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Rob Smith’s Media 6ix: May 16, 2012
Rob Smith's Media 6ix: Eddie Van Halen, Gay Marriage, Avengers, etc
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Shameless Nostalgia: SimTower
Video games are signs and symbols of information technology as a whole
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Rob Smith’s Media 6ix: May 9, 2012
"Rob Smith's Media 6ix": Fornatale, Spiotta, Cowley, Carlson, etc
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Concert Review: Squeeze Digs Deep at New Jersey Gig
What does a somewhat-recently reunited band with a pretty good live album on their hands do after several live tours and a prime spot on the bill at the Coachella Music Festival? It’s not
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Review: Squeeze, “Live at The Fillmore”
In a recent thought piece on The A.V. Club, Josh Modell ruminated on the dilemma of bands touring endlessly around the hits that made them famous, even as they continue to record new material
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Finding Weird in the 90s
Genuinely bizarre stuff that belongs in its own, special, thoroughly un-ironic corner of human artistic expression
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Mad Men Season 5 Premiere
“I don’t really care about work. I care about you.” That, you incredibly patient fans of Mad Men, is not the only lie Don Draper tells over the course of the first two episodes
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The Office (and Community): Get the Girl
Two relatively interesting things happened on NBC this week. The Office finally closed out its Florida arc by dragging most of the subplot’s principal characters back to Scranton and Community returned after a long, nervous hiatus.
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The Office Florida Excursion: Last Day in Florida
I may step on some critics’ toes for this statement, but I believe film will always be at least a little more respectable than television. It’s not because film attracts an inherently higher caliber
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Popdose Presents: Songs of Freedom, Episode Three
Episode 3 focuses on MTV: the role of politics in its history and programming, and the politically motivated artists who've been a part of it
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