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aux Whatever, NBC still thinks Dane Cook is funny, so suck it
By Sean O'Neal December 14, 2012 | 8:39pm
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aux Everything seems insignificant right now anyway, so here's a story on an ABC sitcom about Justin Bieber's life
By Sean O'Neal December 14, 2012 | 8:00pm
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music Trust’s “Sulk” pushes ahead into the darkness
By Sean O'Neal December 14, 2012 | 7:30pm
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film Chris Tucker on Silver Linings Playbook and his intermittent film career
By Nathan Rabin December 14, 2012 | 7:00pm
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aux R.I.P. Donnie Andrews, real-life inspiration for The Wire's Omar
By Sean O'Neal December 14, 2012 | 6:40pm
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film Eight Crazy Nights proves that it’s not worth spending Hanukah with Adam Sandler
By Nathan Rabin December 14, 2012 | 6:00pm
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film The Princess Bride cast duels with words as much as with swords
By Tasha Robinson December 14, 2012 | 6:00pm
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aux The Walking Dead to rerun its first and second season in prestige-adding black and white
By Sean O'Neal December 14, 2012 | 5:43pm
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aux Listen to Too $hort's new gelt-riddled, schmaltz-laden rap about Hanukkah
By Marah Eakin December 14, 2012 | 5:30pm
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aux History Channel to squeeze more out of Hatfields & McCoys with a reality series
By Sean O'Neal December 14, 2012 | 5:03pm
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aux L.A. Reid withdraws crucial "guy with glasses" credibility from X Factor
By Sean O'Neal December 14, 2012 | 4:20pm
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aux Caption Contest: What is this dwarf from The Hobbit thinking?
By Josh Modell December 14, 2012 | 4:00pm
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aux The Joker and his flesh-mask are back in two haunting Bat-family titles
By Oliver Sava December 14, 2012 | 4:00pm
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tv The Simpsons believes in The A.V. Club bump
By Erik Adams December 14, 2012 | 3:30pm
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tv Celebrate Christm... er... the holid... er... winter with Portlandia
By Emily St. James December 14, 2012 | 6:00am
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music Our favorite songs of 2012
By AV Club Staff December 14, 2012 | 6:00am
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aux The best podcasts of 2012
By Genevieve Koski, Aaron Frank, Nathan Rabin, Dan Telfer, Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, Noah Cruickshank, Trip Cook, Steven Moore, Dan Fitchette, David Anthony, Colin Griffith, Marah Eakin, Claire Zulkey, D.X. Ferris December 14, 2012 | 6:00am
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music The least essential albums of 2012
By Kyle Ryan, Jason Heller, Josh Modell, Keith Phipps, Marah Eakin, Genevieve Koski December 14, 2012 | 6:00am
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aux Artie Lange opens up to Jay Mohr and Judd Apatow continues his rounds
By Genevieve Koski, Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, Noah Cruickshank, Trip Cook, Maggie Serota, Steven Moore, Scott Tobias, Dan Fitchette, David Anthony, Oliver Sava, Scott Gordon, Colin Griffith, Claire Zulkey, D.X. Ferris December 14, 2012 | 6:00am
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aux Comedian Duncan Trussell probably has “CANCER!!!”
