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Night & Day
Departing Is Such Sweet Sorrow
By Erica K. Landau
Published: July 9, 2009
It’s easy to pigeonhole Japanese cinema into three categories: anime, samurai films, and horror. Everyone knows Spirited Away, Godzilla, and Ringu (later remade as The...
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Night & Day
The Great Adaptation Experiment
By Jamie Laughlin
Published: July 9, 2009
Comedian Jamie Kennedy wasn’t born to fame. He didn’t arrive in Tinseltown with prestigious managerial representation, a fly bachelor pad, or a flock of top-heavy...
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Night & Day
They Really Go With Everything
By Terra Sullivan
Published: July 9, 2009
If you’ve been crushing hard for a time before Pro Tools and Auto-Tune were the great equalizers of pop music, responsible for the T-Pains of this world, then it’s...
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Night & Day
Size Matters
By Erica K. Landau
Published: July 9, 2009
Is Arnold Schwarzenegger circa 1969 a work of art? When you think of the curve of his muscles, his ice-tray stomach, and his itsy-bitsy, teenie-weenie bikini bottom, are you...
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Night & Day
Get the Skinny on Skinny Dipping World Record
By Erica K. Landau
Published: July 9, 2009
Some people are comfortable being naked. They sleep naked, watch TV naked, walk around the house naked. For them, getting dressed is a chore. If you're comfortable in nothing...
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Night & Day
Learn To Play On The House
By Erica K. Landau
Published: July 9, 2009
Have you run out of beginner's luck at the casino? Those few fateful hours, sometimes days -- when it seems you can't do wrong despite not having a clue as to what you're doing...
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Night & Day
Big Guns, Small Bikinis
By Erica K. Landau
Published: July 9, 2009
If you don't think body image affects men, I urge you to take one look at the bodybuilders competing in this years NPC Southern States Championships. What else could drive...
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Night & Day
Who's Fresh Now
By Jason Harper
Published: July 9, 2009
In the late '80s and early '90s, the smack-talkin', party-startin' Philadelphia duo DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince provided millions of young American suburbanites their...
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Night & Day
The Real Comeback Kid
By Jake Smith
Published: July 9, 2009
Robert Schimmel is from the school of hard knocks. Lots of people claim to have started off there, but his schooling was extreme. Ten years ago, Schimmel got his start in...
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Night & Day
Going Postal
By Arielle Castillo
Published: July 9, 2009
Wow. Do we like this new look for the Postmarks? They were always pretty low-key in the hair/make-up/costume department before, but their new makeover is sharp. They look like...
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Night & Day
It's a Sign
By Erica K. Landau
Published: July 9, 2009
Creating gritty pop art in the spirit of Andy Warhol -- if Warhol wandered the desert and came across rusty gas station signs -- Cuban artist Kadir Lopez Nieves is...
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Night & Day
Song and Dance
By Erica K. Landau
Published: July 9, 2009
For fans of the movie So You Think You Can Dance, Vices: A Love Story explores human relationships through various styles of dance like modern ballet, contemporary and ballroom...
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Nightlife
Buzzed in Paradise
By Brett Gillin
Published: July 9, 2009
It's one of the strangest things I've ever seen at a bar. Here I am, sitting down enjoying a vodka tonic with an extra lime and waiting for the evening's entertainment to start...
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Live Wire
Jazzy Jeff
By Jason Harper
Published: July 9, 2009
In the late '80s and early '90s, the smack-talkin', party-startin' Philadelphia duo DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince provided millions of young American suburbanites their...
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Outtakes
First Bassist of Funk
George Porter Jr. continues a New Orleans tradition.
By Wade Tatangelo
Published: July 9, 2009
Few sounds are as infectiously timeless as New Orleans funk. Credit bassist George Porter Jr. for helping create that unstoppable sonic template while a member of the Meters in...
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Film
Life-and-Death Situation
It's hard to stay mad at surprise Oscar winner Departures.
By Ella Taylor
Published: July 9, 2009
The stately Japanese movie Departures comes into theaters trailing some justified ill will for having trounced the critical favorite, Israel's Waltz With Bashir, for Best...
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Live Wire
Don Chambers
By Brett Gillin
Published: July 9, 2009
Don Chambers is an Athens, Georgia-based singer/songwriter whose latest album, Zebulon, was produced by Patterson Hood of Drive-By Truckers fame. His music is thick with banjo,...
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Outtakes
N.O.R.E. at White Room, Miami
Friday, July 3, 2009
By Chris Robinson
Published: July 9, 2009
Better than: What one might expect from a world-class MC in an unfamiliar situation. The review: Whenever a formerly well-known artist dips under the radar for several years,...
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Film
Floating in a Most Peculiar Way
Bowie's kid makes his own space oddity.
By J. Hoberman
Published: July 9, 2009
Moon, directed by British advert tyro Duncan Jones, is a modest science-fiction film with major aspirations. Jones' debut is pleased to engage genre behemoths — 2001,...
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Live Wire
Cat Power
By Sarah Askari
Published: July 9, 2009
The legend of Chan Marshall draws its power from her beauty, her Southernness, and her mental illness. Oh, and also from that time she flashed her bush at readers of the New...
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