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• Funeral Friday

  posted by: Sean O'Neal November 6, 2009 - 04:11p.m.

  

  Congratulations on making it to the end of another week! Unfortunately, these people didn’t. Light a candle for Funeral Friday.

  It’s no Branson or anything, but the sleepy little burg of New York City certainly doesn’t lack for legendary venues. And even by those heightened standards, few ...

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• The A.V. Club’s Best Of The Decade features start next week

  posted by: Keith Phipps November 6, 2009 - 04:11p.m.

  Jeez, is it really the end of the ‘00s already? Why, it seems like just yesterday we were wondering whether or not Freddie Prinze Jr. and Claire Forlani would make a love connection in Boys And Girls while rocking out to “Meet Virginia.” And look at us now: All grown ...

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• DOOM and Madlib working on follow-up to Madvillainy: check out new music from Madvillain 

  posted by: Nathan Rabin November 6, 2009 - 01:11p.m.

  According to the good folks over at Stones Throw, one of the niftiest independent labels around, DOOM and Madlib are reportedly in Los Angeles working on a follow-up to their 2004 cult classic Madvillainy. Details are scarce but Stones Throw artist J.Rocc previewed some new Madvillain during a recent ...

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• DMX backs out of upcoming boxing match

  posted by: Nathan Rabin November 6, 2009 - 12:11p.m.

  Allhiphop.com is reporting  that, in a rare burst of sanity, rapper/neophyte pugilist Earl "DMX" Simmons has backed out of an upcoming boxing match with actor Eric Martinez. According to the article, DMX opted out of exchanging fisticuffs with the moonlighting actor either out of safety concerns or because ...

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• Two more chances to see The A.V. Club read from Inventory

  posted by: Keith Phipps November 5, 2009 - 05:11p.m.

  As you might have heard somewhere or the other, we have a delightful new book out called Inventory: 16 Films Featuring Manic Pixie Dream Girls, 10 Great Songs Nearly Ruined By Saxophone, And 100 More Obsessively Specific Pop-Culture Lists. Man, it’s a fantastic book, really. And it would make ...

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• Echo & The Bunnymen cancel U.S. tour

  posted by: Kyle Ryan November 5, 2009 - 04:11p.m.

  Thanks to a new IRS rule that would claim a shocking 30 percent of their show profits, Echo & The Bunnymen have canceled their upcoming U.S. tour, according to a statement from the band's publicist. The tour was set to begin Nov. 15 in Atlanta. 

  Expect to see a ...

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• Danny Boyle to make movie about rock climber Aron Ralston

  posted by: November 5, 2009 - 02:11p.m.

  According to Variety, Danny Boyle is set to direct a film about Aron Ralston, the rock climber who was stranded in the Utah desert for four days with his arm pinned by a giant boulder, before he ultimately amputated it himself with a dull blade and climbed down a 65-foot ...

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• From the annals of semi-self-promotion: Comedy Central joins forces with Onion News Network for upcoming sports spoof

  posted by: Nathan Rabin November 5, 2009 - 02:11p.m.

  Good news everyone! According to The Hollywood Reporter and, to be fair, The Onion's suave and dynamic CEO Steve Hannah, Comedy Central will be collaborating with the Onion News Network to produce a half-hour comedy based on the sports segments of the beloved comic institution's wildly popular video ...

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• Wyclef Jean to write tell-all book

  posted by: Nathan Rabin November 5, 2009 - 12:11p.m.

  Sohh.com is reporting that Wyclef Jean has inked a deal to write a tell-all memoir chronicling his time in The Fugees. Anthony Bozza, who recently co-wrote Tracy Morgan's memoir, will co-write the book, which will be released by It Books, an imprint of Harper Collins,

  The book will ...

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• No Doubt expands the war on video-game avatars

  posted by: Kyle Ryan November 5, 2009 - 12:11p.m.

  The sturm and drang over Kurt Cobain's avatar appearing in Guitar Hero 5 to sing songs by other artists has settled, but the war may be just beginning: Billboard reports today that No Doubt is suing Activision, the makers of Guitar Hero and the new Band Hero, for unauthorized ...

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• Kirstie Alley to star in reality show for A&E

  posted by: Nathan Rabin November 4, 2009 - 10:11a.m.

  Variety reports that zaftig walking punchline Kirstie Alley is close to signing a deal to star in her own reality show for A&E. According to the venerable trade rag, the meaty thesp's show will follow her heroic attempts to provide clean water and life-saving medical supplies to impoverished ...

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• EMI sues website selling 25-cent Beatles MP3s

  posted by: Noel Murray November 4, 2009 - 10:11a.m.

  

  While music-lovers keep watching for signs that The Beatles catalog is about to come to iTunes ("Is that new yellow iPod tied to 'Yellow Submarine?' Is Steve Jobs wearing a Sgt. Pepper jacket?"), a previously obscure streaming-music site called BlueBeat.com has quietly begun selling Beatles MP3s for a quarter ...

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• Wait, someone wants to host the Oscars after all: Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin

  posted by: November 3, 2009 - 06:11p.m.

  And as predicted, the search for an Oscar host has quickly been concluded: According to Variety, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, co-stars of the upcoming Meryl Streep romantic comedy It's Complicated, have picked up the hosting gig that was turned down by Hugh Jackman, Ben Stiller, and Robert Downey ...

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• No one wants to host the Oscars

  posted by: Tasha Robinson November 3, 2009 - 02:11p.m.

  Poor shiny Oscar; everyone has their eyes on him, but no one really loves him. It's a tradition at this point for every major media outlet to assign someone on staff to watch the annual Academy Awards ceremony and write the next morning about how disappointing the host was ...

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• Chris Brown continues making bad decisions

  posted by: Josh Modell November 3, 2009 - 01:11p.m.

  The cover art for Chris Brown's new album, Graffiti, has found its way to the Internet, and it's a doozy. The two people I've conversed with about it so far IM-ed exactly the same message: "What the fuck?" For the comments section, might I suggest a crude ...

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