After Earth is one of only two new films this weekend, do yourself a favor and see anything else.
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Running Shoe Review: Zoot Ovwa 2.0
The Zoot Ovwa 2.0 is a shoe that's light but very well cushioned for training runs on almost any surface. It's a great shoe for mid-foot and heel strikers opting for fast-paced training and racing.
Read More »Music Review: R.E.M. – Green: The 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
Green wasn’t my favorite R.E.M. album when it was first released way back in 1988, and to be perfectly honest, it still isn’t. Not by a longshot. But it was definitely a turning point, both in terms of where they were headed creatively, and certainly – pardon the expression, here …
Read More »Concert Review: Primus – Fox Theater, Pomona, CA, 5/19/13
The audience got “Beaver,” which thrilled them to no end.
Read More »DVD Review: Teen Wolf Season Two
This batch continues the story started in season one, and takes things to a new level.
Read More »Book Review: The World’s Rarest Birds by Erik Hirschfeld, Andy Swish, and Robert Still
In our ever photographic world, where satellite technology can reproduce an image from anywhere on the planet, and cell phone cameras are as plentiful as pocket change, it is hard to imagine any mundane image not captured by the lens of a camera. In the huge and exhaustive new book The World’s …
Read More »Music Review: Billy Talbot – On the Road to Spearfish
On the Road to Spearfish is meant to take you to a place where time has minimal meaning but where there's something almost mystical about its drawing power.
Read More »Music DVD Review: The Moody Blues – Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970; Live at Montreux 1991
If you're old enough to have attended the Isle of Wight Festival, or any other Moody Blues concert of the time, and you're willing to forgive a really rough and ready sound, by all means spend Tuesday afternoon, or any other, back in an era when live meant live.
Read More »Music Review: Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes – Playlist: The Very Best of Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes
Move over Michael Bolton, Southside Johnny was here first.
Read More »Blu-Ray Review: The Ultimate Gangsters Collection: Contemporary (Mean Streets/ The Untouchables/ GoodFellas/ Heat/ The Departed
One of the most durable genres in the history of film is the so-called “gangster” flick. They have been with us since (at least) D.W. Griffith’s The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912), and will probably be around forever. Although all of the major studios have produced these types of pictures, …
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