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| Name: | Blogcritics |
| Description: | A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. |
| Site URL: | http://blogcritics.org/ |
| RSS feed URL: | http://www.blogcritics.org/index.rdf |
| Syndic8 ID: | 26045 |
| Language: | en |
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25 most recent entries:
TV Review: So You Think You Can Dance - Week Last (Aug 07 2008 22:20 GMT)
Goodbye, So You Think You Can Dance. So I think I might cry. And skip the finale. As I write this, it's Thursday afternoon.
DVD Review: Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collection (Aug 07 2008 22:06 GMT)
A blast for fantasy fans and anyone looking for a good chuckle. “The world is flat! …but ably supported by four elephants floating through space on the back of a giant turtle.
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Book Review: Scientific Imaging With Photoshop - Methods, Measurement, and Output by Jerry Sedgewick (Aug 07 2008 21:41 GMT)
Scientific Imaging With Photoshop is a must have for anyone who is in the scientific community and works with images and Photoshop. Everyone knows about the capabilities of Photoshop for graphic design, photography, and illustration, but did you know that it is also one of the most powerful tools for scientists and researchers as well? It is indispensable in the preparation of digital images of specimens for measurement; especially for separating relevant features from...
DVD Review: Redbelt (Aug 07 2008 21:39 GMT)
Mamet's mixed martial arts movie is a magnificent mashup Redbelt is writer-director David Mamet's exciting movie set in the burgeoning world of mixed martial arts. The movie's diverse cast is brought together from the worlds of sports, film, and Mamet's usual ensemble.
TV Review: Eureka - "What About Bob?" (Aug 07 2008 21:37 GMT)
Jack and Allison in the woods, oh my! In Eureka, just about anything happens at any time. Those who live in town are used to the odd and unique. After all, the world's best scientists gather at Global Dynamics, the research facility which has a direct link to the Pentagon.
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DVD Review: The Berenstain Bears - Family and Friendship (Aug 07 2008 21:30 GMT)
Take a trip through Bear Country with this new DVD release. Though it may be hard to believe, The Berenstain Bears have been around for more than forty years and are still going strong. August 12 will mark the release of the twelfth volume of episodes from the PBS kids series based on the beloved characters created by Stan and Jan Berenstain.Entitled The Berenstain Bears: Family and Friendship, the DVD...
From Brooklyn to Montauk: The Top Venues for Live Music on Long Island (Aug 07 2008 21:23 GMT)
A nice selection of venues no matter what your musical tastes... New York is a melting pot for art and music. Luckily, we Long Islanders are exposed to many opportunities to see great live music. Local and national acts are easily accessible at the many venues we have at our disposal throughout the New York City area. Listed below are the top five venues for live music in the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens...
Book Review - Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin by Herb Boyd (Aug 07 2008 20:27 GMT)
Boyd pulls at the Baldwin self-doubt scab -- born black, gay, poor and ugly, not the most auspicious start in life. James Baldwin fascinates and is fascinated with Harlem. The confluence of writer and city meet in Baldwin novels, but not in the majority of them, as most readers might expect. That is the subject of the new book by Herb Boyd. The author knows Baldwin, knows Harlem and knows writing and shares them well with reader.
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Thoughts on Iraqi Athletes Participating in the Olympics (Aug 07 2008 20:02 GMT)
The ban is lifted just in time. Honestly, the Olympics aren’t of interest to me. There is no football in the Olympics, so I really do not care. However, when I was watching the news a while back and the reporter said that the Iraqi athletes were not allowed to participate in the Olympics, I was extremely upset and I wasn’
There's Something About Fav-ruh: Brett's a Jet (Aug 07 2008 19:52 GMT)
It's official: Brett Favre is a Jet. I'm happy for Brett, but how will everyone else involved end up looking when it's all said and done? Today, so much is suddenly official. Pineapple Express is officially not quite as awesome as Knocked Up, but it is also officially a great movie and arguably the funniest of the year thus far.
