Books
The Reluctant Metrosexual
Hipsters have it
hard. Sure, being a member of the New York City
insightful - social - commentary - producing elite can seem glamorous.
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
At 47, David
Sedaris is finally starting to grow up. Yes, that's right, 47. David
Sedaris was born on Dec. 26, 1956.
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Attack of the Political Cartoonists
Here is a
consistently good compilation of excellent editorial cartoons from 150
members of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.
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Comics
In Praise of the Indie Comics
Read Glenn's
perspective on 'Eightball', 'Kid Firechief', and 'Vaughn Bode's Lizard
Zen'.
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Movies
Garden State
Scrubs' Zach
Braff gets all Wes Anderson on us with his sad and wonderful characters
who collide on a young man's trip to his New Jersey hometown for his
mother's funeral in Garden State.
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Open Water
A married
couple bickers while trying not to get eaten by sharks in the
terrifying - yet - somewhat - Blair -Witch - reminiscent Open Water.
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Exorcist: The Beginning
Satan's movie
career continues its downward trajectory with an appearance that is more
funny than scary in the last third of the Exorcist: The Beginning.
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Benji: Off The Leash
Two dogs and a
bunch of humans make complete asses of themselves in the not - even - up
- to - the - standards - of - a - B - movie, poorly shot, horribly
edited, idiotically acted Benji: Off the Leash.
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Without a Paddle
Three guys
honor their dead friend by taking a camping trip, having a few laughs,
learning a few things about themselves but primarily boring the pants
off us in Without a Paddle.
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Music
Scissor Sisters
How much would you pay for the perfect pop song? Think about it. Is one perfect
song worth the cost of a full CD? More?
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Music from the Motion Picture 'Garden State'
This is one of
those albums you can listen to all the way through.
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Theatre
'Humble Boy'
The first act of Yellow Taxi's production of the British play Humble Boy was as theatrical for what was happening outside the theatre as it was for the action onstage.
But enough
about the bad weather - we've seen and heard all about it in the past
two weeks. The play's the thing. Humble Boy deals with the Humble family
- yes, that's their surname - an upper middle class, intellectual lot of
Brits who are reuniting under rather unfortunate circumstances: the
death of the Humble patriarch, James, an etymologist and teacher with a
passion for beekeeping.
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