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and it was with David Leavitt, and it only recently ended. But unlike Tiger Woods, I am not sorry. I spent the last several months reading Leavitt’s Collected Stories from cover to cover. I loved it. I hope it’s no secret that I love a short story. I do. If I cheat on poetry, it’s
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Last night I stayed up waaaaay past my adult bedtime and snuck out to see The Gossip in concert. They played with Men and Apache Beat at the 9:30 Club, an awesome little venue here in town. I thought Men were pretty cool; I’d never heard them before, so I bought their sampler CD. It
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Much to, I’m sure, Collin Kelley’s chagrin, I paid money to see Jennifer’s Body. And I don’t regret it. That said, the trouble with Jennifer’s Body isn’t Megan Fox, believe it or not. It’s simply that, while trying to be both funny and unsettling, it succeeds at being neither. There’s no gore to speak of,
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So, I know that all of you out there have been waiting with bated breath for my take on the CW’s new series Vampire Diaries because: a) I am basically a 14-year-old girlb) I am virtually a PhD-level scholar of the current vampire Zeitgeistand c) You knew there was no way I wasn’t tuning into
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First, the good news: Sorority Row, while gross and formulaic, was actually an enjoyable horror film. I’m glad horror films have started to up their production values. Sorority Row is filmed with your typical handheld-shaky camera work (think Blair Witch with slightly more stability) combined with some very slick sets, lighting, and steadycam work. The
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Over the weekend, I saw Inglorious Basterds and keep thinking about it. I think it’s best of Tarantino’s films and would be a perfect film except for one minor detail. The film concerns, as you’ll see in the trailer, a special “Apache”-style military unit headed by Brad Pitt who drop into occupied France to kill
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