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It’s cool that when I’m leaving for work you’re tuning your instrument and crooning softly to yourself, and when I’m on my way home, you are wailing on that acoustic guitar with a rock/rhythm and blues style that could net you a couple of weeks on “American Idol.”  But I think you’d need to...
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Kate’s job as a supermarket manager may not sound too hard for a recent college graduate but you try to get as many happy customers in and out the door as quickly as possible in this time-management game.  Sure, you can hire union-member assistants to fill the shelves, mind the cash registers, and otherwise...
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According to Wikipedia, the characteristics of the Bel Canto as an operatic vocal style include: “the ability to execute fast, accurate divisions” and “a pleasing, well-focused timbre.” Without understanding these musical terms precisely, Ann Patchett’s PEN/Faulker award-winning Bel Canto seems to include similar characteristics as it floats seamlessly between narrative perspectives and introduces characters...
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Rather than disrupt a small chain of solid SNL episodes, Kristen Wiig, Will Forte, and Maya Rudolph should have promoted MacGruber themselves. Unless there is ever a re-release of Breach, the creators of SNL should only ask Ryan Phillipe to host if Jon Hamm is unavailable.¹ ¹ Saturday Night Live – Saturday Night Live...
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Priced at $9.99 this app may seem expensive but Football Manager Handheld 2010 is basically like having Championship Manager 2001/2002, 2004/2005, 2006-2007 (the dvd version!) with updated rosters, on your phone. What other app can give you the thrill of taking a team from the third division of a European backwater league to the...
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Trying to explain (or, for that matter, even succinctly summarize) the myriad reasons why The Wire—one of the most, if not simply THE Most, critically lauded and acclaimed TV series in the history of, well, TV—is so damned richly deserving of every, single last comma and syllable ever committed to said veritable mountain of...
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A song so beautiful I want to swim in it. They’re what Morrissey was too depressed to do and Coldplay is too untalented to do. Listen here: “Bloodbuzz Ohio” by The National Stream the entire album at NYT.
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Remember when Jack Bauer was a character, not just a guy who sprinted from set to set, explaining situations to people?  I used to wonder what the fall of “24” would like; how something so entirely, 100% bad-ass could become a waterfall of bullshit, plucking recycled plots and characters out of thin air and throwing...
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I am bold.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire, the first two books of a trilogy (the third coming out on May 25th and available now for pre-order) and really much more of a character study than your ordinary crime novels and proof that crime novels can be literature in...
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