The American | Director Anton Corbijn | Score: 6.1 Appropriately enough, the vast majority of guns in this American assassin abroad film are equipped with silencers, the bullets barely make a sound before slicing through their given targets. The film follows suit. In what could only be described as a deliberate pace, with great...
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Paul Collins – The King of Power Pop! (Alive Natural Sound Records – 2010) 3 out of 4 **** Paul Collins’ new record, The King of Power Pop!, is better than any Paul Collins record circa 2010 has a right to be. That is not to say it is an excellent record. His choice...
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Hmmmm. Back to school. A topic fraught with pride, expectation, a little fear, and a sense of inevitablility. All I can convey to you is my experience from my not so typical perspective on the subject. Some background. My daughter Elizabeth and I are unusually close. I had her late in life, an only...
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While attending your average summer party, a rising college sophomore like myself will be asked the same two questions perpetually throughout the evening: One, “How was your first year at college?” and two, “are you excited to be going back to school?”. In an attempt to spare my acquaintance from the bursting floodgates of...
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Fences! This picture needs a caption! Write a caption and maybe win a prize! Please send this link to all your friends, maybe one of them will win! Let’s see what captions, you all can come up with for this one! People love the prize, give it a try, anyone could win, why not...
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The takoyaki – little crepe balls filled with yummy things – at Maru Global can be made vegan! We got some Maru Global takeout not too long ago, and I think their takoyaki makes the perfect dinner when you want to try a lot of different things and are kind of tired of the same...
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Life During Wartime | Director Todd Solondz | Score: 6.4 The story (possibly apocryphal) goes that when Kafka used to read “Metamorphosis” to his friends, he’d bust up laughing. To him, the idea of young man suddenly turning into a cockroach and scurrying around his cramped bedroom as the rest of his family lived...
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The school year comes to an end, only creating new beginnings. With a rush to move all of our belongings from our apartments things become fuzzy with one object clearly in focus…our departure. As with any big trip there is always something to slow you down; a small delay on cosmetic body work on...
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For 13 years, I’ve made sure that my son’s birthday was celebrated big, spending weeks planning a theme party and fun activities for him and his friends. For his first birthday, we had the Singing Library Lady come to our house, play her guitar and sing “Wheels on the Bus,” “There Was an Old...
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Editors note: This is a dream many of us have had. To take some time to travel across the United States in a Volkswagen van with some friends. The romance with the road is as old as the horse! Steve Funk and his friends are going to share this journey with us. So without...
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