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Crank. This movie's kind of like Speed, but instead of a bus, it's some dude's heart that can't drop below a certain rate or he will die a horrible death. Hey, wait a minute:...
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Have you ever looked into onrushing traffic and imagined how much damage you would cause with a simple crank of the steering wheel? If so, FlatOut 2 is the racing game for...
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Hey Joe: Do you consider yourself a metrosexual? I do. Jake Gyllenhaal, on location in Beirut, Lebanon
The word "metrosexual" threw me for a loop. I had to research its...
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By Jean Carey, Dean C. Minderman and Andrea Noble
Published:
August 30, 2006
Rebirth of the Blues After some lean financial times in recent years, the newly renamed Budweiser Big Muddy Blues Festival is back and bigger for 2006, with more than 50 bands...
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Our world shrank a little last week. Yep, astronomers demoted the Pluto formerly known as planet to the ignoble rank of "Dwarf Planet." Goodbye, Pluto. We hardly knew you. The...
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Akeelah and the Bee (Lions Gate)
American Gun (IFC)
The Castle of Cagliostro (Manga)
Desperate Housewives: Season Two (Buena Vista)
Stephen King's Desperation (Lions...
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Dear Mexican: I heard that Mexicans at an Orange County candy factory think they saw the Virgin Mary in a pile of melted chocolate. Why do Mexicans always see the Virgin Mary...
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What would you do if you were laid off from your job at the Ford plant? If you're Tina Winfield, you put your severance pay into your kid brother's rap career, of course. The...
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When it comes to bloated capital projects, Unreal doesn't give a rat's ass how big the cost overrun as long as they build the damn thing. We were there back in 1869 to see...
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Attention, Sharpie: Think your markers are long-lasting? New York's Permanent Me is givin' them a run for their money with their indelible music, an eclectic blend of indie...
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William Elliott Whitmore has toured with Clutch and Converge, so uninitiated concertgoers who spot his name on a bill often expect a hardcore band whose moniker honors, say, a...
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Unreal, August 16, 2006 Eat the Document Commontary™ — the rebuttal: The "Unreal's Dilemma" Commontary™contained a number of erroneous details that I would...
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Paul Burch's new Bloodshot album, East to West, reverses Nashville's musical geography. Like many of the country and rock songwriters and pickers marginalized by Music Row's...
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The general consensus about the current crop of emo bands is that they bleed together into an indistinguishable muddle of nasally vocals and layered guitars. But the Chicago...
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Anyone who grew up in the '80s remembers the original Nintendo video-game system. But equally memorable was some of the unusual and inventive music written by programmers for...
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A musical history of 2006 could track the year by songs too good for the anti-war tag: Graham Parker's "2000 Funerals," Michael Franti's "Time to Go Home," Josh Ritter's "Girl...
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Listening to a Steely Dan album is rather like reading an erstwhile nerd's yearbook. Their songs are filled with odd innuendos, inside jokes, obscure words and dark humor...
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When you put "shit" or "fuck" right in your band's name, you're officially going after a certain demographic — and nobody else. New Orleans sludgepushers Facedowninshit...
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Even when Primal Scream didn't match the creative heights reached by Screamadelica's rave-worthy blissouts or the electro-punk of XTRMNTR, they never lacked self-confidence....
