By Michael Shapiro on Mar 8, 2010 in Entertainment, Featured | 0 Comments
Well, its over. Finally. The 82 Annual Academy Awards have come to a close and, at the end of the day, The Hurt Locker came out on top, winning six of the nine Oscars for which it was nominated. The Iraq War film took home the statue for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Editing,Best Original [...]
By Michael Shapiro on Mar 7, 2010 in Entertainment, Featured | 0 Comments
This post marks my third consecutive year attempting to predict winners of the Oscars. The 82nd Annual Academy Awards will be exciting as usual and, with the expansion of the Best Picture category to ten films, every movie has a shot at a golden statue. This year, the two favorite films come from two completely [...]
By Daniel Kanter on Feb 27, 2010 in Featured, Sports | 1 Comment
Team USA, led by youngster Blackhawk Patrick Kane, will try to overcome its foe to the north for the Winter Olympics Gold Medal.
By Michael Shapiro on Jan 14, 2010 in Entertainment, Featured | 2 Comments
I’ve found that trying to create a list of the greatest Beatles songs of all time is an impossible task for a couple of reasons. Firstly, there are simply way too many amazing songs to try to put the best in order. I could pick 10 or 20 of my favorite Beatles songs (with difficulty), [...]
By Michael Shapiro on Jan 13, 2010 in Entertainment, Featured | 2 Comments
“The film’s over, it’s as simple as that,” thought director and writer Terry Gilliam’s after receiving news that his lead actor for his new film, Heath Ledger, had died. Gilliam received this shocking news on January 22, 2008 and, within two days, the film’s production was indefinitely suspended. It seemed as if a 30 million [...]
By Michael Shapiro on Oct 30, 2009 in Core Junction, Editorial, Featured | 0 Comments
Here at the Core Junction we try our best to bring you fresh content as often and efficiently as possible. To stay true to this we have created a widget for Dashboard on Mac computers. Simply download the file below, unzip it, and double-click to install. Then you can stay up to date with the [...]
By Jon Hollander on Oct 28, 2009 in Featured, Opinion, Politics | 2 Comments
It appears that people are starting to come down from their Obama high.