March 6, 2006 Archive

Sports

• The Ramble: NFL Labor Negotiations Special Edition

  I don’t really care about the NFL’s labor issues. Neither should you. Here’s why.

  News in Sports — by Sal Marinello — on Mar 06, 2006

• World Baseball Classic: Clutch Hit or Wild Pitch?

  Baseball zealots Matt Sussman and Zach Baker don't see eye to eye regarding this inaugural tournament.

  News in Sports — by Matthew T. Sussman — on Mar 06, 2006

Gaming

• Atari Reveals Soundtrack For Upcoming Driver Game

  Featuring the sounds of Public Enemy, David Bowie, The Roots, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

  News in Gaming — by Kevin Cortez — on Mar 06, 2006

• PC Game Review: The Guild 1400 Gold

  Life in the Middle Ages -- what could be more fun?

  Review in Gaming — by Warren Kelly — on Mar 06, 2006

• Nintendo DS Review: Mario & Luigi - Partners in Time

  As if we needed another reason to praise the DS, this game comes along.

  Review in Gaming — by Matt Paprocki — on Mar 06, 2006

Video

• DVD Review: Jarhead Collector’s Edition

  Jarhead is a well-crafted film on many levels. The DVD extras are great for those who enjoy the process of filmmaking.

  Review in Video — by El Bicho — on Mar 06, 2006

• Movie Review: 16 Blocks

  Richard Donner's latest Lethal Weapon knockoff...

  Review in Video — by Film School Rejects — on Mar 06, 2006

• ClipBlast Video Clips: The 78th Annual Academy Awards

  News in Video — by Barry Gold — on Mar 06, 2006

• Live Blogging the Oscars

  Here lies the transcripts from a night of live commentary...

  Review in Video — by Film School Rejects — on Mar 06, 2006

• DVD Review: Crapshoot with Jim Breuer and Zakk Wylde

  The combination of Wylde and Breuer does not quite add up.

  Review in Video — by Chris Beaumont — on Mar 06, 2006

• Movie Review: Match Point

  No, it isn't quite Stardust Memories or Manhattan - but is that really what we wanted in the first place?

  Review in Video — by Modern Pea Pod — on Mar 06, 2006

• TV Review: Anything to Win - the Tonya Harding Story

  Tonya Harding, the bad girl of ice skating, tells all in a new documentary series.

  Review in Video — by Scott C. Smith — on Mar 06, 2006

• Detective Robert Goren - Sleep and (Bad) Dreams

  Does fiction feel real because it's perceived as better than the life we are really leading?

  Opinion in Video — by trinket — on Mar 06, 2006

• The 2006 Academy Awards Fashion Report

  The Good, The Bad, and the Really Ugly summary of the 2006 Oscar ceremonies. Some off-the-cuff fashion awards.

  Opinion in Video — by Patfish — on Mar 06, 2006

• Oscar Quotes

  Pithy statements from the winners at the The 78th Annual Academy Awards.

  News in Video — by Eric Olsen — on Mar 06, 2006

• Oscar Aftermath: Can I Pick 'Em or What?

  Hey, weren't those French guys cute with their stuffed penguins?

  Opinion in Video — by Steven Hart — on Mar 06, 2006

• TV Shows and Guilty Pleasure Viewing Habits

  I'll tell you my guilty pleasure TV shows -- COPS, Leave It To Beaver, The People's Court and more -- if you tell me yours!

  Opinion in Video — by Jackie — on Mar 06, 2006

• DVD Review: Lost Souls, The Blade Runner of Horror

  The Communist Vampire reviews horror.

  Review in Video — by Thomas M. Sipos — on Mar 06, 2006

• ClipBlast Video Clips for Today

  A murdered student is mourned, and a soldier's death is investigated.

  News in Video — by Barry Gold — on Mar 06, 2006

• TV Review: The 78th Annual Academy Awards

  Note to the Academy: You're not racist. We get it.

