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          <title>Team Effort: Review of She&amp;#39;s Out of My League</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[She's Out of My League: True ensemble work contributes to the hilarity in <i>She’s Out of My League</i>.... From Salt Lake City Weekly.]]></description>
          <category>Movies+TV/Reviews</category>
          <pubDate>Mon,  8 Mar 2010 18:04:10 -0500</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.cityweekly.net">Salt Lake City Weekly</source>
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          <title>Stumbling to the Altar Interracial Marriage Comedy Leaves Both Lawns Bare</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Our Family Wedding: Writer/director Rick Famuyiwa's version of interracial marriage is about as much fun as a trip to the dentist.... From City Pulse.]]></description>
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          <pubDate>Mon,  8 Mar 2010 17:03:11 -0500</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.lansingcitypulse.com">City Pulse</source>
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          <title>Too Little Too Late Paul Greengrass Switches Teams, But to What End?</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Green Zone: Director Paul Greengrass attempts to overcompensate for his unthinkably flat 2006 propaganda piece United 93 with a shaky-cam Iraq war picture.... From City Pulse.]]></description>
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          <pubDate>Mon,  8 Mar 2010 14:08:52 -0500</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.lansingcitypulse.com">City Pulse</source>
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          <title>An Analysis of Oscar&amp;#39;s Not-So-Major Categories</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Hey, look! It’s an Oscar ceremony in March, just like we used to have every year. With all the attention on the Best Picture and acting races as usual, I’m running my third annual rundown of some of the lesser-known categories to help you with your Oscar pool.... From Fort Worth Weekly.]]></description>
          <category>Movies+TV/Movie News</category>
          <pubDate>Sun,  7 Mar 2010 16:57:43 -0500</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.fwweekly.com">Fort Worth Weekly</source>
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          <title>Fort Worth and Dallas Filed a Joint Application for Federal Funds but Dallas Got the Nod</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Although Fort Worth and Dallas had submitted a joint application for modern streetcar lines, the U.S. Department of Transportation handed $23 million to Dallas and not a red cent to Fort Worth.... From Fort Worth Weekly.]]></description>
          <category>Politics/Commentary</category>
          <pubDate>Sun,  7 Mar 2010 16:53:29 -0500</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.fwweekly.com">Fort Worth Weekly</source>
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          <title>Conscious Carnivores: Meat-Eaters Help Launch a New Front in the Slow-Food Movement</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=1868824</link>
          <description><![CDATA[By the time Peter Licht pulled into Devil's Gulch Ranch to pick up his pig, four lambs had already been slaughtered. Mobile butcher John Taylor made quick work of them, gutting and cleaning each animal in about 15 minutes.... From Metro Silicon Valley.]]></description>
          <category>Culture/Food+Drink</category>
          <pubDate>Sun,  7 Mar 2010 16:48:09 -0500</pubDate>
          <source url="http://metroactive.com">Metro Silicon Valley</source>
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          <title>The Life of Fredy Villanueva&amp;#146;s Older Brother Just Got Much More Complicated</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=1868822</link>
          <description><![CDATA[In August 2008, 18-year-old Fredy Villanueva was shot to death by a Montreal police officer. A subsequent police inquiry into the shooting was marred by controversy and resulted in a total exoneration of the two police officers involved.... From Montreal Mirror.]]></description>
          <category>News/Crime &amp;amp; Justice</category>
          <pubDate>Sun,  7 Mar 2010 16:42:10 -0500</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.montrealmirror.com">Montreal Mirror</source>
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          <title>How Dancing Desert Stars Informed YACHT&amp;#39;s New Album</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=1868820</link>
          <description><![CDATA[See Mystery Lights: “YACHT is not a cult,” reads the mission statement of the electronically inclined Portland, Oregon pop duo, who perhaps protest too much. They have a philosophy, a belief system, followers, mystical symbols, a grand council (the YACHT Trust) and a work method that involves trance states... From Montreal Mirror.]]></description>
          <category>Music/Reviews</category>
          <pubDate>Sun,  7 Mar 2010 16:39:36 -0500</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.montrealmirror.com">Montreal Mirror</source>
