Lisa Bernhard is a TV, print and Web journalist, whose recent roles include on-air Entertainment Correspondent for the Fox News Channel and Deputy Editor of TV Guide. She currently writes about entertainment, new media and health for The New York Times and Self magazine, among others. Online, she is co-host and co-producer of The Stupid…
Since there are an almost infinite number of books and a finite amount of time in which to read them before I close my last chapter, I generally have certain “criteria” when picking a novel. I try to find books that have interesting plot lines and compelling characters. Unless I am in the mood for…
If Race to Nowhere isn’t playing near you, call up your local school right now and arrange a screening. Focusing on the unparalleled physical and mental toll homework, standardized tests and AP classes are taking on our children, this documentary is determined to be a catalyst for change. Lois was so mad, sad and scared after watching…
It’s one of the most talked-about movies of the year, and it’s only opened in a handful of theaters so far. Oprah has done two shows about it, and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has donated $100 million to the Newark, New Jersey school system because of it. Waiting for ‘Superman’ takes a tough and emotional look…
One one thousand, two one thousand, three one thousand. I would lie awake in bed at night, counting from the crack of thunder to the explosive flash of lightning. Windows rattled and my heart pounded in synchronicity during those summer Mid-western thunderstorms. The novel, The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors, awakens our own personal experiences…
