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[Fri, 20.Nov.09]
Bob Dylan: 31 October 2009 - Chicago
On Halloween night when Bob Dylan and his band took the stage at the Aragon in Chicago, the audience members, some of whom were clad in costume, erupted in wild applause.

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Twelfth Night: 19 December 2009 - London
Ultimately, even Shakespeare’s comedies are judged by just one standard: whether or not they are funny. And this Twelfth Night is hilarious.

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News, Reviews and Commentary from the World of Popular Culture

[Fri, 20.Nov.09]
:. INTERVIEW:Adam Goldberg goes avant garde
:. ‘Modern Warfare 2’ video game scores record sales in launch
:. Brad Pitt company buys film rights to Airtight Games’ ‘Dark Void’
:. INTERVIEW:Tom Arnold is a lovable loser , and open about it
:. INTERVIEW:Tony Bennett gives back to his old N.Y. neighborhood with arts school
:. Jazz pianist reflects on his influences in his first piano concerto
:. ‘The Exiles’ rescued from oblivion
:. INTERVIEW:Wes Anderson meets Roald Dahl in ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’
:. INTERVIEW:It’s ‘Tuesday Night’ again for Sheryl Crow
:. Libraries turning a page with cafes, chat rooms and flat screens
:. Oz devotee returns to the land he loves with new Marvel adaptation

[Thu, 19.Nov.09]
:. IBM announces advances toward a computer that works like a human brain
:. Future bright for Microsoft cloud computing, server president says
:. The end shouldn’t be the beginning
:. ‘Port of Call’ is Nicolas Cage’s most unleashed, and best, work in years
:. Sandra Bullock stepped up to play her ‘Blind Side’ character
:. ‘Modern Warfare 2’ video game scores record sales in launch
:. Ashley Greene has fashioned a vibrant acting career since ‘Twilight’

FEATURES

Director Spotlight: Pedro Almodóvar
By PopMatters Staff
[20.Nov.09] :. Today: Viva Pedro: The Almodovar Interview -- What could possibly be better than getting face time with one of the most legendary filmmakers of all-time? Almodóvar talks to PopMatters about his new film, Broken Embraces and much more.

The Iconographies: Masters of Horror Manga: Kazuo Umezu and Hideshi Hino
By Oliver Ho
[20.Nov.09] :. Perhaps more so than any other artists, Kazuo Umezu and Hideshi Hino defined the genre of horror comics in Japan, an influence that extends to the West, and also to the world of J-horror films.

COLUMNS

The Rockist: We All Know the Way to Sesame Street
By Michael Brett
[20.Nov.09] :. In the 2008 presidential election, America crossed the Henson Point -- the point where we are a post-Baby Boomer society. The Rockist calls for a champagne toast.

Worlds in Panels: What We Talk About When We Talk About Supergirl’s Shorts
By Shaun Huston
[20.Nov.09] :. Supergirl's summer costume change -- which included concealing shorts under her skirt as she flew about, kicking butt -- reveals a lot about our changing superheroes.

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The Gospel According to Butch: Part 2—The Performer
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[18.Nov.09] :. The ever-prolific producer/songwriter Butch Walker notes how live shows lack a genuine mystique these days, his secret for surviving a tour, and why he'll probably never see Third Eye Blind in concert again ...

20 Questions: Alison Brie and Donald Glover of ‘Community’
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[17.Nov.09] :. Alison Brie, who plays Trudy on Mad Men and Donald Glover, who wrote for 30 Rock before joining the Community cast, indulge in a friendly, teasing, tête à tête of sorts, as they consider PopMatters 20 Questions.

Re-Meet the Beatles: PopMatters Salutes the Still Fab Four
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The Iconographies: We Few, We Happy Few, We Bandaged Brothers: Jeff Lemire’s The Nobody and the Quest for Self
By Kevin M. Brettauer
[13.Nov.09] :. A touching, heartfelt meditation on identity and isolation in a small town, Jeff Lemire is able to redress an H.G. Wells classic and make it as timely and disturbing as ever.

