MasterChef US Season 6 Episode 5 Recap and Review: June 10 2015

June 12, 2015 | Posted in EPISODE RECAPS, REALITY TV | By

Screencapture from the MasterChef Season 6 episode "Clawing to Victory".

There are 19 people left now and it’s time for another Mystery Box challenge. In the opening “confessionals” we hear first from Shelly, who says she can almost taste that quarter of a million dollars now that could change her life…

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MasterChef US Season 6 Episode 4 Recap and Review: June 3 2015

June 4, 2015 | Posted in EPISODE RECAPS, REALITY TV | By

Screenshot from the Season 6 MasterChef episode "Cinnamon Roll-er Coaster".

Last week we said goodbye to two home cooks we’d barely gotten to know: Mateo and Brianna. The remaining 20 hopeful contestants are now going to have to face their very first team challenge…

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MasterChef US Season 6 Episode 3 Recap and Review: May 27 2015

May 29, 2015 | Posted in EPISODE RECAPS, REALITY TV | By

Screencap from the MasterChef Season 6 episode "You're The Apple of My Eye".

Last week on MasterChef, we (briefly) met the top 40 contestants for this season, which was then whittled down to 20 in a series of head to head battles, plus a final cook-off for 6 chefs who got a second chance to earn a white apron.

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Should I switch from Mac to a PC world?

May 27, 2015 | Posted in TECHNOLOGY | By

I’ve been using a Mac, iPad and iPhone for almost 5 years and it’s time to start thinking about an upgrade. Before anything crashes. Transitioning from the PC world was fairly simple. I’d been living in a mixed world, PC

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My MasterChef Open Call Experience – New York 2012

May 27, 2015 | Posted in REALITY TV | By

Times Square billboard advertising MasterChef. Photograph by

Auditioning for a reality television series is not something I had ever dreamed of or planned on doing. But in November of 2012, I spent the day lined up with hundreds other hopefuls in New York City, wishing for just one thing…

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MasterChef US Season 6 Episode 2 Recap and Review: May 20 2015

May 22, 2015 | Posted in EPISODE RECAPS, REALITY TV | By

Screencapture from the May 20, 2015 episode of MasterChef, "The Battle Continues".

We’re back for the continuation of the season premiere, where the top forty home cooks in America (picked by FOX, at least) had to battle it out for their place in the top twenty. Each had to face off against another hopefully in a battle of signature dishes, based on their common theme or ingredient…

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MasterChef US Season 6 Episode 1 Recap and Review: May 20 2015

May 21, 2015 | Posted in EPISODE RECAPS, REALITY TV | By

Screen capture from the May 19, 2015 premiere of MasterChef season 6.

This week we have a special 2-part premiere episode of MasterChef, so I’m going to divide this recap into two separate posts (part two to follow shortly). There are a lot of new hopeful home chefs to meet – and a new judge as well – so let’s not waste any more time on getting started, shall we?

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MasterChef US Season 5: Where Are They Now?

May 11, 2015 | Posted in REALITY TV | By

"Everyday Fancy" by Courtney Lapresi, the winner of MasterChef Season 5.

A new season of MasterChef US is set to begin in a few weeks (May 20, 2015 on the FOX network, to be exact), so it’s time for my annual round up of the previous season’s contestants: Where are they now? Who has gone back to his or her “day job”, and who has gone on to pursue a dream of working in the food and cooking industry?

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Dare To Drum: Film Premiere and Review from the Dallas International Film Festival

April 22, 2015 | Posted in DOCUMENTARY, LIVE MUSIC, ORCHESTRAL MUSIC | By

Dare to Drum film poster

When Stewart Copeland first formed the Police, “Stewart decided to form a new band fashioned on the vibe and energy of punk music,” according to a blurb from the bio on his official website. Stewart has approached virtually every project since with that same sensibility…

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Television Review The Avengers The Maneater Of Surrey Green

April 8, 2015 | Posted in CLASSIC TV, CULT TV, EPISODE RECAPS, SCIENCE FICTION, SCIENCE FICTION, TELEVISION | By

Mystery Writers by Nana B Agyei on Flickr

Maneater is quite different – Drawing on both The Quatermass Experiment and Invasion Of The Body Snatchers as an influence, with a hint of The Day Of The Triffids, this deals with an alien plant form trying to take over Middle-England.

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