So how do you go about picking the top 5 American cars of all time? Do you choose the great classics, like the Marmon and Cadillac V-16s? Do you go back into the antique era for worthy but largely forgotten models like the Curved Dash Oldsmobile and Mercer Raceabout? Do you embrace muscle cars like [...]

Forget the fact that school will be in full swing within a month’s time.  There’s still plenty of grilling season to go ’round.  That’s why we’re teaming up with I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter (note: you have to read that like Fabio) to giveaway one awesome set of grill stuff! I’ve already had my [...]

Republished with permission of gamepeople.co.uk game reviews. Alan Wake Rating: T Platform: Xbox 360 Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios Alan Wake, despite its technical prowess, still feels half-a-decade old. But rather than holding it back, these limitations make the game more intense and believable. The more time I spent with Wake, the more I was impressed [...]

Dad, do you ever get scared? I remember asking my father that question one evening before bedtime.  My world was scary even without the constant news of inflation and the threat of nuclear war with the now-dead Soviet Union.  I had an upcoming test for which I hadn’t studied and there was a Neanderthal who [...]

Smuggling a baby into Cuba requires a few simple things. Well, first off you need a baby. Check. Then you need airline tickets to Mexico with a separate flight to Havana to skirt the U.S. travel ban. Check. Third, you must be crazy. Check. It looks like we’re ready for takeoff. I took the roundabout [...]

So there we were: the usual group at the usual time at the usual place. I waved to the dad whose daughter is a year younger than mine. I waved to the dad with twin boys a few months older. As the toddler tore off to attack some sand with her shovel I unsnapped the [...]

A friend of mine asked me a simple question not too long ago. “Dave, when is the last time that you were really happy?” I gave the question some thought, and the honest answer was somewhat alarming to me. The answer that I wanted to say was yesterday or maybe last week, but after some [...]

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Hyundai has long been known for its low-priced cars with extended warranty coverage, but the all-new-for-2011 Sonata offers something else: style. With an exterior design that channels the look of the most recent Mercedes-Benz models, the new Sonata has moved from just a budget buy to a contender against hot sellers like the Honda Accord [...]

Want to get more out cycling? You’ll need to make your bike an extension of you. Here’s how. The snow and ice have finally melted off the roads, and the wind cutting through the bike trails is morphing from stingy cold to balmy warm. And this year, you’ve decided you want to up your game [...]