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10 Best Podcasts Right Now

With the influence of radio dwindling, podcasts now cater to virtually any interest and taste. There are literally thousands of different programs from which to choose, from podcasts that teach you how to speak different languages to those offering the latest economic information. Still, finding that perfect podcast can be daunting. To help you make an educated decision, here are our 10 favorite podcasts available right now.  read more

20 Great TV Shows To Watch on Netflix Instant

In this fall's TV landscape, there were only two new shows this fall that kept my attention. But there's plenty of great television that I missed the first time around, and lately I've caught up on several of those shows via Netflix's Instant.  read more

Marc Forster to Direct This American Life Film Adaptation

One of our seven must-listen This American LIfe segments is being brought to the silver screen. The featured National Public Radio episode, “Heretics,” covers the rise and fall of an evangelical preacher, Carlton Pearson, who is virtually excommunicated from his church after deciding hell doesn’t exist....  read more

Seven Apps That Have Almost Convinced Me I Need An iPhone (But Not Quite)

This confuses some folks...  read more

Is Indie Dead?

Indie is, at once, a genre (of music first, and then of film, books, video games and anything else with a perceived arty sensibility, regardless of its relationship to a corporation), an ethos, a business model, a demographic and a marketing tool...  read more

Seven Must-Listen This American Life Episodes

A week and a half ago, a friend and I braved the sprawly horrors of Atlanta's Hollywood 24 to see the live broadcast of This American Life's second-annual live show. Up in New York City, host Ira Glass sat at a desk before a crowd of hundreds, as thousands more sat in movie theater seats across the country and beheld the very odd phenomenon transpiring before us. This American Life has had great success as both a radio program and a television series, and though it translated rather awkwardly to the stage (when do we clap? why does Ira look...  read more

Ira Glass to co-produce "Wenceslas Square" film adaptation

Ira Glass is doing it again. The spectacled This American Life host/producer is planning to help adapt the short story "Wenceslas Square," which aired on the show last summer, for the big screen....  read more

This American Life on this American economic strife

If Nick Marino's 5 Songs to Assuage Your Bailout Blues did no such thing, or if you're still wondering what got you into a situation where you had bailout blues to assuage in the first place, then I suggest cozying up to your iTunes, fireside chat-style, and listening to what Ira Glass and his pals over at This American Life have to say about it all....  read more