  Review in Video — by Don Baiocchi — on Mar 06, 2006

• A Crash at the Oscars

  Scorsese: 0. Three 6 Mafia: 1. John Stewart, some surprises and the cinema collages made for a good show

  Review in Video — by Chip Ross — on Mar 06, 2006

• Oscars: Thoughts On Paul Haggis

  When Paul Haggis spoke about screenwriting last May in San Francisco before a sceening of Crash, I doubt he imagined it would win an Oscar for best picture.

  Opinion in Video — by Steve Rhodes — on Mar 06, 2006

Music

• Concert Review: Powerman 5000 w/ In This Moment, Audible Thought, Metadox 3/4/06

  Spider was jumping around pumping his fist, sneering, I swear he is channeling Billy Idol.

  Review in Music — by Chris Beaumont — on Mar 06, 2006

• CD Review: Autumn Days by Gus Black

  A soothing album to seduce you to a state nearing slumber.

  Review in Music — by Cara de Pescado — on Mar 06, 2006

• CD Review: Goldfrapp - Supernature

  Somewhere in the process of pop crossover, Goldfrapp has lost the delicate balance between being Goldfrapp and being an experimental cipher.

  Review in Music — by Modern Pea Pod — on Mar 06, 2006

• Warped Tour Dates Announced and The Daily Music and Tech News

  Warped Tour dates, Isle of Wight headliners and AOL to allow custom AIM in today's news update.

  News in Music — by Katharine Donelson — on Mar 06, 2006

• CD Review: 8084 - The Last Great Train

  Fourth album by the AOR mainstays who began their musical journey back in the '80s.

  Review in Music — by George Dionne — on Mar 06, 2006

• Music Playlist: Crossgenred Country Covers

  Nineteen classic country soungs as remade by rock, jazz, blues, soul, metal and even polka artists.

  Opinion in Music — by Robert Burke — on Mar 06, 2006

• Appel Farm Arts & Music Festival: New Jersey's Best-Kept Secret

  Two upcoming music festivals you might want to put on your calendar.

  News in Music — by Steven Hart — on Mar 06, 2006

• CD Review: The Little Willies

  Fantasma el Rey loves listening to this music as much as The Little Willies love playing it.

  Review in Music — by El Bicho — on Mar 06, 2006

Culture

• In Dreams

  I dream. This is what I do these days.

  Opinion in Culture — by Sadi Ranson-Polizzotti — on Mar 06, 2006

• BC Radio - March 6, 2006

  The BC Radio Podcast has relaunched with appearances by Eric Olsen, Eric Berlin, Joan Hunt, Matt Sussman, Mary K. Williams, and the Duke from yon Emerald Shores - listen and be edified!

  Opinion in Culture — by Josh Hathaway — on Mar 06, 2006

• Theater Review: The Odyssey: A Trip Based on Homer's Epic

  In this seductively psychedelic production, the gods deliver the great king into the not-so-tender hands of a British immigration detention centre.

  Review in Culture — by Natalie Bennett — on Mar 06, 2006

• The Not-Quite-Sunday Funnies Comics Page

  This Week: Oscar, Osama and Reservation

  Satire in Culture — by Annie — on Mar 06, 2006

• Time Is The Currency Of Life

  How many of us follow along, content that someone else is doing it right when we may be able to do it ourselves?

  Opinion in Culture — by Anthony Fountain — on Mar 06, 2006

• The Kidnapping of Ilan Halimi: Why is There An American News Blackout?

  Ilan Halimi was kidnapped and tortured to death over a three-week period.

  Opinion in Culture — by Bird of Paradise — on Mar 06, 2006

• Theater Review: Private Peaceful

  In the 90 years since Tommo Peaceful was put to death one thing has not changed. War still makes pawns of us all.

