Since I joined Robot 6 earlier this year, my webcomics and overall sequential art interviews have run there, for the most part, rather than here. But given that Red Plains writer Caryn A. Tate was already interviewed by fellow great Robot Sixer Brigid Alverson recently (go read it, it’s a great interview [thanks to Alverson's [...]
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Normally my favorite part of American Public Radio’s Sound Opinions is toward the end, when the show’s listeners call in with their supporting or counter points to the opinions of Chicago-based music critics, Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot. But this week, the show (which describes itself as “the world’s only rock and roll talk show”) [...]
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As noted by EW.com (citing Broadcasting & Cable), Hulu management has decided that as of 2010 it’s “time to start getting paid for broadcast content online”. Really? You think folks are going to go for that?
I’m a longtime fan of Hulu, as documented in this May 2008 post, but I sincerely doubt I will pay [...]
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Rank Title Weekend Gross
1. PARANORMAL ACTIVITY $22,000,000 $62,477,000
2. SAW VI $14,800,000 $14,800,000
3. WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE $14,420,000 $53,960,000
4. LAW ABIDING CITIZEN $12,713,000 $40,318,000
5. COUPLES RETREAT $11,097,000 $78,213,000
6. ASTRO BOY $7,017,000 $7,017,000
7. THE STEPFATHER $6,500,000 $20,352,000
8. THE VAMPIRE’S ASSISTANT $6,348,000 $6,348,000
9. CLOUDY W/A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS $5,600,000 $115,204,000
10. ZOMBIELAND $4,300,000 $67,308,000
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What could be better than reading the New York Times Book Review? Or Paper Cuts, the NY Times book blog? Listening to the Book Review podcast, of course.
For the week of October 23, the show covers “Jonathan Lethem, author of Chronic City; Frank Bruni on a new biography of Elizabeth Taylor; Motoko Rich with notes [...]
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