12/03/2008 -
Songs with sting: Randy Newman coming to performing arts center
After a career that began at age 18 some 46 years ago, there probably aren?t a lot of items left on Randy Newman?s ?to-do? list. But performing in Central Illinois, we?re happy to report, is one of them. Or so we hope.
Source:
The Pantagraph
http://pantagraph.com/articles/2008/12/03/go/doc48e4c699a0001695231729.txt
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12/03/2008 -
The Wire: Season Three
Sadly, the most passionate and persuasive argument in recent years against the current disposition of the government's stance in the so-called "War on Drugs" came not from a think tank armed with stats and big ideas or a celebrity eager for a cause, but from a TV show.
Source:
filmcritic.com
http://www.filmcritic.com/misc/emporium.nsf/reviews/The-Wire-Season-Three
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12/03/2008 -
ARTS & CULTURE
It takes an exceptionally talented comic to slay a room with jokes about childhood trauma. Not pedestrian traumas like the old monster in the closet, but genuine wounds ? the kind you could juice for twenty years in therapy, if you had the desire and the economic wherewithal.
Source:
East Bay Express
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/artsculture/moments_of_beating/Content?oid=876295
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12/03/2008 -
Optimism needed now more than ever
President-elect Barack Obama made a simple observation Wednesday about the current economic crisis that some people may have missed. Something that, in our despair, we seem to have thrown out with the bath water.
Source:
The Oak Ridger
http://www.oakridger.com/news/x1772970576/Optimism-needed-now-more-than-ever
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12/02/2008 -
leckey is going places with his approachable and unpretentious art
Britain's trendiest artist walked away with the Turner Prize.
Source:
Evening Standard
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23595858-details/leckey+is+going+
places+with+his+approachable+and+unpretentious+art/article.do
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12/02/2008 -
Make 'Em Laugh examines comedy greats
By John Grooms Too often, books created to accompany major PBS documentary series make a crucial mistake: They try to reproduce the series, using still pictures and text. With a couple of notable exceptions (Ken Burns' The War and Lewis and Clark), it rarely works, and what had promised to be great coffee table books turn into dust collectors bound for the used bookstore. Fortunately, the ...
Source:
Creative Loafing Charlotte
http://charlotte.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/make_em_laugh_examines_comedy_grea
ts/Content?oid=438677
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12/02/2008 -
RECENT ITEMS»
The always-introspective Barzelay has stated that his modus operandi as a lyricist is "playing ironic head games with people" and if that's the case, he sure wins with the title track, "Lose Big." After one listen, it is still unclear who this emotive alt-country ballad is really about: the girl he's swooning over or himself?
Source:
Filter Magazine
http://www.filter-mag.com/index.php?id=17929&c=6
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12/02/2008 -
Ami Horowitz: Report No Evil
Portfolio's attempt to paint my film as something it is not by using political titillation and creating divisions where none exist is certainly not the way to steal back relevancy from the blogosphere.
Source:
HuffingtonPost
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ami-horowitz/report-no-evil_b_147552.html
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12/01/2008 -
Cinema: This hunchback is no monster
Igor (left) has created an evil monster called Eva (right) who turns out to be the sweetest thing on earth!
Source:
The New Straits Times
http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Monday/Features/20081130201623/Article/in
dex_html
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12/01/2008 -
Cinema: This hunchback is no monster
NOW SHOWING IGOR Directed by Tony Leondis Featuring the voices of Steve Buscemi, John Cleese, Jennifer Coolidge, John Cusack, Arsenio Hall, Sean Hayes, Eddie Izzard, Jay Leno, James Lipton, Molly Shannon, Christian Slater
Source:
The New Straits Times
http://www.nst.com.my/Monday/Features/20081130201623/Article/index_html
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12/01/2008 -
MGMT, The Forum, London
Of all the Brooklyn exports to the British music scene, MGMT span the most musical generations with their blend of Sixties synth-fuelled psychedelia, Bowie influences and rock. That tickets for tonight sold out in June and touts are selling them for £100 outside is testimony to their meteoric rise.
Source:
Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/mgmt-the-forum-lon
don-1042378.html
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11/29/2008 -
A Reporter Lands a Slot on Italian Best-Seller Lists and Hit Lists
Rosaria Capacchione, author of ?The Gold of the Camorra,? was faced with death threats after a long career tracing the rise of the Campania region?s violent clans.
Source:
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/29/world/europe/29italy.html?em
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11/30/2008 -
What?s in a name?
Many Cache Valley residents live a good part of their lives through an alter-ego: their anonymous Internet chat personality. As we all know, these alter-egos are generally more bold, sarcastic and critical than the personalty their owners present to the public.
Source:
The Logan Herald Journal
http://hjnews.townnews.com/articles/2008/11/29/opinion/our_view/ourview-11-28-08
.txt
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11/30/2008 -
I had to have a new liver, but I still don't believe that 'presumed consent' is right, says transplant recipient
As Gordon Brown says we should have to opt out of organ donation, National Trust communications director Ivo Dawnay, explains why he disagrees
Source:
Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1090501/I-new-liver-I-dont-believe-pre
sumed-consent-right-says-transplant-recipient.html?ITO=1490
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11/29/2008 -
Veteran reporter covers Naples mob
Since the 1980s, Rosaria Capacchione of Il Mattino has tracked three generations of the violent and economically mighty Camorra clans.
Source:
International Herald Tribune
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/28/europe/profile.php
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