By Kyle Ryan December 14, 2012 | 12:00am
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aux Hear a danceable new Foals track, "My Number"
By Josh Terry December 13, 2012 | 11:45pm
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aux Garrett Hedlund confirms he will be in next Tron movie, instead of doing whatever else it is that Garrett Hedlund does
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 11:18pm
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aux Tyler Perry creates two archetypically Tyler Perry shows for Oprah Winfrey's Oprah Winfrey Network
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 11:00pm
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aux Autechre announces Exai, a two-hour-long album
By Marah Eakin December 13, 2012 | 10:40pm
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aux The University of Chicago admissions office receives mysterious package intended for Indiana Jones
By Eric Thurm December 13, 2012 | 9:50pm
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aux Watch Hobbit stars play “Fuck, Marry, Kill” over Hobbit characters
By Tasha Robinson December 13, 2012 | 9:30pm
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aux Even Billy Campbell is done with The Killing
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 8:59pm
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aux TLC to explore death with the same dignity it explores all other aspects of life on Best Funeral Ever
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 8:23pm
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aux Kids! Enjoy Alien's light-hearted mayhem with this commercial for its action figure
By Nathan Rabin December 13, 2012 | 8:15pm
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aux Thurston Moore's iconic 1960 Jazzmaster stolen in Philadelphia
By Josh Terry December 13, 2012 | 8:10pm
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tv Yvette Nicole Brown, Kumail Nanjiani, and Damon Lindelof pick their 2012 pop-culture highlights
By Josh Modell, Marah Eakin, Emily St. James, Kyle Ryan December 13, 2012 | 8:00pm
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aux Justin Bieber narrowly avoided a grisly castration-and-murder plot by two hit men
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 7:33pm
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film A week of swordfighting films continues with Kurosawa’s startlingly bloody Sanjuro
By Noel Murray December 13, 2012 | 7:30pm
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aux Read This: Wired visits a Walter White lookalike contest judged by Bryan Cranston himself
By Marah Eakin December 13, 2012 | 7:00pm
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aux The Archer Live! Tour is a thing and it's happening
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 7:00pm
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music When Cloud Nothings played “Wasted Days” through a thunderstorm and without a PA
By Kyle Ryan December 13, 2012 | 6:30pm
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aux Watch Paul McCartney play a new song with the remaining members of Nirvana
By Marah Eakin December 13, 2012 | 6:15pm
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film Mel Brooks on how to play Hitler, and how he almost died making Spaceballs
By Steve Heisler December 13, 2012 | 6:00pm
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music Fartbarf, Neon Piss, and more: the year in band names 2012
By Kyle Ryan December 13, 2012 | 6:00pm
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aux Gillian Anderson to co-star on, possibly get eaten by NBC's Hannibal
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 5:43pm
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aux Want to listen to Björk's weird solstice song? There's an app for that.
By Austin Bernhardt December 13, 2012 | 5:30pm
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aux Little Miss Sunshine directors to tell the quirky story of Black Panthers founder
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 5:18pm
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aux Exclusive: Teenage Bottlerocket goes “Cruisin’ For Chicks” in a new video
By Kyle Ryan December 13, 2012 | 4:45pm
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aux Mark Wahlberg to make a movie about hackers and tell them to knock it off with the hacking
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 4:39pm
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aux Watch an exclusive Ben Folds Five performance of "Do It Anyway"
By Josh Terry December 13, 2012 | 4:00pm
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music Phil Spector’s A Christmas Gift For You aimed for respectability—and created a new tradition
By Noel Murray December 13, 2012 | 4:00pm
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aux The memoir of Kiss drummer Peter Criss is endearingly needy and sleazy
By Nathan Rabin December 13, 2012 | 4:00pm
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aux The Golden Globes also like Lincoln, but prefer The Newsroom to Mad Men
By Erik Adams December 13, 2012 | 3:33pm
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film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
