Mike Ragogna, 12/24/12

Radio Personality on Solar Powered KRUU-FM, Music Biz Vet

Corey Pandolph, 12/24/12

Cartoonist for The New Yorker, Co-creator of "Gosling and Booker." Pro-Whiskey. Anti-pants.

Govindini Murty, 12/24/12

Co-Editor of Libertas Film Magazine

As you celebrate this holiday season, be sure to save your digital memories by printing them out or backing them up. And beyond that, do everything you can to speak out for internet freedom.

Scott Mendelson, 12/23/12

Film critic at Mendelson's Memos, Valley Scene Magazine

As I have been warning about for months, 10,000 releases all opened in this very weekend, with another 5,000 coming on Tuesday. Let's just get right into it.

Dan Persons, 12/24/12

Film Journalist

Once you're done unwrapping the gifts and singing the carols and observing whatever expressions of faith you feel are appropriate for the time (if any), you may want to reinforce the communal feeling with a visit to the cinema for something the whole family can enjoy.

Liz Smith, 12/24/12

Columnist

"What if there had been room at the inn?" So many people have asked this question that I don't know who to attribute it to.

John Farr, 12/22/12

Editor, bestmoviesbyfarr.com

Christmas movies are a genre unto themselves: between live-action and animated features, there are literally hundreds of titles out there. Inevitably, some are pretty bad, others amusingly cheesy.

Shawn Amos, 12/23/12

Freshwire

Instagram almost had a perfect year. Almost. So what happened?

Andy Deemer, 12/22/12

Fast food horror filmmaker

Ramachandraiah prints movie posters for a living. He's done it ever since 1971, when he bought an ancient lithograph press. He keeps it in a factory north of Bangalore, far from the English town where it was built 111 years ago.

Marlo Thomas, 12/22/12

Award-winning actress, author and activist

I love a good Christmas story and this one from my dear friend Whoopi Goldberg gets me every time. It's a beautiful and simple story that I just had to share this holiday season. Happy Holidays to you all, and I wish you much magic! --MT

Allison Leotta, 12/23/12

Novelist, Former Federal Sex-Crimes Prosecutor

After the nominations were announced, the 2012 "For Fun" bloggers decided to interview each other. Here, for your amusement, is the resulting group interview.

Lois Alter Mark, 12/21/12

Co-founder, StyleSubstanceSoul.com; Winner, BlogHer Voices of the Year "People's Choice" Award

I am over 50 but "This Is 40," the new movie starring Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann, empowered me more than any self-help book I've read about middle age and long-term marriage. And I've read a lot.

Carole Mallory, 12/24/12

Author, Actress, Critic, malloryhollywoodeast.blogspot.com

Cirque du Soleil: World's Away is a dramatic mix of circus arts and street entertainment. The acts are spectacular and original though some were seen at Las Vegas.

Douglas Anthony Cooper, 12/21/12

Novelist, Amnesia (See: Blogger Mortis)

The Maya never predicted that 2012 would be the Year of the Cigar Box Guitar. They missed the most important story. The end of the world, which ought to be in a couple of hours, is not this year's crucial event.

Zaki Hasan, 12/21/12

Media Scholar and Critic, zakiscorner.com

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is just as immersive and engaging as its predecessors (successors?), successfully transporting us back to that world as if no time has passed at all.

Melissa Webster, 12/21/12

Music journalist

If this were true, if that one simple change in Christian dogma were believed, taught as a possibility and considered as one of many interpretations in a book full of contradictions, would it change for the better the entire course of the debate, fostering tolerance, acceptance and inclusion?

Robert J. Elisberg, 12/21/12

Screenwriter and columnist

All professional writers have their own, personal talismans that they swear by for teaching inspiration. The theories are everywhere -- even at the very end of this commentary, where you will be told the best advice on writing you will ever get.