- Friday, April 04, 2008 — 35 Articles Published
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The Friday Morning Listen: Kimya Dawson - Remember That I Love You— I needed a big dose of sincerity.
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Music Review: The Wood Brothers - Loaded— This ain't no Medeski, Martin & Wood spinoff; it's a real family affair.
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The Ramble Is Back: Canseco, Conte, Opening Days the Final Four and Brett Favre’s Comeback— Jose Canseco tries to stay relevant, baseball had all of its Opening Days and a whole bunch of growth hormone
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The UN 'Inhuman' Rights Council— ...
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PBS Primetime Programming for The Week of April 6— A luau. I just can't wait.
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New Movies and Box Office Predictions: Leatherheads, Nim's Island, The Ruins— Looking for something new to watch?
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San Francisco: Featured in Films, Part I— In between trips, I keep my "homesickness" at bay by watching movies set in San Francisco.
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Movie Media: The Life Before Her Eyes, Bangkok Dangerous, Cactus, Standard Operating Procedure, X-Files 2, College, American Teen, The Fall, Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden, Frontier(s)— Some new visual goodies for features to look forward to.
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Movie Review: Untraceable— Unbelievable but not unlikeable. Gory thrills with echoes of Saw.
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Nintendo Wii Review: Major League Baseball 2K8— The MLB 2K franchise arrives on the Wii, does it hit a homerun?
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I Have Smelled the Grassroots and They Smell Like Fanaticism— I went and mingled with the Paulites and found a discouraging mix of fanaticism and fantasy.
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Comic Review: Locke & Key #2 by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez— Round 2 of Joe Hill's horror comic opens with a bang and grabs hold tighter than a bloodsucking leech.
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TV Review: CSI: NY - "DOA For A Day"— Mac and the gang are back, hot on the trail of a professional assassin.
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Sifting Through the Wreckage of the Writers' Strike— Television returns! Meet the new boss — same as the old boss...
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Book Review: ADHD & Me — What I Learned From Lighting Fires At The Dinner Table by Blake E.S. Taylor— Finally, an ADHD book that speaks directly to me.
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Music Review: The Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray (CD+DVD Deluxe Edition)— Theme to an endless bummer...
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DVD Review: No Country For Old Men— No Country For Old Men has all the essentials for a good film, plus many unexpected moments. Some of which
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Book Review: Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong — Translated By Howard Goldblatt— "Wolf Totem" is a beautiful and heartbreaking story that everybody who cares about the state of the world should read.
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Blu-ray Review: The Benchwarmers— Your IQ will drop, but you'll have a good time in the process.
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Book Review: Doolittle by Ben Sisario— Sisario examines and discusses Doolittle's themes of violence, death, and the horizontal tango - and the dark sense of humor
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DVD Review: Superbad— "I think I figured out which website I wanna subscribe to — The Vag-Tastic Voyage."
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Book Review: Switching to the Mac - The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition by David Pogue— Come to the dark side, young Windows user...
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Music Review: Rachel Taylor Brown - Half Hours with the Lower Creatures— The poetry of 21st century disillusionment, packed neatly into a plastic disc.
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The Great Cafés: Cafe Impresso at El Ateneo Grand Splendid, Buenos Aires— This café immediately fits the bill for the basics of a great café: history, theater, Tango, fine books, and great
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My Name is Earl and Thoughts on NBC— Earl is back and the new lineup has been unveiled. Is it going to be HUGE?
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Clayton Holmes On Drug Abuse In The NFL— Regardless of what they tell you on TV, the first hit ain't free.
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On Benefits, Better Off: British Welfare System Enables Addicts and Emboldens the Non-Working Class— Unless Britain has true welfare reform, the addicts and the idle problem for a long time to come.
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Some People (Europeans) Matter More Than Others (Africans) — Poor Africans and their suffering simply don’t matter.
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Music Review: The Black Crowes - Warpaint— El Bicho tries out as a record reviewer for "Maxim" magazine.
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Thirty-Five Years of Lies and Coverups on the Road to the White House— New revelations show a history of lies and unethical conduct which ought to disqualify Hillary from any public office.
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Music Review: Apocalyptica - Worlds Collide— Amazing. I never thought I would see cello-metal.
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Clinton, Obama, and McCain: One of Them Is Almost Certain To Be Elected - Why?— The present candidates lack important qualities possessed by some of our better presidents. We should wonder why and maybe do
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Dachshund Searching for Kleenex-Hunting Buddy— Buttons the longhaired dachshund writes his own personal ad with his characteristic sagacity regarding his all-consuming passion.
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Theatre Review (Norman, OK): Lend Me a Tenor— Just be glad your life is not this complicated.
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Confessions of a Sucker— A compulsive shopper comes clean.
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