MONTHLY REVIEW: February

It's appropriate that February is the month of loooove since we here at ZONINO! loved at lot of things the last 27 days!

MUSIC

With the Grammy Awards being held recently, we were reminded of a Grammy great, Alison Krauss and her classic rendition of Shenandoah's "Ghost In This House".

Irish band The Script's single "The Man Who Can't Be Moved" is phenomenal but their performance at the 2009 Oxygen Music Festival was epic!

Go to DJ Earworm's website to download and rock out to his Pop Music Mash-up 2009 all of the Top 40 hits of the last year all in one song!

Mariachi El Bronx and their eponymous new disc is a necessity in any good party hosts' collection.

Maroon 5's cover of "The Way You Look Tonight" from the romantic comedy "Valentine's Day" is a victory for the old standards!

The hottest pop music collaboration these days is the Beyoncé and Alicia Keys duet "Put It In A Love Song".

But the hottest music video goes to Colombian sensation Shakira and her hot "Gitana" (Gypsy) video with special guest Rafael Nadal.

Also, check out the first single, "Need You Now", off country trio Lady Antebellum's sophomore CD by the same name.

MOVIE

It's definitely Oscar-season and we here at ZONINO! are definitely doing our research. First up is the inspiring and sweeping Invictus, starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon, about Nelson Mandela's efforts to unite a nation through sport.

Also notable is Precious, the tragic and moving story about a poor and abused teenage girl from Harlem, starring new-comer Gabourey Sidibe and Mo'Nique (both Oscar nominees).

RECIPE

Try out these Bacon-Wrapped Jalapeño Thingies at your next party; beware, these appetizer will fly off the platter!

WEBSITE

Bookmark Charity Navigator so you can be sure your money is going to the place you think it is.

Be smucky snob you always wanted to be - or beat the one that always seems to show you up - with Smugopedia.

Need some help with those pesky little things...what are they called? Oh, yeah! Life! Try Everyday Loopholes before anything else and you might learn a few things about, well...life!

Successories has nothing on the anti-motivational "posters" at Very Demotivational.

As you're attempting to catch all the Oscar-nominated films before the big night, be sure to check out RunPee.com before you head to the theatre, you know, just in case.

LOLcatz email forwards driving you "catty"?!?! Check out the clever posts over at Hipster Puppies and have your faith reinstated in cute anthropomorphized animals.

Faliblog has tapped into the ridiculously hilarious world of idiots on social networking megasite, Facebook, with Failbook. Be glad these aren't your friends!

YOUTUBE

We had a lot of laughs on YouTube this month, starting with the British parody group The Midnight Beast.

Ever wonder what would happen if Indie film master Wes Anderson directed Spiderman?

I wish the news would show the same creativity. At least we have this Generic News Report from Charlie Brooker.

Cyanide & Happiness short animated film will bring you a little of both served with a hefty side of dark irony.

The stop-motion film work in T-shirt War is amazing and exhausting!

Can you believe this Shiny Suds Commerical PSA for the "Household Products Labeling Act" got pulled from TV for being risqué?!? Loofah!!!!

Speaking of PSA's, this one from Britain, called Embrace Life, about fastening your seatbelt, is genius

WORD

Please don't castigate us for only having one "Word" ZONINO! this month!