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Archive - Oct 5, 2005

Uncle Orson: Serenity Review

Posted in by Kenneth Newquist on Wed, 10/05/2005 - 2:00am

How's this for high praise -- Orson Scott Card only wants Ender's Game to be made into a movie if it can be as good as Serenity. Whoa. Read the full story.

Reason: An Intelligent Design for Education

Posted in by Kenneth Newquist on Wed, 10/05/2005 - 2:00am

How the debate over intelligent design illustrates why we should have separation of state and school. Read the full story.

Donning the MirrorMask

Posted in by Kenneth Newquist on Wed, 10/05/2005 - 2:00am

Back when I was a freshmen in high school, scrambling to class while clutching my Dungeons & Dragons rule books closely to my chest, one of my favorite movies was Labyrinth. In an era long before Lord of the Rings or the Chronicles of Narnia had been filmed, in which the fantasy also-rans Willow and Legend were darkening theatres, it was the closest thing I'd found to a classic D&D dungeoncrawl. Now Jim Henson Studios has a new fantasy they're unvieling, this one created by the team of Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean.