dose of reality instead. Now, with no prospect of a reunion with his ex-girlfriend, he tries to “get back up on that saddle” with… Read more