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- Jul 20, 2008
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Review: Making Cocktails at NYC's Astor Center with Guru, Jonathan Pogash— What makes a good cocktail? Quality alcohol? Ultra-fresh ingredients? Or is the secret in the ice?
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Movie Review: The Dark Knight— Simply brilliant. Relentlessly dark, endlessly fascinating.
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Graphic Novel Review: Aces: Curse of the Red Baron by Denton, Wilson & Square-Briggs— An entertaining action-comedy pits two squabbling WWI flyboys against a ghostly Red Baron.
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Music Review: Alice Cooper - Along Came A Spider— Before there was Kiss, before there was Marilyn Manson, there was Alice Cooper.
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Music Review: Elvis Presley - Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old)— Essential Elvis: Chapter 22
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Xbox 360 Review: Grand Theft Auto IV— Don't believe the hype.
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Concert Review: Van's Warped Tour, 7/17/2008, Cleveland, Ohio— You know a music festival is successful when it is older than some of the attendees.
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- Jul 19, 2008
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Book Review: Elric -To Rescue Tanelorn (Chronicles Of The Last Emperor Of Melnibone, Volume Two) by Michael Moorcock— To Rescue Tanelorn contains all the proof anybody would need that Moorcock is one of the great fantasy writers of ours or any time.
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Book Review: Power for Life Bible - From the Crystal Cathedral — An easy-to-read Bible with extras that will encourage, inspire, and empower.
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Music Review: David Bowie – Live Santa Monica ‘72— Thirty-six years on, this bootleg remains an onslaught of rock ‘n’ roll abandon.
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Comic Book Review: Star Trek - Assignment Earth by John Byrne— Kinda flat, and not as fun as it should be--you know, like any comic adaptation of a late-sixties TV show that never existed.
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Movie Review: The Last Dinosaur— An obscure, hard to find '70s Japanese giant monster flick.
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Movie Review: Wanted— A balls-to-the-walls action thrill ride - nothing more, nothing less.
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DVD Review: Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Climates Is An Exquisite Film— This film from Turkish director Ceylan is about people, a couple to be exact, and... changing climates.
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Movie Review: WALL•E— WALL•E has everything including heart.
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Restaurant Review: Ammos Estiatorio, NYC— Want to dine in Greece with free airfare?
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DVD Review: Tai Chi Master— It's silly, pretentious, and utterly appalling.
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DVD Review: High And Low— A reissued masterpiece by Akira Kurosawa scores high in the Criterion Collection pantheon.
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DVD Review: Cannon - Season One, Volume One— William Conrad finally got his chance at a starring role on television.
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TV Review: Shark Week - Surviving Sharks— Les Stroud of "Survivorman" fame tests ways to survive sharks for Discovery Channel's Shark Week.
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DVD Review: Silent Wings - The American Glider Pilots of WWII— Their planes may have been silent but their voices no longer are. This is the incredible story of the American WWII glider pilots.
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DVD Review: Le Million— Rene Clair's infectious blend of French romance and musical comedy makes foreign film buffs feel as though they've hit the lottery.
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Theatre Review (LA): Zastrozzi by George F. Walker at the NoHo Arts Center— A criminal mastermind, a virgin, a vamp, and a religious fanatic, brought to you by a Canadian playwright.
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Music Review: Psychedelic Horseshit -"New Wave Hippies"— The lo-fi punk movement pushes everyone's buttons, whether they like it or not.
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Music Review: Elvis Presley - That's The Way It Is— Essential Elvis: Chapter 21.
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Music Review: Indie Round-Up - Anya Singleton, Emory Joseph, Parlour Steps, Kalliopi— Anya Singleton rocks with soul, while Emory Joseph applies a youthful bounce to the Garcia-Hunter canon.
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Movie Review: WALL·E
— A film of such visual wonder and flawless animation.
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- Jul 18, 2008
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Theater Review (LA): American Tales by Jan Powell and Ken Stone for The Antaeus Theatre Company at Deaf West Theatre— Mark Twain and Herman Melville, set to music, make for a thoroughly enjoyable evening.
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Movie Review: The Dark Knight
— Believe the hype — this is the Citizen Kane of comic book movies.
