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Features
:. Re-Meet the Beatles: PopMatters Salutes the Still Fab Four
:. A Working Class Family: Ed and Edie Falco

Columns
Pop Goes Philosophy: Nobel Prizes and Nobel Promises
Rabble Without a Cause: Table Space: The Final Frontier

Blogs
Marginal Utility: Music Discovery Stories
Mixed Media: The Fiery Furnaces - “Keep Me in the Dark (Eleanor Friedberger version)” (MP3)
Short Ends and Leader: Adventure is ‘Up’ There: A Talk with Pixar’s Pete Docter and Bob Peterson
Notes from the Road: The Fiery Furnaces: 7.Nov.09 - Toronto
Moving Pixels: Diablo 2: Still Grinding After All These Years
Sound Affects: A Dyslexic’s Wet Dream: Lift Up and Fly Like a Bird

Music
:. Tori Amos: Midwinter Graces
:. Asobi Seksu: Rewolf
:. Rickie Lee Jones: Balm in Gilead
:. Modeselektor: Body Language Vol.8
:. The Blakes: Souvenir
:. Black Mold: Snow Blindness is Crystal Antz
:. Matt Wilson Quartet: That’s Gonna Leave a Mark

Events
:. Múm: 23 October 2009 - Washington, DC

Film
:. Copyright Criminals

Television
:. V: Series Premiere

DVDs
:. Fawlty Towers: The Complete Collection Remastered
:. North by Northwest
:. White Christmas and It’s a Wonderful Life

Books
:. The Humbling by Philip Roth
:. Looking for Calvin and Hobbes by Nevin Martell
:. A Fiery Peace in a Cold War by Neil Sheehan

Comics
:. Castle Waiting (Volume 2, #1-15)

News
:. CMA Awards to showcase music’s hottest (again) genre
:. Alvin York’s son and Gary Cooper’s daughter to appear together at museum
:. ‘Monk’ role has been a dream job for Traylor Howard
:. Family crisis opened Dashboard Confessional singer’s eyes to priorities in life
:. Holiday movie guide: Here’s something for everyone

Reviews

You Call This the Future? by Nick Sagan, Mark Frary, Andy Walker

By Raymond Cummings

The authors seize on our lingering disappointment in the past's prediction of the gadgets we'd have in the future (that is, now) with this user-friendly book; a 'where are they now?' revisiting of future myths. [28 April 2008]