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Music
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Mista crooner Bobby Valentino gets ready for Special Occasion
Special Occasion will hit the racks on May 8th, as the former Mista crooner looks to avoid the sophomore slump.
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Music Review: Band of the Week's Kate Schutt - No Love Lost
Smooth and silky pop-jazz that is sensual to the ear.
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Music Review: Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Define rifferama.
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Concert Review: Billy Joel - Cleveland, OH, April 13, 2007
Let it never be said that The Piano Man phones in a performance. Greatest Hits and oddities abound on his Cleveland tour stop.
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Music Review: Youngblood Brass Band - Is There A Riot?
A group of talented young musicians that exclaims its fears, angers and ideologies by means of of hiphop, jazz, blues, and ragga.
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Music Review: Verismo - City of Kings
Raw, heavy, hard rock ready to bang your head to.
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Overlooked Alternatives: Nine Inch Nails, Michael Penn, Robert Pollard/Guided By Voices, David Torn
We deal with tragedies by getting back to normal life, and normal life with me is music.
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Concert Review: David Thomas & Two Pale Boys – Cleveland, OH, April 10, 2007
Call it performance art. When you don't know quite what you just witnessed, that's when you know you've been challenged.
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Music Review: Elton John - Rocket Man: Number Ones, Approach With Caution
A nice anthology that stops short of grabbing the listener by the jugular.
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Music DVD Review: Stryper - Greatest Hits: Live in Puerto Rico
The Yellow and Black Attack return!
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Music Review: Jason Falkner - I'm OK... You're OK
Jason Falkner does it again and restores my faith in music.
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Concert Review: The Tragically Hip – Cleveland, OH, April 14, 2007
Sublime alt-rock feast from Kingston, Ontario quintet will be hard to top -- even by their own hands. Maybe the Hip's best gig ever.
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Music Review: The Rounders - Wish I Had You
Alt-rock and blues are brought together in a tight package...
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Music DVD Review: Pink Floyd's Meddle Gets The CSI Treatment
This well known album is put under the microscope by some members of the music world.
Books
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Comic Review: All-Star Superman #7
Morrison & Quitely's take on the Man of Steel makes for a fun slow read.
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Book Review: A Game as Old as Empire - The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption edited by Steven Hiatt
A Game As Old As Empire is a chilling account of abusive fraud in the cryptic world of international finance.
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Q: What’s the Most Expensive Book at Amazon.com?
mental_floss question of the day.
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Book Review: Brute Neighbors by H. R. Coursen
A heavy-handed who-done-it with a twist of Thoreau contrasts ivory tower academe with flesh-and-blood reality.
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Book Review: The McElderry Book of Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Saviour Pirotta
A lavishly illustrated re-telling of some of your favorite fairy tales.
Culture
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Video Interview with Casey Johnson, Socialite and Entrepreneur
Interview with Suchin Pak and Casey Johnson at Les Deux in Hollywood.
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Reflecting On Car Crashes
I was becoming desensitized and I didn't like that one bit.
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Satire: Musicians Join Oprah In Alliance Against Imus and Violence
Some of them will release albums and others will participate in a worldwide concert that will benefit their cause.
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Reflections on Seattle and Blacksburg: Humanity and Technology, Violence and Guns
Twin tragedies should not lead to a knee-jerk legislative response.
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Fox News: Give Me Back My Father!
My father, who has been ill with lupus for two years straight, has resigned his life to the Fox News Channel.
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Florida Trivia: How Much History Do You Know?
Like everywhere else, this land is rich with the soils of times gone by. See how much you know about it.
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A Student’s View on the Virginia Tech Shootings
It’s not that school isn’t completely safe. It’s that one person had such a big impact on my life when I’m hundreds of miles away.
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The VT Massacre: Using English Teachers as a Defense
To be an effective writer, you have to be a little crazy.
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Immunization Guidelines for Travelers
Vaccination recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control for travel abroad.
