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Film DVD Review

Wall-E

by Jennifer Kelly

[9.Jan.09] :. The first half hour of Wall-E is a lyrical, magical achievement in film-making, which if it ended there, would make the movie an undisputed classic.

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Events Review

Blip Festival 2008

by Vijith Assar

[9.Jan.09] :. Blipfest remains unique among concert experiences because I went home with the knowledge that I already had all the tools necessary to do what I had just seen on stage.

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Best Music Scribing Awards 2008 Feature

Super Scribing

by Jason Gross

[9.Jan.09] :. Gold medal: the best writing of the year.

Best Music Scribing Awards 2008

Best Music Scribing Awards 2008 Feature

Superior Scribing

by Jason Gross

[9.Jan.09] :. Silver medal: excellent pieces of writing.

Best Music Scribing Awards 2008

Call of Duty: World at War

by G. Christopher Williams

[9.Jan.09] :. Call of Duty: World at War's catalysts for combat personalize the brutality that the player will mete out on the Axis by dehumanizing and "othering" the Japanese and the Germans as barbarians and monsters.

Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra: We are MTO

by Will Layman

[9.Jan.09] :. The brash, fun MTO's sophomore set: plenty swing, some funk, some vocals, all a mite too sterile this time out.

Tina Turner: Tina!

by Evan Sawdey

[9.Jan.09] :. There's nothing truly wrong with Tina! -- it's just that the Acid Queen deserves better than this.

Totimoshi: Milagrosa

by Adrien Begrand

[9.Jan.09] :. Often overlooked but always consistent, Totimoshi is in peak form on their fifth album.

G-Side: Starshipz and Rocketz

by Jordan Sargent

[9.Jan.09] :. Two Alabama rappers, backed by the genius Block Beataz production team, release one of the best rap albums of 2008, a work that is distinctly modern but respectfully reverent.

Sebastien Grainger & the Mountains: Sebastien Grainger & the Mountains

by Ross Langager

[9.Jan.09] :. Most of Grainger's gestures are aimed at gaining the approval of the indie populists who seem poised to welcome him with open arms.

101 Forgotten Films by Brian Mills

by Michael Antman

[9.Jan.09] :. Mills is a movie lover who, like a penniless kid with his nose pressed against the windows of a wonderful restaurant, aches for the unobtainable.

Honey West: The Complete Series

by Michael Barrett

[9.Jan.09] :. It's breathtaking to see a woman so insouciant and self-defensive, even today.

Clue To Kalo: Lily Perdida

by Filmore Mescalito Holmes

[9.Jan.09] :. With his third album, Mark Mitchell's fully realized basement electronic psych-pop is now easily in the same league as Her Space Holiday.

Making a Scene: Baltimore, Maryland’s Wham City

by Erika Szabo

[9.Jan.09] :. Goofy, childlike, chaotic, tribal, artsy -- all of these and more describe Wham City, the sprawling collective of artists working together to make Baltimore, Maryland, a community thriving on wild abandon and mutual support.

Guerrilla Patton

by Chris Barsanti

[9.Jan.09] :. Soderbergh's supersized retelling of the Che Guevara legend is an uncomfortable mix of war procedural and unabashed hero worship; ingenious but flawed.

Push-Pull:Hello Soldier

by Jennifer Kelly

[9.Jan.09] :. Debut album from Bloomington (IN)’s Push-Pull slips the jokes into its slinky post-hard-core punk beats in a sharp-edged but melodic collection of tunes.

Eden & John’s East River String Band: Some Cold Rainy Day

by Jill LaBrack

[9.Jan.09] :. A little more cultivating in the dirt and they should be good to go.

The Parties: Can’t Come Down

by Stephen Haag

[9.Jan.09] :. Bay Area guitar-pop revivalists coast by on their charm.

RIP EGM

by Mike Schiller

[8.Jan.09] :. Some thoughts on the demise of the one-time top dog of gaming magazines.

