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Charlie Huston is a difficult writer to classify. Hes written some great crime novels including the Hank Thompson trilogy, The Shotgun Rule and the fabulous The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death. He wrote five book Joe Pitt series, noirish tales of vampires in New York City, and the eerie cyberpunk novel Sleepless. Huston has been writing for television and written some comics...
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Brann Dailor is one of those drummers which being a drummer myself makes me feel completely inadequate when I sit down at my kit. Sure, I could give you some bullshit line about how he inspires me to take my playing to the next level, but thats exactly what it would be, bullshit. Branns playing transcends what my rational mind can comprehend and with the...
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Lisa Lutz was an unknown writer with a single film credit to her name when her debut novel The Spellman Files was published in 2007. It was a very funny book about a family of private investigators, but what has kept readers returning for multiple books is the main character of Isabel Izzy Spellman. Isabel is funny and good at her job, but she also...
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They call it the worlds oldest profession for a reason. As long as there has been sex, there have been women who figured out that some men will pay for it. I shouldnt even assume heterosexual men and women. There can be gigolos, gay services and all sorts of crossover. Yet as long as this profession has existed, we still live in a society that...
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Its not uncommon for an actor to have several movies at a film festival like Sundance. You make some independent movies in a year, they could all get in. It is a bit rarer for a director to have two in a fest, because except for Steven Soderbergh, most directors take more than a year to make a single movie. At this years Sundance...
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Q: What does it take to leave Hip Hop legend Eminem unable to write a rhyme for an entire summer?

A: Treach from Naughty By Nature.

You see, in the 2012 documentary, The Art of Rap, Eminem discusses his emcee influences with fellow wordsmith Ice-T and tells a story about how his friend Proof (RIP) played him a song called Yoke The Joker by Naughty...
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Hans Zimmer is responsible for a lot of the movie music you have heard in your life. His most famous movie scores include Driving Miss Daisy, Pirates of the Caribbean and Inception, but hes done everything from Thelma & Louise and A League of Their Own to The Rock, Crimson Tide and the Dark Knight trilogy.

Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan tapped Zimmer...
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Lauren Beukes is a South African writer who made a splash with her first two novels, Moxyland and Zoo City, stories set in a Johannesburg full of futuristic technology, magic and much more. Last year Beukes also wrote a story arc of the Vertigo comic Fairest where she told the story of Rapunzel and tied her tale to Japanese folklore. The collection, Fairest: Hidden Kingdom...
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Gerard Way is best known as the co-founder and lead vocalist of the band My Chemical Romance, which after four studio albums announced it was breaking up earlier this year. Way is also the writer of the Eisner Award-winning series The Umbrella Academy, with artist Gabriel Ba. Theyve created two miniseries Apocalypse Suite and Dallas, with a third planned.

Ways new project is the six...
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Taylor Stevens made a splash in 2011 with her novel The Informationist. The book introduced readers to Vanessa Michael Munroe, a brilliant, knife-fighting information hunter who travels to Africa to hunt down a missing woman. Stevens followed the book up with The Innocent, where Munroe infiltrates and steals back a young girl from a cult known as The Chosen at the request of a group...
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