October 26, 2005 Archive

Video

• Movie Review: Kicking & Screaming

  I prefer to see a little more hustle in my sports films. This one's a big-time bench warmer.

  Review in Video — by Sombrero Grande — on Oct 26, 2005

• Movie Review: Julian Fellowes' Separate Lies - Precisely

  A completely convincing portrait of a functioning comfortless marriage and a triumph for Julian Fellowes and his cast.

  Review in Video — by Alan Dale — on Oct 26, 2005

• DVD Review: Audition

  Halloween Madness brings you this Whoriffic tale of Japanese mania...

  Review in Video — by JayMoo and Stephoin — on Oct 26, 2005

• A Television Viewer's Diary: 10/16-10/22: Veronica Mars

  Sorry this is so late. I'll try to do better....

  Review in Video — by Chris Beaumont — on Oct 26, 2005

• The Who: Tommy & Quadrophenia Live To Be Released Nov. 8th

  Rhino Home Video will be releasing the treat to end all treats for fans of The Who: Tommy and Quadrophenia together.

  News in Video — by Richard Marcus — on Oct 26, 2005

• DVD Review: Land of the Dead

  It's time for George Romero to surrender the keys to the mortuary.

  Review in Video — by Steven Hart — on Oct 26, 2005

• TV Review: Frontline: The Torture Question

  An eye-opening account of how torture became mainstreamed into military culture over the past 4 years

  Review in Video — by Michael D. Bryan — on Oct 26, 2005

• TV Review: Real World Austin 10/25/05

  An initial cut of the fifteen-minute documentary is put together by Nehemiah, and shown to their three bosses.

  Review in Video — by Regina Avalos — on Oct 26, 2005

• DVD Review: Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season One

  The first season has star power, smart writing, and the always enjoyable banter of its famous host.

  Review in Video — by David R Perry — on Oct 26, 2005

• Holiday Movie Season Preview

  With apes, chickens, Quidditch, wardrobes, and gay cowboys, the winter movie season is sure to have something worth watching.

  News in Video — by Alisha Karabinus — on Oct 26, 2005

• DVD Review Pure Heat : Ultimate MLB Flamethrowers

  A great gift for fans of the nation's pastime that focuses on the power pitcher

  Review in Video — by Gordon S. Miller — on Oct 26, 2005

Culture

• 21-Day Kick-Sugar Countdown Program Kicks Off Jan. 5 -- Complimentary Until Nov. 1

  Opinion in Culture — by Connie Bennett — on Oct 26, 2005

• Nearly 21 Million People in U.S. Have Diabetes -- A 14 % Jump Since 2002

  About 20.8 million Americans – or 7 percent of the U.S. population – now have diabetes, with more than 6 million of them unaware that they have the disease, according to the latest prevalence data released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

  News in Culture — by Connie Bennett — on Oct 26, 2005

• 72 Hours Raw In Dublin Part Seven

  "Fringe Wars… Same-Sex Affections… Conclusion"

  Opinion in Culture — by Duke De Mondo — on Oct 26, 2005

• A Description Of Bird Flu And The Possible Pandemic

  Opinion in Culture — by Trish Wilson — on Oct 26, 2005

• Man Sued For Not Giving Woman Orgasms

  "We will look into it, we will treat it as an ordinary complaint and let the judge decide."

  Satire in Culture — by Adam Ash — on Oct 26, 2005

• Marriage on the Rocks - Neptune Transit: Astrology-based Advice

  Opinion in Culture — by Elsa — on Oct 26, 2005

• Day By Day for October 26, 2005

  Chris Muir's excellent Day By Day cartoon, for October 26, 2005

  Satire in Culture — by Chris Muir — on Oct 26, 2005

• Theater Review: The Ladies of the Corridor

  Perhaps this is what comes when your scenic designer’s credits include “The 2006 Shamu Show” at Sea World Adventure Park.

  Review in Culture — by JayMoo and Stephoin — on Oct 26, 2005

• Fiction-"Just Hanging Around on Halloween"

  Allegedly an overdose caused Mary's death. How do Mary'a calligraphy and the clown picture reveal the truth?

  Opinion in Culture — by Patfish — on Oct 26, 2005

• Fighting the Bird Flu

  The avian H5N1 virus spread has become larger than ever...

  News in Culture — by Ayu — on Oct 26, 2005

Music

• Interview: Judge D

  Interview in Music — by Chris Beaumont — on Oct 26, 2005

• Rhino Records Presents: Gunther: Pleasureman

  Light the fire in the fire place, spread the bear skin rug, Gunther and Pleasureman are coming to town.

  News in Music — by Richard Marcus — on Oct 26, 2005

• CD Review: Richard Thompson - Front Parlour Ballads

  Review in Music — by Wally Bangs — on Oct 26, 2005

• CD Review: Eric Himan One Night Stands

  Review in Music — by Connie Phillips — on Oct 26, 2005

• CD Review: Unknown Instructors - The Way Things Work

  Where does high art meet low grime? Unknown Instructors are right: this is where you find it.

  Review in Music — by Modern Pea Pod — on Oct 26, 2005

• DVD Review: Blues Company: Keepin' The Blues Alive

  The videography was excellent. I enjoyed watching and listening very much, with one exception.

  Review in Music — by Kevin Surbaugh — on Oct 26, 2005

• Single Review: Silver Sun - "Immediate"

  Review in Music — by Marty Dodge — on Oct 26, 2005

• Book Review: Billy Joe Shaver - Honky Tonk Hero

  Review in Music — by Patrick Nichols — on Oct 26, 2005

• CD Review: Charlie Peacock - Love Press Ex-curio

  What a great a wonderful surprise. Peacock has outdone himself. The jazz sounds were absolutely fantastic.

