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Critic's Choice
By Jason Harper
Just when you're at your lowest — when all is bleak, when no one calls and when even your cat slinks under the bed at the sight of your disgraceful, shambling approach...
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Critic's Choice
By Richard Gintowt
For Britney Spears, the unceremonious revealing of her lady bits in a paparazzi photo was tantamount to a burlesque routine gone horribly wrong. After years of lusting after...
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Critic's Choice
By Ernest Barteldes
As one of the most prominent bands of early '90s rock en Español, Aterciopelados (which translates as "The Velvety Ones") refuse simply to sit back and enjoy the fruits...
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Critic's Choice
By Richard Gintowt
Pop music, in its truest sense, is a lot like Fruit Stripe gum: Yummy for about 30 seconds and then a bit flat. The Ting Tings walk that line like kids at a candy store,...
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Critic's Choice
By Matt Erickson
Quintron and Miss Pussycat is the band that plays in the bar at the end of the world. When the duo bangs out its "swamp tech" brand of garage-dance rock, the sound is...
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Cafe
By Charles Ferruzza
A friend has just started studying tarot. Recently she called with a warning: "Don't eat chicken today. The cards warn against it."
I'm superstitious by nature, so I took the...
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Film
By Nicolas Rapold
Vin Diesel's already-dubious ripped-tough-guy star has dimmed enough to warrant a return to the car-chase series that made him. In the latest, notably slack Fast & Furious...
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Film
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Drawn from Superbad director Greg Mottola's own experiences working at a ramshackle, suburban amusement park in the 1980s, Adventureland feels at once personal and...
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Film
By ELLA TAYLOR
Based on the roman à clef by Philippe Grimbert, a French Jewish psychoanalyst whose parents committed suicide when he was young, Claude Miller's World War II domestic...
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Stage
By Alan Scherstuhl
For all the controversy they've stirred up in New York and London, the creators of My Name Is Rachel Corrie have insisted that their play takes no side in any particular...
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Art
By Dana Self
If the devil is in the details, then even the most bored art devotee will be seduced by the manuscript paintings that make up the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art's new exhibition....
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