- Tuesday, March 14, 2006 — 59 Articles Published
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DVD Review: Ultimate Avengers - The Movie— So much for hopes that the animated version could capture the gritty edge of Marvel's new Avengers.
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John Chaney, Finally Realizing How Tired He Looks, Retires— The legendary basketball coach of Temple University was a good man who did some outlandish things.
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Region 1 DVD Releases for March 14th, 2006— This week: two fantastic films from last year, and not a whole lot else.
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The Ramble: Bonds' Trainer Ruined a Hall of Fame Athlete— The excerpt from Game of Shadows makes one thing clear: Greg Anderson ruined Barry Bonds’ career.
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TV Review: Black.White - Episode One— Racial progress or another failed experiment?
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DVD Review: Crucible of Horror— It's tense and enjoyable. It just makes no sense.
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TV Review: Making the Rounds at General Hospital – 3/13/06— Port Charles has its share of love, deceit, mystery, and intrigue. But humor gets its turn in the spotlight too.
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Theater Review: Cate Blanchett Is Hedda Gabler— Cate Blanchett live on the New York stage as Ibsen's gloom & doom anti-heroine Hedda Gabler.
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Book Review: The Crystal World by J G Ballard— A man faces the secrets he hides even from himself in the face of a glittering apocalypse.
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Book Review: The Richest Man Who Ever Lived by Steven K. Scott— No, it's not Bill Gates. Can the ancient wisdom of King Solomon lead you to success, wealth, and happiness?
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On Writing and Self-Publishing: Part 5— The ecosystem of books and the art and craft of writing.
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DVD Review: Cracker - Get On With It: The Best of Cracker— Fantama el Rey thinks "that what the world needs now is" this Cracker DVD.
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Movie Review: {censored}— Ever wonder what goes on in a test screening? Well, wonder no more...
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Book Review: The People's Republic of Desire by Annie Wang— Is this book the Beijing version of Sex and the City?
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DVD Pick of the Week: Good Night, and Good Luck
— Given the pickings, this week's choice was obvious.
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CD Review: Zemog El Gallo Bueno - Cama de la Conga— Zemog El Gallo Bueno blurs the lines between individual genres to deliver a unique and welcome musical adventure.
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TV Review: Battlestar Galactica, "Lay Down Your Burdens Pt. 2"— Fast forwarding through the plot: that's what the writers did with the season finale of Battlestar Galactica.
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Magazine Review: Back Home— A colorful bimonthly about sustainable living: gardening, energy conservation, animal husbandry, ecology, home maintenance and more.
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TV Review: The Apprentice 5 Episode 3— Who will be Donald Trump's next Apprentice? It won't be ______ because, "You're Fired!"
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New York Story: The Dark Side of Gentrification— As a "sketchy" neighborhood becomes more "hip" and "desirable," where do the current residents go? Aye, there's the rub.
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Dan Nied's 100 Days: Day 68— Problems arise. One of my bad habits is creeping into my eating routine again.
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World Baseball Classic: An International 'Elite Eight'— Korea — not Japan or the U.S.A. — could be kings of their pool. Also: Latin American teams are in
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My Top Ten Reasons To Watch American Idol— What was up with Paula last night?
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DVD Review: A History of Violence— What if you woke up one day and mobsters from the east coast were accusing you of being someone from
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Handicapping The '08 Election vs. Analyzing Rhetoric, Policy— The press is already focused on the '08 election as a horse race. Why not examine issues instead of act
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CD Review: Ghostigital - In Cod We Trust— Ghostigital's In Cod We Trust doesn't deviate from Iceland's pop music tradition. It's weird stuff.
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Was Pat Robertson Wrong This Time About Islam?— How can you call Islam a religion of peace any more?
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CD Review: Music of Central Asia Vol. 1: Tengir-Too - Mountain Music of Kyrgyzstan— A fantastic showcase of folk music from a country you may have never heard of
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CD Review: Stephen Fretwell - Magpie— Fretwell’s laid-back, folk-acoustic musical style is reminiscent of musicians like Bob Dylan.
