- Monday, February 18, 2008 — 43 Articles Published
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DVD Review: Margot at the Wedding— A feel bad family comedy.
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Book Review: The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes— You can’t help but be engrossed by the characters and tale that is spun like a web across the page.
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DVD Review: Broken English - A Romantic Comedy Where Parker Posey Redefines Herself— Nora Wilder has a life full of just about everything she could ever need... except love.
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Music Review: Sarah Brightman - Symphony— The results are incredibly powerful and worth a listen.
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Book Review: No Space for Further Burials, a Novel on Afghanistan by Feryal Ali Gauhar— Ali Gauhar's novel steps out of cliché and articulates a global voice and attacks the myth of 'Islamic threat'.
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Music Review: Cowboy Junkies - Trinity Revisited (CD/DVD)— Already one of the more memorable things I will get to review in 2008.
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Children for Sale on Craigslist— Craiglist, the bastion of online sales, offers a great tool for human traffickers to sell people.
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Video Training Review - Illustrator CS3 One-On-One: Beyond The Basics With Deke McClelland From Lynda.com.— Training that takes a complicated software package and brings it down to earth in easy to understand language.
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Book Review: Ultimate Blogs - Masterworks From The Wild Web edited by Sarah Boxer— One book tries to sum up millions of blogs in a best-of collection, and while it isn't completely comprehensive, it's
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Music DVD Review - Iron Maiden: Live After Death— Concert footage, backstage action, and retrospective musings from the spandexed metal masters.
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Music Review: Carolina Chocolate Drops - Dona Got A Ramblin’ Mind— Several centuries of music education in two hours.
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Interview: Band of the Week — Suffrajett— Boil down the fiercest rock and roll formula, add in an amazing woman vocalist, and you have the perfect band
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The Early Word: New Books For The Week Of February 17, 2008— Deepak Chopra, Nora Roberts, J.D. Robb, Lisa Scottoline, Michael Palmer, Elizabeth Moon, Jacqueline Winspear...
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Music Review: Farewell to Freeways - Definitions— Surprisingly strong metalcore debut.
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Three Cheers for The Sporting Life?— The world of professional sports is even less than it's cracked up to be. Especially when it's politicized.
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DVD Review: Aqua Teen Hunger Force - Volume 5— Major amounts of drugs will likely increase your viewing pleasure...
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Movie Review: Definitely, Maybe— A wonderful romance that avoids the typical pitfalls.
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Movie Review: There Will Be Blood— A mostly intense look at a man personifying oil's rise in early 20th century America.
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DVD Review: Little Einsteins - Race for Space— Go on a three episode trip with our favorite rocket ship.
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Graphic Novel Review: Angel: The Curse & Angel: Old Friends by Jeff Mariotte & David Messina— First of a three-part consideration of recent graphic novels devoted to Joss Whedon's vampire with a soul.
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From Bloggerish to Gibberish— Many blogs are more like random momentary conversation that goes nowhere, or at least not far.
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Website Review: CharityUSA — Creating a better world, click by click.
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The Shanghai Diaries - Japanese Edition, Part II: From Tokyo to Miyajima— We finally make it to Japan and discover its beauty, culture, and bum washings.
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Tasting Bordeaux at Chateau Paloumey— Visiting the best value producers in Bordeaux.
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Visiting Chateau Laniote in Saint Emilion— Dream of living in a French Chateau?
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Review: Les Caves du Château Lamothe— Have you ever wondered what it might be like to own a Chateau in Bordeaux?
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HD DVD Death Watch, World Waits for Official Toshiba Statement— HD DVD is living its final breaths as retailers ditch the format in favor of Blu-ray.
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Movie Review: The Spiderwick Chronicles— A fantastic journey into the fantastic.
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Movie Review: Poltergeist— A look at Poltergeist, the "Poltergeist Curse," and the strange creative relationship behind the 1982 horror classic.
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HD DVD Review: The Brave One— A revenge movie with an uninteresting twist that doesn't translate to entertainment.
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TV Review: Knight Rider 2008 - Zero to Mediocre in Two Hours— I didn't like it, and I implore you to avoid it, unless you love mediocre television.
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DVD Review: American Gangster - 2-Disc Unrated Extended Edition— Two acting heavyweights square off in this Ridley Scott directed picture.
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DVD Review: Nightmare Detective— What's the verdict on cult director Shinya Tsuakamoto's latest offering?
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TV Review: Knight Rider (2008)
— For an encyclopedic list of everything wrong with television in 2008, look no further than NBC's back door pilot movie
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DVD Review: All Monsters Attack— Amongst the worst of the Godzilla films, Classic Media still treats it respectfully.
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Wii Virtual Console News and Releases for 2/18/2008— Attack of the sequels!
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Reality TV Casting Calls Weekly Wrap-Up: Wife Swap, Million Dollar Password, Divorce Court, Dress My Nest and More! — Reality shows in all areas casting now — do you qualify for any of these?
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DVD Review: Margot At The Wedding
— An adult character study of family dynamics and relationships.
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Movie Review: Step Up 2 - The Streets— Are you ready to get up and dance? Neither am I.
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Music DVD Review: Nightwish - End Of An Era— The Tarja Turunen era may have ended with this DVD, but Nightwish still soldier on.
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Music Review: Professor and Maryann – Lead Us Not Into Penn Station— The prof and the beautician: a love story.
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Race and Gender Politics at Play in New Clinton Ad— If Obama's health care plan is to be attacked, let it be on its merits.
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Music Review: Sarah Brightman - Symphony
— Symphony may well be the top-selling soprano's best album to date.
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