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Sunday’s Oscar telecast commenced with a humorous nod to one of last year ‘s most daring and innovative movies, but by the end of the night it had turned into a celebration of the halcyon days of cinema past. While “Inception ” and ” The King ‘s Speech ” each earned four awards ,...
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I’ve always suspected that we the tax payers spent countless millions of dollar each year on the so-called "battle against illegal immigration," but after serving on a Federal Grand Jury recently in Oregon, all of my suspicions became loud and clear: yup we sure do.
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“Tales of Good ol’ Snoop Doggy Dogg” by J.T. Yost--from sense of humor to cartooning chops, it's a mini-comic worthy of your time.
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A series of surprises livened up Sunday night's Grammy ceremony—Eminem was kept in the rap award ghetto, Arcade Fire scored an upset, and the Bieber went down. All this, and the night's many performances, recapped, put under the microscope, and dissected for your pleasure.
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Ah, Valentine’s Day, that most cloying of celebrations where people obsess about greeting cards, dead vegetation, and–the holiday’s one saving grace–chocolate. We’re big fans of the stuff (albeit not so much the bacon-infused versions), our enthusiasm nearly approaching that we have for beverages. So naturally the half-sloshed cads here at OO decided to take...
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With fiction wearing the garb of non-fiction and the growing scrutiny of documentaries as truth, the lines continue to blur between these two supposedly oppositional types of film.
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Scott Anderson is not only a heck of an artist, he's a full-time faculty member at Westmont College's art department. He has a background in commercial art, and still takes on plenty of commissioned work. Anderson indulged our questions concerning maintaining your artistic sensibility when working commercially, and more.
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Sugar Sugar is a new entrant into the online dating scene with a twist: it specifically caters to those in search of a Sugar Daddy/Sugar Baby sort of relationship. I've been thinking a lot about why its mere existence bothers me so much.
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Eviscerated as it was by critics, one might wonder why anyone would bother seeing M. Night Shyamalan's 'The Last Airbender.' Well, my curiosity, she is a morbid thing. I’ve watched all of Shyamalan’s films with an increasing anticipation of their burgeoning badness.
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I like my Golden Globes ceremonies like I like my friends — drunk and trashy. That's why I was relieved when host Ricky Gervais opened Sunday night's show with a reference to Charlie Sheen's hotel-room debauchery.
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