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Suitable entertainment for a Knights of Columbus fundraiser, Nanni Moretti's We Have a Pope finds the most holy father, wracked with self-doubt about his new position, on a...
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As a child growing up in post-World War II Germany, Ursula von Rydingsvard remembers playing on the grounds of a bomb-leveled building where she would pick up scattered bricks...
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Did you know that Ol' Dirty Bastard had 13 kids, three of whom he neglected to pay child support for in 1997 alone?
Illegitimate children are overwhelmingly common in rap...
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Back with his first film in 14 years, Whit Stillman still operates in a world of his own. It's true both in respect to the singularity of his deadpan dialogic style, as well...
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For months, savvy residents at downtown and Brickell high-rises have been on the lookout for the "White Van Gang." The criminals get their nickname from their favorite method:...
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Everyone knows Swedes are gorgeous. They also make awesome meatballs. And when it comes to inexpensive, DIY furniture, IKEA has the entire house on lock. Of course, though, we...
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The pulpy scenarios change, but squinty action-hero Jason Statham remains chiseled, coiled, and ready to hurl himself into scores of grimacing baddies like a goddamn human...
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Miami is popping. Popping up, to be exact. In the past year, the Magic City has seen more pop-ups than Katy Perry performing at a correctional facility. We've been inundated...
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The great achievement of Chicago-based punk foursome Rise Against is the fact that the group has walked a tightrope that has felled so many similar bands. Its original stance,...
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The year is 1837. A newly crowned Queen Victoria, voiced by Imelda Staunton and animated in clay as a shrewish little turnip of a woman, decrees war on buccaneering. Well down...
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In 1988, Maria Thornhill invented a nifty gadget called Sheet Suspenders, elastic bands that tuck in bed sheets without having to lift the mattress. By 2008, she'd sold more...
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In 2008, it was practically impossible to escape the catchy vocal hook of "Black and Gold," the Grammy-nominated breakthrough single off Sam Sparro's eponymous debut...
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For Bobby and Peter Farrelly, the low-comic connoisseurs whose brand name-establishing debut was 1994's Dumb and Dumber, this antic, dozen-years-in-the-making Three Stooges...
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Knocked Out
Justice always works: In the criminal case against boxer Yathomas Riley, who has been in jail for two years on questionable charges that he shot his girlfriend...
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The art of sensual seduction via song ain't nothin' like it used to be. Back in the day, all it took was a few lines from Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" to not only get the...