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Samsung to Donate $3M to Charities Chosen By Ellen

Recently Twitter blew up thanks to selfie taken at the Oscars.  The selfie was seen all over the world, and it was retweeted 3million times. Ellen DeGeneres the host of the 86th Academy Awards took an opportunity and gathered the film industry’s biggest stars for a selfie that broke Twitter- and that helped to clarify which social media platform won the night. Whether it was planned or not, Twitter was a constant presence throughout the entire Academy Awards. Degeneres promised she would be tweeting throughout the night.  Her tweets were retweeted between 26,000 to 170,000 times, which makes sense since there were about 1 billion people watching their televisions during the show. According to Twitter there were more than 14.7 million Oscar telecast-related tweets during the live...

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Guardians of the Galaxy teaser

Marvel’s first teaser for Guardians of the Galaxy’ on YouTube Guardians of the Galaxy is Marvel’s next franchise to make the jump to film, and now you can check out the movie teaser on YouTube. The 15- second spot doesn’t reveal much, but you can get a feeling for the new film’s look and feel. This film is based on the cult comic book and continues to explore the Marvel Universe in a different way. For all you Vin Diesel fans out there, you will get to see him play a mystical tree. The movie also stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, and Bradley Cooper voicing a genetically engineered raccoon.  This movie does not look as intense as the other Marvel movies we’ve seen, but it is due to hit theaters on August 1st.  It looks to me as if Guardians of the Galaxy will have a bit of drama,...

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Social Media Can Help Teens

Unnecessary moral panic starts at every turn these days and it takes nothing more than a random article or a flash of an edited out of context video clip on the 5 o'clock news to get viewers quickly jumping on the band wagon in a frantic frenzy to control the unknown. Frankly, its surprising how much can be exaggerated at every turn with little to no proof. The game of telephone between humans often called fatalists feed never ending cycles of madness that seem to increase as technology (and our lifestyle) changes to provide us with easier access to resources unavailable to the past generation. The most prevalent target of these moral panics? Why, the "anti-social youth of america" and their "technological addiction" of course! With the...

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Super Bowl XLVIII

So Who Watched Super Bowl XLVIII? According to Nielsen, the game averaged 111.5 million viewers, a record for a U.S. television program, according to Fox, which broadcasted the game. More than 79,000 spectators were set to fill the $.1.7 billion MetLife Stadium, the regular-season home of the New York Jets and New York Giants, for the National Football League title game. The game did lack some suspense, and at the point where Denver was down 36-0, a lot of viewers stopped watching the game completely. Denver accounted for only the tenth-best market in the United States, a statistic that could indicate that Broncos fans turned off the game as the score grew insanely lopsided, according to the Nielson overnight ratings. The Super Bowl half time show, featuring Bruno Mars and the Red Hot...

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Interview with Andrew Jacobs, star of 'Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones'

Since 2007 the Paranormal Activity movies have had a four year long stretch that has been wildly successful in gaining a huge fan base with its thrilling "found footage style" horror film series. Starring in the newest continuation "Paranormal Activity- The Marked Ones" is Andrew Jacobs playing the role of the main character Jesse, a recent graduate living at home with a tight-knit family in inner city Los Angeles.  "I don't think it was (aimed) just at Los Angeles," Jacobs commented when asked about the films demographic  "I think it was supposed to just be about two friends and having it start off with that romantic comedy feel....you know with getting girls and parties. It was supposed to show the pattern of events between two friends. With the story line you could be anywhere...

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Sherlock Lives!

Sherlock Lives, no folks, he is not dead. We have waited two years to find out whether Sherlock was dead or alive. The loyal Sherlock fans had to wait two years, and two years is a long time. I don’t think anyone should have to wait that long for a TV show, especially a show like Sherlock which left us with quite the cliffhanger.  Nevertheless, Sherlock has risen from the dead, and has made it back just in time to stop a terrorist attack. The season premiere picks up two years after Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch) faked his own death, leaving his dear friend Watson to believe he was really gone for good. Holmes’ brother Mycroft urges Sherlock to head back to London because a terror attack is about to take place in London.  The title of the new 90-minute episode is “The Empty Hearse.”...

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The Uninvited Wedding Guest

When I was fourteen years old, I picked up the hobby of photography and began putting my profession portfolio together in hopes to start a career later on. I was quickly able to bring attention to my art and gain clients. In the summer of 2008, one of my cousins asked if I would be the photographer at her wedding. The ceremony would be held at the old Silent Movie Theatre on Fairfax Avenue in Hollywood. Growing up in Los Angeles, I hadn't thought to look up the history of the place, as I assumed it to be just another novelty of the movie tourism appeal. Little did I know that I was walking into a location well known to still be the home of two of the previous owners, and possibly others.  Opened in 1945 by the first owner, John Hampton, he lived in the attached upper floor apartment...

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The Weeping Woman

Los Angeles, California, the heart of several of America's most chilling legends and ghost stories. Among the most popular, the Latin folk lore of "La Llorona", literally translated in English as "The Weeping Woman". Legend has it she was once a beautiful woman named Maria who was quite fond of her own beauty and believed that as a result she could have any man she chose. Maria found a handsome "Ranchero" (or Rancher) named Marcos whom she married (though the names differ depending on culture groups). Their two children, she later blamed unfairly for her husband’s infidelity.  Some say it was in a fit of rage and despair that she drowned her babies in a nearby river, while others say she was not sane and did so only to spite Marcos. Though she took her own life in immediate regret,...

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