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The best fictional colleges from film and television  

The only thing that might be more enjoyable than actually attending college is watching the countless television shows and movies that focus on the best four years of your life. This list goes over some of my favorite fictional colleges.Greendale Community CollegeNBC’s "Community" (2009-2015) ...



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'Everwood'

A couple of weeks ago, I won an online contest through my synagogue for a free television show on Amazon. I was excited about it, especially because I knew it would open up my options when writing this column; however, the pickings were extremely slim. I ended up choosing the drama "Everwood" ...


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'Chicago Med' debuts formulaic premiere

Award-winning producer Dick Wolf strikes again with the third installment of his interconnected Chicago-based shows. Like its counterparts, "Chicago Med," which premiered Nov. 17, doesn't boast a well-known or experienced cast. This, coupled with fairly flat dialogue, doesn't ...



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Defending a happy ending

Chick lit. Those two words instantly conjure up a whole host of associations with bright pink covers, desperately single heroines and love interests whose square jaws and rippling muscles are the most interesting things about them. I could talk for days about the problems with how this genre is characterized, ...



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'Marvel's Jessica Jones' live-action take on comic book

"Marvel's Jessica Jones," a Netflix original series based on the Marvel universe comic book character of the same name, released its full first season last week and made quite an impression. Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) is the best private investigator in New York City, despite her ...


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'League of Explorers' adventure breaks open dull metagame

From clashing swords with the mighty undead hosts in the floating necropolis of Naxxramus to slaying dragons in the caves of Blackrock Mountain, Blizzard Entertainment’s expansions and adventures for the collectible card game "Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft" have been decidedly hit-or-miss ...



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Amazon's new historical fiction drama intrigues, blunders

What if Germany and Japan had won the second World War? Based on the portrayal of just such an alternate universe, Amazon’s new show, “The Man in the High Castle" shows how an Axis victory would have wrought superficial change to the land between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.The show, which ...


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Ending the world (and starting all over again)

Authors have been fascinated with the end of the world since the beginning of the world, and recently there's been a veritable epidemic of dystopian and post-apocalyptic fiction. The world has ended by way of zombies, epidemics, nuclear accidents, corporate takeovers and anything that even vaguely ...



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Bieber finds ‘Purpose’ on fourth studio album

Two years of constant scandal had greatly damaged Justin Bieber's reputation and, in an industry where entire careers are built upon the ability of an artist to maintain goodwill with the public, it appeared that Bieber had long exhausted whatever favor he might have once enjoyed. After all, the ...


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Read between the lines

Someone asked me this week if NYSD was just Rebecca and me talking about our personal lives and whether that is considered an "advice" column. To this, my response was…obviously. Yes, Rebecca and I do primarily talk about ourselves, but what better way to get advice? A large part of advice ...



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Top 10 Thanksgiving Foods

As we slowly but surely approach the relief that is Thanksgiving break, it's time for those of us who plan on feasting, to pick and choose the dishes in which to indulge. It's impossible to eat everything -- though you may want to -- so you might have to be selective. To help with this difficult ...


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A campus in Beijing

The first thing that struck me about my college campus in Beijing was the mix of concrete and lush gardens, which somehow looked out-of-place in the urban atmosphere. The flatness, too, was unfamiliar -- no hikes up the hill to class. Students on motorbikes zoomed through the winding streets. Some ...



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Boston En Masse to showcase local music scene

For three days this week, Boston/Cambridge-based booking collective Illegally Blind will showcase some of the finest bands that the area has to offer. Called Boston En Masse, the mini music festival aims to bring the music community together to enjoy a variety of genres and acquaint concertgoers with ...