Ken Richardson

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Music Reviews
Review: The Beatles Remastered CDs
Ken Richardson  |  Nov 03, 2009
Key Features
THE BEATLES IN MONO 13 discs, $300 • Includes every remastered CD from Please Please Me to The White A
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Music Reviews
Ringo Starr: 5.1 - The Surround Sound Collection; Paul McCartney: The McCartney Years
Ken Richardson  |  Jul 15, 2008
Ringo Starr: 5.1 - The Surround Sound Collection

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S&V Entertainment Awards
Ken Richardson  |  Jan 27, 2003
That's right, the women are smarter! At least the three women of Sleater-Kinney and the star of Amélie are, because they've taken the No. 1 spots in our annual S&V Entertainment Awards. Of course, from Gabriel to the Boss, the boys who made our list of the best CDs of 2002 aren't softies.
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S&V Entertainment Awards
Ken Richardson  |  Jan 26, 2004

Readers are often surprised by what our Top 10 lists include and exclude. That's a given for any Top 10 list. But this year, we should explain why a certain album doesn't get one of our annual S&V Entertainment Awards - and why a certain movie gets a second one.

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S&V Entertainment Awards
Ken Richardson  |  Feb 01, 2005

Mandate? We'll leave that topic to the political arena. But in the realm of our annual S&V Entertainment Awards, ten music and eight movie critics have voted, and in each department the majority has ruled: Brian Wilson's SMiLE is the best CD of 2004, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is the best DVD. Interesting.

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SACD's Overture Page 2
Ken Richardson  |  Jul 17, 2001

In the same way that the Warner Music Group is spearheading DVD-Audio, Sony Music is leading the charge for Super Audio CD - though that's a little difficult to tell from Sony's first batch of surround SACDs, which number exactly two.

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SACD's Overture Page 3
Ken Richardson  |  Jul 17, 2001

In the same way that the Warner Music Group is spearheading DVD-Audio, Sony Music is leading the charge for Super Audio CD - though that's a little difficult to tell from Sony's first batch of surround SACDs, which number exactly two.

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SACD's Overture Page 4
Ken Richardson  |  Jul 17, 2001

In the same way that the Warner Music Group is spearheading DVD-Audio, Sony Music is leading the charge for Super Audio CD - though that's a little difficult to tell from Sony's first batch of surround SACDs, which number exactly two.

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Other Tech
Simultaneous Theater/TV/DVD Release Riles Cinema Owners
Ken Richardson  |  Apr 02, 2006

It's directed by Steven Soderbergh, whose credits include everything from Sex, Lies, and Videotape to Traffic, Erin Brockovich, and Ocean's Eleven. It's scored by Robert Pollard, the former Guided by Voices leader, composing his first film music.

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Other Tech
Song to Bob, and Nat
Ken Richardson  |  Apr 03, 2008

Nat Hentoff has just celebrated 50 years of writing about civil rights for The Village Voice. We at S&V would like to point out that, in February 1958, Hentoff was also a contributing editor to this magazine's earliest progenitor, HiFi & Music Review.

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