Articles tagged "magic"

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Broomsticks for Boomsticks

by L.B. Jeffries

[18.Mar.08] :. Banana Pepper Martinis is L.B. Jeffries' weekly in-depth look at video gaming. This week, a study of the role of magic in games.

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Music Feature

Slipped Discs 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[23.Jan.08] :. PopMatters' annual tradition of offering up its Slipped Discs picks continues with the biggest installment to date. These are the albums our writers just loved, but missed our enormous top 60 albums list late last year.

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Column: Field Studies

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back (A Eulogy for the E Street Sound)

by Andrew Gilstrap

[21.Jan.08] :. When it comes to his work with the E Street Band, Springsteen seems to have tempered or even jettisoned other songwriting trademarks, such as the sense of place that informed so many of his songs.

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Music Review

Bruce Springsteen: Magic

by David Pyndus

[1.Oct.07] :. With his mates, the E Street Band, Springsteen remarkably captures some of that old elusive lightning while teaching us about the ties that bind all over again.

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Multimedia Review

Top Spin

by David Leonard

[7.Apr.04] :. Unlike other sports games and America's sports pages, Top Spin doesn't completely erase women from its sports world. Yet their presence is to fulfill male fantasies as sexualized commodities.

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