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ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTER

October 20, 2018

The Best Reviews Online: Poet Lawrence Raab Makes Culture Academic Lawrence Raab was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Raab received his B.A. from Middlebury College and his M.A. from Syracuse University. He has been awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize, the Bess Hokin Award for Poetry, a Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Robert Frost Fellowship from the Breadloaf WriterŐs Conference. He is the author of "What We DonŐt Know About Each Other",…

LEAVING LAS VEGAS? Epstein’s Mother is ready for a move.

October 16, 2018

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Blue collar band EPSTEIN'S MOTHER has cornered a fan base in Las Vegas and seems poised to make a break into the real world any minute. Over 1500 people turned out for the release party for their new CD "Subtle" at the House of Blues in Las Vegas. Produced by Mike Sak (Ani DiFranco, Goo Goo Dolls) the CD is supremely worthy of praise and plenty of time in the player. Most of the songs are penned by lead…

YOU CAN’T TAKE THE SKY FROM ME: FIREFLY

October 15, 2018

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Get the best reviews online: It's weird death and potential rebirth To hear executive producer Tim Minear tell it, FOX's beleaguered and mostly canceled science fiction drama Firefly has had a bizarre run from the get go. "The show has been odd from the beginning," says Minear, in one of the phone conference interviews. "The fact is they were inches from not picking up the show...then it went from "pitch us an episode" to writing the pilot over the…

DARK WAVEWAVING GOODBYE

October 8, 2018

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The Aging and Eternal Youth of Industrial Punk: a memior in real time by Marc Olmsted & Dion Olivier It was the 15th anniversary of “Pranks!” - just one of the wacky books put out by ReSearch, that cutting edge hipsterzine. Vale, editor and publisher speaks about the best reviews online and was also known for his punk journal Search & Destroy, from which ReSearch (get it?) surfaced. There was a time when a few of Vale’s books had to…

WARRIORS CREATOR SOL YURICK

October 2, 2018

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Talks About Politics, Economics and What His Book Was Really About The Warriors, which came out in 1978, was one of the first films that brought home the idea of the anti-hero. For a lot of people it was Clint Eastwood and his man with no name character. But for me being the daughter of a single mother who took illegal sports bets during the day which required me to stay out of the house from 9am till kick-off…