Arts + Entertainment
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Suburgatory’s Chatswin will become a real town? Ana Gasteyer to relocate there? This has gotta be an April Fool’s, right? Right?
From the Press Releases that Have to an April Fool’s Joke Dept., this just in from Warner Bros. Life imitates art when Warner Bros. Television’s...
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The origin of Mika’s “super-stylish” dancing shoes
Ever notice the brightly colored, baroque hi-tops that Mika wears? Turns out, they were created for the international pop star by celebrity shoe designer Christian...
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Lara's Triumphant Return: Tomb Raider Review
When it came time to actually sit down and play Tomb Raider, the latest entry in the renowned franchise that has spanned three console generations...
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GTA V: Rockstar teases a fresh batch of screenshots
After a period of radio silence, Rockstar have dropped a number of new in-game screenshots of their upcoming GTA sequel, detailing the dynamic weather system...
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Satirical Artistry
''I've done several paintings and have somewhat of an obsession with American Gothic by Grant Wood,'' says artist Zade Ramsey, who repeatedly traveled to see...
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Heart of Darkness
Adapting an adaptation, The American Century Theater puts an intelligent and provocative spin on Orson Welles's Voodoo Macbeth, itself a radical interpretation of Shakespeare's Scottish...
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SimCity’s gorgeous urban landscapes
Reviewing the new SimCity in last week’s issue, Metro Weekly video game critic (and regular Technocrat contributor) Rhuaridh Marr raves about the look of the...
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Urban Playground: SimCity Review
Forget the launch debacle, which has cast a dark cloud of incompetency over Electronic Arts, SimCity is a great game. EA's server woes, and subsequent...
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Disco Ball
A reporter recently asked members of the band Escort if any of them are gay. Turns out, unbeknownst to co-founder Eugene Cho, at least one...
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Diverse Folk
Ask Catie Curtis if her uplifting, anthemic song ''Another Day on Earth,'' complete with a ''whew-ew-ew'' refrain, is a crowd-pleaser, and she confirms so in...
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80s pop from the gay U.K.
On BBC2 Radio‘s Wednesday night broadcast of The People’s Songs, an hour-long episode will be dedicated to the historical influence of gays in British pop music....
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Magic Show
What happened to Steve Carell? He set the comedy world on fire with his naive-fool shtick in The Office and The 40-Year-Old Virgin, sweetening his...
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Who's That Girl?
In the words of Jean Genet, ''Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.'' And anyone who likes their...
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Political Animal
Having West Wing withdrawal? House of Cards DTs? Richard Schiff has the answer for you. It's called Chasing the Hill, and it's a political Web...
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Skate Away
''I remember my dad taking me to the roller-skating rink when I was a kid, and I did have roller blades in college,'' James Ellzy...
