Welcome to the fourth edition of The Teevee, a new occasional feature in which film/music editor Justin Strout, arts & culture/food editor Jessica Bryce Young and staff writer Billy Manes gchat about their favorite shows the morning after. Also, it should go without saying, but the following is one giant SPOILER ALERT!!!!! In this episode, Strout and...
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As we learned a little while ago, the DVD_by-mail-and-streaming giant Netflix, is raising their base rate for unlimited streaming+1 DVD from $9.99 to $15.98 per month. That’s a huge jump in price point for a service that is nice, but still fairly sub par. Between antagonizing Criterion into moving their streaming to Hulu+ (and...
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Just a quick post to remind you to hide your wallets. Stick those credit cards in a bag of water and throw it in the freezer so you can avoid financial ruin at the hands of those diabolical bastards at Criterion. It’s 50% off time at Barnes and Noble again, meaning most Blurays are...
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So this weekend, we got a bit of a break in the summer action avalanche as the two big releases were the lukewarmly reviewed comedies, The Zookeeper and Horrible Bosses. I didn’t see either (maybe Horrible Bosses on video, but no desire whatsoever to see The Zookeeper), but did get around to seeing Larry Crowne, the affable...
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock and thought that continuous sonic boom this morning was the apocalypse, you know that the Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off earlier today on the final shuttle mission NASA will ever launch. I’m personally not a big fan of the International Space Station, though I do have a...
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Welcome to the third edition of The Teevee, a new occasional feature in which film/music editor Justin Strout, arts & culture/food editor Jessica Bryce Young and staff writer Billy Manes gchat about their favorite shows the morning after. Also, it should go without saying, but the following is one giant SPOILER ALERT!!!!! In this episode, Strout and...
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As viewers around the country reacted with shock and fury to the “not guilty” verdicts in the Casey Anthony trial, locals were experiencing an extra frisson of surprise: Holy crap, that’s Brian Feldman! Yes, it was indeed the gadfly performance artist seated prominently in front of the defendant’s family, his oh-so-serious countenance destined to...
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…and, if you’re feeling a little Harry Potter nuts today, you can watch a live webstream of the event as it happens. It’s still a few hours away from the arrivals, but they’re already broadcasting interviews with the craziest of crazy Potterheads and showing featurettes about the making and all that fun stuff. Still...
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Fan of The Smiths? The Slits? The Raincoats? The Belle and Sebastian? Wait… Anyway, what do they have in common, aside from being great? They’re all released by Rough Trade Records, the London-based “indie” superlabel. Anyone who is a fan of music should be able to appreciate this documentary (except you, metalheads and hippity hoppers). Rough...
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Hope everyone is having a good fourth of July weekend and that you haven’t blown off any of your appendages while celebrating. Transformers 3 is making a shitload of money despite seemingly no one thinking it was good, but that’s just how Michael Bay movies work. I’m gonna go with a short preamble today...
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The Survivors Project News: Excerpts from ebook that gives sexual-abuse survivors a chance to tell their stories 5/22/2013
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Album Review: Daft Punk's 'Random Access Memories' Daft Punk ascends to new heights of what-the-fuck on arguably the year's most anticipated release. By M.T. Richards 5/22/2013