John Kelly's Commons: July 5, 2009 - July 11, 2009
BritNews RoundUp: Bush League Edition
Britain's latest superhero is a nature-loving gardener who dresses up as a shrub and tends to public gardens in Colchester. He calls himself the Human Shrub and dons a bushy disguise as he tends to neglected gardens in the English...
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July 10, 2009; 11:00 AM ET |
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Bone Marrow: Swab Your Cheek, Save a Life
When Courtney Gray Haupt walks down the street she cannot help but look into the faces of the strangers streaming past and wonder: "Could it be you? Could it be you? Could it be you?" In March Courtney's husband, Jonathan,...
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July 10, 2009; 8:37 AM ET |
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Setting His Sights on Cinema: A Movielover's Lament
TJ Edwards thinks he knows why some people are rude at movie theaters, and it has nothing to do with some people just being rude. It has to do with the act of moviegoing itself, a once-magical experience that has...
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July 9, 2009; 9:48 AM ET |
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A Modest Proposal: A Radical Solution to Movie Texting?
Reader Donna Hosek has an idea for how to deal with movie texters. Now, I can't tell whether Donna's being serious or whether she's being facetious but I like her creativity. Here's what she has to say: I don't...
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July 8, 2009; 9:22 AM ET |
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The Fall of the Usher of the House: Violence at the Multiplex?
A common lament among those who decry the texting-and-talking atmosphere in movie theaters these days is that "Ushers don't do anything." They don't enforce the theaters' own rules. I have no scientific evidence to back this up but let us,...
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July 6, 2009; 9:30 AM ET |
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