The man, the myth, the real Rupert Murdoch

by Richard Pachter [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[8.Jan.09] :. Scan the online comments accompanying most current stories about the travails of the newspaper business and you’ll invariably encounter declarations that most problems are caused by a dearth...

Move over, boomer presidents: A new generation takes charge

by David Goldstein [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[8.Jan.09] :. WASHINGTON - When President Kennedy said the torch had been passed to a new generation in the 1960s, the baby boomers who were beginning to grow up then figured it was their time, and they spent most...

HBO to air inauguration opening ceremony

by Verne Gay [Newsday (MCT)]

[8.Jan.09] :. HBO has secured rights to the opening ceremony of the inauguration ceremonies from the Lincoln Memorial on Jan. 18. Both President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden will attend...

In battle of stage vs. screen, the play wins

by Chris Jones [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[8.Jan.09] :. As movie adaptations of stage plays go, the recently released “Frost/Nixon” and “Doubt” are among the best of recent vintage, not least because the writers of the sourcing...

Blitzen Trapper, Pale Young Gentlemen, Ladyfinger…

by PopMatters Staff

[8.Jan.09] :. Blitzen Trapper Furr [MP3]       Pale Young Gentlemen Paper Planes (M.I.A. cover) [MP3]       Eleni Mandell...

‘24’ season premiere doesn’t waste a minute

by Rick Kushman [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[8.Jan.09] :. So there he is, Jack Bauer, unstoppable hero, emotional wreck, sitting in a Washington, D.C., hearing room, getting worked over by a congressional subcommittee. Of all the indignities, of all the...

Mickey Rourke: Grappling with his past and winning out in ‘The Wrestler’

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[8.Jan.09] :. TORONTO - For a few days at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, where Mickey Rourke’s “The Wrestler” stunned audiences and started a bidding war, the onetime...

‘Other Worlds, Better Lives: Selected Long Fiction, 1989-2003’: A testament to genius

by Jim Higgins [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)]

[8.Jan.09] :. The good science-fiction writer, the saying goes, envisions the traffic jam as well as the car. Howard Waldrop gives you both and much more: the words on the bumper sticker, the song on the car...

From ‘Star Trek’ to ‘Avatar,’ 2009’s big movies

by Rafer Guzmán [Newsday (MCT)]

[8.Jan.09] :. Making up stories isn’t easy, which is why Hollywood likes to find ones that already exist. That means 2009 is so far shaping up to be another year of adaptations, remakes,...

20 Questions: Girl Talk

by PopMatters Staff

[8.Jan.09] :. Gregg Gillis (Girl Talk) sure loves Indiana Jones...

Confessions of a Teen Idol

by Leigh H. Edwards

[8.Jan.09] :. Most of the cast members on Confessions of a Teen Idol are either unrecognizable now or were never really "idols" to begin with.

The Sydney Festival is transforming Sydney, again

by Dan Raper

[8.Jan.09] :. The Sydney Festival 2009 Saturday January 10 – Saturday January 31 The Sydney Festival, a three-week overload of music, theatre, dance and the kind of large-scale cultural events...

Perry Mason: Season 3 - Vol. 2

by Michael Barrett

[8.Jan.09] :. This isn't a show about character, but a puzzle to tease the viewer with brisk, complicated stories.

Bret Hart: A Real Life In A Cartoon World

by Monte Williams

[8.Jan.09] :. In a surreal world dedicated to a uniquely haphazard and comically inept breed of pretense, Bret Hart’s appeal was simple: he made everything seem 'real'.

It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop by M.K. Asante

by Mark Reynolds

[8.Jan.09] :. Asante sounds more like an ambitious undergrad learning how to translate book-learned concepts into fully developed ideas and then into action, than a professor with distance and perspective.

Smashing Pumpkins

by Chris Catania

[8.Jan.09] :. Billy Corgan’s new experiments rock like the older hits but they lack the secret ingredient that makes past Smashing Pumpkin tracks transcendent -- melody and a compelling emotional storyline.

Quality Scribing

by Jason Gross

[8.Jan.09] :. Bronze medal: great story ideas, well executed.

