San Diego After-School All-Stars’ 5th Annual “Party Like an All-Star” Dodgeball Tournament

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San Diego After-School All-Stars Presents Fifth Annual “Party Like an All-Star” Dodgeball Tournament on June 8 Charity dodgeball tournament at Hard Rock Hotel San Diego offers $500 in prizes   SAN DIEGO – May 11, 2012 — The San Diego Chapter of After-School All-Stars announces the fifth annual “Party Like an All-Star” Dodgeball Tournament on Friday, [...]

Movie Review – DisneyNature Releases “Chimpanzee” on Earth Day 2012

Filming Disney's Chimpanzee

Watching DisneyNature’s new film “Chimpanzee” was an unexpected joy. The film’s storyline is simple yet heartwarming,  and the cinematography is simply breathtaking. The movie follows the life of an infant chip named Oscar and his mother Isha in their quest for survival in the depths of the African forest.  Both are part of a pack [...]

“Project X” Movie Leads to Copycats, Arrests and a Death

Is this a case of life imitating art? I hope you can clarify this for me after reading this post. At times it feels as if I am the only one speaking out against Hollywood portraying teenagers as debauched, misguided criminals to increase their box-office take in.  But after I read about about a slew of incidents [...]

Proven: Hollywood’s Pretend use of Alcohol in Movies Contributes to Real Teen Drinking

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A new study reveals that the use of alcohol in movies influences minors to drink. The study conducted by Dartmouth Medical School researchers and published in the British Medical Journal BMJ Open, shows that teenagers and children are likely to be more influenced by what they see in films than what their parents teach them.  For those of us [...]

Teenagers Say “I Love You” With Two Little Words: Username and Password.

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Apparently teenagers have tossed wearing the traditional high school ring as a sign of love and commitment in exchange for getting the keys to their private, online lives: Passwords.   (Photo credit aimgram.com) The New York Times reported that teens are now swapping passwords to Facebook and other social networking sites as a sign of [...]