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How Well Can You Say "Tomato"?
Dining alfresco, running outside, and having tan legs are all reasons why I love Summer. But my top reason for loving the season? Fresh, ripe, sweet, juicy tomatoes — the uglier and more colorful, the tastier.
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Do You Know Your Winter Squash?
Winter squash are to Fall as tomatoes are to Summer. Much like tomatoes, squash are usually considered vegetables, despite the fact that they are actually botanically classified as fruits. And, just like tomatoes, they're unavoidable this season, and come in so many countless varieties that it's hard to keep track of all of them.
Learn to Love: Persimmons
Now that berry season is long gone, I'm expanding my breakfast fruit horizons. Celebrate the cold weather with pomegranate seeds in your oatmeal, or slice pears or persimmons and serve them with nut butter on toast or whole-grain waffles.
You probably know how to pick and slice a pear, but persimmons have a steeper learning curve.
Link Time! Watch George Clooney Voicing Fantastic Mr. Fox
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- Comedy Central is teaming up with The Onion for a TV show — The Hollywood Reporter
- No Doubt is suing Activision for using their likenesses inappropriately in Band Hero — GeekSugar
- 2012 already has a TV series sequel, 2013 — MTV Movies Blog
- Fox Searchlight has halted the national release of Gentlemen Broncos — Vulture
- Sufjan Stevens admits his 50 states album concept was a joke — Stereogum
- Amazing video mash-up of scenes with characters saying the movie's title — Videogum
- Anthony Hopkins and Annette Bening will play Ernest Hemingway and wife in Hemingway and Fuentes — Variety
- The Decemberists' Colin Meloy and wife Carson Ellis are writing a children's book — Pitchfork
- 10 scary Christmas movies to bridge Halloween and Christmas — Rotten Tomatoes
Link Time! Jim Sturgess and Kirsten Dunst Cast in Upside Down
- Jim Sturgess and Kirsten Dunst will star in Upside Down, a romantic sci-fi fantasy — Coming Soon
- Lisa Kudrow is developing TV comedy Rapture for Showtime — Variety
- Dollhouse is being pulled during sweeps, which could signal its cancellation — The Ausiello Files
- Check out these new stills of Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, and Emily Blunt in The Wolfman — MTV Movies Blog
- An Education originally had a different ending — Movieline
- Watch Rainn Wilson's funny new commercials for the NBA — Best Week Ever
- Ryan Murphy is writing an episode of Glee that mocks the show's real-life denial for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade — The TV Column
- Bravo has picked up a second season of Top Chef Masters — YumSugar
- Before the release of Saw VI, here are six terrible sixth sequels — Rotten Tomatoes
- A list of TV's memorable dumb jocks — TV.com
- 20 of the worst horror movies ever made — Moviefone
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- Check out the Dear John poster with Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried — Cinematical
- The New Moon soundtrack is moving up its release to Oct. 16, four days early — PopSugar Rush
- Supermarket tabloid Weekly World News might get a TV show — Movieline
- Carrie Underwood is getting her own variety show on Fox — TV Squad
- Watch the sneak peek of Neil Patrick Harris voicing the evil Music Meister on The Cartoon Network's Batman — The Ausiello Files
- Cancelled show Southland might be moving to TNT — Vulture
- Reno 911 and The State's Thomas Lennon has been tapped for his own NBC comedy — Coming Soon
- Janet Jackson's greatest hits collection will contain a new single — Zap 2 It
- Fox reassures fans that it'll show all 13 of this season's episodes of Dollhouse — The AV Club
- The top five movie gunfights, with video clips — Rotten Tomatoes
Health Food Headlines
I love food. Not just eating it, but reading about it too. Here are three food-driven headlines that caught my eye.
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- Mark Wahlberg is set to star in the thriller Reykjavik-Rotterdam — Variety
- Kristen Bell shares her five favorite movies — Rotten Tomatoes
- Is Lauren Graham joining Parenthood? — Ausiello Files
- Daft Punk has a cameo in the upcoming Disney film Tron Legacy — MTV Movies Blog
- Get Gossip Girl decorating ideas from last night's episode — CasaSugar
- MTV announces its 2009 mtvU Woodie Awards Nominees — MTV
- Rivers Cuomo talks Raditude and his love for Lil Wayne — Pitchfork
- Kenny Rogers is going to sing on How I Met Your Mother — Show Tracker
- Photos from this weekend's Austin City Limits Music Festival — Stereogum
- Fantasy Island is getting the reality TV treatment — Hollywood Reporter
- A fun roller derby Halloween costume inspired by Whip It — Moviefone
Is It a Tomato or Squash?
In terms of produce, the end of September is a time that straddles Summer and Fall. Late-season heirloom tomatoes are juicy and plump, while early-season butternut squash are way too tempting. To celebrate the plethora of produce that can be found in markets, I've put together this fun quiz.
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- The 100 worst-reviewed movies of the last decade — Rotten Tomatoes
- Paul Dano has joined the cast of Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz's movie Wichita — Vulture
- The CW is going to shoot a reality about real-life NYC socialite Tinsley Mortimer — The Wrap
- That's right: The Real Housewives of Atlanta have made a music video — Show Tracker
- The 5 greatest hit-man flicks — Cinematical
- David Mamet's Anne Frank project has been rejected by Disney — MTV Movies Blog
- The top 10 TV character comas — TV Tango
- Find out how much your favorite TV characters would earn in real life — SavvySugar
- Of the cast of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, who would you most want to be stuck in a car with? — PopWatch
- NBC has ordered a script for a new show called Slacker Sons — Variety
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