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aux Enter holiday hell with Wikipedia's extensive list of official festive occasions
By Mike Vago January 6, 2014 | 4:30pm
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tv Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: January 3 - January 5
By AV Club Staff January 6, 2014 | 6:00am
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tv Maligned when not ignored, Undressed still made MTV history
By Ryan McGee January 6, 2014 | 6:00am
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film Serene, I fold my hands and wait: 69 of our most anticipated pop culture of 2014
By Scott Von Doviak, David Anthony, Andrea Battleground, John Teti, Annie Zaleski, Jason Heller, Drew Toal, Sean O'Neal, Kyle Ryan, A.A. Dowd, Zack Handlen, David Sims, Sonia Saraiya, Les Chappell, Laura M. Browning, Kevin McFarland, Steve Heisler, Josh Modell, Erik Adams, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Emily St. James, Mike Vago, Marah Eakin, Tasha Robinson January 6, 2014 | 6:00am
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tv Hostages concludes its boring story with two more hours of it
By Sonia Saraiya January 6, 2014 | 6:00am
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aux On Such A Full Sea is unbearably mournful
By Noah Cruickshank January 6, 2014 | 6:00am
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tv All hope of a fresh start crushed by the return of Downton Abbey
By Erik Adams January 5, 2014 | 6:00am
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aux R.I.P. Phil Everly of The Everly Brothers
By Phil Dyess-Nugent January 5, 2014 | 12:05am
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film Weeks before Goodfellas, Nora Ephron looked to mob informants for laughs
By Jesse Hassenger January 3, 2014 | 6:00am
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tv Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a Star Wars episode of MythBusters, kid
By Erik Adams January 3, 2014 | 6:00am
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music What’s your pop culture resolution for 2014?
By Kyle Ryan, Jason Heller, Noah Cruickshank, Josh Modell, Zack Handlen, Becca James, Andrea Battleground, Emily St. James, Sonia Saraiya, Marah Eakin, Tasha Robinson January 3, 2014 | 6:00am
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aux R.I.P. James Avery of The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
By Sean O'Neal January 2, 2014 | 7:41pm
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tv Against all odds, it’s a fifth season of Community
By Erik Adams January 2, 2014 | 6:00am
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film One of Kurosawa’s greatest films features zero samurai swords
By Nick Schager January 2, 2014 | 6:00am
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film Talking movies and acting with Tool’s Maynard James Keenan
By Marah Eakin January 2, 2014 | 6:00am
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tv Shh! A nation nurses its hangover
By Erik Adams January 1, 2014 | 3:15pm
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aux This week we’re barely putting up with Bud Light’s Cran-Brrr-Rita
By Amelie Gillette January 1, 2014 | 6:00am
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aux January 1, 2014
By Dan Savage January 1, 2014 | 6:00am
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tv 10 episodes that will help you talk NCIS with your mom
By Will Harris January 1, 2014 | 6:00am
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tv Celebrate the new year with the party animals of Regular Show (some of which are literally animals)
By Erik Adams December 31, 2013 | 6:00am
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aux (Re)discover the best of The A.V. Club with our 2013 highlight reel
By Josh Modell December 31, 2013 | 6:00am
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music Rogue Wave plays “Lake Michigan” on Lake Michigan
By Josh Modell December 31, 2013 | 6:00am
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aux Netflix to help subscribers’ new year’s resolutions to watch less TV by cutting nearly 100 shows and movies
By Kyle Ryan December 30, 2013 | 7:24pm
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film Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: December 27 - December 29
By AV Club Staff December 30, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv Forget auld acquaintance—but not New Year’s celebrations from the Peanuts and Rankin/Bass gangs
By Erik Adams December 30, 2013 | 6:00am
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film Computer Chess uses defunct technology to envision a not-so-distant past
By Mike D'Angelo December 30, 2013 | 6:00am
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film Sullivan’s Travels laughs in the face of reinvention
By Erik Adams December 30, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv Dropping the ball: 8 pretenders to Dick Clark’s New Year’s Eve throne
By Will Harris December 30, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv Getting On concludes a great season, then hopes for another one
By Emily St. James December 29, 2013 | 6:00am
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aux Duck Dynasty dude de-suspended
By Josh Modell December 28, 2013 | 1:00am
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tv Nikita wraps up its run stranded in a TV wasteland
By Emily St. James December 27, 2013 | 6:00am
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games Batman: Affleck Origins, Cumberbatch It!, and more Games That Might Have Been
By John Teti December 27, 2013 | 6:00am
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film Undesired romantic pairings make New York, New York interesting
By Mike D'Angelo December 27, 2013 | 6:00am
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film What’s the best non-2013 pop culture you discovered this year?
By Noah Cruickshank, Jason Heller, A.A. Dowd, Zack Handlen, Sean O'Neal, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Emily St. James, Sonia Saraiya, Brandon Nowalk, John Teti December 27, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv Nothing is on, so let’s see what Ground Floor is up to, why not?
