November 14, 2005 Archive

Video

• Region 1 DVD Releases For 15th November 2005

  Madagascar, Stealth, The Skeleton Key, Scrubs, U2, Walmart documentary

  News in Video — by David Dylan Thomas — on Nov 14, 2005

• DVD Review: My Name is Nobody

  What a peculiar Western.

  Review in Video — by Andrew Wickliffe — on Nov 14, 2005

• TV Review: WWE: Raw

  Remembering Eddie Guerrero

  Review in Video — by Chris Beaumont — on Nov 14, 2005

• DVD Review: Superman: The Movie

  It's not only the best superhero feature film, but a great film in its own right.

  Review in Video — by Scott C. Smith — on Nov 14, 2005

• DVD Review - Q: the Winged Serpent

  Q is good fun, a monster movie in the classic mold.

  Review in Video — by David Wester — on Nov 14, 2005

• Holiday Season Programming From PBS and Nickelodeon

  News in Video — by Eric Olsen — on Nov 14, 2005

• TV Review: Locusts: The 8th Plague

  Sci-Fi Channel original movie: so generic another studio should sue.

  Review in Video — by Matt Paprocki — on Nov 14, 2005

• TV Review CSI:NY "Manhattan Manhunt"

  Two teams take on one serial killer.

  Review in Video — by NancyGail — on Nov 14, 2005

• Movie Review: Good Night, and Good Luck

  One of the standout films of 2005.

  Review in Video — by Fernando J. Delgado — on Nov 14, 2005

• DVD Review: Sigmund and the Sea Monsters - The Complete First Season

  If you remember Sigmund and the Sea Monsters from your own childhood, this collection is worth owning.

  Review in Video — by Robert Burke — on Nov 14, 2005

• DVD Review: The Big Lebowski (Collector’s Edition)

  The Dude abides. It's good knowin' the DVD's out there.

  Review in Video — by Gordon S. Miller — on Nov 14, 2005

• Reality TV's Unreality

  In the good old days we took acid to alter our perceptions of reality.

  Opinion in Video — by Richard Marcus — on Nov 14, 2005

• TV Review: The Boondocks - "The Trial of R Kelly"

  I tuned in all poised to exercise my "right to be hostile,"

  Review in Video — by Al Barger — on Nov 14, 2005

• Film Review: MirrorMask

  A surreal, symbolic and spectacular meditation on the travails of adolescence, as only Neil Gaiman could provide.

  Review in Video — by Modern Pea Pod — on Nov 14, 2005

• DVD Review: Garden State

  If you like hamster funerals and characters that say the "f" word a lot, this film is for you.

  Review in Video — by Scott C. Smith — on Nov 14, 2005

Music

• New Music Sampler: Soft--"Higher" | MP3

  Review in Music — by Matt Freelove — on Nov 14, 2005

• CD Review: The Eighteenth Day Of May

  At times this band evokes the folk rock of the Tea Party (R.I.P.) especially on tracks like 'Eighteen Days.'

  Review in Music — by Marty Dodge — on Nov 14, 2005

• CD Review: Madness - The Dangermen Sessions, Vol. 1

  Review in Music — by Tan The Man — on Nov 14, 2005

• Really Really Good 14-The Road To Casablanca

  Featuring news & sports links, music from Damian Marley, RRG's BC picks and The Boondocks! What's really, really good?!?

  Opinion in Music — by Laron Cue — on Nov 14, 2005

• AOL to Launch TV Service and The Daily Music and Tech News

  News in Music — by Katharine Donelson — on Nov 14, 2005

• Win Two Tickets to Motley Crue

  Motley Crue, "The band you never thought you'd see live again," is back, bigger then ever with an anthology album, 29 city tour, and a DVD.

  News in Music — by Connie Phillips — on Nov 14, 2005

• Review: Clemencic Consort, Dunstable: Cathedral Sounds

  A superlative introduction to an overlooked composer in a welcome reissue.

  Review in Music — by Timothy Jarrett — on Nov 14, 2005

• Fans Mob Boy Band B5 at Mall Concert

  B5 was mobbed by over 2,000 teenage girls at a free mall concert in Minnesota.

  News in Music — by Leoniceno — on Nov 14, 2005

• Single Review: The Cover Girls "We Can't Go Wrong"

  Angel Sabater tries to convince her guy friend to start a romantic relationship in the guileless single.

  Review in Music — by Pam Avoledo — on Nov 14, 2005

• CD Review: Sun Kil Moon - Tiny Cities

  An entire album of Modest Mouse covers in Mark Kozelek's inimitable style is a success on all levels.

  Review in Music — by Max Burke — on Nov 14, 2005

• The Best Rock Music Biographies

  Talking about the best Bob Dylan biographies leads to a talk about the best rock music biographies.

  Review in Music — by Steven Hart — on Nov 14, 2005

• Single Review: Vitamin C - "Smile"

  Vitamin C encourages everyone to suppress any hint of anger in the condescending "Smile."

