March 23, 2007 Archive

Music

• McCartney Signs With New Starbucks Label

  New deal benefits both parties

  News in Music — by Dave Lifton — on Mar 23, 2007

• Music Review: Oreskaband - Ore

  Put six Japanese teenagers in a ska band - what do you get? Energy up the wazoo. ORESKABAND! YAAA! Genki desu!

  Review in Music — by Claire Marie Blaustein — on Mar 23, 2007

• The Decline and Fall of Musicopolis

  When the music business became the music industry, something died. The times are changing.

  Opinion in Music — by Ray Ellis — on Mar 23, 2007

• Q: What Happened to Original Beatles Drummer Pete Best?

  mental_floss question of the day.

  News in Music — by Mental_Floss — on Mar 23, 2007

• Interview: Jordan Zevon

  Son of rock legend speaks on eve of release of reissues

  Interview in Music — by Dave Lifton — on Mar 23, 2007

• Retro Redux: Rethinking The Musicality Of Liberace

  He wore his tailored tuxedo on every show, and his megawatt smile lit up the tiny black and white screen like a searchlight.

  Opinion in Music — by Big Geez — on Mar 23, 2007

• The Friday Morning Listen: Jim Hall - Jim Hall's Three

  The man who provided guitar beauty for Chico Hamilton, Bill Evans, and Merv Griffin. Merv Griffin?!!

  Review in Music — by Mark Saleski — on Mar 23, 2007

• Music Review: Roxanne Potvin - The Way It Feels

  the throaty delivery of a cabaret singer and can play a pretty mean Telecaster.

  Review in Music — by Richard Marcus — on Mar 23, 2007

• Music Review: William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet: Music from the Motion Picture, 10th Anniversary Edition

  This Romeo redux offers bonus tracks, diversity, and celebrates what a modern motion picture soundtrack can do for a film.

  Review in Music — by Peter Chakerian — on Mar 23, 2007

• Concert Review: Finger Eleven, Chevelle, Evanesescence - Oklahoma City

  Chevelle saves the night in a raging hormone rock show.

  Review in Music — by Katie Trattner — on Mar 23, 2007

• Music Review: Joe Zawinul - Brown Street

  Brown Street shows the genius of Joe Zawinul against the brightly colored backdrop of a big band, in this case the German WDR Big Band of Cologne.

  Review in Music — by C. Michael Bailey — on Mar 23, 2007

Books

• Book Review: Flesh and Bone by Jefferson Bass

  Despite a less than satisfactory storyline, it's likely readers will enjoy Flesh and Bone.

  Review in Books — by Mysterious Reviews — on Mar 23, 2007

• Book Review: 45301 by Viggo Mortensen

  Viggo Mortensen is exploring the interrelationship between motion, colour, light, and dark.

  Review in Books — by Richard Marcus — on Mar 23, 2007

• Book Review: Storming Heaven's Gate - An Anthology of Spiritual Writings by Women by Patricia Vecchione, Amber Coverdale Sumrall

  She-Who-Is is everywhere, especially in this shimmering gem of an anthology.

  Review in Books — by Lisa Alvarado — on Mar 23, 2007

• Book Review: Frontera Dreams: A Hector Belascoaran Shayne Detective Novel by Paco Ignacio Taibo, II

  One-eyed Mexican detective Hector Belascoaran Shayne has been stabbed, shot at, and left for dead, but he's back to find his missing high school sweetheart.

  Review in Books — by Gina Ruiz — on Mar 23, 2007

• Book Review: We Were One - Shoulder to Shoulder With the Marines Who Took Fallujah by Patrick K. O'Donnell

  The ghastly horror of war is brought to life with grisly realism in an unforgetable story about boys who become men on the battlefield.

  Review in Books — by Regis Schilken — on Mar 23, 2007

• Book Review: Eating Up Italy by Matthew Fort

  Matthew Fort has produced a fascinating book - part travelogue, part cookery book, and part discussion about the state of the human culture.

  Review in Books — by Simon Barrett — on Mar 23, 2007

• Book Review: Ghost Ship by Mary Higgins Clark

  A beautifully illustrated picture book by mystery great Mary Higgins Clark.

  Review in Books — by Gina Ruiz — on Mar 23, 2007

Video

• TV Review: The First 48 - Ain't Nothin' Like The Real Thing

  The best cop show ever.