By Tasha Robinson December 13, 2012 | 6:00am
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tv Watch Neil Patrick Harris get felt up in Neil’s Puppet Dreams
By Erik Adams December 13, 2012 | 6:00am
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tv Love (or Love Actually) is all around in this year’s Glee Christmas episode
By Erik Adams December 13, 2012 | 6:00am
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film Best films of 2012 so far: an annotated checklist (Part 2)
By Scott Tobias December 13, 2012 | 6:00am
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aux Visit the inspiration for Portlandia's feminist bookstore with Kumail Nanjiani
By Marah Eakin December 12, 2012 | 11:50pm
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aux People Still Buy Music: Believe it or not, some people still give CDs as Christmas presents
By Marah Eakin, Austin Bernhardt December 12, 2012 | 11:40pm
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aux The CW's quest for a Hunger Games-like show leads to it making The Hunger Games real, basically
By Sean O'Neal December 12, 2012 | 11:29pm
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aux Johnny Depp is confirmed to star in a movie in which his brain is uploaded into a computer
By Austin Bernhardt December 12, 2012 | 10:30pm
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aux They Might Be Giants announces new record for grown-ups, tour dates
By Marah Eakin December 12, 2012 | 10:20pm
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aux Someone assembled a Simpsons gingerbread house on YouTube, so it’s officially Christmas
By Austin Bernhardt December 12, 2012 | 10:00pm
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aux R.I.P. Reinhold Weege, creator of Night Court
By Sean O'Neal December 12, 2012 | 9:58pm
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aux Rocket From The Crypt announces first run of 2013 tour dates
By Marah Eakin December 12, 2012 | 9:00pm
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aux "Paranormal" Romeo And Juliet and Jennifer Love Hewitt's Pride And Prejudice added to TV's sort-of-reading list
By Sean O'Neal December 12, 2012 | 8:45pm
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aux New on DVD and Blu-ray: December 11, 2012
By Scott Tobias December 12, 2012 | 8:00pm
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music Loud’s best metal, punk, and hardcore of 2012
By John Semley, Jason Heller December 12, 2012 | 8:00pm
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aux Wavves announces new album for 2013, releases “Sail To The Sun” single
By Austin Bernhardt December 12, 2012 | 7:50pm
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aux Paul Revere may finally get what's coming to him with new AMC comedy
By Sean O'Neal December 12, 2012 | 7:40pm
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film John Boorman’s Excalibur covers the King Arthur legend in blood, flesh, and Jung
By Keith Phipps December 12, 2012 | 7:30pm
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aux “Weird Al” Yankovic posted a picture of himself with a dead hooker
By Tasha Robinson December 12, 2012 | 7:10pm
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music Mike Mictlan’s druggy, dirty “Spicy Peeñ” is a love-it-or-hate-it jam
By Genevieve Koski December 12, 2012 | 7:00pm
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aux The Screen Actors Guild really enjoyed Silver Linings Playbook and the hot TV comedies of three years ago
By Sean O'Neal December 12, 2012 | 6:44pm
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tv 10 episodes that show how Buffy The Vampire Slayer blew up genre TV
By Emily St. James December 12, 2012 | 6:30pm
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aux The Knife announces its presumably eerie, disturbing upcoming album with an eerie, disturbing teaser
By Austin Bernhardt December 12, 2012 | 6:30pm
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aux Bone up for The Hobbit with this handy dwarf flowchart
By Marah Eakin December 12, 2012 | 6:25pm
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aux Linus delivers Orson Welles' "cuckoo clock" Third Man speech in the most highbrow mash-up ever
By Josh Modell December 12, 2012 | 6:05pm
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film This week we're barely putting up with Jack Reacher
By Amelie Gillette December 12, 2012 | 6:00pm
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film Garbo sneezes!: 26 genuinely effective movie taglines
By Nathan Rabin, Parker Winship, Zack Handlen, Scott Tobias, Alison Willmore, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Noel Murray, David Sims, Tasha Robinson December 12, 2012 | 6:00pm
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aux Paul McCartney to sorta, kinda front a reunited Nirvana at tonight's 12.12.12 concert
By Marah Eakin December 12, 2012 | 5:45pm
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aux R.I.P. Ravi Shankar
By Phil Dyess-Nugent December 12, 2012 | 5:34pm
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aux HBO developing Game Change sequel about the 2012 election we thought we all agreed we'd never speak of again
