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Digging for Gold: The Time-Life “AM Gold” Series, Part 2

Popdose Staff July 13, 2011 4

The second installment of Digging for Gold explores more of 1962's hippest tunes. And Gene Pitney

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Dw. Dunphy On… The Gleek Translation

Dw. Dunphy October 28, 2010 7

There's an awful lot that Popdose's Dw. Dunphy doesn't get. Here's something else

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Theatre Is Easy: “Black Angels Over Tuskegee”

Molly Marinik February 16, 2010 1

BOTTOM LINE: An important story told by a group of talented actors; the good outweighs the bad in this under-explored production. I am a firm believer that the best theatre comes out of collaboration

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Political Culture: Maybe Ayn Rand Needed a Little Christmas

Jon Cummings December 24, 2009 17

I have to admit, I’m a bit conflicted this holiday season. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been going through the motions — spending lots of time at home with my family, plotting how I’m

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Film Review: “Inglourious Basterds” (updated for Blu-ray)

Lance Berry December 16, 2009 16

Quentin Tarantino's latest arrives in theaters today, and Lance Berry has been dying to tell you all about it

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DVD Review: Charmed Lives–Leigh, Olivier, and “That Hamilton Woman”

Bob Cashill September 22, 2009 0

In the HBO/BBC co-production Into the Storm, a visibly moved Winston Churchill (played, in an Emmy-winning performance, by Brendan Gleeson) screens his favorite movie, That Hamilton Woman (1941), for guests. Churchill is said to

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The Bigger Picture: Lay Down Your Arms

Arend Anton September 18, 2009 0

“Filler” is a term often used by music fans to describe songs that sound like they were quickly put together to take up space on an album in order to “fill out” the running

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No Concessions: Summer Hits and Misses

Bob Cashill September 4, 2009 8

Summer's over, and it's got Bob Cashill in a reflective mood as he looks back on what worked -- and what didn't -- at the cinema this blockbuster season

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DVD Review: “Miracle at St. Anna”

Scott Malchus February 13, 2009 0

Miracle at St. Anna opens with a crime:  A black postal worker pulls out a German Lugar pistol and kills an Italian man waiting in line to buy stamps.  Why did he do it? 

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