Reminder: AARP Networks Socially!
We know that everyone is using social networks these days – and that boomers are social networking more and more. A recent AARP study on the matter showed that more than a quarter of Americans age 50+...
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The Takeaway: Grandparents Go Viral, Hospitals Getting Better
Grandparents Go Viral: Not since ‘The OGs’ hit YouTube have a pair of grandparents made such a viral video splash. Bruce and Esther Huffman, a retired Oregon couple with a new laptop, just wanted to...
View ArticleBruce Springsteen: “Mom, Will You Dance With Me?”
Entertainment“Not too bad for almost 90!” – The Boss, about his mom. This makes my entire week.
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The Takeaway: 3 Grandmothers Review 50 Shades of Grey
Three California sisters who became Internet Famous earlier this year for discussing Kim Kardashian’s sex tape on YouTube are back with a review of steamy/silly bestseller 50 Shades of Grey. The...
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The Takeaway: Donations Pour In For Bus Monitor Bullied By Middle-Schoolers
The video is disturbing. Shot on a cell phone, the 10-minute clip shows a team of 12- and 13-year-old boys harassing their 68-year-old school bus monitor, Karen Klein, with insults, profanity and...
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New YouTube Series Shows Drama, Humor in Dealing With Aging Parents
Here’s the synopsis given for Ruth & Erica, a new YouTube series starring Maura Tierney and Louis Smith: A woman struggles with her mother’s reluctance to make the life changes necessary in light...
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“Not Fade Away” A Movies for Grownups Minute Review With Bill Newcott
James Gandolfini as the Perplexed Dad in “Not Fade Away” In our first Online YouTube review, Bill Newcott of AARP’s Movies for Grownups ponders where the ’60s kids in Not Fade Away learned to talk like...
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The Last Stand: A Movies for Grownups Minute Review
Arnold Schwarzenegger looks suitably craggy as an Arizona sheriff in his big-screen comeback, The Last Stand After 10 years in the California governor’s mansion, Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in The Last...
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Is ‘Oz’ Really So Wonderful? We’ll Tell You!
James Franco and Mila Kunis in Oz the Great and Powerful We’re inching closer to the big spring movie season, and the first entry comes this weekend: Oz the Great and Powerful, a prequel to the 1939...
View ArticleGround Control to Commander Chris Hadfield: ‘Hallo Spaceboy’
He’s an astronaut, and a rock star. As Commander Chris Hadfield, 53, heads back home from the International Space Station, his video of David Bowie’s Space Oddity is trending on YouTube and approaching...
View ArticleWho’s the ‘Grandma Drummer’? Mystery Solved
You may have seen her in the past few days: the gray-haired, bespectacled woman in a pink shirt and jeans who stars in a video uploaded to YouTube by a drum shop in La Crosse, Wis. She walked into the...
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Though Partially Blind, Hal Lasko Paints Up a Storm of Pixels
For Hal Lasko, a computer is a tool for painting. Not for email. Not for surfing the web. Not for Facebook or YouTube. Just painting. What’s amazing about Lasko, 97, is that he can paint at all. He’s...
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Women 50+: What to Wear to Get the Job
The economy is tough. The job market — especially for those of us over 50 — is even tougher. But if you want to rejoin the workforce or land a new opportunity, the tips below can help you put your best...
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George Takei: In Orbit at SXSW
George Takei understands the evolution of his popularity. As Hikaru Sulu in the original Star Trek TV series, he made fans of his own generation and they “raised their kids right” to form the next...
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Google Glass: 5 Funniest Test Drives
Benny and Rafi Fine, known on YouTube and across the Internet as the Fine Brothers, have made a name for themselves by capturing how people (mostly kids and teenagers) react to such things as old...
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What I Wore to VidCon
Late last month I packed my bags and headed to Anaheim, Calif., to attend VidCon, the fifth annual gathering for YouTubers (or “creators,” as they prefer) and their adoring fans. As you can tell from...
View Article‘Takei’s Take’ Takes Boston
One if by land and two if by sea? Maybe Paul Revere was a digital pioneer, since he “got” binary communication centuries before the digital cataclysm started to shake today’s world. From the home of...
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Goodbye, Desktop. Hello, Apps
If you’re not reading this on your smartphone or tablet, you will be soon. We’re in the midst of a revolution in digital media, and a new report offers two striking findings: Most of us are using...
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Soothing the Savage Newborn, and Other Grandmother Tricks
The grandparent’s ultimate weapon As I reimmerse myself in the world of newborns (seven weeks and counting) after three decades off, I’m constantly amazed by the cool new inventions that make baby care...
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What If Dr. King Had Twitter or Facebook?
Updated 11/18/14 The third in a series celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. If the organizers of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom had used Facebook, Twitter,...
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