Columns
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Review: Jane’s Addiction Sounds Like Second-Tier U2 in ‘Escape Artist’
The pioneering alt-rock band’s first album in eight years sounds more like mid-level U2 (or Muse) than their own trailblazing ’90s explosiveness
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Review: Shelby Lynne Addresses Family Demons in Surprising ‘Revelation Road’
On her 12th album, the acclaimed ex-country singer finally writes about the famous tragedy in her family background … and, as always, lifts melancholia to exhilarating new levels
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Whatever Happened to ‘TVTV’?
The left-wing San Francisco collective of writers, editors, shooters and actors hit Hollywood like a storm, but cleared out right along with the 1970s
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Review: Chris Isaak Reaches for the Memphis Sun on Elvis-Emulating Tribute Album
It’s a wonder a Sun Records worshipper like Isaak didn’t get around to covering Presley, Lewis, Orbison and Cash a couple of decades ago Better timelessly late than never
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My Addiction to ‘Breaking Bad’
The acting and writing on display each week is all too rare in TV today
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Why Financiers — Not Commies — Are the New Movie Villains
Hollyblog: Thanks to a plethora of stereotype-sensitive advocacy groups, finding villains is not so easy
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Here’s How to End the NBA Lockout/Strike … Immediately
Hollyblog: Add up all the lost wages and lost revenue and send the “Damage that Your Inability to Work Things Out Caused Innocent People” bill and let the owners and players split it
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Review: Martina McBride Makes a Nicely Restrained Fresh Start With ‘Eleven’
The diva’s first album for a new label flirts with contemporary pop and Nashville-style R&B before settling into being a honest-to-gosh country album
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‘A Cry for Help’: The Making of the Tracey Thurman Story
Thurman, who remains scarred and partially paralyzed from stab wounds inflicted by her husband, won a $2,6 million judgement against the city of Torrington, Conn.
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Review: Joe Jonas Can’t Quite Get Into the Club With Disco-fied Solo Debut
Shorn of both locks and rock, the swarthiest JoBro leaves his siblings and their power-pop behind for an underwhelming set of club bangers
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Review: Evanescence Runs Gloom Into the Ground on ‘Evanescence’
That more adventurous project Amy Lee kept promising over the last five years? It got put in the vault!
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Consumer Laundering – Piracy’s Silver Lining Unfolds
Operators of online piracy sites should take note — you could be sitting on the next media gold rush
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A Movie Guide to Occupy Wall Street
These groups are a lightning rod for a dizzying array of America’s ills, from gargantuan student loans to joblessness to vampiric bankers
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Drugs, Sex, Girls: Being Directed by Peckinpah on His ‘Killer Elite’
Make-up — black grease — was put under all the other actresses’ eyes — I looked at him and thought, “You do that to me, and I’m walking,”
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Wanted: An American Hero; Found: ‘Dancing’s’ J.R. Martinez
This guy has embraced the gift of life and celebrates it daily … as we all should.
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Guy Magar