  Review in Culture — by My London Your London — on Mar 06, 2006

• The Family Tradition of Storytelling

  Years later I would learn of Grandma’s unspoken rule that the really good stories weren't to be shared until the children had gone outside.

  Opinion in Culture — by Diana Hartman — on Mar 06, 2006

• Spirtual Quest - Sagittarius With Moon Conjunct Uranus: Astrology-Based Advice

  Sagittarius Mom in spirtual crisis.

  Opinion in Culture — by Elsa — on Mar 06, 2006

• The Michael Barbaro New York Times Conspiracy

  This is perhaps the most important media story you have read this year, a potentially sinister attempt by the New York Times to depose blogging.

  News in Culture — by Daniel M. Harrison — on Mar 06, 2006

• Towards a New Revelation (Or, Why I Am Not a Traditionalist)

  Traditions can allow embellishments or simplifications, but not ideas -- not even self-evident truths -- so new or foreign that they would pull it apart.

  Opinion in Culture — by amba — on Mar 06, 2006

• Pop Cult Mind Wax - Brokeback Mountain, The Proposition, Same-Sex Obsession

  The trials and tribulations of a pretentious, self-obsessed, lust-stricken twentysomething, as glimpsed through the throb of pop culture.

  Opinion in Culture — by Duke De Mondo — on Mar 06, 2006

Books

• Humorist Art Buchwald Awaits His Last Hurrah!

  News in Books — by Vikk Simmons — on Mar 06, 2006

• Book Review: Waking Lazarus

  It’s great to see Christian fiction cutting a new swath with this psychological thriller.

  Review in Books — by Violet Nesdoly — on Mar 06, 2006

• Tributes Paid to the Late Science Fiction Writer Octavia Butler

  A collection of tributes offers testimony to Butler's influence on the genre.

  News in Books — by Steven Hart — on Mar 06, 2006

• NaNoWri Notes 12: What Every Writer Needs

  Everyone may be creative, but to be any type of artist requires a mixture of characteristics that not everybody possesses.

  Opinion in Books — by Richard Marcus — on Mar 06, 2006

• Magazine Review: The Decorative Painter

  A colorful bimonthly that instructs how to paint flowers, folk designs and holiday motifs on wood, ceramic, paper and other surfaces.

  Review in Books — by Ed Rust — on Mar 06, 2006

Politics

• The Challenges of Multiculturalism

  What is the price of open immigration and is it better or worse than a more restrictive alternative?

  Opinion in Politics — by Werner Patels — on Mar 06, 2006

• Why Everyone Should Want Military Recruiters On Campus

  Protest is fine, but the benefits to society of recruiting on campus are too great to lose.

  Opinion in Politics — by Sean Aqui — on Mar 06, 2006

• South Dakota Governor Signs Bill Banning Most Abortions

  Abortion ban expected to bring court challenge and possible referral to public vote.

  News in Politics — by Tim Gebhart — on Mar 06, 2006

• Another Presidenta for South America? Lourdes Flores Nano Leads Peru Race

  The lads of South America’s political class will have stay on their toes: Peruvian voters are set to elect their first female president in April.

  News in Politics — by Taylor Kirk — on Mar 06, 2006

• ClipBlast Special Report: The Katrina Tapes

  Caught on tape, the video tells the real story.

  News in Politics — by Barry Gold — on Mar 06, 2006

• Notable/Quotables 3/6/06

  A compendium of wise pundits weigh in on the UAE port deal. Being all that you can be and Anonymous on success.

  News in Politics — by Patfish — on Mar 06, 2006

Sci/Tech

• BugBlog Report 3/6/06: Symantec, Apple, and Microsoft

  News in Sci/Tech — by Bruce Kratofil — on Mar 06, 2006

• The Blogs That Bug Me

  If you're gonna start a blog, for heaven's sake, respond when you get some comments! Plus other pet blog-peeves.

  Opinion in Sci/Tech — by Elvira Black — on Mar 06, 2006