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Kirkus Star for Bennett Madison’s SEPTEMBER GIRLS

from Kirkus Reviews KIRKUS REVIEW A meditation on manhood takes a turn into magical realism in this mesmerizing novel. Sam, his father and his older brother are all coping—with varying degrees of success; Sam’s coping includes whiskey and frozen pizza—with Sam’s mother’s departure for Women’s Land. In an attempt to pull things together, his dad [...]

“Giving the Finger” to Ronald Reagan

from The LA Times Hero Complex John Carpenter: ‘They Live’ was about ‘giving the finger to Reagan’ The Hero Complex Film Festival kicked off Friday evening with a 25th anniversary screening of “They Live,” a 35th anniversary screening of “Halloween” and an onstage conversation with the filmmaker behind both movies, John Carpenter. Carpenter discussed his motivation [...]

“Who the f†ck’s Lenny?”

from EXBERLINER Tricky of the trade by Gabriella Seemann Photo by Jarka Snajberk Tricky was trip hop’s anti-poster boy, first making his mark with his moody sprechgesang on Massive Attack’s “Blue Lines” (Virgin) in 1991. You must still run into celebrity a lot. I’ve been next to Kanye West – I stood next to him in [...]

Lady Godiva was a freedom rider / She didnt’ care if the whole world looked.

from The New York Daily News Bea Arthur topless portrait sells for nearly $2 million, causes Facebook stir The ‘Golden Girls’ star gives new meaning to the show’s name as the artist-imagined subject of the painting. BY CHIDERAH MONDE A 1991 painting depicting actress Bea Arthur baring her — um, golden girls — sold for nearly $2 million [...]

9 Circles of Literary Damnation

from Shelf Awareness Floor Display of the Day: ’9 Circles of Literary Damnation’ “Fired up by the release of Dan Brown’s Dante-inspired new thriller, Inferno,” the staff at BookPeople, Austin, Tex, “put together a massive display on our first floor honoring all nine circles of Dante’s hell: Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Anger, Heresy, Violence, Fraud & Treachery. [...]

The Flaming Lips On Fallon

Moroder’s Revenge

from Exclaim.ca Giorgio Moroder “Racer” By Brock ThiessenGiorgio Moroder has received a fair bit of welcomed attention as of late, mainly in thanks to his touching contribution to Daft Punk‘s Random Access Memories. But now the disco innovator is heading out on his own again, crafting the soundtrack to the new mobile game Racer. The game is part of Google’s Chrome Experiment, [...]

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Small Town Cinema Gone

from The LA Times Small-town movie theaters threatened by shift to digital cinema By Richard Verrier, Los Angeles Times Robert Neir and Sage O’Connell dance to bluegrass music in front of the Rio Theater in Monte Rio, Calif., as musicians practice before their concert to raise funds for new digital projection equipment. (Peter DaSilva, For the [...]

The Mega-rrection

from FORBES Inside Mega: The Second Coming Of Kim Dotcom Kim Dotcom, a.k.a. Kim Tim Jim Vestor, a.k.a. Kim Schmitz, doesn’t act much like a man with a net worth in the negative. At 11 a.m. on a Tuesday he’s driving me around on a golf cart “safari” of his 60-acre estate outside of Auckland, [...]