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Built to Spill: We’re on a Boat

Amy Rose Spiegel :: Tuesday, September 07, 2010
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There are a few things you have to take into consideration if you ever find yourself going to see a band like Built to Spill on a yacht, as I did last Thursday.

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Rodney King To Marry Juror

Alex Moore :: Tuesday, September 07, 2010
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Rodney King, whose brutal 1992 beating by LA cops set off an era-defining race riot, will marry one of the jurors on his trial—the one that pushed hardest to clear the $3.8 million settlement in his civil suit against the city of Los Angeles.

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The Lowbrow Tarot Project

DJ Pangburn :: Tuesday, September 07, 2010
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A Tarot deck is far and away one of the most fascinating pieces of conceptual art ever created.  Usually it is associated with psychics, weirdos, Terry Gilliam, Thomas Pynchon (particularly in “Gravity’s Rainbow”) and adepts of magick like Aleister Crowley and A.E. Waite, both of whom created their own Tarot decks. Carl Jung, the famed psychoanalyst, believed the Tarot images “descended from the archetypes of transformation.”

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SNL Dismisses Jenny Slate

Alex Moore :: Tuesday, September 07, 2010
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Nooo! SNL will be letting go of Jenny Slate to make room for the show’s new entrants. This is a terrible idea.

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TwitTracks: Review Weezer’s ‘Hurley’ for Us!

Alex Moore :: Tuesday, September 07, 2010
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We’re starting a new experiment today: it’s a new column called TwitTracks, where we’ll ask you to review new music over Twitter. Who cares what we think? We want to know what you think.

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MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts: ‘Politics Has Always Been a Form of Theater’

Andrew Belonsky :: Tuesday, September 07, 2010
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Journalist Thomas Roberts covers the news and has been the news. Here he discusses objectivity in the news, how he’s an average American worried about the economy, and why Snooki deserves political attention.

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Wyclef Talked More Shit Than Obama This Weekend

Alex Moore :: Tuesday, September 07, 2010
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If Wyclef Jean wanted to see how a president talks shit, he should have watched President Obama this weekend.

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Restoring Truthiness: Join The Movement

Alex Moore :: Tuesday, September 07, 2010
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A new video has surfaced in the campaign to convince Stephen Colbert to hold a “Restoring Truthiness” rally to rebuff Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally. Watch, and join.

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Dove World Outreach Center: General Petraeus and Everyone Else Speaks Out Against Quran Burning

Carmel Lobello :: Tuesday, September 07, 2010
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You know if General Petraeus is pissed at you, you’re fucking up America.

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Google, Apple to Battle Over Music

Alex Moore :: Tuesday, September 07, 2010
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We may be gearing up for a clash of the titans: Since it unveiled iTunes and the iPod in 2003, Apple has enjoyed a relative monopoly on the way we buy and listen to music. This Christmas, that may change.

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ELO Member Mike Edwards Killed by Hay Bale

Alex Moore :: Tuesday, September 07, 2010
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Perhaps the world’s only notable rock cellist was killed in England over the weekend when a bale of hay crushed his van.

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Martin Luther King Blasts Beck Allies in 1965 Playboy Article

Andrew Belonsky :: Friday, September 03, 2010
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Want to know what Martin Luther King Jr. would say about Glenn Beck? He told Playboy in 1965.

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