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Dan
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Mon Mar 15 13:33:00 PDT 2010
[michael sheen|johnny depp|crispin glover|helena bonham carter|anne hathaway|tim burton]
ALICE IN WONDERLAND (Dir. Tim Burton, 2010)I had forgotten that in my review of SWEENEY TODD (January 13th, 2008) I had joked that I was only going to see Burton/Depp productions at Movies At Timberlyne in Chapel Hill. Since I now live in Raleigh, I'm so glad that wasn't a strict vow because this really wouldn't have
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Paul
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Sun Mar 14 15:16:51 PDT 2010
[general]
Open Government and the World Wide Web
The opening ceremony of WWW2010 will include a plenary panel offering perspectives from both sides of the Atlantic on the move to make data more open and accessible on the Web (data.gov and data.gov.uk). The panel features inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee;
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Dan
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Thu Mar 11 10:16:00 PST 2010
[the hurt locker|paul greengrass|matt damon|greg kinnear]
GREEN ZONE (Dir. Paul Greengrass, 2010)Going in to this movie I knew precious little about it. I hadn't seen a trailer or even given the movie poster more than a passing glance. I only knew it was a Matt Damon/Paul Greengrass/war movie. But in the first five minutes I knew exactly where it was going to go.In those five
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Paul
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Mon Mar 08 11:41:23 PST 2010
[general]
Our family joke: “He knows so little, yet he says so much” is meant to be a kind of zen koan, an insult at one reading and praise at the next. I get that kind of reaction when I come home and describe the talks and classes I’ve done. This past week was one example of many parts of my life colliding
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Dan
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Mon Mar 08 10:08:00 PST 2010
[the hurt locker|jeff bridges|john hughes|steve martin|ben stiller|avatar|alec baldwin]
In the happiest moment of the evening, the Dude finally abided.Well, my biggest prediction this year was that I was going to get more wrong than the last few years and I was right about that. I got 13 of 24 which is pretty poor although I did get all the major categories correct (BEST PICTURE, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST
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Anton Zuiker
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Sat Mar 06 09:51:18 PST 2010
Ilina Ewen, blogger at Dirt and Noise talks about food, recalling being in Paris quite pregnant but savoring the fresh bread and ripe tomatoes. Such food nostalgia was the topic of State of Things yesterday, with Frank Stasio and Kelly Alexander talking hometown appetites and writing about local food memories.
Ilina
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Anton Zuiker
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Sat Mar 06 08:57:02 PST 2010
On the way to TEDxRTP this morning, NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday featured a great story about http://invisiblepeople.tv/blog/ (Former Homeless Man’s Videos Profile Life On Street). And now, Hugh Hollowell giving a heartfelt talk about how to end chronic homelessness — build relationships.
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Anton Zuiker
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Sat Mar 06 07:59:43 PST 2010
[observations]
It’s a beautiful and sunny day in the Triangle, and the RTP headquarters is the setting for some of the area’s bright minds sharing ideas as part of TEDxRTP.
