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Music
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Music Review: Basement Jaxx - Scars
Scars, like all of the Basement Jaxx work, is an album that combines pop and dance with substance and soul.
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Music Review: John Phillips - Andy Warhol Presents Man On The Moon
The long lost John Phillips musical welcomes you to the moon.
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Music Review: Ramsey Lewis - Songs From The Heart; Ramsey Plays Ramsey
Could another Grammy (to add to all those he already has) be a possibility?
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Music Review: BoA - BoA: Deluxe Edition
Studio gloss can't hide the lack of talent on BoA's American debut.
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Verse Chorus Verse: Sarah McLachlan - "Good Enough"
Sarah McLachlan can do the impossible...
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Music Review: Sonny Rollins With Thelonius Monk And Kenny Dorham - Moving Out
Sonny Rollins teams with some of the finest players in these 1954 sessions.
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I Hear Sparks: Broken Harbour - Broken Harbour
Blake Gibson/Broken Harbour stakes a claim in deep space for Canadian drone.
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Music Review: Muse - The Resistance
Derivative? Pretentious? Ah, whatever!
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Music Review: Converge - "Axe to Fall" and "Dark Horse" from Axe to Fall
Converge promise to kill us with Axe to Fall.
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Music Review: Little Feat, Rick Wakeman, Onslaught, Marduk, and De Magia Veterum
This is your lot for the week, from pomp to the darkest of avant garde.
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Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Like the song from Smashing Pumpkins 1995 release Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, very rarely does rage just all of a sudden announce itself.
Sports
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USA Network Loves 1990s Baseball
From the Chuck Knoblauch allusion to the Chuck Finley recurring callback, it's all too obvious.
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MAC Football Preview, Week 5: Two MAC East Teams Walk Into A Bar
...and the bartender says "Hey, why the 1-3 record?"
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Rough End of September for Cleveland
From Delonte West to bad quarterbacks and a fired manager, the news never got better.
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The Ultimate Fighter, Fighters, and Artists
What did Slice-Nelson tell us about bridging the gap from fighting to mixed martial arts?
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Kingdom Interviews: Sam Amick (Part II)
The Sacramento Kings' beat writer, Sam Amick, breaks down the threat of relocation and the team's biggest offseason moves.
Video
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New Movies and Box Office Predictions: Capitalism: A Love Story, The Invention of Lying, Toy Story 1 & 2 in 3D, Whip It, and Zombieland
Horror, comedy, family - this week has something for everyone.
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TV Review: FlashForward - “No More Good Days”
FlashForward tries the Lost paradigm on for size, and finds it needs some alterations.
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An Interview With Film Producer Deborah Calla of A Beautiful Life
New indie stars Bai Ling, Dana Delany, Debi Mazar, Guillermo Diaz, Angela Sarafyan and Jesse Garcia
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Movie Review: The Magdalene Sisters
The Magdalene Sisters isn't a mainstream movie, but it's well worth the effort to seek it out.
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DVD Review: Life on Mars: The Complete Series
Life on Mars is the American adaptation of the hit UK series.
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DVD Review: Veggie Tales: Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Noah's Umbrella - A Lesson in Confidence
Minnesota Cuke is back, and with him comes a return to the winning Veggie Tales formula.
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Movie Review: No Country for Old Men
From the directing duo who brought you Fargo and Miller's Crossing comes the story of drug deal ... gone terribly wrong.
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DVD Review: Foyle's War - From Dunkirk to VE Day (Sets One Thru Five)
Experience the Second World War with Michael Kitchen as DCS Christopher Foyle in this wonderful mystery series from across the pond.
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How To Save NBC's Heroes
Forget about saving the cheerleader, how do we save the series?
Culture
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Theater Review (NYC): The Buddha Play: The Life of the Buddha Assembled from the Original Texts
A humble, graceful, and worthwhile teaching – and a really nice way to spend an hour and half.
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The Newest Great American Pop Artist and Her Butterfly Angel Art
My daughter paints her shirt, and I remember Basquiat and Warhol.
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Chiller Eyegore Awards: Honorees Announced
The Chiller Eyegore Awards is tomorrow, October 2nd.
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To Gay USMC Smith: Your Billboard is Safe Here
Memphis rednecks tear down a billboard honoring a gay Marine.
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Opera Review (LA): Siegfried at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Part three of the Los Angeles Ring as seen through the imagination of Achim Freyer. Siegfried is the best so far.
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Adventures in Denim
The world of denim is fraught with pitfalls and muffin-tops.
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What Makes You Think It's O.K. to Say That?!
The next time someone hands this 20-year-old a kids' menu, I'm dyeing my hair gray.
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The World Business Forum - "Show Me the Assets"
A perspective on insights and inspiration anticipated to emanate from the movers and shakers attending the 2009 World Business Forum.
Books
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Book Review: The Complete Infidel's Guide to the Koran by Robert Spencer
Spencer explains to infidels what they need to know about the Koran.
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Book Review: The Lost Throne by Chris Kuzneski
This enjoyable adventure/thriller brings us around the world looking for treasure and mysterious killers.
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Manga Review: The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology by Masahuru Takemura
A lesson in molecules by way of comic book style.
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Book Review: Social Networking for Authors: Untapped Possibilities for Wealth by Michael Volkin
Power techniques for authors to sell more books through social networking online.
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Book Review: Let the Shadows Fall Behind You by Kathy-Diane Leveille
A beautifully expressive psychological thriller about a young woman who reluctantly returns to her hometown to confront a past of mystery, murder, and startling revelations.
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Book Review: In the Presence of the Poor: Changing the Face of India by Kay Marshall Strom
Dr. Vijayam is working hard, changing the economic and spiritual face of India — now is the time to join him.
Gaming
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Holy Invasion of the PlayStation Network, PSP!
Talk about game overload! And it is not even November. Here are our picks from today's PSP extravaganza.
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Nintendo DS Review: Mario & Luigi - Bowser's Inside Story
Does anyone want to know the story of Bowser's insides? Eww.
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PlayStation Network Update: 10/01/2009
It's PSP Go week with many, many digital PSP games and some minis too!
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Brutal Legend DEMOTHON!
Ormagoden DEMANDS you watch the Brutal Legend DEMOTHON!
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Nintendo Wii Review: Go Play Lumberjacks
Lumberjack mini-games? Time to break out your inner Paul Bunyan.
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PAX 2009 Impressions: Bayonetta
One of PAX's smallest booths plays host to its biggest surprise.
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Nintendo DS Review: Treasure World
Ever dream of being a treasure hunter and exploring new worlds?
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