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Columns
Lowbrow Literati: Are We All Mythtaken About Star Wars?
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Blogs
Short Ends and Leader: ‘Mr. Fox’ is Indeed ‘Fantastic’
Re:Print: The Fate of the Epistolary Novel
Notes from the Road: Devo + JP Incorporated: 23 November 2009 - Phoenix Theatre, Toronto
Mixed Media: Headlights - “Love Song for Buddy” (video)
Channel Surfing: All That Ends, Should End Well on TV
Consuming Consumables: Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong
Marginal Utility: Refuting the paradox of choice

Music
:. The Rolling Stones: Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out (40th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set)
:. John Mayer: Battle Studies
:. Duran Duran: Rio Special Limited Edition / Live at Hammersmith ‘82!
:. Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard: One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Music From Kerouac’s Big Sur
:. Raekwon: Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2
:. Heavy Trash: Midnight Soul Serenade
:. Otto: Certa Manhã Acordei de Sonhos Intranquilos

Events
:. Galactic + Mike Dillon’s Go-Go Jungle: 6 November 2009 - Austin, TX

Film
:. The Road
:. Ninja Assassin

DVDs
:. The L Word: The Final Season
:. Frailty
:. The Monster Squad: 20th Anniversary Edition (Blu-ray)

Books
:. Writing in the Dark, by David Grossman
:. Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne

Multimedia
:. Where the Wild Things Are

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Reviews

Le Jour se lève

By Chadwick Jenkins

By embodying the contradictions of poetic realism, Le jour se lève projects beauty and hope as both necessary to working class existence and impossible for the disenfranchised to attain. [30 September 2009]

Thérèse Raquin (1953)

By Michael Buening

The movie opens and closes with the same overhead shot of Lyons. Carné, like Zola, emphasizes the ordinary tragedy of desperate city folk. [18 January 2006]

Drôle de Drame (Drôle de drame ou L’étrange aventure de Docteur Molyneux) (1937)

By David Sanjek

Marcel Carné acts like the perfect traffic cop, guiding his characters through one absurd coincidence after another. [14 October 2003]