First up is Duke’s Christopher Gergen talking about social entrepreneurship (he works with students in the Hart Leadership Program and a new
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Paul
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Sat Mar 06 07:15:56 PST 2010
[general]
For the past two days, I’ve had the Geek Quote of the Day on The Great Geek Manual site. Both came from the new Pew Internet and American Life Report called “Imagining the Internet IV.” While I’ve imagined the Internet for Pew three other times, I don’t think that my imaginings have gotten
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Dan
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Fri Mar 05 14:47:00 PST 2010
[roger ebert|the hurt locker|mo'nique|up|jeff bridges|kathryn bigelow|quentin tarantino|avatar|inglourious basterds|a serious man]
This is an incredibly obvious statement, but when it comes to Oscar predictions there are 2 paths to take – what one thinks will win and what one wants to win. Sometimes a gut feeling is difficult to differentiate from a personal preference so on a few I’ve decided to denote the ones I’m the most up in the air about
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Dan
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Tue Mar 02 09:57:00 PST 2010
[nathan rabin|robert altman|paul newman|james dean|dennis hopper]
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Paul
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Mon Mar 01 08:47:00 PST 2010
[general]
I got one of the best speaker’s gifts ever given by a conference thanks to Bess Sadler Of UCSD Stanford. She got RENCI’s Jeff Heard to do this very cool & beautiful visualization of ibiblio virtual host traffic. The X, Y and Z axises of these globes are the top 3 octets of the IP numbers of the sites
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Dan
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Fri Feb 26 20:28:00 PST 2010
[kevin smith|bruce willis|30 rock|tracy morgan|jason lee]
COP OUT (Dir. Kevin Smith, 2010)"It's a homage." So says goofy rubber faced plainclothes cop Tracy Morgan of his unorthodox interrogation methods to his partner of 9 years, a stonewalling yet smirking Bruce Willis. These methods are going to be familiar to anyone who's ever watched 30 Rock - Morgan does his patented
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Dan
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Wed Feb 24 09:47:00 PST 2010
[hulu|lost|roku|the wire]
Last month I wrote about my New Year's resolutions of getting more exercise and watching all 5 seasons of The Wire. In addition to finishing that excellent show that absolutely earns its status as one of the best television series ever, I pedaled on my exercise bike to The Prisoner (the 60's one) and continued the long
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Dan
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Sat Feb 20 09:52:00 PST 2010
[mark ruffalo|max von sydow|martin scorsese|leonardo dicaprio|ben kingsley|quentin tarantino]
SHUTTER ISLAND(Dir. Martin Scorsese, 2010)"You act like insanity is catching", federal Marshall Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) quips to the Deputy Warden (John Carroll Lynch) while being shown the grounds of Shutter Island, the contained electronically secure mental hospital for the criminally insane. It's a
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Dan
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Tue Feb 16 08:17:00 PST 2010
[paddy considine|james marsh|red riding trilogy|david morrissey|andrew garfield|zodiac]
This set of 3 feature length films based on David Pearce's semi-true crime novel series "Red Riding Quartet" is currently playing in limited release theatrically and is available on IFC Films On Demand. RED RIDING: 1974 (Dir. Juliam Jarrold, 2009) This first "episode" starts off with an air of a British ZODIAC, but a
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Anton Zuiker
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Thu Feb 11 12:59:42 PST 2010
[dekalb-illinois]
A call from my mother yesterday alerted me to the news that my hometown of DeKalb, Illinois experienced a minor but rare earthquake. Read about it in the DeKalb Daily Chronicle.
When I was growing up in DeKalb, I learned about the New Madrid fault in southern Missouri, predicted by some to have a Big One of its own
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Dan
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Thu Feb 11 12:10:00 PST 2010
[christopher plummer|james mcavoy|paul giamatti]
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Dan
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Mon Feb 08 14:03:00 PST 2010
[nick nolte|jacqueline bisset|ben stiller|paul masursky]
NICK NOLTE: NO EXIT (Dir. Tom Thurman, 2008)"I thought this was going to be a bit of a lighter interview. You know, something more... mainstream for 6 year olds?" - Nick Nolte at the beginning of this film.The "bio doc" genre has been overflowing lately. It seems like every other celebrity in existence is the subject
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Anton Zuiker
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Sun Feb 07 18:58:46 PST 2010
[observations]
Like each February of the past few years, I’m floating on a high from the success of the ScienceOnline2010 conference, but also reaching for a return to balance in my life. Planning the conference takes a lot out of me.
“Go away,” Erin suggested. “Take a weekend to yourself and reconnect with
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Dan
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Thu Feb 04 14:01:00 PST 2010
[maggie gyllenhall|jeff bridges|colin farrell|crazy heart|robert duvall|t. bone burnett]
CRAZY HEART (Dir. Scott Cooper, 2009) Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes;
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Paul
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Tue Feb 02 06:32:17 PST 2010
[general]
In December, Cheerwine was widely available in Chapel Hill. In February, there is not a drop of the dark cheery NC iconic beverage to be found in Orange County stores — and worse –; there are not even empty slots on the shelves; the shelves have been remarked as if Cheerwine never existed!
