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Music Review: Monty Adkins – Fragile.Flicker.Fragment
Experimental electronic music from a master.
Read More »Music Review: Big Brother and the Holding Company Featuring Janis Joplin – Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968
Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968 is Big Brother and the Holding Company captured at the peak of their powers
Read More »Braun Free Pass on Technicality Is Bad for Baseball
The problem here is not that a guy got past the process for the first time after being ruled a violator, but with the guy who got the pass.
Read More »Music Review: Carole King – Simple Things; Welcome Home; Touch The Sky; Pearls: Songs of Goffin and King
Four of Carole King's overlooked later works have been reissued on her own Rockingale Records label.
Read More »Music Review: The Kinks – Face To Face
The Kinks: Chapter 5. The Kinks faced their future 46 years ago.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: All Things Fall Apart
The only impressive aspect was 50 Cent's dramatic weight loss to play a cancer-stricken football star.
Read More »Movie Review: Act of Valor
For anyone who ever wanted a live-action Call of Duty movie may I present to you "Boom, Head-Shot!: The Movie."
Read More »Knick Knacks: Lin and Knicks Face Reality Check Going Into All Star Break
Knicks head coach Mike D'Anotni said afterwards, "It's one game." For now we can try to accept that.
Read More »Movie Review: Wanderlust (2012)
Kool-Aid worth drinking. Director David Wain just keeps getting better with age.
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