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DVD Review: Knife in the Water— Roman Polanski takes you sailing with a hitchhiker in his tense, gorgeously restored feature filmmaking debut.
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Blu-ray Review: Step Up 2 The Streets— The first time you'll ever experience physical pain from watching a movie.
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Music Review: Steinski - What Does It All Mean?— One of the godfathers of mashup and collage music finally sees a non-bootleg release of classic underground hip hop.
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Movie Review: The Dark Knight Rules Gotham — Christopher Nolan has created a film that is almost as wild and daring as The Joker.
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Book Review: The Trillion Dollar Meltdown by Charles R. Morris— Fasten your seat belts, folks. Rough landing ahead!
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The Friday Morning Listen: Björk - Medúlla— A life mashup? Yes, I like that.
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Music Review: Janiva Magness - What Love Will Do— If you want to hear a real woman sing real music for a change, than this is the disc for you.
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Book Review: Towards Asmara by Thomas Keneally— "Towards Asmara" by Thomas Keneally travels through Eritrea's war of independence, a conflict that ousiders interpret.
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Technology Review: Western Digital 500GB MyBook Essential Edition USB 2.0 External Hard Drive— The price keeps dropping (depending where you shop), and it's the best deal around for the size.
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Movie Review: The Dark Knight— There's a reason it's not called Batman; this time around, it's all about The Joker.
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Movie Review: Space Chimps— Apes in Space! That's one small step for chimps and one giant leap for animated audiences in this less than stellar family film.
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Music DVD Review: Neil Diamond - The Thank You Australia Concert: Live 1976— Witness Neil Diamond's historic concert event in Australia.
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The New Canon: The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster— Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy is detective fiction with a distinctly post-modern flavor.
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Manga Review: The Drifting Classroom, Volume Five by Kazuo Umezu— A classic survival horror manga pits school kids against an apocalyptic future world.
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Music Review: Sonny Rollins - Freedom Suite— A legend — but one who is still around and still doing it his way.
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Book Review: A Voice in the Wind (Mark of the Lion Series #1) by Francine Rivers— Biblical fiction, strong characterization and an exemplary Christian example have made this title a classic in modern Christian fiction.
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- Jul 17, 2008
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TV Review: Monk, Psych Season Premieres - The Detective Lives!— The detective is back, courtesy of Monk and Psych.
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Movie Review: Meet Bill— A good weekend movie for viewers looking for some light-hearted, not overly demanding humor.
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Movie Review: The Grand— Led by Woody Harrelson, improvisational comedians take all in Zak Penn's poker themed mockumentary.
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Six Reasons The Dark Knight Is So Good That It's Kicking Your Ass Right Now and You're Not Even Watching It Yet
— I'm sorry. I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome this movie is.
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Concert Review: The Submarines - Chop Suey, Seattle— The Submarines bring their sunny indie pop to Seattle and don't disappoint.
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Music Review: Robin Trower - Day Of The Eagle: The Best Of Robin Trower— Legendary guitarist Robin Trower returns with 17 gems mined from his 35-year career.
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Music Review: Alice Cooper - Along Came A Spider
— It's back to the seventies as Alice Cooper returns with a concept album.
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Theater Review (LA): Desert Sunrise by Misha Shulman at the Lillian Theatre— West Bank combatants meet in a moving, tragic-comic play written by an Israeli Army veteran.
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Music Review: Dropkick Murphys - The Meanest of Times— Boston punk takes on mean, hard times.
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PS3 Review: The Bourne Conspiracy— Motion capture techniques, full graphic capabilities and similar camera styles with great hand-to-hand combat recreate the films' excitement very well.
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DVD Review: Outsourced— Very enjoyable and sweet film that goes down easy.
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Movie Review: Gonzo - The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson— A one-sided look at the gonzo journalist.
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Music Review: Michael Burks - Iron Man— Good solid electric blues with a little extra soul added on top for its own special flavour.
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Music Review: Elvis Presley - On Stage: February 1970— Essential Elvis: Chapter 20.
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Music Review: Judas Priest, Stone Gods, Pharaoh, Mar de Grises, Daylight Dies, and Dearestazazel — Synth-pop to symphonic death metal; its got to be another of Marty's review columns.
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