Other Arts

by Jason Gross

[8.Jan.09] :. Fine writing outside of music but still bearing on music.

Bottom of the Barrel

by Jason Gross

[8.Jan.09] :. Confiscate their laptops: the worst writing of the year.

Supreme Ruler 2020: In Retrospect

by Jamie Lynn Dunston

[8.Jan.09] :. Dear Supreme Ruler 2020, I don’t think we should see each other any more.  You’ve probably seen this coming for a long time now.  Ever since you came into my life...

The Gourds: Haymaker!

by Jill LaBrack

[8.Jan.09] :. A dozen years in, the Gourds have made their best record yet.

Marianne Dissard: L’Entredeux

by Deanne Sole

[8.Jan.09] :. Marianne Dissard lives in Arizona but doesn't sound like it. She sounds French.

Alva Noto: Unitxt

by Timothy Gabriele

[8.Jan.09] :. Alva Noto often ignites our fear of omnipresent technology, largely accomplishing this by highlighting ways in which we’ve undermined the complexity of our chronic interface with machinery.

Plain White T’s : Big Bad World

by Ross Langager

[8.Jan.09] :. It's easy to dump on the Plain White T's. It's even easier to read as someone else does it. Please join me.

Anthony Hamilton: The Point of It All

by Mike Joseph

[8.Jan.09] :. One good album can be a fluke. Two good albums suggest potential greatness. Three great albums seals the deal.

The Black Keys: Live at the Crystal Ballroom (DVD)

by Sean Murphy

[8.Jan.09] :. A few years ago, the Black Keys might have considered themselves lucky and been quite content to labor in the shadow of the White Stripes. Those days are over.

Transhuman #1-4

by Ian Chant

[8.Jan.09] :. The scientific aspects of making a new humanity aren’t as important to Hickman as the societal ones, and it is here that Transhuman lands it strongest punches.

Twilight Takeover

by Jennifer Makowsky

[8.Jan.09] :. The film is a successful adaptation of the book not only because Pattinson is so talented and dreamy, but also because Hardwicke knows a thing or two about filming adolescents.

Jack London’s Racial Lives by Jeanne Campbell Reesman

by Steve Horowitz

[8.Jan.09] :. London was a product of his age where attitudes towards race were the subject of much intellectual debate.

Bones: Season 3

by Rachel Kipp

[8.Jan.09] :. It's creepy (some of the time), kooky (all of the time) and altogether ooky.

Andy Yorke: Simple

by Dan Raper

[8.Jan.09] :. The younger brother of Thom gives us a straightforward folk-pop debut.

Once Again to Zelda by Marlene Wagman-Geller

by Diane Leach

[8.Jan.09] :. Alas, Wagman-Geller's sentences are unwieldy, weighted with passive constructions.

Electric Six : Flashy

by Evan Sawdey

[8.Jan.09] :. The Electric Six are back again, and though their sound largely remains the same, their experimental detours are getting more interesting with each passing disc.

Chopteeth: Afrofunk Big Band

by C.T. Heaney

[8.Jan.09] :. A sure hit with fans of funk and Fela, but a bit trying for anyone who’s not looking to be preached to.

Secret Shine: All of the Stars

by Leigh Kelsey

[8.Jan.09] :. Secret Shine now gazes up at the stars.

Writing too enjoyable an endeavor for John Updike to consider retirement

by John Mark Eberhart [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[7.Jan.09] :. Stephen King has talked about it. The late Kurt Vonnegut actually did it, for the most part. John Updike has no intention of it. The word is retire, and it’s just not Updike’s style....

How will President Obama affect entertainment and the arts?

by Mark Caro [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[7.Jan.09] :. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Hollywood has long maintained a mutual love affair with the presidency. John F. Kennedy was famously friendly with Marilyn Monroe, who serenaded him with “Happy...

HD service changing how we listen to radio

by Aaron Barnhart [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[7.Jan.09] :. I’ve been trying to figure out if this HD Radio thing is for real or not. About a year ago my old car radio died, and Best Buy sold me an Insignia replacement with an HD Radio chip for $40...