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I Miss My Friends
They didn't mind the madness that was me when I was a kid.
Video
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New Horror DVD Release List: April 19, 2007
Check out what shall be lining your shelves come April 17, 2007...
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American Idol 6: Sent-jaya-home Malakar
Hold on, rewind. Did I just lump Sanjaya with George Michael and Marky Mark? BWAHAHAHA!
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TV Review: Doctor Who - "Gridlock" (WooWho #3)
WooWho takes The Motorway!
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DVD Review: The Honeytrap
A first time directorial effort falls flat.
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Video Interview with Mira Nair, Director of The Namesake
SuChin Pak interviews Mira Nair, director of The Namesake, Vanity Fair, and Monsoon Wedding.
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Interview with Creature Features Man, John Stanley
John Stanley, TV Horror Host, who brought the good, the bad, and the godawful horror film to eager viewers each week.
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DVD Review: North By Northwest
Hitchcock tries and fails to ruffle Cary Grant in one of his best Cold War thrillers.
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TV Review: American Idol 6- Martina McBride Week Results
All is right in American Idol Land at long last.
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HD DVD Review: World Trade Center
The best HD DVD on the market as an overall product.
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Sorry Sanjaya, You've Lost
While some were in mourning, I was getting Lost last night.
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Movie Review: Fracture
This suspenseful drama is a cat and mouse game.
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TV Shows With the Best Soundtracks
There are a lot of TV shows that have great soundtracks, these are just our favorites.
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TV Review: American Idol - Was the Show Off Key on Tuesday Night?
It’s sad that the producers of Idol this Tuesday night missed how much music can matter.
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American Idol Season One: Where Are They Now?
Many of the contestants from season one have found their own voices, some through music and some through other endeavors.
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Movie Review: A Dios Momo (Good-Bye Momo)
... this film is both genuine and magnificent.
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DVD Review: Payback - Straight Up: the Director's Cut
A tough, gritty, crime thriller similar to the film noir of the ‘40s and the anti-heroes of the ‘70s.
Tastes
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H. Upmann: Tobacco Bands of Brothers
To not smoke an H. Upmann is to be let down. To not smoke an H. Upmann is also to miss out on one of the most interesting stories in the history of cigars.
Gaming
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Xbox Live Arcade Review: 3D Ultra Minigolf Adventures
No putting from the rough jokes, I swear.
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Xbox Live Arcade Review: Luxor 2
Fend off murderous colored balls in ancient Egypt.
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Xbox 360 Review: UEFA Champions League 2006-2007
And you thought yearly editions of Madden were bad...
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Blu-ray Game Review: Dragon's Lair
Can Dirk the Daring fend off nasty BD-J problems and make it to the Dragon's Lair?
Sci/Tech
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Phone Review: Ubiquio 501 Windows Mobile Phone
An excellent value Windows Mobile smartphone.
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The Fight Against AIDS: One Step Forward, Three Steps Back
This is not a war we should be losing. We are betrayed by our own side.
Sports
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How The Sports World Is Embracing Virginia Tech
MLB, NASCAR, MLS, and the ACC are all doing their small part to help with the healing.
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Wild Night Yields Cavs Playoff Picture
In order to be a Cavs fan last night, there were three games instead of just one.
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Why The Phillies Moved Brett Myers To The Bullpen
Why did the Phillies move their best starter out of the rotation?
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Florida Panthers Mourning Loss of Former Player
Gaetan Duchesne, a former player, died on Monday from an apparent heart attack while training inside a gym.
Politics
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5-4: The Genius of George W. Bush
Utilizing a strategy that caught the opposition completely off guard, President Bush gets the Supreme Court he wanted
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Let's Forget About the Hair
The GOP is attempting to distract the public with irrelevancies like hair and parking tickets while real issues are ignored.
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Changes to Reimbursement Rates For Medicaid
If rural pharmacies are forced to close or forced to no longer accept Medicaid, the impact on people could be great.
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