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25 most recent entries:
Music DVD Review: Tori Amos - Live At Montreux 1991/1992 (Oct 07 2008 03:42 GMT)
A lot can happen in a year. A lot can happen in a year. Individuals can learn new skills, develop new traits, and go through new life experiences. One of the most interesting components of art is experiencing the growth of a true artist through the passage of time.Tori Amos demonstrates this component on the DVD Live at Montreux 1991/1992.
New Album Releases 10/07/08: Bob Dylan, Oasis, The Clash, Wu-Tang Clan, Pretenders, & More (Oct 07 2008 03:28 GMT)
Dylan's essential new outtakes collection, plus Josh Hathaway on Oasis and Mark Saleski on the Clash. While this week's new release list is a tad lighter than we've seen in recent weeks, there are nonetheless some very noteworthy titles to talk about...not the least of which is Tell Tale Signs, the eighth volume in Bob Dylan'
Book Review: Capote in Kansas: A Ghost Story by Kim Powers (Oct 07 2008 02:03 GMT)
What might have been a lovely and haunting story collapses under the double-team pressure of mawkishness and bad writing. Capote in Kansas is newly available in paperback, and I jumped at the chance to read it because it's about Truman Capote, one of my favorite writers, and his friendship with Harper Lee, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of To Kill a Mockingbird.In the novel, Kim Powers starts with some basic facts and incidents in the lives of the two great...
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DVD Review: War/Dance (Oct 07 2008 01:44 GMT)
A story of triumph and despair that leaves the audience in tears. Written by Pollo MisteriosoAfter making its run in the festival market, including Sundance Film festival, and a limited release in theaters in November 2007, the Academy Award nominated documentary War/Dance has been spreading a powerful message on the simple ways that music can uplift the wariest of souls, in the most bleak situations. Northern...
DVD Review: Another Cinderella Story (Oct 07 2008 01:24 GMT)
It's like Cinderella ate Step Up and made a mess in the bathroom. A Cinderella Story was cute. I like the cheesy family flicks that would be found on the likes of Disney or ABC Family. But what I don’t want is a ton of rip-offs of the same modern translation of yet another story.
TV Review: The Starter Wife - Series Premiere (Oct 07 2008 01:20 GMT)
Wife begins again as Debra Messing proves there's life after wife (and Grace Adler). Think of it as Desperate Housewives meets the Cashmere Mafia—Hollywood style. Fans who tuned in last year for Fried Green Tomatoes director Jon Avnet’s popular miniseries based on the bestselling chick-lit novel by Hollywood insider Georgianne Levangie Grazer (wife of producer Brian Grazer), will be delighted to discover that The...
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Theatre Review (Costa Mesa, CA): Dead Man's Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl at South Coast Repertory (Oct 07 2008 00:26 GMT)
Answer a dead man's cell phone and you might get a life. South Coast Repertory specializes in classics, but even more importantly, in new plays. Celebrating their 45th year, they have produced 107 world premieres, offered 235 playwriting commissions, had 86 new script readings, and produced 50 of their commissioned plays. This is a tremendous track record for a company that started in a storefront....
Book Review: The Daughter-in-Law Rules - 101 Surefire Ways to Manage (and Make Friends with) Your Mother-In-Law! by Sally Shields (Oct 06 2008 23:44 GMT)
A tongue-in-cheek look at what it's like to be married. The Daughter-in-Law Rules: 101 Surefire Ways to Manage (and Make Friends with) Your Mother-in-Law!, by Sally Shields, takes a wry look at the often messy and complicated relationships created upon marrying the love of one's life.
Interview with Nathan Rosen, Editor of MicroHorror (Oct 06 2008 23:40 GMT)
"I believe that a great horror story is made of the same three elements that make a great joke: the setup, the escalation and the payoff." MicroHorror is a new ezine featuring horror stories in various subgenres -- traditional, modern, gothic, dark fantasy. The requirement? They have to be well written and be 666 words or shorter--talk about a clever gimmick for a horror magazine!
