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TIME's James Poniewozik says that the five-episode final season of HBO's Treme, returning Dec. 1, "leaves post-Katrina New Orleans on a surprisingly hopeful note."
Makers of GoldieBlox, the engineering playset, turned the Beastie Boys song "Girls" into an anthem for smarter girls' toys: "We are all more than princess maids!"
A Philadelphia coffee shop has started selling $2 short-fiction books in a vending machine, in order to make people love literature as much as they love ... Cheetos?
Zappos started marketing a $100,000 plunger after Kanye West accused the e-tailer of selling "s--- product." Quoth one reviewer: "You've just...