Until February
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Dan
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Mon Feb 01 09:22:00 PST 2010
[the hurt locker|district 9|werner herzog|knocked up|anvil|nicholas cage|black dynamite|j.j. abrams|wes anderson|star trek|quentin tarantino|coen brothers]
All this last month readers have been asking me for my top 10 movies of 2009. I've mentioned before that some major prestige films don't get to my area until late January or early February or later, and that's not considering many Foreign films that aren't released in these parts until months after the Oscars so it's
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Sun Jan 31 14:53:16 PST 2010
As some of you know, I'm currently in transition, taking a sabbatical or as I like to call it.....funemployed. Below I'm going to post some links to the magazines we produced as Calliope as well as some writing samples so I can point potential employers here. Feel free to check ...
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Sat Jan 30 14:53:16 PST 2010
If you’re like me, you can barely remember what you had for lunch much less the name of that fabulous merlot you ordered at the restaurant on date night. Or how about that pinot they were tasting at the art show over the weekend? You liked it a lot. But ...
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Dan
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Fri Jan 29 22:25:00 PST 2010
[oren moverman|samantha morton|ben foster|woody harrelson]
THE MESSENGER (Dir. Oren Moverman, 2009) There have been many movies in which we see Army men appear at folks' homes to give notice of the deaths of soldiers. It is usually a brief scene with little spoken, but here these men, in the form of Ben Foster as a Staff Sgt. recently deployed from Iraq, and Woody Harrelson as
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Fri Jan 29 14:53:16 PST 2010
Revolution in Durham has a metropolitan vibe and is yet another hit in Durham's flourishing library of foodie hot spots.
The restaurant is Executive Chef Jim Anile's baby and it is a broad departure from his last gig at Il Palio at the Siena Hotel in Chapel Hill. The menu is ...
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Paul
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Fri Jan 29 07:29:16 PST 2010
[general]
Double news day on Wednesday.
I did some bits for and article in the Durham Herald-Sun on the iPad and education — even before the product was unveiled. I think this last part isn’t great for journalism, so you can see that I hedged my bets on what the thing would do or had I seen it and the DRM
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Thu Jan 28 14:53:16 PST 2010
One day it was an outdoor specialty store, the next it was a restaurant. At least that's what it felt like when I was walking down Franklin Street one afternoon and discovered the restaurant officially named Cypress on the Hill. Located at 308 West Franklin Street, it's in the spot ...
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Wed Jan 27 14:53:16 PST 2010
Pretty much anyone who's ever asked me for a restaurant recommendation knows that I'm a big fan of the West End Wine Bar on Franklin Street. In fact, it was one of the places that convinced me that relocating to Chapel Hill from San Francisco would be "ok." (I was ...