By Emily St. James December 26, 2013 | 6:00am
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games Play hoops against a pudgy, cheating despot in Rodman Vs. Kim: One On One
By John Teti December 26, 2013 | 6:00am
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film Martin Scorsese delivers an electrifying—and very belated—sequel
By Nick Schager December 26, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv This week we’re barely putting up with Duck Dynasty
By Amelie Gillette December 25, 2013 | 6:00am
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aux December 25, 2013
By Dan Savage December 25, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv Doctor Who is coming to save you from your family
By Emily St. James December 25, 2013 | 6:00am
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games Relive Walter White’s fall from grace in our Breaking Bad game
By John Teti December 24, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv Fox News made its very own Christmas special, just for you
By Emily St. James December 24, 2013 | 6:00am
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film Marty goes back to the mean streets of New York with Bringing Out The Dead
By Jesse Hassenger December 24, 2013 | 6:00am
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music METZ plays “Dirty Shirt”
By Josh Modell December 24, 2013 | 6:00am
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film Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: December 20-December 22
By AV Club Staff December 23, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv Our weakness is strong: thoughts on the year in TV
By Emily St. James December 23, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv Spend tonight playing games with your best friends: Hollywood celebrities!
By Emily St. James December 23, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv How A Christmas Story became the preeminent American Christmas movie
By Emily St. James December 23, 2013 | 6:00am
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film A Christmas Story 2 honors a holiday classic through awkward imitation
By Kyle Ryan December 23, 2013 | 6:00am
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aux The people have spoken: The 2013 A.V. Club Readers’ Poll results
By Kyle Ryan December 23, 2013 | 6:00am
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aux The year in swag 2013: The war on worthlessness
By Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, Josh Modell, David Anthony, Andrea Battleground, Sonia Saraiya, Marah Eakin, Laura M. Browning December 23, 2013 | 6:00am
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film “How can you tell them on Thanksgiving?”: 12 awkward family revelations at holiday gatherings
By Kyle Ryan, Drew Toal, Matt Wild, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Andrea Battleground, Sonia Saraiya, Les Chappell, Marah Eakin December 23, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv Who is this mysterious Britney Jean?
By Erik Adams December 22, 2013 | 6:00am
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aux Happy holidays from The A.V. Club
By Sean O'Neal December 20, 2013 | 10:27pm
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aux David Mamet to Always Be Condemning with Fox series about the seven deadly sins
By Sean O'Neal December 20, 2013 | 9:03pm
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aux New drunk-driving PSA starring RoboCop warns drivers to stay within the algorithmic mean set by the government
By Sarah Shachat December 20, 2013 | 8:45pm
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aux All that Today Show controversy is becoming a Lifetime original movie
By Caroline Siede December 20, 2013 | 8:30pm
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aux Here's who will be playing Andre Braugher's husband on Brooklyn Nine-Nine
By Sean O'Neal December 20, 2013 | 8:20pm
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aux Michael Peña joins Fox's Broadchurch remake
By Caroline Siede December 20, 2013 | 7:30pm
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aux R.I.P. Ned Vizzini, author of It’s Kind Of A Funny Story
By Kevin McFarland December 20, 2013 | 7:20pm
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aux Katie Couric's talk show was the top new show in syndication, but it will still be cancelled
By Mike Vago December 20, 2013 | 7:13pm
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aux Thee Oh Sees are going on indefinite hiatus
By Sean O'Neal December 20, 2013 | 7:00pm
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aux Hear Sharon Jones cover the Goldfinger theme for The Wolf Of Wall Street
By Kevin McFarland December 20, 2013 | 7:00pm
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aux Xbox to start producing original shows, starting with documentary about Atari's legendary E.T. game
By Mike Vago December 20, 2013 | 6:30pm
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aux J.K. Rowling is doing a play about Harry Potter's early years, as a sad, non-magical little kid
By Sean O'Neal December 20, 2013 | 6:17pm
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aux George R.R. Martin to host free screenings of every Game Of Thrones episode instead of working on next book
By Mike Vago December 20, 2013 | 6:00pm
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games Readers rebel against the ’Gestys’ controversial Game Of The Year winner
By Matt Gerardi December 20, 2013 | 6:00pm
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film Jacques Tati returns as Monsieur Hulot in Mon Oncle
By A.A. Dowd December 20, 2013 | 6:00pm
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music A “Mad World” cover supplanted the original and helped define Donnie Darko
By Kyle Ryan December 20, 2013 | 6:00pm
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aux The Duck Dynasty family cannot imagine progressing, also not sure it wants to keep doing its TV show
By Sean O'Neal December 20, 2013 | 5:34pm
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aux Watch Inside Llewyn Davis star Oscar Issac sing a folk version of Katy Perry’s "Roar"
By Dan Selcke December 20, 2013 | 4:25pm
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film How do you have a happy Christmas when your life has gone to shit?
