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How to Survive a Horror Movie
Seth Grahame-SmithQuirk Books Need “all the skills to dodge the kills”? Look no further than this humorous how-to, purposely severed-tongue-in-cheek, presented as if its reader actually were a stereotype trapped in a horror film “? from the “Slutty Goth Chick” to the “Black Guy Who Buys It 20 Minutes In.” Harassing a hobo or screwing […]
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Compelling Explanations
Lame: Jonathan Powell, 17, was convicted in April of sexually assaulting a college student in Iowa City, Iowa, after his DNA was found in several places on her body. Powell explained the DNA by claiming that he had merely bumped into the woman accidentally while jogging and had become so “entangled” with her that he […]
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Camp teaches rowing to teens
Chesapeake Boathouse’s 2007 Summer Rowing Camp is giving teens 12 to 19 the chance to see if they have a knack for rowing. Coaches put beginners on the Oklahoma River and teach them basic rowing techniques and commands. The one-week camp, Monday through July 27, takes off from the boathouse at 725 S. Lincoln. “Most […]
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Welcome to the Grindhouse: The Teacher / Pick-up
1974/1975/2007 For those of us too young or too landlocked to have enjoyed the grindhouse experience “? or just too unadventurous to have gone out to see the recent Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez collaboration (and you squares know who you are) “? a new series of DVDs aims to replicate the simple pleasures of a B-movie […]
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High School Musical: The Concert
2007 First, a test: If you can complete the song lyric which begins “It’s the start”¦,” then odds are someone under the age of 16 lives under your roof, likely addicted to the 2006 Disney Channel movie-cum-zeitgeist phenomenon known as “High School Musical.” Somehow, that little made-for-TV flick has become the tween generation’s “Grease.” […]
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Interpol – Our Love to Admire
Capitol I’m not sure how much cocaine it takes to truly appreciate an Interpol record, but something tells me it takes even more to make one. The latest from the New York City foursome is a definite departure from both “Turn on the Bright Lights” and “Antics.” Having scored a much bigger record […]
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Captivity
t much worse than this one unless they’re made as the bottom third of a triple feature for drive-ins in the Philippines. Elisha Cuthbert stars as a supermodel who is kidnapped, held captive and tortured before she’s done in by the villain. But let me sum up this way: stinky, crappy, lame, wretched, putrid […]
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John Vanderslice – Emerald City
Barsuk John Vanderslice has made another gorgeous, richly textured album that is quirky without being morose or depressing. “EmeraldCity” has scores of instruments moving in and out of the nine-song album. The recording is done so well that you can hear the precious flaws in the piano parts and practically pick out snare […]
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The U.S. vs. John Lennon
2006 More than 35 years have gone by since John Lennon released his classic single “Imagine,” and so it’s easy to forget just how subversive its unabashed idealism really is. In the documentary “The U.S. vs. John Lennon,” filmmakers David Leaf and John Scheinfeld revisit this music icon’s political activism, radical stances that eventually […]