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Video
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DVD Review: In Her Shoes
Overachiever, wild rebel, entertaining movie. Hey, if the shoe fits...
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ABC's Streaming Test Numbers Top Three Million
ABC's streaming video test has proven doubters wrong, with over three million views in a little over two weeks.
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DVD Review: Amalia Rodrigues: The Spirit Of Fado
Amalia once said of herself, "If I sing like I sing it is because of Nature."
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American Idol Finale: Idols 'R' Us
The finale airs tonight. Whoever wins, we lose.
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Reality Television Is Hot This Summer
Are you ready for a sizzling season of summer reality television shows? I am!
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Movie Review: Marie Antoinette
Sofia Coppola's eagerly awaited anachronistic biopic, starring Kirsten Dunst, is pure eye-candy.
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Movie Review: Slither (2006)
James Gunn's Slither is more than just fun, it's an allegory as well.
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The Devil's Miner on PBS and DVD
This documentary on child miners in Bolivia is airing on PBS and is out on DVD.
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Movie Review: Volver
Pedro Almodóvar's new film is an early frontrunner for the Palme D'Or.
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Movie Review: Crash
It's one of the few films I've seen where everyone is at fault somehow and yet there are no villains.
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TV Preview: Lost Finale
Lost brings us two hours of delicious island mystery - check out special preview clips!
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Movie Review: The Caiman
Nani Moretti is back in competition at Cannes with a sharp political satire.
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DVD Review: Pervert!
This review contains repeated references to a certain portion of the female anatomy. So does the movie.
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TV Review: Alias 2-Hour Series Finale
After five years, does anyone even care about Rimbaldi anymore?
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Movie Review: Brokeback Mountain
Two Wyoming shepherds' homosexual love affair is frustrated by their own fears of how society will react toward them.
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Revisiting War Movies for Memorial Day Weekend: We Were Soldiers
This one not only focuses on battles, but also shows something of the havoc war causes for the private lives of soldiers.
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Fall Lineup Frenzy 2006 Part III: CBS
The third installment of this series takes a look at CBS's 2006-2007 primetime lineup.
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TV Review: American Idol Watch - Worst Finale Ever
Lack of show-stopping talent and bad song choices deliver us a DOA American Idol finale.
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Movie Review: The Da Vinci Code
The film is a few bits short of being a complete code of success.
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TV Review: House Season Finale - "No Reason"
"I'm almost always eventually right."
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DVD Review: High Tension
Decap by dresser; stomach chopped up by saw; throat slit, barbed wire; 2x4 to the face. It's NC-17 for sure.
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TV Review: Family Guy Season Finale - "Stewie B. Goode," "Bango was his Name Oh" and "Stu and Stewie's Excellent Adventure"
TV Viewer's Diary is severely disappointed in Fox's repurposing of "Stewie Griffin - The Untold Story."
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TV Review: Alias Series Finale - "Reprisal" and "All the Time in the World"
The TV Viewer's Diary bids farewell to a favored series.
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DVD Review: Coach Season One
Grab a chair and some Screaming Eagle merchandise and enjoy watching one of the best comedies of its time!
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Navio Updates Platform, Inks Big Deal
The newest version of the digital media platform Navio has been announced, as well as deals with four major clients.
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Box Office Update 5/19-5/21: The Da Vinci Code Has Biggest Opening of the Year
Da Vinci beats out a gaggle of furred critters at the box office.
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TV Review: CSI:NY "Charge of This Post" Season Finale
Mac Taylor explodes in anger, but that's not all which explodes....
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DVD Review: La Grande illusion
It isn't about war at all, but instead about humanity's ability to connect with each other despite their numerous differences.
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Jeff Fahey: A Prospective Glance
A cursory look at the forthcoming works of Jeff Fahey.
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TV Review: Desperate Housewives Season Finale Goes Out With a Bang
After a season ruined by its central mystery, the season ends with plot twists and shockers that have us screaming for more.
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TV Review: BBC's Doctor Who - "The Age Of Steel"
Having only seen the Cybermen in clips on various documentaries, they do appear to be more menacing than the Daleks.
Culture
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Star Parker Aims Straight for Homosexual Mary Cheney
Star is all crossed over a book she hasn't read.
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It's Time To Kill Your Television
Are we killing our kids with television? A new report says we've absolutely given in.
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Blogcritics Editors' Picks: May 17 through May 23
Come on in and find out what we've been up to this week!
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When Birds Attack
A simple walk home turns into a humiliating experience; what more can you ask for?
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Memories of Pedda Chacha (Big Uncle)
The family stuck together against tremendous odds, forsaking cushy lives in relatives' houses so they would not be obligated to anybody.
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Neil Young, Freebo, Paul Simon, Art School Confidential, Mission: Impossible: III, Huff, More
Roy Trakin's takes on popular culture.
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Recovery: In For The Long Haul
If I have to spend the rest of my days on it, it will have been worth it.
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Trouble Making Friends With Other Women - Venus Square the Moon: Astrology-Based Advice
Hi Elsa, A little over a year ago, my best friend and I "broke up."
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Day By Day for May 24, 2006
Chris Muir's excellent Day By Day cartoon, for May 24, 2006
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National Hurricane Awareness Week: Trends, Tips, and Tools
These resources can make the difference between life and death during a disaster or emergency.
Gaming
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Halo 3 Development Moving Along
Word from Bungie has the game at the multiplayer-testing stage.
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Oblivion Domino Day Is Simply Wild
Oblivion's success has inspired a series of fan-created videos, including this amazing domino sequence using items from the game.
