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Columns
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Blogs
Mixed Media: John Lennon: 9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980
Channel Surfing: Top Chef Oddsmakers
Notes from the Road: Dogtooth by Yorgos Lanthimos: 29.Nov.09 - Brighton, UK
Moving Pixels: Gauging Load Times in Games
Consuming Consumables: AK 100: 25 Films by Akira Kurosawa
Short Ends and Leader: Critical Confessions: Part 19 - Top Ten-tative
Marginal Utility: MySpace’s Demise
Sound Affects: Verse-Chorus-Verse: An Interview with Diane Birch
Graphically Speaking: The Sociology of Superheroes: Andi Ewington and 45

Music
:. Clipse: Til the Casket Drops
:. Brett Anderson: Slow Attack
:. Various Artists: The Rough Guide to Afrobeat Revolution
:. Shafiq Husayn: Shafiq En A-Free-Ka
:. Dufus: In Monstrous Attitude
:. Eric Roberson: Music Fan First

Events
:. Dethklok + Mastodon: 12 November 2009 - Houston, TX

Film
:. Me and Orson Welles

DVDs
:. Imagine That
:. Bootleg Film

Books
:. The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? by Padgett Powell
:. Free for All by Kenneth Turan, Joseph Papp

Comics
:. Hot Potatoe

News
:. ‘Public Enemies’ a good, but not great, effort by director Michael Mann

Reviews

The Professors Daughter

By Mordechai Shinefield

Sfar is an author of subtle, swirling surrealism -- touching anecdotes that form narratives like brush strokes form Marc Chagall's dream worlds. Like Chagall, Sfar is Jewish, and frequently the loose steps of Kaballah, or Chassidis, tip-toe into the works. [18 June 2007]

Vampire Loves

By Dante A. Ciampaglia

It is as noteworthy for its good-natured enjoyment as it is for its ability to take ideas and plot elements which have been fodder for graphic novels for years and construct them into a wholly original tale. [25 July 2006]