By Sean O'Neal December 12, 2012 | 5:09pm
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aux Cat Power breaks down in front of a bunch of kids (on Funny Or Die)
By Josh Modell December 12, 2012 | 5:05pm
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tv Tess Harper on Breaking Bad, Tender Mercies, and shooting Kevin Bacon
By Will Harris December 12, 2012 | 5:00pm
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aux There will now be even more Arrested Development beyond the new Arrested Development you'd already accepted
By Sean O'Neal December 12, 2012 | 4:32pm
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tv The American Dad Christmas episodes provide an antidote to holiday cheer
By Genevieve Koski December 12, 2012 | 4:00pm
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tv Christmas? Modern Family is more popular than Christmas now
By Emily St. James December 12, 2012 | 6:00am
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aux December 12, 2012
By David Malki ! December 12, 2012 | 6:00am
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tv “…And Introducing Chewbacca’s Family!” Case File #30: The Star Wars Holiday Special
By Nathan Rabin December 12, 2012 | 6:00am
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aux December 12, 2012
By Dan Savage December 12, 2012 | 6:00am
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music 40 great songs in 40(ish) sentences
By Noel Murray December 12, 2012 | 6:00am
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aux Chuck Lorre sells CBS on the comedic premise of single mothers
By Sean O'Neal December 11, 2012 | 11:16pm
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aux Tupac gets mashed up with James Brown for the Django Unchained soundtrack
By Eric Thurm December 11, 2012 | 10:55pm
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aux Marnie Stern to release Aslan-endorsed new album, The Chronicles Of Marnia
By Josh Terry December 11, 2012 | 10:30pm
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aux Storage Wars is totally fake, alleges new lawsuit that is familiar with reality television, apparently
By Sean O'Neal December 11, 2012 | 10:21pm
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aux The Critics Choice Awards like pretty much every movie this year, but especially Lincoln
By Sean O'Neal December 11, 2012 | 9:51pm
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aux Retribution Gospel Choir announces new two-track, 42-minute-long record
By Marah Eakin December 11, 2012 | 8:45pm
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aux Depeche Mode announces new Violator-like album, tour
By Josh Terry December 11, 2012 | 8:40pm
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aux The Asylum sued over Age Of The Hobbits, which now legally cannot go near The Hobbit
By Sean O'Neal December 11, 2012 | 8:19pm
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aux Watch Andrew W.K. and feline Internet sensation Lil Bub wish you happy holidays
By Josh Modell December 11, 2012 | 8:10pm
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aux Public Enemy, Donna Summer, Rush and more to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
By Marah Eakin December 11, 2012 | 7:45pm
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film Paul Verhoeven’s Flesh + Blood—it’s all right there in the title
By Noel Murray December 11, 2012 | 7:30pm
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aux Yes, Sufjan Stevens has a Christmas-themed rap mixtape featuring Das Racist and Kitty Pryde
By Josh Terry December 11, 2012 | 7:10pm
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aux Frightened Rabbit announces North American tour for spring 2013
By Marah Eakin December 11, 2012 | 7:00pm
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music Appreciating the one-two punch of Archers Of Loaf’s “You And Me” and “Might”
By Josh Modell December 11, 2012 | 6:30pm
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aux Angry Birds movie hires visionary who had the idea to reimagine Alvin And The Chipmunks
By Sean O'Neal December 11, 2012 | 6:00pm
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tv The Fonz plays against type in 1979’s An American Christmas Carol
By Keith Phipps December 11, 2012 | 6:00pm
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aux Angelina Jolie to retire from career of marrying Brad Pitt to focus on Salt sequel
By Sean O'Neal December 11, 2012 | 5:14pm
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music What does it mean to grow up with a band?
By Jason Heller December 11, 2012 | 5:00pm
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aux Milwaukee, Atlanta, Portland, St. Paul—you've got the New Cult Canon this week!
By Josh Modell December 11, 2012 | 4:30pm
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music Jimmy Buffett pulled in some country-music ringers for the horribly titled License To Chill
By Steven Hyden December 11, 2012 | 4:00pm
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tv “Weird Al” Yankovic, Sharon Van Etten, Scott Aukerman, and more pick their 2012 pop-culture highlights
By AV Club Staff December 11, 2012 | 4:00pm
