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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 8, 2013
Tribune disses Downton Abbey

A dubious dissing of Downton Abbey
- by Michael Miner
- Tags: Arts, Television, Media, News, Downton Abbey, Chicago Tribune, Johnny Torrio, Al Capone, Colonel McCormick, "Big Bill" Thompson

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 8, 2013
Reuniting with the voice of Alan Tracy—Thunderbird!

On visiting a family friend who gained fame and fortune as a puppet named Alan Tracy
- by Michael Miner
- Tags: Theater, Arts, Television, Matt Zimmerman, Thunderbirds, Gerry Anderson, Dan Castellaneta, The Simpsons, Alan Tracy, West Side Story, Jack Klugman, Richard Rodney Bennett, Shirley Chapman, Oscar Hammerstein II, Sudbury

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 5, 2012
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How to do Christmas music right

If you must listen to Christmas music, it should be the Roots, Jimmy Fallon, and Mariah Carey
- by Miles Raymer
- Tags: Things I Hate, Things I Love, Television, Music, The Roots, Jimmy Fallon, Mariah Carey, Christmas, video, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 4, 2012
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On the charts: Phillip Phillips keeps it very real

An American Idol winner brings indie-ish sincerity to the Top Ten
- by Miles Raymer
- Tags: $$$, Television, Music, Phillip Phillips, Mumford and Sons, Arcade Fire, A$AP Rocky, indie rock, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 27, 2012
Video Drone: Driverx4: The Lost and Found Films of Sara Driver

A two-disc retrospective looks at New York indie Sara Driver
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Television, Film, Music, Films We Like, Sara Driver, Jim Jarmusch, Permanent Vacation, Stranger Than Paradise, You Are Not I, Sleepwalk, When Pigs Fly, Bowery Spring 1994, Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Clash, Joe Strummer, Jacques Tourneur, Cat People, I Walked With a Zombie, Paul Bowles, Suzanne Fletcher, Carnival of Souls, Ann Magnuson, Steve Buscemi, Robby Muller, Dead Man, Breaking the Waves, F.W. Murnau, Nosferatu, Cary Grant, Topper, Alfred Molina, Lionel Rogosin, On the Bowery, movies, DVD

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 20, 2012
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Video Drone: What Happened to Kerouac?

A wealth of newly released interview footage gives a kaleidoscopic sense of the Beat Generation's legacy
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Books, Television, Film, Gregory Corso, What Happened to Kerouac?, Richard Lerner, Lewis MacAdams, Shout! Factory, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, On the Road, Walter Salles, Cannes Film Festival, John Krokides, Kill Your Darlings, Jack Huston, Ben Foster, Daniel Radcliffe, The Steve Allen Show, William F. Buckley, Firing Line, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, John Clellon Holmes, Edie Parker Kerouac, Carolyn Cassaday, Herbert Huncke, Jan Kerouac, The Beverly Hillbillies, Political Fallout of the Beat Generation, Naropa Institute, Paul Krassner, The Realist, Abbie Hoffman, Timothy Leary, Howl, Naked Lunch, Beat Generation, documentaries, counterculture, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 16, 2012
Underemployed: Out of time

RIP MTV's excavation of YOLO culture that has fewer viewers than El Paso has residents.
- by Asher Klein
- Tags: Jumping Ship, Arts, Television, Underemployed, the kids, teenagers, TV, TV shows

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 1, 2012
Underemployed recap: sex and the committee

Bro code lies at the center of an episode of Underemployed that suggests it's women hold each other back in the work place. MTV! It's post-feminist.
- by Asher Klein
- Tags: Arts, Television, Underemployed, bros, bro code, homoeroticism, nipples, MTV, feminism, Gloria Steinem, advertising

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 30, 2012
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Video Drone: The director of American History X takes on the chaos in our schools

On the DVD release of Tony Kaye's Detachment
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Education, Television, Film, Detachment movie, Tony Kaye, American History X, Lake of Fire, Adrien Brody, Marcia Gay Harden, Christina Hendricks, Bryan Cranston, William Petersen, Tim Blake Nelson, Lucy Liu, Blythe Danner, James Caan, Box Office Mojo, Won't Back Down, The Cartel movie, Waiting for Superman, The Pawnbroker, education, DVD, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 25, 2012
Underemployed: two men, three women, and a baby

In episode two of MTV's Underemployed, the gang is challenged with improving Raviva's third day of motherhood
- by Asher Klein
- Tags: Arts, Television, Underemployed, babies, money, MTV, stealing, jail, homosexuality, recaps, babymamas, babydaddys, sex, friendship

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 23, 2012
Video Drone: Keaton and Kovacs

A new installment of Shout! Factory's Ernie Kovacs revival includes his TV collaboration with silent genius Buster Keaton
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Television, Film, Comedy, Ernie Kovacs, Shout! Factory, Shout Factory, The Ernie Kovacs Collection, Ernie Kovacs: The ABC Specials, Ernic Kovacs Presents Percy Dovetonsils . . . Thpeaks, The Ernie Kovacs Collection: Volume 2, Take a Good Look, Canadian Broadcasting Company, Alec Guinness, Egyptian Theatre, Harry Shearer, Jeff Garlin, Bob Odenkirk, Merrill Markoe, Late Night With David Letterman, Medicine Man, Buster Keaton, The General, Steamboat Bill Jr., movies, television, comedy

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 23, 2012
Underemployed: MTV's grab at pregnant college grads

A recap of the first episode of Unemployed, MTV's new scripted show about millennial Chicagoans trying to make it in this terrible economy
- by Asher Klein
- Tags: Television, Arts, Underemployment, MTV, millennials, sexting, jobs

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 9, 2012
Bad cops are a mainstay of fall television

From Boardwalk Empire to The Good Wife, rotten apples are par for the course
- by Michael Miner
- Tags: Television, Media, News, Boardwalk Empire, Treme, Boss, The Good Wife, bad cops

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 2, 2012
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Video Drone: Adventures in Plymptoons

A new video barely scratches the surface of surreal animator Bill Plympton
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Arts, Television, Film, Adventures in Plymptoons, Cinema Libre Studio, Alexia Anastasio, Bill Plympton, Hair High, Idiots and Angels, Dave Fleischer, Chuck Jones, Nick Park, Don Hertzfeldt, Al Goldstein, Screw magazine, Paul Giamatti, Sarah Silverman, Ralph Bakshi, Ed Begley Jr., Jonathan Caouette, Keith Carradine, Terry Gilliam, Ron Jeremy, Lloyd Kaufman, Moby, Matthew Modine, Martha, Weird Al Yankovic, R. Crumb, Terry Zwigoff, cartoonists, animation, art documentaries, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 25, 2012
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Video Drone: Beatles Stories

An anecdotal new documentary lets you meet the Beatles, over and over again
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Television, Film, Music, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon, Seth Swirsky, Beatles Stories, Fred Seaman, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Los Angeles Rams, Fred Seaman, Richard Nixon, Paul McCartney, Brian Wilson, Rubber Soul, Davy Jones, Monkees, The Ed Sullivan Show, Mitch Weissman, Beatlemania, Susanna Hoffs, Bangles, Ringo Starr, Jon Voight, Midnight Cowboy, George Martin, Norman Smith, Klaus Voorman, George Harrison, May Pang, rock music, DVD releases, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 21, 2012
On basic cable tonight: Steff Bomb

Steff Bomb shows off her crafting skills tonight on TLC's Craft Wars
- by Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Whoa, Television, News, Steff Bomb, TLC, Craft Wars, Best of Chicago, indie crafter, crafts, basic cable, Tori Spelling, Screech

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