Name: Don Baiocchi
Weblog: donbaiocchi.blogspot.com
Articles: 54
First Published: Thursday, November 10, 2005
Last Published: Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Currently listing articles 54-1:
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Periodically Purging: Magazine Round-Up and Fort Building— Reviewing the cover stories, overlooked nuggets, and would-be guilty pleasures from the past month in magazines.
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Movie Review: 30 Days of Night— Josh Hartnett doesn't suck in it and - gasp! - that's not where the scariness ends.
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Giada De Laurentiis Added to Today Lineup, Starts Own Line of Food, Bakeware— The Italian Food Network star aims for name-brand domination by co-hosting the fourth hour of Today while launching her own line of kitchen products.
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DVD Review: Small Town Gay Bar— A documentary showing how drinking a beer becomes a political statement in America's "Bible Belt."
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Movie Review: Race You to the Bottom— A bisexual love story tries to have it both ways but fails.
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DVD Review: The Kinsey Sicks - I Wanna Be a Republican— This drag queen quartet sings about their hilarious faux-conversion to the GOP in perfect four-part harmonies.
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What Time Left Behind— Why Time magazine's much-needed evaluation of No Child Left Behind left out some important points.
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Music Review: Feist - The Reminder— Canadian singer-songwriter continues post-punk solo career for uneven but beautiful results.
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Bravo Plagiarizes Itself— Why Top Chef, Top Design and the new Shear Genius rip off, yet are not as good as, the superior Project Runway.
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Movie Review: The Reaping— The Reaping might be a mess, but it shows how religion could be used in thrillers the way it was in the horror heydey of
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Music Reviews: Back to Black by Amy Winehosue and Introducing Joss Stone by Joss Stone— These two young, British soul singers show their American counterparts how to use America's Motown history to forge refreshing new sounds.
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100 Most Influential Americans Are Also Bo-ring!— The Atlantic's list may be "historically accurate" but I would like to bow at the feet of a few key contributors their "historians" missed.
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Scary Movies of 2006— From dirty hillbillies to killer kids, a look at a random sampling of 2006's scary movies.
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Music Review: Scissor Sisters - Ta-Dah— The Scissor Sisters dig deeper and reach higher heights on the follow-up to their great debut.
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Music Review: Janet Jackson - 20 Y.O.— Ms. Jackson's latest may not live up to her classic hits, but the first two singles don't do justice to this almost-great album.
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Movie Review: The Illusionist— Even Edward Norton can't save a beautiful yet ultimately underwhelming movie.
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Project Runway Tidbits To Nibble Until Season 3 Begins Wednesday, July 12th
— Here are a few stories, interviews, and articles to whet your appetite before the big day.
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2006 Emmy Nominations Announced— A new voting system gets it sort of right. And by "sort of," I mean "not really."
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Movie Review: The Devil Wears Prada— If a fierce, funny Meryl Streep is the devil, the hell is fabulous.
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Movie Review: Hard Candy— Can a 14-year-old girl stop a suspected pedophile before he strikes again? Should we automatically care or should the movie make us?
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Book Review: The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom— A good story not very well told. All I thought at the end was "Wow, I didn't hate it."
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Teenage Novelist Accused of Plagiarism— Kaavya Viswanathan, a 19-year-old Harvard sophomore, allegedly copied another author's work for her debut novel.
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Steal This Book: When Best-Selling Authors Provoke Others to Write Their Own Books— How some authors use best-sellers to garner attention for their own books and how I could do the same.
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Meeting Giada De Laurentiis— My run-in with the Food Network star. Bring on the Raspberry Tiramisu.
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Movie Review: Brick— This new, so-hip-it-hurts independent film is noir-ish detective mystery set in a modern-day California high school.
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Book Review: Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs— With hilarious true stories ranging from stepping on children to meeting Puff Daddy, Burroughs exploits his life with wit and style.
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Where Have All The Female Rock Stars Gone?— With Courtney, Shirley, and Sheryl fading away, are Avril and Ashlee really the best we can do?
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Book Review: Julie & Julia by Julie Powell— A blogger gets a book deal and this is the result.
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America's Previously Barely-Employable Model— As the new season of America's Next Top Model begins, it's time to take a look back at the previous winners.
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Movie Review: Match Point— Woody Allen finally leaves New York for London in this creepy thriller.
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TV Review: The 78th Annual Academy Awards— Note to the Academy: You're not racist. We get it.
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DVD Review: North Country— Is a film with a good message automatically a good film?
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DVD Review: Hustle & Flow— Oscar nominee Terrence Howard earns the hype with a powerful turn in a surprisingly thought-provoking movie.
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New Yorker Drops New Orleans Cover for Cheap Cheney Joke— Why would an upscale magazine use an unoriginal joke when they could have used a beautiful tribute to New Orleans post-Katrina?
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TV Review: Project Jay— The witty winner of Project Runway's first season deals with fame, art and a pregnant Heidi Klum.
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Book Review: How the Homosexuals Saved Civilization - Cathy Crimmins— From language and community to food and music, Crimmins explains just how much "breeders" owe to gay men.
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Pop Culture Expiration Dates— Do people feel like they're just trying to catch up? A look at how time affects pop culture artifacts.
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Movie Review: Transamerica— The film itself is fine. It's Felicity Huffman's performance that really amazes.
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Music Video Review: "Stupid Girls" by Pink— It's Pink vs. Britney, Jessica, Lindsay, Paris, and Mary-Kate. Who wins?
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Oprah Rips James Frey A New One— Was Oprah's performance reactive face-saving or genuine apologizing? The media weighs in.
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James Frey Still On Best-Seller Lists
— After the controversy, the hardcover of A Million Little Pieces mysteriously reappears on the charts. What gives?
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Norah Vincent: Queen of the Drag Kings?— As drag queens sashay into mainstream media, journalist Norah Vincent becomes an amateur drag king in Self-Made Man.
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Book Review: The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan— The plant is the dominatrix, we are its slave.
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New Year's Resolutions Courtesy of ESPN and the National Spelling Bee— Mine are just like anyone else's...except there's just no succedaneum for my list.
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Movie Review: Brokeback Mountain and Breakfast On Pluto— What the protagonists of these new movies say about each other.
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Movie Review: The Aristocrats - The Worst Film of 2005— Why every single major film critic got it wrong.
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The Day Rachael Ray Touched Me... and I Touched Back— Culinary greatness less than a foot away from me. Score!
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TV Review: Project Runway
— The second season debuts with a two-hour premiere full of tears and ugly dresses. Hooray!
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Movie Review: Rent— Some of it's good, some bad. Too bad the guy directing it had no idea what to do.
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The Ten Most Mildly Interesting People of 2005— Thoughts on the latest Barbara Walters special, The Ten Most Fascinating People of 2005.
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TV Review: Everyday Italian— Why Giada De Laurentiis hosts the best cooking show on TV.
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The Death of the Metrosexual— May he rest in eyebrow-waxed, manscaped peace.
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TV Review: Martha— Could it be that Miss Martha has actually let down her perfectly-coiffed hair?
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Your Behavior is Very Naughty: Why I Love Supernanny— My favorite guilty pleasure is a good show with a great secret.
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