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Culture
- Jackson Jurors Should Be Jailed
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Hollywood Holding Action
LA Times ventures into the troubles of the action genre...You'd think the company town's home town paper would be more in tune...
- Don't clean out your house
- The Addictive Risks of Cannabis
- Meth Gets a Coat of Tierney Whitewash
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The Tragic Saga Of Harry Potter Woman
A heart-breaking tale of lust, ambition and blogcritics.
- Discovery Lands Safely
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Love Biatch: Venting on Disappointment
Facing reality and dealing with disappointment...
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The Edinburgh Fringe Festival: Theatre Comes Alive
Go and see theatre as it’s meant to be performed.
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True Crime Update: Missing Cruise Ship Passenger, Gricar and That Wacky Jackson Jury
The Jackson Jury, George Smith IV and the most heinous crime of the week.
Music
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Weekly Artist Overview: Buffalo Springfield
Buffalo Springfield is on the short list of bands that had great influence on rock's evolution despite a brief tenure together. Buffalo Springfield's repertoire of folk-rock, country-rock, and psychedelic hard rock were all state of the art in their day; their classic songs remain in frequent rotation on classic rock stations. Perhaps even more important than their music is the assemblage of talent within the band. Retrospectively, Buffalo Springfield was the launching pad for A-listers who went on to even greater heights afterwards. Birthing the subsequent solo careers of Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Richie Furay (Poco), and Jim Messina (Poco, Loggins and Messina), Buffalo Springfield's legacy continued robustly through the 70's and 80's and still can be felt now. California rock owes a lot to these guys; only the Byrds rivaled them in Los Angeles in the 1960's.
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Review: Anders Holst - Five
I recently discovered the aptly titled EP “Five” by Swedish-born singer/songwriter Anders Holst.
- Yngwie Forced me to Rise, your Honor, & I'd feel violated if I weren't so satisfied.
- Recovered Vivaldi Played and The Daily Music and Tech News
- Giles: Giles
- Des Ark: Loose Lips Sink Ships
- Rilo Kiley: More Adventurous
- Courtney Jaye: Traveling Light
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Review: Chris McNulty’s Dance Delicioso
With Dance Delicioso, McNulty delivers an album of Jazz that sounds just a classic as her cover of Cole Porter’s “All of You”.
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Review: Jason Mraz - Mr. A-Z
Maybe he should go back to sitting on the curb, waiting for his rocket to come.
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Review: Johnny Cash - Legend
You could say I grew up in a household that had an affinity for Johnny Cash.
- Marc Cohn and His Mighty Temple: singer shrugs off gunshot wound to the head
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American Idol: Bo Bice's Injury Won't Sideline this Powerful "Vehicle"
The Detroit A. I. Live! concert provided Bo Bice fans powerful proof this Rising Star is destined for greatness. I Bo-Lieve!
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The T.A.S. Show Podcast - Caught Stealing
The premise of this podcast, my first, is to get inside my head without me speaking much at all.
- Mercury Rev - The Secret Migration CD Review
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Overlooked Alternatives: new releases for August 9, 2005
New jazz this week: Bill Frisell with a much-needed new live album and Pat Metheny's anniversary edition of Song X.
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Hootie and the Blowfish: Looking for Lucky Review
They're back, and at their best Musical Chairs.
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Eddy Arnold, the cracker Barry White
usually I'd rather listen to Iggy Pop singing the Rage Against the Machine songbook...
Sports
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Drop Shot Tennis Report: Rogers Masters First Round
Match summaries of Nadal v. Moya and Mathieu v. Roddick, and stats.
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Manchester United 3 Debrecen 0
Manchester United's Champions League qualifier featured three great goals all involving 19 year old Man of the Match Wayne Rooney.
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Bertuzzi Reinstated by Gary Bettman
Bertuzzi's back. Moore is still out.