By A.A. Dowd December 20, 2013 | 4:00pm
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aux Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez end Locke & Key with tears, hope, and magic
By Oliver Sava December 20, 2013 | 4:00pm
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aux Watch the exclusive video premiere of The White Buffalo’s “The Whistler”
By Kevin McFarland December 20, 2013 | 4:00pm
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aux Here are links to all of our Best of TV coverage for 2013
By Emily St. James December 20, 2013 | 6:00am
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games Tell us your favorite holiday gaming memories
By John Teti December 20, 2013 | 6:00am
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music Andrew W.K., Kumail Nanjiani, Dave Holmes, & Jake Fogelnest pick their favorite pop-culture of 2013
By Kyle Ryan December 20, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv CBS tries to pretend it’s still airing I Love Lucy
By Emily St. James December 20, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv Enlightened was the best TV show of 2013
By Emily St. James December 20, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv 25 other shows that made 2013 one of the best years in TV history
By Alasdair Wilkins, Kevin McFarland, Steve Heisler, Scott Von Doviak, Joshua Alston, Zack Handlen, Carrie Raisler, Genevieve Valentine, Molly Eichel, Caroline Framke, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, David Sims, Ryan McGee, Sonia Saraiya, Brandon Nowalk, Les Chappell, Emily St. James, Myles McNutt, Dennis Perkins December 20, 2013 | 6:00am
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music What makes an atheist love religious music?
By Jason Heller December 20, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv The best shows that didn’t make our Top 40
By Alasdair Wilkins, Kevin McFarland, Josh Modell, Myles McNutt, Zack Handlen, Carrie Raisler, Pilot Viruet, Molly Eichel, Caroline Framke, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Rowan Kaiser, Ryan McGee, Sonia Saraiya, Brandon Nowalk, Les Chappell, David Sims, Dennis Perkins, Emily St. James December 20, 2013 | 6:00am
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aux R.I.P. Al Goldstein, porn provocateur
By Sean O'Neal December 19, 2013 | 10:35pm
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aux Clams Casino releases his third and final Instrumental Mixtape that you can download right now
By Sean O'Neal December 19, 2013 | 9:16pm
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aux New Sundance Channel show about the NRA sure to cause no controversy whatsoever
By Mike Vago December 19, 2013 | 8:54pm
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aux Someone is maybe trying to sabotage Lana Del Rey's Oscar chances
By Marah Eakin December 19, 2013 | 8:20pm
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aux Wedding Crashers director to tackle the life story of Hugh Hefner
By Sean O'Neal December 19, 2013 | 8:03pm
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aux Here’s the video premiere of By Maker’s “Misgiving” from I, Frankenstein
By Kevin McFarland December 19, 2013 | 7:40pm
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aux Sufjan Stevens' group Sisyphus is releasing a new record next year
By Marah Eakin December 19, 2013 | 7:10pm
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aux Have you heard about this, folks? CNN is pursuing Jay Leno for a new show
By Mike Vago December 19, 2013 | 7:02pm
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aux David Koechner is developing another sketch comedy series for NBC
By Sean O'Neal December 19, 2013 | 6:55pm
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aux One YouTube user made the definitive Christmas Carol from 10 different versions
By Emily St. James December 19, 2013 | 6:40pm
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aux Daft Punk, Kendrick Lamar, and more confirmed to perform at next year's Grammys
By Marah Eakin December 19, 2013 | 6:30pm
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aux Hugh Jackman may be Pan's Blackbeard instead of Javier Bardem
By Mike Vago December 19, 2013 | 6:30pm
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aux Brad Pitt may reunite with Tom Cruise in racing film Go Like Hell
By Kevin McFarland December 19, 2013 | 6:27pm
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aux Pussy Riot is getting out of prison
By Marah Eakin December 19, 2013 | 6:15pm
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aux Sarah Palin and others protest the revoking of Duck Dynasty star's First Amendment rights to be on a TV show
By Sean O'Neal December 19, 2013 | 6:03pm
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aux How The Best Show On WFMU became The Simpsons of comedy radio
By Trip Cook December 19, 2013 | 5:54pm
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aux Benedict Cumberbatch looked totally insane doing motion-capture work for The Hobbit
By Dan Selcke December 19, 2013 | 5:10pm
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film Who needs White Castle when you have WaffleBot?
By Mike D'Angelo December 19, 2013 | 5:00pm
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music Goodfellas finds coked-up paranoia in “Jump Into The Fire”
By Sean O'Neal December 19, 2013 | 5:00pm
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aux Paul Rudd is almost definitely, probably Ant-Man
By Sean O'Neal December 19, 2013 | 4:52pm
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aux Listen to Seahaven’s aching “Silhouette (Latin Skin)”
By David Anthony December 19, 2013 | 4:00pm
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games The ’Gesty Awards name 2013’s shocking Game Of The Year winner
By John Teti December 19, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv Get your whites even whiter with White Collar
By Sonia Saraiya December 19, 2013 | 6:00am
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film Why comedy sequels remain rare, even in a franchise-dominated era
By Jesse Hassenger December 19, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv The many exciting conclusions of Breaking Bad, 2013’s second-best show
By Erik Adams December 19, 2013 | 6:00am
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music Low’s Christmas is the religious album even heathens can love
By Josh Modell December 19, 2013 | 6:00am
