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Blogcritics Category: Music: Hard Rock - Jul 18, 2007
Brant Bjork is one of those musicians whose understated brilliance one can imagine Lester Bangs endlessly praising in an obtuse and meandering essay (were Bangs not twenty-five years dead). Bjork's music is of the sort …
Tagged: music
Blogcritics Category: Music: Live Concerts - Jul 18, 2007
This past weekend, some 60,000 plus college kids watched history being made as Dispatch became the first unsigned band to sell out New York City's famed Madison Square Garden. While one night of maximum capacity is an …
Tagged: music
Blogcritics Category: Music: Country and Americana - Jul 18, 2007
Suzanne Vega has her first album on Blue Note, Beauty and Crime. I will confess to having lost track of Ms Vega recently, but it's been six years since she made an album. This sounds promising, and more fully …
Tagged: music
Blogcritics Category: Books: SF - Jul 18, 2007
Loved: Nova #4 Out of all the new titles coming out of Marvel, I am rooting for Nova the hardest. I still don’t know who Dan Abnett or Andy Lanning are, but they’re doing a remarkable job of writing the story of …
Tagged: books
Blogcritics Category: Video: Television - Jul 18, 2007
So Nikhil left a comment on my post about Apu and the 7-Eleven/Kwik-E-Mart promotion. He said: I see your point about the negative stereotypes, but that’s the whole point isn’t it? Aren’t all the characters …
Tagged: culture
Blogcritics Culture News - Jul 18, 2007
Grammy winning pop diva Christina Aguilera has defended her former friend and rival Britney Spears and her parenting skills, which have come under fire recently. According to Contact Music, Christina, who is currently …
Tagged: culture
Blogcritics Category: Sci/Tech: Health/Fitness - Jul 18, 2007
Whole-body Vibration training (WBV) is one of the latest gimmicks to hit the fitness scene. Manufacturers of equipment, both cheap and ridiculously expensive, have seized upon an incredibly thin volume of research in …
Tagged: sci tech
Blogcritics Video Reviews - Jul 18, 2007
I was a huge fan of the Wayside School books when I was younger. So much so that it is one of those books I read all the way through my early teen years because they were just so enjoyable (and they are on my list of …
Tagged: video
Blogcritics Category: Sci/Tech: Computers - Jul 18, 2007
Most geeks admit to having an absolute fascination with their new technology toys when first obtaining them. It’s almost the equivalent of a new husband or wife. Like most marriages, once the “newness” wears off, you …
Tagged: sci tech
Blogcritics Category: Sci/Tech: Computers - Jul 18, 2007
I was originally going to stand in line last Friday morning at the Apple store in Manhattan Beach, Ca. However, I passed an AT&T store on Hawthorne Boulevard and saw nobody standing in line. So, at 8 AM in the …
Tagged: sci tech