Books
- A look at the Rhine: Interview with Tom Kratman
- Book Review: Sunset Strip Stripped in Straight Whiskey
- Book Notes - Bret Easton Ellis (Lunar Park)
- Book Review: In The Line of Fire by Jerry Weissman
- Book Review: Flashman On the March by George McDonald Fraser
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Not the good old days of history
Did the "good old days" of history education ever exist?
- Book Review: The One Minute Millionaire
Video
- Box Office Update: 8/5-7
- Tommy Lee Goes to College: A Celebrity-based Reality TV Perfect Storm
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Is CNN Marginalizing Robert Novak?
Novak has been suspended, and three shows he frequented have been cancelled. What now?
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Review: Downfall, Entering The Nightmare World
Downfall, the first German dramatic movie to portray Adolf Hitler, was released onto DVD last week. A harrowing, riveting experience.
- Cinematographers Stand Still For Academy Exhibition
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Wanted: Ep 2 "The Wild Bunch"
These are not the street legal versions of the assault weapons you can legally purchase. These were illegally modified to be fully automatic.
- Thoughts! About! Miss Teen USA!
- Reviews: Earth vs. The Flying Saucers & 20 Million Miles to Earth
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Review: After The Sunset
This is like a Bally’s Fitness commercial – except the Bally’s ad has the sense to stop after thirty seconds.
- Review: Sarkar
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Review: Jack Frost (1997)
Jack Frost is so deplorable that – at most – it is barely endurable.
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Review: Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman
The title says it all.
- DVD Pick of the Week: 8/9
Politics
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GOP Rep. Katherine Harris’ Senate Campaign Off To A Rocky Start
Katherine Harris’ campaign is off to a rocky start as bloggers have revealed a huge and potentially significant falsehood she made recently on Sean Hannity’s show.
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Home Loans for Illegal Aliens?
It has become recent news that some banks have started to make home loans to illegal aliens.
- Redistricting, RINOs and other Repercussions
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Treason!
"A controversial Islamic cleric has left the UK for the Middle East, his spokesman has said, amid speculation he would be investigated for treason."
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Military To Investigate Nearly Duplicate Quotes In Recent Press Releases
The Pentagon won't allow anonymous quotes in future press releases, after offering nearly identical quotes on 7/13 and 7/24.
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Supreme Court Nominee John Roberts: Gay Rights Champion?
A rare firestorm of dissent is brewing. Republicans are madly spinning to show that John Roberts is a bigot.
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President Bush - Call Off the dogs on Cindy Sheehan
Cindy Sheehan's mourning has turned to questions. It was good of the President to have consoled her in mourning. It is wrong of the President to ignore her very public concerns and her very simple request.
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Dean's "Version of the Facts"
The public doesn't want a party's version of the facts, WE WANT THE ACTUAL FACTS. It is incomprehensibly stupid not only to believe that the way to get votes is to manipulate reality, but also to openly discuss it.
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The NEA - It's Not About the Children
Who'd have thought that a teachers union would have a foreign policy and a crusade against perfume?
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Loyalist Feuding, IRA Disarming, What Difference Does It Make? - Part Two
Part Two - An Unexpected Optimism
Sci/Tech
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Dumpster Bust Radio: Podcast #10
Fond farewells, rad music, and a full hour of a chat with Eric Olsen, the Don Corleone of Blogcritics.org
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Save Our Science Teachers
Real education, i.e. the process of learning to think critically, suffers from the increasing trend toward teaching to the test, and no subject suffers more than science.
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Tues Aug 9 Science Roundup
Yet Another Thing to Blame on Men, Discovery Succeeds in Not Dying, and Italians Fishing for Cocaine in River
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Back From Space - NASA Shuttle Discovery Lands Safely In California
...ending one of the most publicly followed space missions since the days of the moon landings.
- Yahoo! Trumps Google In Number Of Indexed Web Elements
Gaming
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PS2 Review: Kingdom Hearts
A Review of the Disney/Square-Enix joint project called Kingdom Hearts
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