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January 11, 2009 06:01 PM EST --
I'm glad ABC gave us an hour of Scrubs in it's first appearance on the network last Tuesday night. The first episode was an unholy mess of quick character sketches sandwiched around the . . .
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November 24, 2008 04:54 PM EST --
On the coldest night of the season so far, singer-songwriter Jonathan Coulton was the hottest ticket in Boston. Those thinking they could walk up to the Paradise box office an hour before showtime . . .
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October 30, 2008 09:21 PM EDT --
"Legally Blonde The Musical" arrives in Boston a week before a Presidential election -- smack dab in the middle of an economic downturn -- just days before we turn the clocks back to begin the . . .
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October 28, 2008 03:26 PM EDT --
A Monday night club gig poses a myriad of challenges for both artist and audience, so you know something magical has happened when the performance brilliantly conquers all. Matthew Sweet rolled . . .
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October 22, 2008 10:54 PM EDT --
Thursday ni ght has always been my favorite night for TV. The weekend is close ... but not close enough for a night out. I'm pretty much fried by the work week, but shifting into TGIF . . .
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September 24, 2008 11:26 AM EDT --
Neil Patrick Harris, we turn to you in these dark times for the TV biz. After the abomination of an Emmy Awards broadcast that America had to gag, snore, and wretch through last Sunday night, . . .
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September 18, 2008 10:44 AM EDT --
I heard "A Chorus Line" long before I ever saw it.
It was 1975. The original cast LP (yes, sweet, sweet vinyl). I was a teenager in a small Massachusetts town, the . . .
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September 03, 2008 09:37 PM EDT --
The guy's name is Sweet, and with his angelic tenor and gorgeous harmonies it's hard to describe his music in non-sugary terms. That hasn't always been the case. There are plenty . . .
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August 17, 2008 07:06 PM EDT --
Ben Stiller's "Tropic Thunder" is making its share of noise right now, but for me it's more of a suburban gully washer than a pop culture deluge. This movie is like a mischievous puppy . . .
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August 07, 2008 09:17 PM EDT --
Right around dusk tonight ... about the same time fireflies begin their nightly summer light show ... The Jonas Brothers will take the stage at the Comcast Center in Mansfield, Massachusetts. A collective . . .
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July 21, 2008 09:21 PM EDT --
Director Christopher Nolan's decision to set his brilliant new film "The Dark Knight" in a present day, American city, tells us everything we need to know about the dark times we live in. . . .
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July 17, 2008 08:37 PM EDT --
Turns out that in a television season nearly upended by a writers strike ... it's the pen (or keyboard) that reigns supreme. "Mad Men" .. "Lost" .. "John Adams" .. "30 . . .
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July 08, 2008 09:23 PM EDT --
"Oh, come on, ladies. God wouldn't have given you maracas if He didn't want you to shake 'em."
Hold on, hold on ... those are the words of Penny Johnson, one of the central . . .
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June 29, 2008 11:37 AM EDT --
Yes, behold the grinning geek to the left ... clearly a crass and obvious ploy by the band Delta Spirit to sex up their upcoming debut CD release. Clearly this is a band that will stop at nothing to . . .
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June 22, 2008 09:09 PM EDT --
While the Boston Celtics were parading around the streets of Boston in duck boats last Thursday, a delicate bit of culinary triage was taking place in a Hub hotel room. Chef Duff Goldman was rebuilding . . .
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June 12, 2008 11:29 AM EDT --
The problem with dying young and famous is there's just too many people left around to muck up your legacy. Instead of reflecting back on a life of creative peaks, valleys and plateaus there's . . .
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June 01, 2008 09:34 PM EDT --
You always have that odd moment when you're talking about new music from the Old 97's ... let's all let it pass okay?! "Blame It On Gravity" ... the first set of fresh tunes since . . .
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May 04, 2008 09:43 PM EDT --
Check out that moustache partners ... Rivers Cuomo is saddled up and ready to ride again! He may have a Harvard degree now, but Rivers isn't singing about nouvelle cuisine ... it's Pork and Beans, . . .
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April 28, 2008 10:56 PM EDT --
Let's first state the obvious. She's 15. That pretty much ends the debate over the "appropriateness" of the "Vanity Fair" photo controversy involving tween multi-media superstar . . .
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April 27, 2008 04:27 PM EDT --
I'm so glad I didn't buy the soundtrack before seeing the show. That may seem an odd thing to say about a musical -- isn't it the songs that make or break the production? In most cases that's . . .
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