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Dan
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Tue Jan 26 07:58:00 PST 2010
[nathan rabin|lost|the prisoner|the wire|j.j. abrams]
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Dan
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Thu Jan 21 10:21:00 PST 2010
[julliane moore|tom ford|a single man|colin firth]
A SINGLE MAN (Dir. Tom Ford, 2009)College professor George Falconer (Colin Firth) lives his life in a neat orderly manner. Every item is his home is arranged appropriately and every piece of clothing he wears is impeccably pressed.He is living what Thoreau called a life of "quiet desperation" (a quotation our lead is
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Dan
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Tue Jan 19 08:51:00 PST 2010
[gary oldman|mila kunis|denzel washington|hughes brothers]
THE BOOK OF ELI (Dirs. Albert and Allen Hughes, 2010)Here we go again with another cinematic rendering of a post apocalyptic world - apparently for those who thought THE ROAD didn't have enough action. A bearded grizzled Denzel Washington walks the ashy terrain listening to Al Green on an old beat-up iPod and avoiding
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Dan
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Sun Jan 17 09:10:00 PST 2010
[peter jackson|mark wahlberg|lord of the rings|the lovely bones]
THE LOVELY BONES (Dir. Peter Jackson, 2009)“I was fourteen years old when I was murdered on December 6th, 1973.” So says Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan) at the beginning of this adaptation of Alice Sebold’s 2002 best seller. Ronan’s voice-over comes not from beyond the grave, but from she calls “the blue horizon between
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Dan
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Wed Jan 13 07:58:00 PST 2010
[robery d. siegel|the wrestler|big fan|patton oswalt|kevin corrigan|the onion movie]
BIG FAN (Dir. Robert D. Siegel, 2009) Paul, played by comedian Patton Oswalt, from Staten Island considers himself “the biggest New York Giants fan”. During his day job as a parking garage attendant he scribbles in a notebook a script of sorts of what he’s going to say on a sports call-in radio show that
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Paul
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Tue Jan 12 18:18:25 PST 2010
[general]
Just after hearing a great, if quick and concise, discussion “Toward Health Care Reform Through Electronic Medical Records” featuring Jonathan Oberlander, Tim Carey and Deniese Chaney at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health this evening. Louise Winstanly turned to me and said “Why not let
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Dan
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Mon Jan 11 08:19:00 PST 2010
[michael cera|superbad|arrested development|steve buscemi]
YOUTH IN REVOLT (Dir. Miguel Arteta, 2009)It's funny that Michael Cera has reportedly been the lone holdout for the prospects of an Arrested Development movie since he's never quite left the character of awkward yet lovable George-Michael Bluth behind. Cera has never shown us that he has any versatility, yet his
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Paul
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Sun Jan 10 17:48:57 PST 2010
[general]
This Friday, I was at the funeral, burial, and an informal gathering of friends for the poet and teacher Margaret Rabb who most of us knew as Peggy. Peggy had a rich life much of which was spent on making other peoples lives richer. I knew her as a poet, but also as someone who worked in international health issues,
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Dan
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Fri Jan 08 23:30:00 PST 2010
[jude law|christopher plummer|johnny depp|colin farrell|imaginarium of doctor parnassus|terry gilliam|tom waits|heath ledger]
THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS (Dir. Terry Gilliam, 2009) Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;
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Dan
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Wed Jan 06 13:20:00 PST 2010
[christopher plummer|monty python|johnny depp|jeff bridges|peter stormare|terry gilliam|tom waits|michael palin|jim broadbent|heath ledger|jonathan pryce]
In anticipation of the new Terry Gilliam film THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS opening wide this Friday here's a listing of Gilliam's stupendous stock company. This is excluding the Monty Python films, because Gilliam only co-directed one of them (MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL). So let's get right to it:Jeff
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Dan
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Mon Jan 04 08:30:00 PST 2010
[meryl streep|steve martin|diane keaton|john krasinski|alec baldwin|nancy myers]
IT'S COMPLICATED (Dir. Nancy Meyers, 2009) A recent New York Times Magazine profile of the writer/director of this film opened with this set-up: "Nancy Meyers makes movies set in beautifully appointed, but not opulent, houses about attractive, but not perfect looking, people in which the, unintentionally seductive,
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Dan
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Mon Dec 28 23:58:00 PST 2009
[abel ferrara|werner herzog|nicholas cage|val kilmer|eve mendes]
BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL - NEW ORLEANS(Dir. Werner Herzog, 2009)So is this a remake? A re-imagining? Is it connected to Abel Ferrara's 1992 corrupt cop cult classic in any way than the title? The answer is that it is and it isn't. Both films concern a police detective summed up by the first film's tagline:
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Dan
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Sat Dec 26 08:43:00 PST 2009
[jude law|rachel mcadams|guy ritchie|robert downey jr.|sherlock holmes]
SHERLOCK HOLMES (Dir. Guy Ritchie, 2009) The recreation of the career of Robert Downey Jr. as a bankable action hero continues with this expensive explosive epic that re-casts Arthur Conan Doyle's classic character as, well, a bankable action hero. It's a conceit that works grandly for considerable chunks of Guy
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