  Review in Music — by Kevin Surbaugh — on Oct 26, 2005

• Single Review: Jewel - "Serve The Ego"

  Vanity is the new religion, according to Jewel, in the earnest "Serve The Ego"

  Review in Music — by Pam Avoledo — on Oct 26, 2005

• CD Review: The Fleshtones - Beachhead

  Musically, there's nothing all that new on the album. It's your classic and timeless Fleshtones, just bigger. And better.

  Review in Music — by jen best — on Oct 26, 2005

• Rolling Stones Set Tracklist for New Rarities Disc

  The new Stones rarities disc... and no, "Cocksucker Blues" didn't make the cut.

  News in Music — by Josh Hathaway — on Oct 26, 2005

• Microsoft Joins OCA and The Daily Music and Tech News

  News in Music — by Katharine Donelson — on Oct 26, 2005

• Music Playlist: Songs About UFOs

  A playlist of songs written about or inspired by UFO's. Help add to the list!

  Opinion in Music — by Robert Burke — on Oct 26, 2005

• CD Review: Allele - Point of Origin

  Review in Music — by Chris Beaumont — on Oct 26, 2005

• Single Review: N Sync "Pop"

  N Sync defend their genre and the TRL lifestyle in the snippy electro "Pop."

  Review in Music — by Pam Avoledo — on Oct 26, 2005

• CD Review: The Day After by Twista

  While it has its moments, The Day After is mostly a disappointment.

  Review in Music — by Sterfish — on Oct 26, 2005

• Agoraphobic Cowboy: Rick Moranis Releases Country and Western CD

  Here's hoping he still has the same eye and ear that were so discerning back in the seventies and the eighties.

  News in Music — by Richard Marcus — on Oct 26, 2005

• Conjure One - Extraordinary Ways

  Ambient-influenced exotic dreamy pop has moments of excellence but not enough to make this an essential purchase.

  Review in Music — by Triniman — on Oct 26, 2005

• White Stripes Nation Manifesto III: "Sugar Never Tasted So Good"

  Punk is a cousin to the blues, twice-removed via marriage and sluttery.

  Review in Music — by monkey2man — on Oct 26, 2005

Sci/Tech

• If You Like Hubble Pictures, You'll Love The Large Binocular Telescope

  The twin mirrors were polished to an accuracy of 30 nanometers, or 3,000 times thinner than a human hair.

  News in Sci/Tech — by Bennett Dawson — on Oct 26, 2005

• No More .Mac For Me

  People grow out of things though. And I have grown out of .Mac.

  Opinion in Sci/Tech — by Ken Edwards — on Oct 26, 2005

• The Singularity Continuum

  I have been helping bring about the singularity

  Opinion in Sci/Tech — by Aaman Lamba — on Oct 26, 2005

• How To Write A Military Blog

  At Milblogging.com we claim to be the world's largest index of military blogs - searchable by a variety of attributes.

  Satire in Sci/Tech — by Milblogging — on Oct 26, 2005

Books

• Zagat's 2006 America's Top Restaurants Guide Is Out

  Americans eat more meals out - the food is better - the service is not.

  News in Books — by Eric Olsen — on Oct 26, 2005

• Book Review: A Hundred Years of Japanese Film

  Film historian Donald Richie's evocative portrait of the evolution of Japanese cinema.

  Review in Books — by Bill Wallo — on Oct 26, 2005

• Book Review: Commercial Photoshop Retouching: In the Studio

  For those of you in the digital darkroom who are looking for a way to improve your bitmap manipulation skills

  Review in Books — by Preston Parkhurst — on Oct 26, 2005

• Next Week in the Bookstore: Rice's Christ, Piazza's Elvis, and a Holiday Princess

  Anne Rice's genre-breaking tale of the early years in the life of Jesus Christ tops the list this week...

  News in Books — by DrPat — on Oct 26, 2005

Politics

• Daily Show Slams Cosby's Soft Interview With DeLay

  Cosby's interview style is far from "fair and balanced."

  Satire in Politics — by David R. Mark — on Oct 26, 2005

• Now That Iraq Has Gone So Well, Part II

  Opinion in Politics — by Hal Pawluk — on Oct 26, 2005

• Kay Bailey Hutchison Used To Think Perjury Was Serious

  Wow, what a flip-flop Hutchison has undergone regarding "technicalities" like perjury, or maybe she is just a complete hypocrite.

  Opinion in Politics — by Balletshooz — on Oct 26, 2005

• Fathers 4 Justice Activists Have A History Of Abusive Behavior

  Opinion in Politics — by Trish Wilson — on Oct 26, 2005

• The Slippery Slope

  Opinion in Politics — by Drew McKissick — on Oct 26, 2005

• Reflections On Rosa Parks

  Have We Come A Long Way Since Rosa Parks Sat Down?

  Opinion in Politics — by Scott Butki — on Oct 26, 2005

• The Condi Photo Kerfuffle

  Want to see how liberals in the media very literally "demon-eyes" conservatives? Just take a look at these Condi photos...

  Opinion in Politics — by David Flanagan — on Oct 26, 2005

• Fathers4Justice Accuses Granada of "Violent Conspiracy"

  Of course, fathers are angry!

  Opinion in Politics — by Teri Stoddard — on Oct 26, 2005

• Is the Bushites' Day of Reckoning at Hand?

  Will Bush & Co. finally be held accountable for their alleged misdeeds?

  Opinion in Politics — by Natalie Davis — on Oct 26, 2005

Sports

• Futon Report: Blum's the Word as W-Sox Claim Game 3

  White Sox win in the longest game in World Series history, could complete Astros sweep tonight

  News in Sports — by Matthew T. Sussman — on Oct 26, 2005