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          <title>Is a College Education for Everyone?</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=1866369</link>
          <description><![CDATA[A university education is a great thing, a combination of experience and achievement that brings with it the promise of tremendous rewards. But is it something everyone should strive for? The question can be troubling.... From The Athens NEWS.]]></description>
          <category>News/Education</category>
          <pubDate>Sat,  6 Mar 2010 09:37:12 -0500</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.athensnews.com">The Athens NEWS</source>
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          <title>Xiu Xiu Pulls Off the Theatrical, Self-Loathing Thing Pretty Well</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=1864082</link>
          <description><![CDATA[Dear God, I Hate Myself: Look past the twittering electronic blips and beeps on Xiu Xiu’s latest record and you find some pretty heavy, caked-on, manic-depressive drama (not to mention just plain batshit-crazy weirdness).... From Pacific Northwest Inlander.]]></description>
          <category>Music/Reviews</category>
          <pubDate>Fri,  5 Mar 2010 16:53:01 -0500</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.inlander.com">Pacific Northwest Inlander</source>
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          <title>The Fidgety Sound, the Sudden Change-Ups: This is Why You Love Quasi</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[American Gong: The fidgety sound, the sudden change-ups: This is why you love Quasi.... From Pacific Northwest Inlander.]]></description>
          <category>Music/Reviews</category>
          <pubDate>Fri,  5 Mar 2010 16:49:37 -0500</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.inlander.com">Pacific Northwest Inlander</source>
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          <title>ChatRoulette is Hilarious, Disturbing, Entertaining and Odd</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=1864076</link>
          <description><![CDATA[After a while, you become immune to the wieners. Because, after a few days, I found that there can be a lot more — more weirdness, more normal people, more frat boys, more interesting conversations — to ChatRoulette.com than just perverts.... From Pacific Northwest Inlander.]]></description>
          <category>Culture/Computers &amp;amp; Technology</category>
          <pubDate>Fri,  5 Mar 2010 16:46:51 -0500</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.inlander.com">Pacific Northwest Inlander</source>
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          <title>Eight Questions With Editorial Cartoonist Adam Zyglis</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=1863420</link>
          <description><![CDATA[Talk about lofty predecessors. When Adam Zyglis became the editorial cartoonist for the <i>Buffalo News</i> in 2004, he stepped into a role once held by not one, but two, Pulitzer Prize winners (Bruce Shanks in 1958 and Tom Toles in 1990).... From Artvoice.]]></description>
          <category>Culture/Visual Arts</category>
          <pubDate>Fri,  5 Mar 2010 09:56:43 -0500</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.artvoice.com/">Artvoice</source>
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          <title>Still the Promised Land: Poverty, Policy and Hope in the Rust Belt</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=1863418</link>
          <description><![CDATA[Out west in gigantic, thriving Chicago, there’s a debate underway between a journalist and an IT consultant over whether regionalism can help the hollowing-out cities of the Rust Belt.... From Artvoice.]]></description>
          <category>News/Economic  Issues</category>
          <pubDate>Fri,  5 Mar 2010 09:54:30 -0500</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.artvoice.com/">Artvoice</source>
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          <title>Meet Katherine Carroll, the Battlefield Professor</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[In the summer of 2007, Katherine Carroll heard that the Army was searching for Ph.D.s with specialties in Middle Eastern culture and history to embed with combat brigades, to "help them take into account the social, political and cultural context," she says.... From Nashville Scene.]]></description>
          <category>News/War &amp;amp; Peace</category>
          <pubDate>Fri,  5 Mar 2010 09:51:52 -0500</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.nashvillescene.com">Nashville Scene</source>
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          <title>Jeff Yarbro and Sen. Douglas Henry: The Opponents</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Ask challenger Jeff Yarbro if he plans to go on the attack in his bid to dethrone state Sen. Douglas Henry in August's Democratic primary, and he shrugs it off. "I don't see this as a race against Sen. Henry, but one for the state Senate," Yarbro says.... From Nashville Scene.]]></description>
