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Monday, June 1, 2009
» NYTimes.com: Sweeping The Clouds Away
The concept of the âinner cityâ â or âslums,â as The Times bluntly put it in its first review of âSesame Streetâ â was therefore transformed into a kind of Xanadu on the show: a…
Friday, May 22, 2009
» WSJ.com: French Open: In Tennis, the Cool Kids Love Clay
In the tennis world, labeling someone a “clay-court specialist” was once a backhanded compliment — code for inferior players often hailing from sunny climes in Spain and Argentina who outlasted…
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Sifl & Olly Retrospective“Fake Blood” “Prostitute Laundry” “Claire Danes” “Llama School” “Dude’s House” “Laser Eyes”
Saturday, May 16, 2009
» NYTimes.com: A New Book Details Jack Kerouac’s Obsession With Fantasy Baseball
Almost all his life Jack Kerouac had a hobby that even close friends and fellow Beats like Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs never knew about. He obsessively played a fantasy baseball game of…
» Bloomberg.com: Crunch Fitness Bankruptcy Shows the Limits of Pole Dancing
Crunch Fitness, the health-club chain with cardio-strip tease and pole-dancing classes, may have marked the end of an era when it filed for bankruptcy last week after about a 25 percent membership…
Friday, May 15, 2009
» Nick's Flick Picks review of Holiday (1938)
A lesser movie would invent some deus ex machina plot device to rearrange these characters where the final scene needs to find them. Holiday, enormously to its credit, never really does that. The…
Thursday, May 14, 2009
» ESPN Soccernet - Le Havre AC 2:4 St Etienne
Le Havre’s relegation to Ligue 2 was confirmed tonight after a home defeat to fellow strugglers St Etienne. Mamadou Diallo and Massamba Sambou netted to put the hosts in the ascendancy after Ilan had…
» SI.com - Campbell to leave Atlantic Sun
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A person with knowledge of the decision says Campbell will leave the Atlantic Sun Conference and return to the Big South in the 2011-12 academic year.
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