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Battle Curt Schilling in EverQuest 2, Fight Lou Gehrig's Disease
Are you good enough to defeats a virtual Schilling? If so, SOE will donate money to the ALS Association.
Music
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CD Review: Bobby Previte's Coalition of the Willing
A lurid surf-spy garage rock Miles Davis Live/Evil Mission Impossible electric pyschedelic pussycat puzzle from one of New York's finest (not) jazz drummers.
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CD Review: The Afters - I Wish We All Could Win
The Jesus lyrics aside, this is just an uninspiring generic rock album. They need to shed the John Denver thing.
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CD Review: Crucified Barbara - In Distortion We Trust
This raw, sobering work is a little like a cardio workout.
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Madonna's Cross to Bear: Lack of Artistry
What's next for the Material Girl? Immolation?
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CD Review: Kimya Dawson - Remember That I Love You
They wrote songs about downloading porn and, spookily, New York being a graveyard. Unfortunately, they also kind of split up.
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CD Review Unexpected Dreams Songs From The Stars
A complilation of songs those little ones who need to be sung to sleep.
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CD Review: The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
No parts of the album quite reach the fantastic heights that all of the band's members have reached separately.
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Concert Review: John Hiatt - Humphrey's By The Bay, San Diego
A rocking SoCal show with the North Mississippi Allstars on May 22, 2006.
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Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, Bob Dylan's 65 today
Sure, it took a while, but I've finally developed a taste for Bob Dylan.
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Keith Richards Returns Home - Stones Tour Postponed
Like Inspector Clouseau, a "boomp" on the head is little more than a nuisance for Richards.
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Smokey Robinson's 50th Showbiz Anniversary Celebration Begins Tonight in London
Robinson crosses the Pond and celebrates 50 years of incredible music.
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CD Review: The Zutons - Tired of Hanging Around
Second offering from exemplars of Scouse Rock.
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From the Music Vault, Part 4: Supersuckers
Fourth in a series of musing on random selections from my music collection.
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Vinyl Tap: Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On The Edge Of Town
"Tell her there's a spot out 'neath Abram's Bridge / And tell her, there's a darkness on the edge of town..."
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CD Review: The Staple Singers - Stax Profiles
The invisible bonds between sacred and secular, modern and traditional, physical and spiritual, become immediately and ecstatically clear.
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Dixie Chicks Album, Dark Day for America: New Album Releases, 5-23-06
Remember, if you buy the new Dixie Chicks album, then the terrorists have won.
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Sharp, Pointy Things: Angular Music
It’s an abstraction of course, to use such a very visual/physical adjective to describe something as intangible as music.
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CD Review: The Pink Spiders - Teenage Graffiti
It is kind of like the Sex Pistols meet Iggy Pop and do Buddy Holly.
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CD Review: Johnnie Taylor - Stax Profiles
Where Taylor's real talent shines is his ability to capture a number of sounds and fuse them into brilliant crossover hits.
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CD Review: Christopher O'Riley -- Home to Oblivion: An Elliott Smith Tribute
In Home to Oblivion: An Elliott Smith Tribute O'Riley does more than deliver, he interprets.
Sci/Tech
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Google Creates Video Ads
While the networks fight to keep advertisers on traditional TV, Google is bringing video ads to the Web.
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Review: The New Apple MacBook
An IT consultant's take on the new Apple MacBook - the iBook replacement.
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Technorati Connects Bloggers With More Than 440 Newspapers Via AP Partnership
Technorati and AP take comments and news one step further to benefit the blogosphere, and society.
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Beyond TV 4 Gives DVR Power to PC's
Several products allow PC’s to become more like televisions, but SnapStream’s Beyond TV4 might be the best so far.
Politics
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Since When is the President Not Bound by the Rule of Law?
The US Constitution gives the lawmaking power solely to Congress...
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Pentagon Releases Flight 77 videos-Conspiracy Theorists Give Up-Only Not
Conspricacy theorists abound challenging the 9/11 Pentagon attack, but they fail to recognize the damage they're doing the victims. It's time to stop.
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Now We Know How A Dictator Can Game The Presidency
Bush, in virtually every action he takes, demonstrates that he considers himself dictator, not President, of the United States.
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Hastert And Others Run To The Aid Of Scumbag Jefferson
Congress takes offense at accountability and investigation.
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Markos Moulitsas Zúniga: Another Darth Nader?
Could it be that Markos Moulitsas Zúniga's super-popular left-wing blog, the Daily Kos, is hurting the Democrats?
Books
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Book Review: The Right Words At The Right Time Volume 2: Your turn!, by Marlo Thomas And new Friends
A collection of letters from the cute and comical to the tough and tragic.
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Book Review The Legacy of Carpocrates by Osman Khareef
Not unlike the The Da Vinci Code , this page-turner will keep you up through the night.
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Book Review - Presumed Guilty by James Scott Bell
An entertaining and deliciously jumpy read.
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Book Review: Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living by Carrie Tiffany
All of Australia's history is here, in stories that form a universal account of 20th-century life and 'progress'.
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Book Review: XAML in a Nutshell by Lori A. MacVittie
XAML is a brand new way of creating user interfaces for Windows, and XAML in a Nutshell provides many of the details you need.
Sports
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FA Premiership Merchandise: Saving Lives, One Fan at a Time
The FA Premiership doesn't just offer the world's most exciting soccer, it also boasts life-saving merchandise.
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Mavericks-Suns, By the Numbers
A statistical breakdown of the Western Conference finals.
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Is Barbaro Being Saved by Love or Greed?
The national outpouring for 2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro might surprise some people, but his injury has caused debate.
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