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In January, one piece of paper changed James McCalla's life.
A muscular, six-foot Haitian-American, the 26-year-old McCalla went out to get the mail at his suburban home in...
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Less than 60 seconds into Don of All Dons, his comeback album and alleged swan song coming out next week and Luther "Uncle Luke" Campbell is already knee-deep in raunch. "How...
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At noon, if you happen to be sitting at the bar inside Capri Blu with owner Amadeo Tasca; his wife, Gracie; or their old friend maitre d' Mauricio Berni; if you happen to be...
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Art School Confidential is much like every movie pilfered from the Saturday Night Live playbook, in which the slight giggles of a four-minute sketch are wrung into two-hour...
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Remember Hurricane Wilma? Of course you do. The lack of power, long lines at the gas station, and all those lunatic drivers racing through intersections… man, was that a...
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By now, pretty much everyone knows that last year’s hit movie The Aristocrats was inspired by comedian Gilbert Gottfried. Gottfried had famously launched into the...
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First, the bad news: 18 losses. Now, the good: seven wins. That’s the Florida Marlins’ record at press time. But there are other good things to talk about. Namely,...
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There’s an old showbiz saying -- that it only takes ten or 20 years to become an overnight sensation. But that was before American Idol reduced stardom to winning a talent...
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When you get down to the nitty-gritty, even Nobel laureate physicists, despite their high-minded ambition to uncover the mysteries of the universe, end up working for food and...
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I've no patience for the Holocaust docudrama -- didn't even see Schindler¹s List till years after its 1993 release, to my parents' everlasting shame. And so...
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Ah, a busy gas station. The perfume of high-octane fuel in the air, the steady ding-ding-ding of the pumps, and the profane mutterings of motorists lined up at the curb. This...
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"I'm sorry I'm drawing so many blanks," offers Pinback guitarist Rob Crow, en route to a show outside of Cleveland. "I woke up at 3:30 this morning and didn't fall back...
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Our anemic movie industry recycles so relentlessly that even our complaints about such plasticized repackaging come off as recycled product of their own, offered primarily to...
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If you've gazed at a record player and imagined you could scratch as well as the next guy, you're not alone. Guitars, drums, bass -- all these instruments appear to require...
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I hit Howl at the Moon on a Saturday night with my buddy Derek, who helped me overcome my customary aversion to dueling piano bars. But there was a good reason my usual...
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It was recently brought to my attention that there's a strong element of ambivalence in the stuff I write. Not of the apathetic variety but the kind that's anxious with...
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The lovable hero of Goal! The Dream Begins is the kind of guy some Americans don't find very appealing these days — a Mexican immigrant who's trying to make a better life...
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The Barbie Diaries Gift Set (Family Home Entertainment)
Battle in Heaven (Tartan)
The Best of Rocky and Bullwinkle: Volume 1 (Sony Wonder)
Big Momma's House 2 (Fox)
Dr....
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Punish Those Pantherites
Why would a hockey fan cross the road? Thank you for writing this article ("Pimp My Arena," Trevor Aaronson, May 4). Sunrise Sports & Entertainment...
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At first glance, the touring package of Bob Dylan and Merle Haggard boggles the imagination. Is it some musical version of a national unity ticket for the 2008 presidential...
