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Future educator plans to bring cooking into the classroom

Jen Crnkovic has a small greenhouse box on her back porch where she grows the herbs called for by her family-inspired cooking creations. »

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Chris Rock stars in, directs hit-and-miss comedy-drama

I think I like this movie. Only on some slight level, though. Like most movies that try to be a comedy as well as a drama, it feels as though something is missing from I Think I Love My Wife, the new film directed by and starring Chris Rock. While it is occasionally touching and sometimes funny, it just as often fails to meet these goals. »

Latest graphic novel-to-film visually stunning, predictable

Movies today often have a hard time creating truly unique and interesting visual effects. Once every form of creature has been nearly perfected onscreen and action has been visually enhanced to the point of awe, what do you do next? How about making gory, bloody, violent action simply gorgeous? »

Surreal world of Second Life massive, intricate

User-centric experience defies conventions

Second Life, for those unfamiliar with it, is a freely accessible virtual world which has taken the philosophy of user-created content to the extreme. It accomplishes this by allowing the entire Second Life world to be constructed by users. A & E Editor Pat Herald and Staff Writer Alex Kohut set out to explore this world and reveal their experiences. »