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Music Reviews
Ruthie Foster: The Truth According to Ruthie Foster
Billy Altman  |  Feb 26, 2009
Blue Corn
Music •••• Sound ••••
She's been recording for a decade, but Texas singer/songwriter Ruthie Foster was a fairly well-kept secret on the folk/
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Other Tech
A Class Act
Mike Gaughn  |  Feb 26, 2009

A voice booms from the ether of the home theater like a female Jehovah. "Pick up Line 2," it commands. "Meryl wants to talk to Natasha." I'm alone in the room and, tech-savvy guy that I am, can't figure out if I should shout a response back into the void as I fumble around looking for a handset to pick up or a button to press.

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Music Reviews
Lily Allen: It's Not Me, It's You
Jaan Uhelszki  |  Feb 26, 2009
Capitol
Music •••• Sound •••••
Lily Allen gives bad girls a good name.

On her flashy debut, Alright, Still ( Continue Reading »

Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The French Connection
David Vaughn  |  Feb 26, 2009

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/french.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>This classic movie is based on the true story of two New York City detectives, Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman) and Buddy Russo (Roy Scheider), as they attempt to break up a narcotics-smuggling ring with ties across the globe.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Pretty Woman
David Vaughn  |  Feb 26, 2009

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/pretty.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>In this contemporary Cinderella story, a streetwise prostitute, Vivian (Julia Roberts), meets no-nonsense billionaire Edward Lewis (Richard Gere), who hires her to be his companion for a week. Their business arrangement turns into something more when the couple discovers they are a match made in heaven.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Office Space
David Vaughn  |  Feb 26, 2009

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/officespace.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) has reached the breaking point with his mind-numbing white-collar job at Initech Corporation. His girlfriend Anne (Alexandra Wentworth) convinces him to get a new outlook on life by visiting a hypnotherapist, and it changes his life forever. Armed with a new attitude, he is quickly promoted to upper management&#151;but is that what he really wants?

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
David Vaughn  |  Feb 26, 2009

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/BHC.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>A chic Chihuahua named Chloe (voiced by Drew Barrymore) is lost south of the border by her careless dog-sitter (Piper Perabo), and she must find her own way back to her 90210 standard of living. Working her way north with the help of her newfound German shepherd friend, Delgado (Andy Garcia), she learns to become more self-sufficient and to embrace her "tiny but mighty" Chihuahua heritage.

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Audio Video News
Pylon's Randy Bewley: R.I.P.
SV Staff  |  Feb 26, 2009
"Randy who?" I can't blame you for asking. Randy Bewley was the guitarist for the legendary Georgia band Pylon. In the photo above, that's Randy to the left, playing at Hurrah's in 1979.Pylon? "Legendary"? Yes, to...
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Audio Video News
Cable Shows to Go Online
Mark Fleischmann  |  Feb 26, 2009
Historically, made-for-cable programming has been just that. Cable operators used it to differentiate their service from broadcast networks. But you just might start seeing it online as early as this summer. Even more surprising, cable operators are leading the effort to put cable programming on the internet.
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Audio Video News
Pioneer's TV division hits the dusty trail
SV Staff  |  Feb 26, 2009
For the last two years, Pioneer Kuro plasmas have sit squarely at the top of our HDTV heap. Both the PRO-110FD and the PRO-111FD earned their years' respective Editor's Choice award for Best Product of the Year, and they've been roundly considered...
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