July 24, 2006 Archive

Video

• Movie Review: Clerks II

  Clerks II is a great ending to the six-part Jersey trilogy.

  Review in Video — by Brad Schader — on Jul 24, 2006

• Movie Review: An Early Look at World Trade Center

  This emotional, gut-wrenching film hits hard.

  Review in Video — by Hank Knuck — on Jul 24, 2006

• Movie Review: Omega Doom

  I dream of Rutger Hauer.

  Review in Video — by Aaron Fleming — on Jul 24, 2006

• Movie Review: Lawrence of Arabia

  Content to present us with a Lawrence that is simply flawed for no discernible reason.

  Review in Video — by Lucas McNelly — on Jul 24, 2006

• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Sails Past $300m Despite Critical Keelhauling

  News in Video — by Eric Olsen — on Jul 24, 2006

• TV Review: Making the Rounds at General Hospital - Jealousy Abounds

  The green-eyed moster keeps the drama high.

  Review in Video — by Connie Phillips — on Jul 24, 2006

• Movie Review: My Super Ex-Girlfriend

  Superman has nothing to worry about.

  Review in Video — by Chris Beaumont — on Jul 24, 2006

• Movie Review: Lady in the Water

  The slide continues into the realm of frustrating filmmaking.

  Review in Video — by Chris Beaumont — on Jul 24, 2006

• Movie Review: Clerks II

  You can go home again.

  Review in Video — by Sherry Lipp — on Jul 24, 2006

• Movie Review: ATL

  Like its characters, ATL will show you that what you see is not always what lies beneath the surface.

  Review in Video — by Miss Hipstah — on Jul 24, 2006

Music

• Festival Review: The Wickerman Music Festival, Scotland

  A UK music festival = loads of drink, no sleep and naughty things with strangers. Excellent fun!

  Review in Music — by A.L. Harper — on Jul 24, 2006

• CD Review: Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness

  A single-song progressive metal opus clocking in at a lengthy one hour.

  Review in Music — by Aaron Fleming — on Jul 24, 2006

• Enter To Win - All The Roadrunning - Emmylou Harris & Mark Knopfler

  A chance to win one of five CDs.

  News in Music — by A.L. Harper — on Jul 24, 2006

• CD Review: The Chief Smiles - Help Us Help You

  Are you tired of typical formulaic music?

  Review in Music — by Connie Phillips — on Jul 24, 2006

• Sony's New Patent and The Daily Music and Tech News

  Sony, Jimmy Eat World, Butch Vig, new site sells hard to find tracks and Pavement in today's update.

  News in Music — by Katharine Donelson — on Jul 24, 2006

• CD Review: Fiona Apple - When The Pawn... - A Look Back

  An appreciation of one the most consistently brilliant albums in the history of consistent brilliance.

  Review in Music — by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Jul 24, 2006

• CD Review: Cut Chemist - The Audience's Listening

  Armed with few guest musicians, an armload of samples, and a whole pile of ideas, Cut Chemist (Lucas MacFadden) just brings it.

  Review in Music — by Mark Saleski — on Jul 24, 2006

• CD Review: Tom Petty, Highway Companion

  Tom Petty's got his mojo back in the rootsy, hook-filled Highway Companion, his best album in a decade.

  Review in Music — by Nik Dirga — on Jul 24, 2006

• CD Review: Various Artists - The Pilgrim: A Celebration Of Kris Kristofferson

  A true celebration of the music and songwriting skills of an American original by some of those he inspired.

  Review in Music — by El Bicho — on Jul 24, 2006

• CD Review: Jeffrey Luck Lucas - What We Whisper

  What We Whisper is what you should hear.

  Review in Music — by Ray Ellis — on Jul 24, 2006

Culture

• Movie Review: A Scanner Darkly

  A scathing condemnation of drug culture and addiction.

  Review in Culture — by David Winchell — on Jul 24, 2006

• The Not-Quite-Sunday Funnies

  This Week: The Date, The '80s, and The Objective.

  Satire in Culture — by Annie — on Jul 24, 2006

• Shadow Land: Where The Past Lives

  Every day in the present is a day you can use for giving yourself a better future with fewer shadows.