  Review in Video — by Carole McDonnell — on Mar 23, 2007

• Movie Review: TMNT

  The turtles by way of the sewers of Vienna.

  Review in Video — by El Bicho — on Mar 23, 2007

• Movie Review: Black Snake Moan

  Ricci in her panties is a great thing. It's just not enough to carry a feature film.

  Review in Video — by General Disdain — on Mar 23, 2007

• Movie Review: The Last Mimzy

  Enjoy a great family adventure.

  Review in Video — by El Bicho — on Mar 23, 2007

• Sanjaya Malakar, Star Power or Super Fizzle?

  Sanjaya Malakar found his courage on the Idol stage.

  Opinion in Video — by Jewels Richardson — on Mar 23, 2007

• Movie Review: Idol

  Combining some horrible casting, horrible dialog, horrible direction, and an even worse sound track, Idol turns this all into a very unsatisfying movie event

  Review in Video — by Simon Barrett — on Mar 23, 2007

• Reigning in Raines' Imagination

  Can the hook for this series continue to exist or do they need to find another way to keep the audience involved?

  Opinion in Video — by Josh Lasser — on Mar 23, 2007

• TV Review: Boston Legal - "The Bride Wore Blood"

  Alan defends a two-faced liar while Denny and Claire have to get out of messes they created. Isn't life grand?

  Review in Video — by NancyGail — on Mar 23, 2007

• Movie Review: How Green Was My Valley

  Maybe How Green Was My Valley is a little dated now, but I thoroughly enjoyed watching it.

  Review in Video — by Richard Pettinger — on Mar 23, 2007

• DVD Review: Get Smart: The Complete Collection

  Time-Life has released all the original Get Smart episodes in one fantastic box.

  Review in Video — by Josh Lasser — on Mar 23, 2007

• DVD Review: Zach Galifianakis - Live at the Purple Onion, Comedy With Issues

  Impressive jokes -- but not really.

  Review in Video — by Joe Harris — on Mar 23, 2007

• TV Review: Survivor 14: Fiji, Who's Up for a Shake-Up?

  Earl, Michelle, and Yao-Man had their first taste of victory, while Mookie, Rocky, and Anthony felt the heaviness of another loss.

  Review in Video — by TV with MeeVee — on Mar 23, 2007

• TV Review: America's Next Top Model, So Long Tyra Wannabe

  Can we have an episode of America’s Next Top Model without a tear-fest? Apparently not.

  Review in Video — by TV with MeeVee — on Mar 23, 2007

• Movie Review: TMNT

  The heroes in a half-shell return to the big screen in beautiful, detailed CGI glory. Turtle power!

  Review in Video — by Toni Schwartz — on Mar 23, 2007

• Movie Review: Bloody Reunion

  I got it bad, so bad... I'm splat for teacher!

  Review in Video — by Steve Carlson — on Mar 23, 2007

• Movie Review : The Hills Have Eyes 2

  The Hills Have Eyes 2 hearkens to those rosy days of my youth. The mutants are back, defending their wasteland home ...

  Review in Video — by Dread Central — on Mar 23, 2007

• Movie Review: The Riddle

  Vinnie Jones scores in his best role yet.

  Review in Video — by Daniel J. Stasiewski — on Mar 23, 2007

• Movie Review: Yet Another 300 Review (aka I Didn't Like 300!)

  A perfect example of style over substance...yawn.

  Review in Video — by Daniel Woolstencroft — on Mar 23, 2007

• How About a Nice Game of... Fantasy Movies!

  Sounds like fun to me!

  Opinion in Video — by Chris Beaumont — on Mar 23, 2007

• Movie Review: Shutter

  A hodge-podge of contemporary horror films that still retains some original creepiness.

  Review in Video — by Mat Brewster — on Mar 23, 2007

• TV Review: Survivor 14: Fiji - Episode 6

  Important decisions are always made with rock, paper, scissors. Right?

  Review in Video — by Jackie — on Mar 23, 2007

• PBS Primetime Programming for The Week of March 25th

  PBS, they have the eye of the tiger.

  News in Video — by Josh Lasser — on Mar 23, 2007

• DVD Review: W.C. Fields Comedy Collection, Vol. 2

  Another set of classic W.C. Fields movies comes to DVD.

