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To hear him tell it, comedian Jo Koy's ego must be a bruised and ragged little thing. On a recent road trip with the Comedians of Chelsea Lately, Koy, comedian Josh Wolf and...
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The year is finally coming to a close, and it's a close a lot of people are more than happy to embrace. With the recession technically "over," we're all eager to kick 2009 to...
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On a late March morning, the sun sits high in the Cape Town sky, illuminating the trapezoidal monolith of Table Mountain in the distance, while down by the city's busy...
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Unlike the zigzagging protagonist of his latest film, Up in the Air, Jason Reitman tends to stay close to home. "If we were in a small town, you'd call me a 'townie.' I'd be...
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Enticing Jeff Bridges to voice a washed-up surfer dude in the 2007 children's movie Surf's Up, the filmmakers sent the actor a video of an animated penguin declaiming a few of...
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Looking back on a decade dominated by the movie franchise — Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Star Wars and Spider-Man to name just a few — and overrun with prequels...
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In a Dallas strip mall, in the neighborhood George W. Bush now calls home, sits a bright and fluorescent Blockbuster that, on this cold Thursday night in December, is populated...
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1. The Hurt Locker: The decade's strongest Iraq movie is also the year's finest action flick, not to mention director Kathryn Bigelow's personal best. Working from Mark Boal's...
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For Kelly Robertson, it all started stupidly enough with a fight on Twitter with her boyfriend. She wanted to leave town; he didn't. She went home, argued with him face-to-face...
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Spaced City
If You Can't Beat 'Em
We totally agree with the Chronicle's ideas on news judgment
By Richard Connelly
On a recent Sunday, nothing whatsoever was as important...
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The T-Mac Question
Online readers respond to "Game Time: Five Jobs The Rockets Can Give Tracy McGrady," By Sean Pendergast, Hair Balls blog, December 15:
Get clubbed...
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The signs of Christmas are all around us: The air has turned chilly, Starbucks has resumed serving gingerbread lattes in seasonal red cups and countless recording artists have...
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Remember how Noise was bitching and moaning last week about the lack of solid front-to-back albums released in 2009? Add the following 15 records to the haystack-size pile...
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Two-stepping is not parallel parking or buying birthday gifts: You can't be "okay" at it — you're either brilliant or you're a train wreck. Consider Todd Yarbrough...
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Believed to date back to an ancient Chinese wind instrument called the sheng, the harmonica as we know it today was developed in Europe in the early 19th century. A distant...
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Night before Christmas? Nah, man. Night after Christmas. "It's a good time to get shit poppin' because all the kids got money from their parents...and they got nothing to do,"...
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Home for the holidays...Hayes Carll may not live here anymore, but The Woodlands native has become one of Southeast Texas's leading musical ambassadors. Texas talent scouts...
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There's an old adage, especially for blues singers, that when the women start coming to your shows the men will follow, and Delbert McClinton is its epitome. Born in Lubbock in...
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Previewing Robert Earl Keen's House of Blues date last December, we noted, "Since he hasn't released any new material since 2005's What I Really Mean, expect Sunday's set to be...
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Hmmm. If you've never heard of I Set My Friends on Fire before, it's two Miami homeboys — Matt Mihana and Nabil Moo — who used to play around South Florida as We...