Interview with Hakan Tongul, UN World Food Programme Assistant Country Director for Myanmar (Aug 07 2008 17:07 GMT)
A 22 pound ration of rice can be all a family needs to make it possible for its children to attend school. Devastated by the cyclone of May 2008, Myanmar is a nation in desperate need of assistance to recover. According to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), “The hardest hit villages saw families lose all their farming assets, together with their houses and food stores for the rest of the year.”
Movie Review: Mamma Mia! (Aug 07 2008 16:21 GMT)
Watching Mamma Mia! is like being repeatedly slapped about the face with a rainbow. Sophie was raised by her single mother on an idyllic Greek island and is about to get married. She has no idea who her father is. Naughtily reading her mother'
Presented By: Connect to everything with BlackBerry (Aug 07 2008 16:21 GMT)
With email, web, video capture, picture messaging and more, BlackBerry smartphones have features you won?t find on other smartphones. www.
The Police Release Reunion CD/DVD/LP Live Set Exclusively Through Best Buy October 7 (Aug 07 2008 16:12 GMT)
This is one more step down the path of destruction as foretold in the Book of Revelations. Best Buy is going to be the exclusive retailer for the official live souvenir of The Police's (likely) final tour ever; one more nail in the coffin of consumer choice. This is one more step down the path of destruction as foretold in the Book of Revelations.
Music Review: Chris James and Patrick Rynn - Stop And Think About It (Aug 07 2008 16:03 GMT)
Tight arrangements of other people's material, and originals with their own distinct flavor. I like blues music, always have and always will. Yet I'm not blind to the fact that it's probably one of the most abused genres of popular music out there.
Music Review: The Little Ones - Morning Tide (Aug 07 2008 15:29 GMT)
Californians say don't worry, be happy... It'll take more than a global economic meltdown, the proliferation of nuclear weapons into the hands of (more) madmen and the threat of a new Wesley Snipes movie to get Angelino five piece The Little Ones down; indeed, their mission to bring guilt-free happiness to the world seems to be positively reinforced by the strife which CNN likes to...
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Four Disc, 107 Track Roy Orbison Box Set The Soul of Rock and Roll To Be Released September 23 (Aug 07 2008 14:04 GMT)
A man whose career deserves the box set treatment... One more symptom of a low-rent culture that confuses fame with achievement is that just about any artist can get a box set. There was a time a career-spanning box set meant that you, well, had a career that had spanned something; it meant that you'd accomplished something.
Book Review: Silent Thunder by Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen (Aug 07 2008 13:44 GMT)
The Johansens team up to deliver an international romp focusing on a mysterious Soviet sub from the Cold War. Iris Johansen fans know her for the Eve Duncan suspense thrillers and for the blistering reads she delivers with every book. I have to mark time on my calendar to sit down with a new book because I know I won’t want to have to get up. Silent Thunder proved to be another grab-you-by-the-throat dash that pulled me along on a frantic chase for a...
Music Review: Panic Room - Visionary Position (Aug 07 2008 13:44 GMT)
Members of Karnataka, Mostly Autumn and Fish's band combine together to produce a stunning first album. This is Panic Room. I must admit that I was excited by the prospect of hearing Panic Room’s debut album Visionary Position. Sure, I had read some great reviews but the cause of my anticipation lay far deeper than that.
Presented By: Connect to everything with BlackBerry (Aug 07 2008 13:44 GMT)
With email, web, video capture, picture messaging and more, BlackBerry smartphones have features you won?t find on other smartphones. www.
Book Review: Digging Into America by Anne Tyler (Aug 07 2008 13:31 GMT)
Two Baltimore families from very different cultural backgrounds cope with the demands of adopting of a pair of Korean children. Digging Into America by Anne Tyler is a thoroughly enjoyable read that eventually takes the reader nowhere. I think that might be the point. Life goes on, its apparently predicable but never predicted changes and challenges coming and going in spite of our efforts to prepare. Always, however, we feel we must live up to an image of what we imagine...
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