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Briggs: Toughest comic book geek?

Chicago Bears linebacker a big aficionado of genre Bears linebacker Lance Briggs may be the most nonchalant comic book geek in the world, understandably oblivious to the taunts and snickers that greet your average, physically...

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Review: 'The Road' bleak but beautiful

The Road RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE)Science fiction drama. Directed by John Hillcoat. Starring Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Charlize Theron. (R. 119 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) "The Road" is the latest in a year...

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4. Novel crime solver

Author Richard Castle, who writes about murders, now gets to solve them. Castle is easily one of the most entertaining crime procedurals on the tube right now, thanks to the charms of a certain Nathan Fillion as the lead...

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Book Talk - Michael Morpurgo fuses facts with fiction (Reuters)

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Michael Morpurgo has been writing award-winning children's books for decades but he has lost none of his passion for storytelling or his fascination with taking a real-life event and fusing it with fiction.

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Julie Powell's revelations in 'Cleaving' cut to the bone

Julie Powell stands inside a meat freezer at Fleischer's Grass-Fed, Organic Meats, a Kingston, N.Y. butcher shop. KINGSTON, N.Y. — Writer Julie Powell, the Julie of the hit book and movie Julie & Julia, looks like a butcher....

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Movie review: Ninja Assassin

For those with a high threshold for violence -- and a fondness for pseudo-mystical kung fu tomfoolery -- this may well be the go-to film of the season. Ex boy-bander Rain stars as Raizo, a hunky ex-ninja trying to fly low under...

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Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 (Collector's Edition) PS3 MINT

Mint Condition played once. Comic book and sound track. $3.99US Postal Service First Class Mail *The estimated delivery time is based on the seller's handling time, the shipping service selected, and the payment method...

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The Orlando Philharmonic Performs Beethoven’s ‘Ninth Symphony’

Reaching into the community with classical music When the word Maestro comes to mind so does an image of a baton wielding eccentric, long white hair, rumpled tuxedo with tails, leading an orchestra into the far reaches of...

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LITERATURE/WOMEN: "When a Woman Wins, It is Still a Story"

ROME, Nov 25 (IPS) - The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 102 times to 106 Nobel laureates between 1901 and 2009. Only 10 of those winners were women. Meanwhile, the Man Booker Prize has been awarded to 15 women in 40...

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Comic Books Added to UNL’s (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) Online Database

From the Article: In addition to learning from Ernest Hemingway, students at UNL can look forward to learning from Spider-Man or the Flash, thanks to a project led by UNL assistant professor and media services librarian Richard...

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