After spending more than two decades touring, directing, writing and producing for Christian theater and radio (most recently for Adventures in Odyssey, which he still contributes to), Bob joined the Plugged In staff to help us focus more heavily on video games. He is also one of our primary movie reviewers.
I wanted to share a couple recent cultural happenings that you may not be aware of. Frank Buckles had a birthday. And singer Ke$ha knocked Susan Boyle off the No.1 spot on the album sales charts. Now, you may not have heard of either of these two peopl …
Atlanta newcomer Bobby Ray Simmons—better known as B.o.B—claims the right woman has inspired him to leave his skirt-chasing ways behind. Should we take him at his word?
The Disney Channel’s hit musical dances its way onto DVD after a stunningly popular run on TV.
I’ve never really been a social network supporter. It’s all seemed kind of silly to me, really. Just thinking about the idea of MySpace and Facebook took up more time than I wanted to spend. My philosophy has always been pretty straight-forward: Why wa …
The Rock loves to knock guys’ teeth out. Fairies love to retrieve them. So what in the world is going to happen when he becomes one of them? Silliness is going to happen, that’s what.
Mankind has always gone gaga over beauty. From the voluptuous paintings in Egyptian tombs to the airbrushed magazine covers of Hollywood icons, the beautiful have historically grabbed our attention and invited us to adore them. But today’s advanced pla …
I really love watching movies. Call me a masochist, but even after countless hours of screening flicks for review, I’ll sometimes put my notebook and pen aside and happily plant my over-padded backside in an under-padded theater seat. I’ll be honest, t …
You know all that bad news on the TV and the radio and the Internet? Well, just forget about it, says Josh Turner, and cut a rug for a while.
Remember who was in the celebrity news way back in 1999? The Spice Girls were still strutting their British girl-power stuff. Angelina Jolie was the twentysomething “it” girl. Tom Cruise was getting “sexiest star” and “beautiful people” of the year awa …
Call it Lil Wayne’s going away party: His new single, which features Eminem, arrives mere days before the bars bang shut on his prison sentence.
The only one without a big plan when it’s time to take the British throne is 18-year-old Victoria herself …
Now, I’m not all about money. I probably would’ve been quite content to live in the agrarian days of yore when you’d go out and barter a cow for bags of seed corn. But as I was buying Christmas gifts and trying to ignore my bank account’s plaintive cr …
The Federal Trade Commission recently issued a report titled Virtual Worlds and Kids: Mapping the Risks, that examined 27 virtual online worlds. The sites the FTC talked about included digital playgrounds such as Build a Bearville, IMVU, Neopets, Runes …