  Opinion in Culture — by Richard Marcus — on Jul 24, 2006

• Too Much, Too Fast - Codependence in Relationship: Venus, Moon, Pluto Conjunction

  Dear Elsa, I seem to have trouble picking the right guys.

  Opinion in Culture — by Elsa — on Jul 24, 2006

• Uncle Seth Podcast #14: Replacement Seths

  Any guesses as to who would take on podcasting duties?

  Opinion in Culture — by Jay Moonah — on Jul 24, 2006

• Day By Day for July 24, 2006

  Chris Muir's excellent Day By Day cartoon, for July 24, 2006

  Satire in Culture — by Chris Muir — on Jul 24, 2006

Politics

• It’s Painful, But the ACLU Should Defend Fred Phelps

  Despite the oddity of the ACLU defending an anti-gay group, it is properly fulfilling its mission to protect civil liberties.

  Opinion in Politics — by E.I. — on Jul 24, 2006

• A Mouth Without Teeth

  Arlen Specter says he wants a resolution to the warrantless surveillance standoff. But his bill doesn't achieve that.

  Opinion in Politics — by Sean Aqui — on Jul 24, 2006

• Let's Bury the Chickenhawk Rhetoric

  Calling war supporters names if they didn't serve in the military suggests an odd standard for legitimacy -- and obscures a legitimate point.

  Opinion in Politics — by Sean Aqui — on Jul 24, 2006

• The Left, The Right And Dragging In The Middle

  The divisions among Americans, made worse by the Bush administration, come at a time when we most need to come together.

  Opinion in Politics — by Peter J — on Jul 24, 2006

• The Moral Evil of Iraqi Terrorism

  When before in the history of the world has an armed militia adopted the strategy of murdering their own people in order to defeat an enemy?

  Opinion in Politics — by Bird of Paradise — on Jul 24, 2006

Sci/Tech

• Circuit Manufacturer AMD To Buy Graphics Giant ATI

  AMD and ATI are joining forces in a move that is rocking the tech world.

  News in Sci/Tech — by John Guilfoil — on Jul 24, 2006

Gaming

• Gaming Expo To Light Up Pennsylvania Aug. 26 and 27

  Rob Faraldi gives the low-down on what it is like co-organizing the show.

  Interview in Gaming — by Aaron Auzins — on Jul 24, 2006

• Xbox 360 Review: NCAA Football 07

  Well, it's better than Madden 06... barely.

  Review in Gaming — by Matt Paprocki — on Jul 24, 2006

Books

• Book Review: Two Little Girls, A Memoir of Adoption by Theresa Reid

  A beautifully crafted, surprisingly and sometimes astonishingly candid memoir of an American couple's journey to parenthood via Russia and Ukraine.

  Review in Books — by Roberta Rosenberg — on Jul 24, 2006

• Magazine Review: The Rivendell Reader

  A quarterly about the design of bicycles and the joy of riding them.

  Review in Books — by Ed Rust — on Jul 24, 2006

• Book Review: Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs... edited by Ted Thompson and Eli Horowitz

  Whimsical, creepy, bizarre, and comforting stories for kids of all ages.

  Review in Books — by Bonnie — on Jul 24, 2006

• Book Review: Book of the Dead by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

  Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child bring The Pendergast Trilogy to a gripping conclusion.

  Review in Books — by Megalith — on Jul 24, 2006

Sports

• Reggie Bush May Become New Orleans' Next Evacuee

  If Bush re-enters the draft, he will be the most foul-smelling scumbucket to leave New Orleans since the Ninth Ward dried up.

  News in Sports — by Matthew T. Sussman — on Jul 24, 2006

• The Ramble: Tiger, Tour de France, Ricky Williams, A-Rod, A Bad Wang, And Of Course, Barry Bonds

  For as good as it is to have a good putter, it’s much worse to have a bad Wang.

  News in Sports — by Sal Marinello — on Jul 24, 2006

• Landis' Tour de Force at Tour de France

  Floyd Landis, American cyclist, came from 8 minutes behind four days ago to win the grandest cycling race of them all.

  News in Sports — by Bird of Paradise — on Jul 24, 2006