  Review in Music — by Pam Avoledo — on Nov 14, 2005

Books

• FIFTY YEARS IN FIFTY MINUTES?

  Car & Driver magazine retrospective is pretty, but a little shy of unique content.

  Review in Books — by Mark Hasty — on Nov 14, 2005

• Review - Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

  It's basically a kind of 20th century regency romance, set in Japan.

  Review in Books — by Murphy — on Nov 14, 2005

• Book Review: Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell

  Pop quiz hotshot. You have a hair trigger aimed at your head. What do you do?

  Review in Books — by David Desjardins — on Nov 14, 2005

Politics

• Homosexuality in the Boy Scouts: The Story of John Dale

  This reaction, however, stands in stark contrast with the reception received from the Boy Scouts...

  News in Politics — by ChaunceyBillups — on Nov 14, 2005

• On Going to War

  The US Constitution grants Congress the power to declare war, but the body hasn't done so for 60 years.

  Opinion in Politics — by Kathy Gill — on Nov 14, 2005

• Afghanistan Joins Regional Bloc, SAARC

  News in Politics — by Aaman Lamba — on Nov 14, 2005

• Bush, Churches And The IRS

  Antiwar pastors get threatened by the IRS while pro-Bush clerics do not? Something is rotten here...

  Opinion in Politics — by Hal Pawluk — on Nov 14, 2005

• Clamoring for Scandal, Selling America Short

  Is the Plame/Libby/Rove controversy really news?

  Opinion in Politics — by Christopher J Falvey — on Nov 14, 2005

• Notable/Quotables-11/14/05

  Ted Kennedy a hypocrite? Who knew? Also, 9th Circus Quotes, CBS' Sloppy and Clueless reporter. More.

  Opinion in Politics — by Patfish — on Nov 14, 2005

• Post 2, Times 0

  For news that's fit to print, you have a better shot of reading it in the Washington Post than in the NY Times.

  Opinion in Politics — by Scott Butki — on Nov 14, 2005

Sci/Tech

• Indiana Inventor Granted US Patent for Anti-Gravity-Powered Spaceship - Junk Science?

  News in Sci/Tech — by Randy Reichardt — on Nov 14, 2005

• Cosmic Mountains of Creation - New NASA Image

  The pillars themselves are colossal, together resembling a mountain range.

  News in Sci/Tech — by Bennett Dawson — on Nov 14, 2005

• 1000 Days To 2008 Beijing Olympics - Or Not

  Could avian flu cause the relocation of the 2008 Olympic Games?

  News in Sci/Tech — by Eric Olsen — on Nov 14, 2005

• BugBlog Report 11/14/05: Real, Sony, Microsoft

  Notable bugs from last week, including a follow-up on Sony CDs.

  News in Sci/Tech — by Bruce Kratofil — on Nov 14, 2005

• Psychic Forensics: Autopsy of Karl Rove’s Brain

  Karl Rove shares DNA with a long bleak line of cold creatures that invented the means of torture.

  Satire in Sci/Tech — by pogblog — on Nov 14, 2005

Culture

• You Won't Be Able to Set My Curfew When You're Dead

  In the wake of David Ludwig killing Kara Beth Borden's parents: Blunderford's How-To-Stay-Alive Parenting Commandments

  Satire in Culture — by Blunderford — on Nov 14, 2005

• Shady She-males Spit Strong Sedatives, Thai Tourists Told To Turn-down Trannies

  You can't make this stuff up...

  News in Culture — by RJ Elliott — on Nov 14, 2005

• People Love Their Cars

  Quit complaining about oil companies robbing you blind unless you're willing to get on the supertrain.

  Opinion in Culture — by ProgressiveDepot — on Nov 14, 2005

• Evil Wizards Won't Upgrade Low-Tech Cash Registers

  Learn how to waste thousands of precious minutes at your local retailer's checkout line.

  Opinion in Culture — by Clarissa Adkins — on Nov 14, 2005

• Day By Day for November 14, 2005

  Chris Muir's excellent Day By Day cartoon, for November 14, 2005

  Satire in Culture — by Chris Muir — on Nov 14, 2005

• Review: Reunions - Bringing Early Italian Paintings Back Together

  The Virgin is a beautiful matron, mature and proud, a mother who's seen her son achieve beyond her wildest dreams.

  Review in Culture — by Natalie Bennett — on Nov 14, 2005

• I'm From Y Generation and I'm Here to Help

  You were living the American dream, raising soccer players and CEOs; this understandably caused some of you to lose focus.

  Opinion in Culture — by cooper — on Nov 14, 2005

Gaming

• PC Game Review: Indigo Prophecy

  Review in Gaming — by Jonathan Zabel — on Nov 14, 2005

Sports

• Alex Rodriguez Edgez Ortiz For American League'z MVP Honorz

  David Ortiz "designated" with second place. Thick Wickman was 26th.

  News in Sports — by Matthew T. Sussman — on Nov 14, 2005