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In a culture where entertainers are both royalty and psychic balm, actors' in-jokes are everyone's jokes.
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Music Review: Indie Round-Up – Charlie Louvin, The Soul of John Black, Ted Russell Kamp
Time travel is our middle name here at the Indie Round-Up!
Read More »Rock’s Greatest Bass Riffs
Think about how empty and meaningless your favorite music would be without the bass.
Read More »Music Review: A Date With John Waters
Who could possibly want to die for art with all this great music to listen to?
Read More »Book Review: Words That Work by Dr. Frank Luntz
It's useful to read how marketers are using powerful, focus-group-selected language on us right now.
Read More »Music Review: Indie Round-Up for February 1, 2007 – Kirchen, Jantz, Halter
Sometimes I'm mad at a CD that disappointed me and I want to yell at it in public.
Read More »DVD Review: Macumba Sexual by Jess Franco
The Barry Lyndon of European sexploitation movies.
Read More »Derailment on the Straight Talk Express
The combined weight of John McCain's many changes in position may be too much for him to carry into 2008.
Read More »Music Review: Indie Round-Up for Jan. 11, 2007
Listening to Tahiti 80 one might think that we don't live in such a troubled world after all.
Read More »Book Review: The Means – A Literary Journal, Issue Two
Whither the literary journal? Can a printed book-magazine hybrid maintain readership in the digital age?
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