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Unattended Baggage and Art House Productions will present a darkly funny and entertaining evening featuring the songs of the award-winning cult classic “A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s ...

Xenu was the kind of guy who spelled his name one way but made you pronounce it another way (ZEE-moo). He was a dictator of 76 planets who conducted a mass extermination of billions of inhabitants on ...

Links are what make the World Wide Web a web–but abroken link catches no flies, or something like that. Manuallychecking links on any site larger than a single page can be tediousat best, and is ...

The Church of Scientology has had a bad couple of years, PR-wise. You could start the damage-control clock running in January 2008 with the release of the Scientology indoctrination video featuring ...

I’ll avoid making any of my own judgements (last time I posted something about the Scientologists I got a barrage of oddly threatening e-mails somehow, as if the 18 people who read this blog don’t ...

I’m not too familiar with Britian’s The Register, but they’ve got a story reporting that a Scientology spokesman has confirmed, after years of official denial, that “mankind’s problems stem from ...

For going on 17 years I’ve been writing about Scientology, and over that time there’s one question that has come up again and again. Why don’t Scientologists, when they’ve been in the organization ...