Archive | Arts & Entertainment
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Column: Retailers introduce console streaming
There will soon be no need for trips to the local GameStop. All of the big-name retailers’ video games are going to be coming straight to your living room with the advent of game streaming.
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Column: The love/hate relationship with Entourage
Dear bros and broettes, If you have been following along for the last eight years, you will know that “Entourage” is coming to a close. With two episodes left, I am sad to see it go. I have a love/hate relationship with it. I love how Vince, Drama, E and Turtle are family.
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Top Chef restaurant falls short
If it had been opened by any other young, ambitious chef, ink.sack (sic) probably would not have generated nearly as much attention as it did. The little take-out sandwich shack with a low-key hole-in-the-wall feel on Melrose Avenue is hardly a neighborhood secret.
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Album review: Lil Wayne makes comeback with “Tha Carter IV”
After a slow summer in the rap music world, the self-proclaimed "Best Rapper Alive" is back with a new album. Lil Wayne is almost 30 years old and if "Tha Carter IV" gives us any indication of his mental state, he's a grown man and he's got a lot on his mind.
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TV review: VMAs show all that glitters
MTV has been criticized for its lack of actual music programming these days. However, the music was spot-on for the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards. Lady Gaga (or Mister Gaga, to be precise) opened the show with “You & I,” dolled out in drag and backed by an ensemble of greasers.
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Column: Lil Wayne in over his head in feud with Jay-Z
Hip-hop hasn't seen a beef on the scale of Biggie vs. Tupac since the mid ‘90s, but after Lil Wayne's latest album, "Tha Carter IV," leaked online Wednesday, evidence suggests that the next one might find Weezy himself pitted against … Jay-Z?
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Creators of ‘Jersey Shore’ begin casting ‘Party Down South’
The vomit and broken beer bottles littering the floor of Bogie's Bar proved to students and residents reaching for their 15 minutes of fame that reality isn't always glamorous.
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Book review: ‘Punching Tom Hanks’
“Punching Tom Hanks" Author: Kevin Seccia Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Without giving it much thought, the premise behind “Punching Tom Hanks” seems like a throwaway concept.
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Movie review: ‘The Trip’ succeeds with dry, British banter
"The Trip" is a mostly improvised quasi-documentary about two British actors touring northern England, reviewing high-scale restaurants and one-upping each other in their impressions. If you doubt the hilarity in that premise, you can be forgiven, but you'd also be missing out.