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Book Review: The Essence of Health by Dr Craig Hassed (Oct 06 2008 23:38 GMT)
A scientifically oriented book which does more than just help people get better. One of the problems with modern healthcare is that, at least in my experience, it tends to treat each person as a set of disparate symptoms. This is particularly true of specialists: your neurologist doesn’t want to know about any gynaecological issues, and your skin specialist isn’
Music Review: Natalie Cole - Still Unforgettable (Oct 06 2008 19:39 GMT)
Natalie Cole still makes the music her own on this 2008 release. Packed with a blazing sense of jazz and lively popular music, Natalie Cole proves she can make the music her own on Still Unforgettable.At 58, the daughter of Nat King Cole has proven her own legacy in the music industry. She first made her mark on with her 1975 debut, Inseparable, which featured the hit single “This Will Be (An Everlasting...
TV Recap: Dexter - "Finding Freebo" (Oct 06 2008 18:06 GMT)
Another great episode of Dexter with a twist at the end that will have you at the edge of your seat. This week's episode of Dexter, "Finding Freebo," further cements Dexter as one of the best shows on television.
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Music Review: The Reflection, Suspyre, Hoodoo Scoundrels, Impiety, Devolution, Netherbird, Withered, Ehnahre and Spinal Cord (Oct 06 2008 17:25 GMT)
Experimental death metal to some rather fun power pop...must be Marty's latest batch of reviews. I apologize to you readers that there was no column last week. Despite my best efforts, I was unable to write one while on holiday in Malta. However the downtime did give me ample time to listen to loads of CDs.
DVD Pick of the Week: How I Met Your Mother (Oct 06 2008 17:15 GMT)
Tons of new releases are enticing me this week! Welcome back! Well, to some of you, anyway. To the rest of you, glad you decided to stop by and I hope that this humble column helps you navigate the stacks of new releases each week. My goal is to point you toward titles of interest and warn you away from those films that seek to do nothing but leech away your time and give you nothing in...
Music Review:- The Windupdeads - The Windupdeads (Oct 06 2008 17:06 GMT)
The Windupdeads deliver a highly impressive and impossibly smooth debut album. This is the week that Sweden’s The Windupdeads release their eponymous debut album. In fact the date for your diary is October 7. It is actually possible that you are already familiar with the Windupdeads music.
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Music DVD Review: REO Speedwagon - Live In The Heartland (Oct 06 2008 16:56 GMT)
A melodic rock masterclass from four decades of rock. It's now over 40 years since REO Speedwagon formed at the University of Illinois in Champaign and keyboard player Neal Doughty is the only remaining original member in 2008. When guitarist Gary Richrath arrived in the fold, bringing the band's first original material, they went from bar band to headliners, releasing their debut album in...
Concert Review: LA Philharmonic Gala with Esa-Pekka Salonen Conducting (Oct 06 2008 16:46 GMT)
The LA Philharmonica presents a Salonen gala with Dawn Upshaw, Audra McDonald, and Barbara Hannigan. I attended the opening of the Winter Season and the last season for Esa-Pekka Salonen, the Principal Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. It was a black tie affair, with celebrities and wealthy patrons gathered for cocktail, dinner and the concert. The rest of us, well over half the house, just heard the concert, but what a concert it was. It...
Graphic Novel Review: Usagi Yojimbo Book One: The Ronin by Stan Sakai (Oct 06 2008 13:02 GMT)
Usagi Yojimbo is a ronin, a masterless samurai, a bodyguard for hire. He's also a rabbit. The first book in Stan Sakai's classic series. Usagi Yojimbo is the ongoing saga of a lone ronin (a masterless samurai) by the name of Myamoto Usagi. The story takes place in Edo period Japan, a feudal period of harsh realities:
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The Early Word: New Non-Fiction for the Week of October 6, 2008 (Oct 06 2008 12:39 GMT)
Anne Rice, Arthur Rimbaud, Marcella Hazan, John Rock and the Reproductive Revolution, the Hunt for Bin Laden... Ahem. I call this piece, "In Celebration of Autumn: New Books, in Poetry and Prose.
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