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Over the past year or so, I had read repeatedly and been told multiple times how amazing HBO’s series The Wire is. When a friend of mine offered to loan me her Season 1 DVDs, I figured I’d see what all the fuss was about. Said friend did caution me that the show started off a bit slowly,...

A couple weeks ago, I stumbled upon an NPR interview with emerging British group Mumford & Sons which began by posing a question of labels. The interviewer asked the group if the classification ‘folk-rock’ was an appropriate label for their music. Lead singer and band namesake, Marcus...

Last Summer, I recommended the second book by New York writer Malcolm Gladwell, titled Blink. Before Gladwell published his three best-selling non-fiction works, he reported for the Washington Post and then, in 1996, began writing essays for The New Yorker. A few months ago, Gladwell released a selection...

We here at FreshRadar work to write positive recommendations about media and products that we’re into at any given moment. Instead of writing about a film that’s out now, I thought I’d mention the movie I am probably anticipating more than any other release in 2010: Christopher Nolan’s...

With the Golden Globes set to air on Sunday night, I thought I’d do a little cinematic reflection myself and offer the nine movies I enjoyed most in 2009: Zombieland The Hurt Locker 500 Days Of Summer The Hangover Taken Up 3D Star Trek 11 State Of Play Up In The Air This is roughly the order in...

You know those gamers who spend 300 hours memorizing every nook and cranny of every video game level so they can blow your head off 10 times in 10 seconds during online/team play? Yeah, that’s not me. Never will be. In fact I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Halo, Schmalo. I’ve...

I can still recall walking by the magazine section of my local supermarket in the Summer of 2004 and noticing a bright red magazine cover featuring Mr. Incredible from Pixar’s The Incredibles. At the time I rarely looked at, much less bought, magazines. But I was a budding cinephile with a specific...

Thanks to Amazon’s Black Friday Deals, you can benefit from their discounted prices on a wide range of gift items without having to deal with the chaos of Black Friday shopping. Shopping in your pajamas beats getting dressed any time, especially when munching on leftover turkey!

We here at FreshRadar try our best to keep our recommendations relevant and, well, fresh. But every once in a while, you’ll find us posting about a product, album, or film that has been on the scene for a while. In an ever-expanding sea of new, sometimes the best recommendations we can give are...