  Review in Video — by Josh Lasser — on Mar 23, 2007

• New Movies and Box Office Predictions: TMNT, The Hills Have Eyes 2, Reign Over Me, Shooter, The Last Mimzy, Pride

  Turtles and cannibals and Mimzies, oh my!

  News in Video — by Chris Beaumont — on Mar 23, 2007

• Aclockalypse Now: My Appearance on The Daily Show

  Blogcritics editor and writer John Bambenek retells all about his Daily Show interview.

  Opinion in Video — by John Bambenek — on Mar 23, 2007

• DVD Review: The Departed (Two-Disc Special Edition)

  An entertaining movie, a great DVD, but not Best Picture.

  Review in Video — by El Bicho — on Mar 23, 2007

• American Idol's Top Ten, Malakar Makes It

  He thought he could; Malakar makes Idol top ten.

  Opinion in Video — by Jewels Richardson — on Mar 23, 2007

• DVD Review: Sublime

  Tom Cavanagh visits a bad hospital.

  Review in Video — by Chris Beaumont — on Mar 23, 2007

Sci/Tech

• Taming The Internet Beast In Us All

  The best way to avoid internet ugliness is to pretend it is real life.

  Opinion in Sci/Tech — by cooper — on Mar 23, 2007

Politics

• The Power To Pardon and The "No-Funds" Rider

  In war and politics, take the high ground, especially when it comes to pardonning convicted felons.

  Opinion in Politics — by Mark Kleiman — on Mar 23, 2007

• Why The John Edwards News Mistake Is Your Fault

  The last 24 hours of news about U.S. presidential candidate John Edwards is a perfect example of bad media trend.

  Opinion in Politics — by Scott Butki — on Mar 23, 2007

• Video Killed the Speech Police

  Just 5 years after the bill became law, the assumptions underlying McCain Feingold have become laughable.

  Opinion in Politics — by Harry Forbes — on Mar 23, 2007

• No Congressional Vote for D.C. - Only for "The Several States"

  An open letter to the President of the United States.

  Opinion in Politics — by Michael J. West — on Mar 23, 2007

Gaming

• Flash Games: Silversphere, The Phone, Stuck Inside, The Escape Room, Diversity, The Basement

  By the time you work your way through this week's list, you might need an escape from escape games!

  Opinion in Gaming — by Phillip Winn — on Mar 23, 2007

• Xbox 360 Review: Def Jam Icon

  Def Jam Icon, in the end, is a fighting game that fails to live up to its potential.

  Review in Gaming — by Michael Jones — on Mar 23, 2007

Sports

• Women's Hoops Features This Year's Upsets -- Or More Accurately, "Migraines"

  And in non-chick sports news: LaRussa naps at the intersection, while Joey Porter jabs in Sin City.

  News in Sports — by Matthew T. Sussman — on Mar 23, 2007

• Road To the Roses 2007: Featured Horse – Circular Quay

  For such a small colt, he has a big heart; just like his daddy Thunder Gulch.

  Opinion in Sports — by T. Michael Testi — on Mar 23, 2007

Culture

• Afraid Of Living

  Because of the fear presented by the media, Americans appear to be more concerned than ever before.

  Opinion in Culture — by Jake Porter — on Mar 23, 2007

• Religion and Morality: A Match Made in Hell?

  Our world is awash in religious wars, and we had better learn to think of them that way.

  Opinion in Culture — by Jon Sobel — on Mar 23, 2007

• Should I Be Friends With Another Woman's Flirty Man? Leo Moon Wants To Know: Saturn Transit: Astrology-Based Advice

  Hi Elsa, There is this man who has been leading me on for some time.

  Opinion in Culture — by Elsa — on Mar 23, 2007

Tastes

• Stir, Chop, Cha-Cha-Cha

  Who would have thought someone as culinary-challenged as I could conjure the memory of my Puerto Rican mother through cooking?

  Opinion in Tastes — by Ann Hagman Cardinal — on Mar 23, 2007

• Perfection in Marrying Cigars and Cognac

  The extraordinary taste of a good cigar that has been swirling in a glass of cognac cannot be described. It can only be savored.

  Opinion in Tastes — by Mark Schannon — on Mar 23, 2007