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Beef Products, Inc. Sues ABC News Over Pink Slime Coverage

ABC News was slapped with a $1.2 billion defamation lawsuit this morning from Beef Products Inc. as a result of the networks' coverage of the great 2012 Pink Slime Shitstorm earlier this year. Oops, I'm sorry, it was the 2012 Lean Finely Textured Beef Shitstorm. The coverage, a result of...
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Sundance 2013: America’s Black Indie Film Renaissance

Rachel MorrisonMichael B. Jordan (The Wire), who's fully up to the challenge, in Fruitvale.You could hear a pin drop during the first Sundance screening of writer-director Ryan Coogler's Fruitvale, an enormously powerful and moving debut feature based on the shooting death of 22-year-old Oscar Grant by Oakland transit police in...
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Sundance Preview: Movies to Know from Park City

For the next 10 days, all Hollywood eyes will turn toward Park City, Utah, at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival (January 17 through 26). Here's an early look at some standouts sure to be generating buzz on Main Street: Charlie Victor Romeo If France's master post-structuralist filmmakers Jean-Marie Straub and...
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The Worst Supergroups Of All Time

A supergroup is a difficult project to make a success of. The work of previous band members overshadows any new material, and although it brings a ready-made fan base, it also brings unreasonably high expectations. Not only that, those that make up the new band might have similarly unreasonably high...
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How to Appreciate Metal: A Four-Step Guide

Step One: Admit the world- and worry-obliterating limitations of indie rock, Top 40 and basically everything else. Boss getting you down? Spouse (or partner) ripping you a new one? Fido pissing in the house? Friend forgetting to pay you the $20 that you loaned him (or her) last Friday night?...
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Two Hot-Head Chefs Pair Up For “Lost In The Woods Dinner”

Chef Matt McCallister is known for his love of foraging. He's also known for having a bit of a temper. When a diner left some meandering and negative prose on Yelp after having dinner at his previous restaurant, Campo, the chef ate that Yelper for breakfast. On his Facebook page...
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City Hall Waters Down Bike-Friendly Ordinance, But Not Very Much

The last time the City Council's Public Safety Committee met, members squabbled over the details of a proposed measure aimed at protecting cyclists. The ordinance -- we'll call it the don't-be-a-dick-to-cyclists rule -- would require motorists to pass bikes at a safe distance and not make right turns into their...
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St. Vincent and David Byrne – McFarlin Auditorium – 10/7/12

St. Vincent and David Byrne McFarlin Auditorium Sunday, October 7 Musical collaborations among established artists usually don't work. Sometimes there's too much baggage of past success to overcome, or the resulting product is just a novelty that didn't bring out the best of the artists involved or satisfy any fanbase...
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Modern Prematurity

Once comic actors reach a particular career stage, they often choose one of two paths: A) They stop being funny and start being all Hallmark heartwarming, i.e., by growing a beard and playing a psychiatrist. B) They accept unambitious, work-for-hire roles in mass-market family comedies about some combination of dogs,...