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By Nic Screws
With the holiday quickly approaching, these are all the gifts you need — at any price, and easy to buy a click or two away
2/6/2012, 5:30 PM
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By Peter Martin
In which we watch the new previews you probably missed on Sunday night while you were grabbing a beer
2/6/2012, 3:00 PM
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This is the most rollicking song ever created about hopelessly treading water. Against joyful swirls of electronics and playful percussion, frontman Scott McMicken of Philadelphia's Dr. Dog plots out his own Groundhog Day: "There's an elephant in my head and I tiptoe around it / There are eggshells on the floor, therefore I never touch the ground." Ultimately, he's content to "set out each day, never to arrive." It takes a special kind of band to sound this giddy about drudgery. Then again, "That Old Black Hole" could also be a metaphor for Dr. Dog's career or, more importantly, the nontrajectories of dozens of equally complacent C-listers — bands that dependably fill decent-size clubs and midafternoon festival slots but always seem one song away from accomplishing much more. Five albums in, Dr. Dog has evolved well past the Beatles and the Band fetishist it initially appeared to be, but it's always seemed more like a drifter than a trailblazer. Maybe that's why it's been professionally leapfrogged by aesthetically similar bands like Vampire Weekend, Fleet Foxes, and Local Natives. But "That Old Black Hole" sounds like a glorious rally cry, like a band finally finding itself. It's a hall of mirrors: It's the song that could pull Dr. Dog out of the very rut the song is about.">
By Andy Langer
This marks the strongest lineup of new releases in the music industry's long post-holiday slumber
2/6/2012, 2:12 PM
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By Charles P. Pierce
Got a view on an issue that's completely untethered from reality? He's your boy.
2/6/2012, 12:21 PM
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By Kurt Soller
The Giants quarterback keeps wearing the same Italian label for each of his speeches
2/6/2012, 12:04 PM
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By Adam K. Raymond
A lot of ads went after Twitter on Sunday night. One user gauges their success.
2/6/2012, 11:28 AM
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The narrow pipe gate at the start of the driveway to Terry Thompson's farm.">
By Chris Jones
The most dramatic story of the year.
2/6/2012, 10:50 AM
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By Kurt Soller
Florsheim's got a great new take on this preppy, throwback shoe
2/6/2012, 10:15 AM
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By Matt Sullivan
You cannot shave as well as Andre Benjamin or Adrien Brody, but an office secret might save you yet.
2/6/2012, 12:08 AM
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By Elizabeth Gunnison
The foam on top of that latte in Fiat's all-around excellent ad for their new 500 Abarth.
2/5/2012, 11:45 PM
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