          <category>Politics/News</category>
          <pubDate>Fri,  5 Mar 2010 09:48:59 -0500</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.nashvillescene.com">Nashville Scene</source>
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          <title>Getting to Know Ke$ha, Pop Sensation</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=1863410</link>
          <description><![CDATA[It was the day after Christmas, and we were dancing at 12th & Porter while Ke$ha danced barely three feet away. She already had the No. 2 song in the country, but she wouldn't be a global it-girl for at least another week. In retrospect, we should have cut in.... From Nashville Scene.]]></description>
          <category>Music/Profiles &amp;amp; Interviews</category>
          <pubDate>Fri,  5 Mar 2010 09:47:12 -0500</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.nashvillescene.com">Nashville Scene</source>
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          <title>Design-Savvy Haligonians Demand Architectural Excellence From New Library Design</title>
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          <description><![CDATA["Don't screw it up." This was the not-so-subtle message that Haligonians sent Halifax Public Libraries CEO Judith Hare and her staff during public consultations for the new central library design.... From The Coast.]]></description>
          <category>Books/Book News</category>
          <pubDate>Fri,  5 Mar 2010 09:44:42 -0500</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.thecoast.ca">The Coast</source>
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          <title>Judging a Library by its Cover: We Thought Up Our Own Modern Library</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=1863384</link>
          <description><![CDATA[Our illustration by Jesse Jacobs represents the library of the not-so-distant future. We polled librarians, library science students and experts, travellers and book lovers to build our own vision of the modern library.... From The Coast.]]></description>
          <category>Books/Book News</category>
          <pubDate>Fri,  5 Mar 2010 09:01:09 -0500</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.thecoast.ca">The Coast</source>
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          <title>How Cablevision Is Destroying Newsday</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=1861574</link>
          <description><![CDATA[The nation’s fifth-largest cable TV operator is tearing apart what was once one of the mightiest newspapers in the country. Interviews, financial documents and internal memos paint a picture of a paper under siege, both financially and journalistically.... From Long Island Press.]]></description>
          <category>News/Media</category>
          <pubDate>Fri,  5 Mar 2010 01:36:59 -0500</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.longislandpress.com/">Long Island Press</source>
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          <title>Compact Visions: 2009&amp;#39;s Oscar-nominated short films</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Academy Award-Nominated Short Films 2010: It would be a mistake to look at short film as only a step on the way to features, just as it would be unfair to think of short stories as only an introduction to an eventual novel.... From Eugene Weekly.]]></description>
          <category>Movies+TV/Reviews</category>
          <pubDate>Thu,  4 Mar 2010 19:19:57 -0500</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.eugeneweekly.com">Eugene Weekly</source>
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          <title>Fantasy Island This Isn&amp;#146;t</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=1861184</link>
          <description><![CDATA[Shutter Island: With great swipes of heavy cello music, the brooding, frightening Shutter Island opens aboard a ferry sluicing through the fog. Aboard the vessel are Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio), a federal marshal, and his new partner Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo). Their destination is Shutter Island in the Boston harbor.... From Eugene Weekly.]]></description>
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          <pubDate>Thu,  4 Mar 2010 19:15:16 -0500</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.eugeneweekly.com">Eugene Weekly</source>
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          <title>Mamet&amp;#146;s &amp;#39;Speed-the-Plow&amp;#39; Hollows out Hollywood at Cherry Center</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=1861158</link>
          <description><![CDATA[David Mamet is all about dialogue – a broken-up dialogue of interruptions and unfinished sentences, repetition and leaps across loosely connected ideas. It’s tough-guy back-and-forth, bobbing and weaving with everything from intellectual razzle dazzle to low-blow punchlines.... From Monterey County Weekly.]]></description>
          <category>Culture/Theater</category>
