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Book Review: The Way the World Works: Essays by Nicholson Baker
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DVD Review: Lonesome (Criterion Collection)
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DVD Review: The Cool Ones
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DVD Review: Born to Be Bad (Warner Archive)
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DVD Review: Bigfoot County
Article first published as DVD Review: Bigfoot County on Blogcritics. Since the Paterson-Gimlin footage of an apparently B-cupped Bigfoot in 1967, the cryptozoological creature has starred in a...
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DVD Review: When Horror came to Shochiku (The Criterion Collection)
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Photobook Review: Wolfgang Tillmans. Neue Welt
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Photobook review: Photo Journalism (Getty Images), edited by Nick Yapp and...
Article first published as Book Review: Photo Journalism (Getty Images), Edited by Nick Yapp and Amanda Hopkinson on Blogcritics. This week’s big news story for pop culture aficionados was the...
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TV Review: DC Cupcakes: County Fair
The auction (Courtesy of TLC) Article first published as TV Review: DC Cupcakes: County Fair on Blogcritics. Critical ethics requires that I declare my bias before proceeding. I am a Washington native...
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Music Review: George Jones, The Complete United Artists Solo Singles
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Photobook/App review: The Afronauts, by Cristina De Middel
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A Review of Harmony Korine’s Book, A Crackup at the Race Riots, Bridging...
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VOD Review: A Band Called Death
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Book Review: ‘A Complete Guide to Ventriloquism: Principles, Practice and...
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DVD Review: Merce Cunningham Dance Company Park Avenue Armory Event
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The Delightful Documentary “Bathtubs Over Broadway” Remembers A Forgotten Art...
(Focus Features) “I don’t know whether this is real … or if this has been some wonderful dream!” That fevered confusion is sung with enthusiasm by a Wal-Mart employee in a fairly recent example of the...
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The Delightful Documentary “Bathtubs Over Broadway” Remembers A Forgotten Art...
(Focus Features) “I don’t know whether this is real … or if this has been some wonderful dream!” That fevered confusion is sung with enthusiasm by a Wal-Mart employee in a fairly recent example of the...
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The Delightful Documentary “Bathtubs Over Broadway” Remembers A Forgotten Art...
(Focus Features) “I don’t know whether this is real … or if this has been some wonderful dream!” That fevered confusion is sung with enthusiasm by a Wal-Mart employee in a fairly recent example of the...
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