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Over the past 15 years Jae Lee has become one of the most stylish and innovative comic book artists in recent memory. He burst onto the scene with a stint on Namor the Sub-Mariner and since then has worked on dozens of other books from Fantastic Four to The Sentry to his creator owned Hellshock. But recently Jae Lee has a wild time by throwing...
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Pere Ubu has been below the pop culture radar since their beginning in 1975. They are a rock band but they include elements of the expressionist movement, experimental music and blues. I got to talk to the only constant member in Pere Ubus over 30 year history, band co-founder/vocalist/producer David Thomas about the new album Why I Hate Women.

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* DIRECTIVE 233 Restrain hostile feelings
* DIRECTIVE 234 Promote positive attitude
* DIRECTIVE 235 Suppress aggressiveness
* DIRECTIVE 236 Promote pro-social values
* DIRECTIVE 246 Don't rush traffic lights (repeated below)
* DIRECTIVE 254 Encourage awareness
* DIRECTIVE 256 Discourage harsh language
* DIRECTIVE 258 Commend sincere efforts
* DIRECTIVE 261 Talk things out
* DIRECTIVE 262 Avoid Orion meetings
* DIRECTIVE 266 Smile...
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I finally got a chance to talk with Dave Foley and I just couldnt resist the chance to ask him what his favorite episodes were from both The Kids in the Hall TV show and Newsradio. Those are just two of the best comedies, in any medium, ever created. But Foley was most excited to talk about the new play hes co-directed called The Tribute....
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I got on the phone with Aline Crumb and I expected to hear a very hardened woman talking back at me. I figured if youre the wife of R. Crumb, who everyone thinks is the worlds worst misogynist, she might be a pretty angry woman. But after speaking with Aline, about the new book The Sweeter Side of R. Crumb, it would be hard to...
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There are renaissance men then there is Jules Feiffer. Feiffer has become the cream of the crop in every field he has entered. He first gained fame for his comic book strips in The Village Voice and won a Pulitzer Prize for said strips. He has written the screenplays for Carnal Knowledge and Popeye. But his latest project is The Long Chalkboard which is...
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Gary Valentine is best known as a member of the rock band Blondie and penning the songs X-Offender and (Im Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear before leaving the band. Since then Valentine has become a popular writer out of London writing about such disparate topics as the dark side of the sixties and writer death by suicide. I got a chance to talk with...
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The Cars came together at the end of the 1970s just as rock and synthesizers were becoming common, due to the growing popularity of New Wave. The Cars songs were a staple of the radio and their videos garnered numerous awards from MTV. Though the original members of the band broke up in 1988, Ric Ocasek has never stopped creating and producing music. He produced...
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Few filmmakers have had as interesting a career as Keith Gordon. Gordon first became known as actor in the 80s for films like Dressed to Kill, Back to School and Christine. After ten years in the business, Gordon took a deep plunge with adapting the classic The Chocolate War, which was just recently screened at the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles. Since then Gordon has...
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It has been a long journey for Darren Aronofsky and his film, The Fountain. This venture has been over six years long but film fans can rejoice because The Fountain is finally being released. It is one of the most emotional and moving films (not just science fiction) I have ever seen. The Fountain is confusing at first but soon you are deeply involved in...
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