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Farkakte Film Flashback: Hazy Shade of Winter Edition

Pete Chianca February 10, 2010 2

Deep in the scrotum-shriveling dead of winter, Pete Chianca resurfaces with a list of some chilly cinematic suggestions

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Infinite Play: Richard Thompson, “From Galway to Graceland”

Dave Lifton January 8, 2010 8

On Elvis Presley's 75th birthday, Dave Lifton's latest Infinite Play column pays tribute to the King by talking about Richard Thompson's "From Galway to Graceland."

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Bootleg City: Peter Gabriel in Philadelphia, July ’87

Matthew Boles December 4, 2009 25

OK, I have to tell you a story. The other day I was sleeping off my annual four-day Thanksgiving bender when my phone rang at the crack of midnight. It took me a second

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Sugar Water: When Chickens and Pigs and Foxes Who Are Married to Tigers Attack

Robert Cass December 2, 2009 8

So, are you done with all your Thanksgiving leftovers? Already looking forward to that Christmas ham? Then listen up, all you attendees of Jesus’s annual baby shower, and take a page from your Hanukkah-celebrating

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Infinite Play: Old 97′s, “Barrier Reef”

Dave Lifton November 19, 2009 9

Dave Lifton deconstructs a number about alcohol-soaked heartbreak from the Old 97's back catalog. Got something on your mind, Dave

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Blu-ray Review: “Say Anything…”

Ken Shane November 11, 2009 7

You know the scene. Hell, if you grew up in a certain era, it’s practically tattooed on your eyelids. Lloyd Dobler (deftly played by John Cusack) stands in the driveway of the home of

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John C. Hughes on John Hughes

John C. Hughes August 7, 2009 21

Filmmaker John Hughes, who reinvented the teen film in the '80s, has died, and our own John C. Hughes remembers what it was like to be a teen growing up with films like Pretty

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