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:. PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2009
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Columns
Torch & Twang: The Music That Matters: Ralph Rinzler and Bill Monroe, Part Two
Mixtape Confessions: In the J-Zone Zone

Blogs
Consuming Consumables: G.I. Joe A Real American Hero & Transformers
Marginal Utility: Vinyl Sales Surge
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Mixed Media: Liars - Sisterworld (new album / MP3)
Sound Affects: Where Are the Ladies at on the Best of the Decade Charts?
Moving Pixels: Locomotion, Parkour, and the Illusion of Competence in Video Games
Short Ends and Leader: Nine-Sense: 10 Better Possible Movie/Musical Adaptations
Notes from the Road: Elvis Perkins in Dearland: 4.Dec.09 - New York

Music
:. Various Artists: BalkanBeats: A Night in Berlin
:. Glorytellers: Atone
:. Joss Stone: Colour Me Free
:. Bear in Heaven: Beast Rest Forth Mouth
:. To Kill a Petty Bourgeosie: Marlone
:. Mountains: Etching

Events
:. Our Brother the Native + Zen Zen Egui: 26 October 2009 - London

Film
:. The Last Station

DVDs
:. The Way of the Gun
:. Keeping Up With the Kardashians: The Complete Second Season

Books
:. Photography Degree Zero: Reflections on Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida by Geoffrey B
:. The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk

Multimedia
:. Space Invaders Extreme 2

News
:. INTERVIEW:‘Badass’ author answers some questions
:. Book gifts for children
:. TV movies offer plenty of holiday schmaltz
:. INTERVIEW:A third memoir, ‘Lit’ from deep within
:. Wally Lamb walks on the light side
:. Discount retailers and electronic readers worry some in the book world

Reviews

Imagine That

By Ben Travers

Eddie Murphy may still be in need of a box office hit, but this enjoyable family film should help him gain back a little respect. [8 December 2009]

By Cynthia Fuchs

Why anyone imagines children want to see Eddie Murphy's internal struggle may be the first question posed by Imagine That, but it's hardly the last. [12 June 2009]

Over the Hedge (2006)

The raccoon is shrewd, and the scenario he lays out -- all food, all the time -- is powerfully tempting. [19 May 2006]

The raccoon is shrewd, and the scenario he lays out -- all food, all the time -- is powerfully tempting. [18 May 2006]