          <pubDate>Thu,  4 Mar 2010 18:24:08 -0500</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.MontereyCountyWeekly.com">Monterey County Weekly</source>
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          <title>Whaling Proposal Harpoons International Debate</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=1861155</link>
          <description><![CDATA[The International Whaling Commission proposes to legalize commercial whaling... in order to reduce illegal whaling. Despite a 1986 international ban on for-profit whale hunting, which left open a loophole for scientific whaling, Iceland, Norway and Japan have kept at it in relatively plain view.... From Monterey County Weekly.]]></description>
          <category>News/Animal Issues</category>
          <pubDate>Thu,  4 Mar 2010 18:19:51 -0500</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.MontereyCountyWeekly.com">Monterey County Weekly</source>
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          <title>The Static Minds&amp;#39; &amp;#39;Rich Girl Blues&amp;#39;</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=1861151</link>
          <description><![CDATA[Rich Girl Blues: Here, on the debut 7" from Raleigh quartet The Static Minds, there are two. A-side reasoning: She's too busy being rich and, memorably put, "dying in her own bad taste." B-side reasoning: She's too busy being a bore.... From Independent Weekly (NC).]]></description>
          <category>Music/Reviews</category>
          <pubDate>Thu,  4 Mar 2010 18:12:28 -0500</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.indyweek.com">Independent Weekly (NC)</source>
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          <title>Wake County Goes to Hell</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Del Burns' abrupt resignation as Wake County's superintendent of schools made things clear: The county is in crisis. The Wake school system, lauded as among the best in the nation, is in mortal danger from the newly elected school board majority and its right-wing backers.... From Independent Weekly (NC).]]></description>
          <category>News/Education</category>
          <pubDate>Thu,  4 Mar 2010 18:06:13 -0500</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.indyweek.com">Independent Weekly (NC)</source>
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          <title>Take a Bow: Rosson Crow and the Boys with the Bad Reputations</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=1861110</link>
          <description><![CDATA[Rosson Crow laments the challenges facing a young female artist, of dealers who don’t want to take her seriously and art-world types who expect her to behave a certain way. That boy’s club attitude is one of the main focuses of her latest show.... From New York Press.]]></description>
          <category>Culture/Visual Arts</category>
          <pubDate>Thu,  4 Mar 2010 17:32:56 -0500</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.nypress.com">New York Press</source>
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          <title>Eisner Doesn&amp;#39;t Try For Symbolism and His Reboot is Better For It</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=1861109</link>
          <description><![CDATA[The Crazies: Breck Eisner’s remake of George Romero’s <i>The Crazies</i> is one of those movies dishonest critics use for target practice. It has no big names or budget that they feel compelled to respect and so disrespect inspires them to ignore its visual wit and skillful pacing.... From New York Press.]]></description>
          <category>Movies+TV/Reviews</category>
          <pubDate>Thu,  4 Mar 2010 17:28:45 -0500</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.nypress.com">New York Press</source>
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          <title>Wake Up and Smell the Oscars: They Stink!</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=1861107</link>
          <description><![CDATA[Everyone has their wakeup moment about the Academy Awards: A moment when you put away childish belief and realize it’s not at all about art but about popularity (as Sally Field once indicated and then got lambasted for her clarity).... From New York Press.]]></description>
          <category>Movies+TV/Movie News</category>
          <pubDate>Thu,  4 Mar 2010 17:21:53 -0500</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.nypress.com">New York Press</source>
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          <title>Are Liberals Smarter? Ask Some Recent Studies</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=1861105</link>
          <description><![CDATA[A widely debated study published in the current issue of the scientific journal <i>Social Psychology Quarterly</i> tries to explain why most of us attach ourselves to broad political concepts like liberalism and conservatism and embrace different social and religious values.... From Arkansas Times.]]></description>
          <category>Politics/Commentary</category>
          <pubDate>Thu,  4 Mar 2010 17:19:24 -0500</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.arktimes.com">Arkansas Times</source>
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