If you're in a "love stinks" type of mood, then I'd urge you away from today's new music offerings: both releases are from duos that are together in real life and in song, and their happy tunes will have you smiling and humming along. Check out the tracks that I've decided are the most downloadable. Jenny & Johnny, I'm Having Fun Now The lowdown: The romantic relationship between Rilo Kiley's Read more

If The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is the "feel bad movie of Christmas," then Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close may be the "feel sad movie" of the holiday. Based on the best-selling novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, the film follows a bright young boy named Oskar (Thomas Horn) who sets out on a quest to find the lock that matches a key left behind by his father (Tom Hanks), who died in 9/11. If Read more

Well, that's a wrap: Michael Scott has left the building. This week is Steve Carell's final episode of The Office, and it's touching and appropriately sentimental. It didn't make me as weepy as I thought I'd be, but I did feel a certain amount of closure, which actually may be better. In "Goodbye Michael," Michael lies to everyone about his last day to avoid the pain of the goodbye. Everyone Read more

Now this is the show I fell in love with last year! Glee has all the right moves this week: entertaining performances that fit nicely into the story, the kids getting up to typical (OK, slightly exaggerated) teen mischief, and Mr. Schuester showing that he's only human (without steering too far into creepyville). The latest "epidemic" to sweep McKinley High is underage drinking, which prompts Read more

Grab a box of tissues and one of these books before putting your baby to bed! Children love a good read, but some of their favorite board and picture books are quite the tearjerkers for postpartum or weepy mothers. Love You Forever is the tale of how a mother's love for her son never ceases. The story ends with a role reversal as the grown man cares for his elderly mom. Check out five other Read more