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Talib Kweli On Mainstream Hip-Hop And Honoring The Old School
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4/25/2013 11:42:56 PM
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The New York rapper's political and layered rhymes have been pegged as "conscious rap," a label that has now become pejorative. His latest album challenges that image, paying homage to old-school hip-hop and working with the present.
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On With The Show
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4/21/2013 6:50:21 PM
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Highly Recommended The Movie: Vitaphone, a company that Warner Brothers purchased in the1920's, wasn't only responsible for making the movies "talk" with thesound-on-disc system that they invented, but they were also the firsttorelease an all-talking feature in full color, 1929's Onwith the Show . As TheJazz Singer started a trend towardsfull-sound features a couple of years earlier, On with ...
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1984's 'Repo Man' possesses a healthy cynicism
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4/14/2013 3:12:58 PM
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A Second Look: The loopy cult film that stars Harry Dean Stanton and Emilio Estevez returns in a high-definition restoration available from Criterion Collection. Iggy Pop was living in an efficiency apartment near the Whisky a Go Go when a gangly Brit visited him, seeking a theme song for his first movie. The filmmaker was Alex Cox, a graduate of UCLA film school, and the movie was "Repo Man ...
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Ashley Tisdale (A.K.A. The Tizz) Will Dish All About 'Scary Movie 5' On 'Nikki & Sara LIVE'
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4/9/2013 6:26:06 PM
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Ashley Tisdale at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards last month. Heyyy, Warning: You have roughly 10 hours to prep for tonight's new "Nikki & Sara LIVE," packed with stars of screens both big and slightly smaller. First, we'll sit down with accomplished actress and singer (not to mention Instagram royalty -- over one million followers [...]
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Take Five with Eric Rudden
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4/9/2013 9:29:30 PM
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This week we Take Five with sophomore Eric Rudden. Eric is a member of the ski team and plays lacrosse. He's not just good out on the slopes, though. He can find his way around the kitchen too. Be sure to go to our Web site, westmilfordmessenger.com, for our bonus five with Eric.
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With Danny Boyle's 'Trance,' multiple layers of the surreal
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4/5/2013 4:09:13 PM
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NEW YORK -- Tony Danza made a late appearance after a night at the theater. Shosh and Jessa (OK, Zosia Mamet and Jemima Kirke) breezed through the penthouse after-party with their male dates. Patrick Stewart and Kathleen Turner dropped in, sans mention of Jean-Luc Picard and Peggy Sue. And Debbie Harry walked up to the director to tell him what a fan she was, though she didn't tell him to call ...
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Celeb birthdays for the week of April 7-13
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4/4/2013 5:02:44 AM
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April 7: Actor James Garner is 85. Country singer Cal Smith is 81. Actor Wayne Rogers ("M.A.S.H.") is 80. Country singer Bobby Bare is 78. Singer Charlie Thomas of The Drifters is 76. Movie director Francis Ford Coppola is 74. TV personality David Frost is 74. Singer Patricia Bennett of The Chiffons is 66. Singer-guitarist John Oates of Hall and Oates is 64. Drummer John Dittrich of Restless ...
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