- Friday, May 11, 2007 — 51 Articles Published
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Tony Names the Date— It’s official at last. Like setting a wedding date. Or a series of concerts by your favourite band. Mr
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Blair Announces Departure: A Legacy of Vanity— Will Blair's achievements in Sierra Leone, Kosovo and Northern Irleand be enough to save his legacy?
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Book Review: After Dark by Haruki Murakami— Haruki Murakami exposes the dark side of Tokyo that emerges during the hours from midnight until dawn.
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Book Review: Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors by Jenny Nimmo— Another great adventure in the continuing Charlie Bone series!
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Picking Through the Pickings on Free Comic Book Day— In which our Blogcritic takes a look at many of the freebie comics given out on last weekend’s Free Comic
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Book Review: Webbots, Spiders and Screen Scrapers by Michael Schrenk— Webbots, Spiders and Screen Scrapers is a good overview and tutorial on the topic and will have you programming them
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Comic Book Review: DC Comics' 52, Week 35— 52 is a weekly DC Comics series. This week stars Lex Luthor, Adam Strange, Starfire, Animal Man, Lobo, Supernova, and
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Book Review Mama: Latina Daughters Celebrate Their Mothers by Various Authors— A perfect Mother's Day gift sure to delight any mom. Beautifully showcased stories and memories of Latina mothers by their
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Book Review: Appaloosa by Robert B. Parker— Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, two of the toughest town tamers in the Old West, might have met their match.
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Book Review: The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian — A haunting journey through one woman's obsession to uncovering a dark secret.
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Flash Games: Overkill Apache, The Last Stand, Luminara, The Way of the Exploding Stick, Sea of Fire, Elasticity— Six games this week, five of which involve the destruction of everything in sight.
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Book Review: The Best Place to Be - A Novel in Stories by Lesley Dormen— A book of familial surface tension, existential riddles, booty calls, and a grip of pop cultural references...
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Book Review: Nothing, Nobody - The Voices of the Mexico City Earthquake by Elena Poniatowska— A gut-wrenching journalistic account of the massive earthquake that devastated Mexico City in 1985.
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Music Review: Marco Polo - Port Authority— The resurrection of Rawkus is underway. Marco Polo helps serve the first round with this soon to be classic album.
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Music Review: MC Frontalot - Secrets from the Future, Pitiful Nerdcore Rhymes— Insipid lyrics are the centerpiece of this failure.
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Celebrity Playlist: Slaid Cleaves— Get into the iPod of singer/songwriter and Americana champion Slaid Cleaves.
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Music DVD Review: Blood Sweat & Tears - Spinning Wheel— A little Nuclear Blues from the 1980 version of Blood Sweat & Tears.
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Music Review: Peaches - Impeach My Bush— Peaches produces an album of hypersexual electroclash that has a couple of great songs, but is ultimately a bit exhausting.
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The Friday Morning Listen: John Mellencamp— Your life is now.
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Music Review: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 8 by Domenico Scarlatti— Everything about this fine disc endorses it for many pleasant listenings.
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TV Review: Painkiller Jane - "Catch Me If You Can"— A guy gets shot in the beginning of this episode. The rest of the show is Team Vicodin trying to
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New Movies and Box Office Predictions: 28 Weeks Later, Delta Farce, The Ex, Georgia Rule— Let the theater repopulation begin.
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Mega Museum Shows: A Primer of New Ideas— Museums often struggle to bring the public into their exhibitions; here are some ideas to guarantee some huge numbers!
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MeeVee Primetime Picks: May 11 - May 13— What to watch this weekend!
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Casting Call: Strangers Wanted for The Real World— The Real World is casting for its 20th (and possibly final) season.
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Movie Review: Georgia Rule— Lohan plays a mean girl. Does she have the chops to pull it off?
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DVD Review: Born to Fight— Thai version of Die Hard is nothing special until the last half-hour - but what a half-hour!
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Music Review: Breaksbreaksbrakes - The Beatific Visions— The Brakes return to the U.S. as brakesbrakesbrakes with a new album that's worth a listen.
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PBS Primetime Programming for The Week of May 13— By the end of this week there will less than seven days until the May Sweep is over. Get
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Ben Wade, U.S. President? Missed by One Vote— mental_floss fact of the day.
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Music Review: Doug Cox, Salil Bhatt, Ramkumar Mishra, and Vishwa Mohan Bhatt Slide To Freedom— Cox, Salil, and Mishra have found a place where all three instruments blend seamlessly together while never losing their distinctiveness.
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Music Review: Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha— The Chicago violinist returns with a stupendous, iconic, gorgeous album that is among of the very best of the year.
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Music Review: Jerry Granelli & V16 - The Sonic Temple— In the musical moment.
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DVD Review: Numb— Welcome to a strange, tranced out world of the future, where there is no future.
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RealMeals.TV Recipe: Pasta with Roasted Tomatoes— ...
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Book Review: Tabloid Tokyo, compiled by Mark Schreiber— A humorous look into the salacious but fascinating underbelly of Japanese society.
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Supple Art Show at the Warehouse Gallery in D.C. Worth A Long Visit— An artist circumcises himself as part of an art performace, but the thunder is not stolen from this really good
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Service Industry Blues for the Average Worker— From violent thugs to white collar jerk-offs, scum comes in all shapes and sizes, while workers are victims of criminals--both
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Movie Review: 28 Weeks Later— This is one hell of an action horror film.
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Making the Rounds at General Hospital - Taking Chances— Nikolas risks life and death for Emily and Lucky risks the baby's health for Elizabeth and his own peace of
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TV Review: Ugly Betty - “A Tree Grows in Guadalajara” — Yet another killer episode, with faux-mos, fashion disasters, girl-on-transgendered-girl kisses, mystery drugs and forgotten roots. Just another day at Mode.
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Images of Murder: A Follow-up to the America's Next Top Model Controversy— We're fooling ourselves if we think we can talk about this independent of a larger social context.
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Movie Review: 28 Weeks Later
— The original 28 Days Later was a stylish and intelligent film that gave a welcome focus on characters while re-inventing
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TV Review: CSI:NY - "...Comes Around"— Mac goes on trial while Stella and company try their hardest to avoid arresting John McEnroe for murder.
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DVD Review: Pan's Labyrinth— What can I say about Pan’s Labyrinth that more eloquent, educated, and well-versed critics haven’t already?
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Interview: Tom Pappalardo the face behind Standard Design, author of Broken Lines— What is most appealing about 'Broken Lines'? The moxie and lousy coffee.
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One Christian's Perspective on The Harry Potter Series— From a Christian perspective, does witchcraft in the storyline mean the Harry Potter series is off-limits?
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Music Review: Indie Round-Up - James, Jacobsen, Pagan, Cook, Scotty Don't— Cook's sensitivity to the importance of empty space is something young performers don't usually develop so early in their careers.
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2007 Blues Music Awards Winners Announced at Memphis Ceremony— The great Charlie Musselwhite cleaned up at the 2007 BMAs in Memphis...
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Interview with Lisa McKay, Executive Editor of BC— Lisa McKay chimes in on some of the same questions that I put forth to Christopher Rose.
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A History of Hypocrisy— Or how the American Revolution ate its Children.
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