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Detective Robert Goren: Nemesis or Perfect Match?— This woman has gone too far, yet I still see something good in her.
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Windows to Offer Parental Controls and The Daily Music and Tech News— Microsoft's new parental controls, Google seeks to say no to subpoena and Four Day Hombre in today's update.
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CD Review: John Cale - blackAcetate— On balance blackAcetate is a worthy addition to the Cale discography, an album that takes risks that more often than
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This Is Progress?— We've just become far more sophisticated in our choice of clubs. The grunting hasn't changed much at all.
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CD Review: Goldfrapp's Supernature— Goldfrapp are back with a sexy and seductive work of electronica.
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Music Blog Survey Now Open— Please take a moment to complete this survey.
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Win Two Tickets to See The New Cars and Blondie— Hello. . . Hello Again!
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TV Review: 24 - Hour 13— 13 signs you’re having a bad day.
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Terrorism: Why?— It is a simple word to say but it can be a very difficult question to ask.
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Social Progress from Abroad?— In some ways in the US we’re already well on our way to emulating the “progress” abroad.
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TV Review: Wife Swap— Not as dirty as it sounds. Two women switch places for ten days. Each family grows. Not great drama. Interesting
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Movie Review: This Divided State— Liberals and conservatives square off in this intriguing and intelligent documentary.
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At the Big Ten Championship: Iowa Rallies To Beat OSU— "Sandwasher, What are you doing in Indianapolis?" “I’m in town to watch the Buckeyes, you dumba**.”
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TV Review: The Daily Show (March 13)— From holding our leaders' feet to the fire to the death of Slobo - why the show is great and
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Wants To Help a Friend - Venus and Neptune in Aspect: Astrology-Based Advice— Clever reader wants to help the helper...
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Single Review: "World Wide Suicide" by Pearl Jam— Eddie Vedder sings like his life depends on it, but there's only so much anyone could do with such a
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DVD Review: Good Night, and Good Luck
— When watching this film, I can't help but wonder about how frightening that era must have been.
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True Crime Update 3/14/06— Stupid criminals, strange looking sex offenders, the weird text message case and Darryl Littlejohn's involvement with St. Guillen.
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CD Review: John Foxx and Harold Budd - Translucence/Drift Music— Suffering from insomnia? Forget Ambien ... get ambient!
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Disequilibrium: Report From New Orleans— A new equilibrium must be established between supply and demand. I am afraid that New Orleans will no longer be
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Washington Post Wins First "Perplexification Award"— Parody is impossible, as evidenced by The Washington Post's health coverage. Which is why they've won the "Perplexification Award."
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Xbox Live Arcade Review: Gauntlet— Wipe the nostalgia and memories clean, and you're not left with much.
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Commonwealth Games: Indian Masseur Charged with Sexual Harassment— Needless to say, this is embarrassing, not only for Indian sport, but for Indian diplomacy as well.
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Errol Morris' 2002 Oscar Film - It's Like Poetry on Film— Sometimes you just love something so much that all you want to do is talk about it.
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Gaming Coming To A Movie Theater Seat Near You— With movie ticket sales down, Hollywood turns to gaming for a boost.
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CD Review: Cheap Trick - Dream Police— Decently remastered with a few bonus tracks, but the main attraction is the songwriting and hijinks on Cheap Trick's last
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Book Review: Flat Tax - Toward a British Model by Allister Heath— Be unafraid, be very unafraid! No longer does the Flat Tax cause terror in the minds of UK politicians and
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TV Review: The Colbert Report - Christopher Buckley— Stephen picks the winner of the 2008 presidential race.
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CD/DVD Review: Talking Heads Remain In Light— Africa meets New Wave in the 1980 classic by Talking Heads, now remastered with bonus tracks and DVD extras.
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Gaming Round Up For 03/14/06— Metriod Prime Hunters Contest, Teen Goes Crazy Because of Gaming, GRAW: Fastest Selling 360 Title, and more!
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