The Gospel According to Butch: Part 1—The Producer
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[11.Nov.09] :. Butch Walker talks with PopMatters about the music industry, the problems that young bands frequently succumb to in the studio, and why it's more important to write songs than design T-shirts.

A Working Class Family: Ed and Edie Falco
By Mike Garrett
[10.Nov.09] :. PopMatters talks with Ed Falco and his niece, actor Edie Falco, about their life in the arts and Ed's gritty new novel, Saint John of the Five Boroughs.

Ayn Rand and the World She Made
By Diane Leach
[9.Nov.09] :. Ayn Rand set out to remake reality as if it were an ill-fitting dress: by sheer will, she tried to fashion a Balenciaga gown from a housedress.

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By Ian Chant
[6.Nov.09] :. The Next Iron Chef is not a show about cooking. It is a show about people freaking out; cooking just happens to be what they’re doing while they’re freaking out.

Eclipse Series 17: Nikkatsu Noir
By Alistair Dickinson
[6.Nov.09] :. These five films from the golden-era of the legendary Nikkatsu studio shows off the never-ending ways Japanese filmmakers were able to combine the best elements of pulp and epic Japanese storytelling.

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Deconstruction Zone: Strange Muse: Jack London and Ernest Gallo
By Rodger Jacobs
[19.Nov.09] :. One bad novel, gallons of cheap red wine, and spring-fed creeks of sweat.

Blood and Thunder: Dimensional Walls Getting Thinner: The Collective Minds of Krallice
By Adrien Begrand
[18.Nov.09] :. What started out a back-to-basics project has turned into one of the coolest, most forward-thinking American metal bands of this decade.

Busted Headphones: Hip-Hop & the Contrast Principle
By Quentin B. Huff
[17.Nov.09] :. Hip-hop, as a culture and a musical genre, moves at lightning speed. Keeping up requires an awareness of our expectations and a willingness to revisit our assumptions.

Backslash: What’s More Dangerous on the Web—Hackers or Hacks?
By Liz Colville
[16.Nov.09] :. Content producers have the power to be whomever they want, but if they let themselves be dictated too much by factors like Google, page views, and ad revenue, they end up simply joining a droning, mundane chorus of mediocrity.

Read Only Memory: A Cat’s Triumph and the Midlife Crisis of a Dog
By Michael Antman
[16.Nov.09] :. The popularity of the “pet memoir” can be traced to a lot of factors, ranging from honest sentiment to rank anthropomorphism. But our pets, and our books about them, reflect spirit of our age, as well.

Suffragette City: An Education: Carey Mulligan Comes of Age
By Matt Mazur
[13.Nov.09] :. Danish director Lone Scherfig spares audiences the trite clichés of a young woman's coming of age, directs a magnificent cast of actors, and defends her film against allegations of inappropriate sexuality.

The Rockist: Does Late Night TV Still Matter? Part 3
By Michael Brett
[13.Nov.09] :. In the third part of his never-ending odyssey of late-night talkers, the Rockist endures Kimmel and bits.

Retro Remote: The Prisoner: ‘Fall Out’
By Kit MacFarlane
[12.Nov.09] :. The Prisoner's unapologetic payoff of surrealism and absurdism heads into that artistic realm where meaning is defined more by resonance than by immediately identifiable relevance.

Mixtape Confessions: So You Think You Can Make Me Like Dance?
By Ben Rubenstein
[11.Nov.09] :. Rubenstein views dance much like his girlfriend watches a baseball game; the subtleties are lost on him.

Pop Goes Philosophy: Nobel Prizes and Nobel Promises
By George Reisch
[10.Nov.09] :. President Obama probably rattled and hummed in disbelief when he got his Nobel Prize. Ask Bono.

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