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For every one person who asks what people did before the Internet with regard to restaurant reviews or Google Maps,

 “Hair Battle Spectacular” Tuesday 10pm, Oxygen I’m not sure what else you need to know on this one. It’s a new reality show about hair battles, and apparently it’s spectacular. What’s a hair battle, you ask? It’s when people take hues and build them into completely outrageous follicular sculptures. Cynicism aside, a good hair battle is […]

Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (PG, 82 minutes) When a technologically competent kitty goes rogue, the two pet species must bury the hatchet and align forces to save their human masters. Regal Seminole Square 4  Charlie St. Cloud (PG-13, 98 minutes) Disney Channel eye-candy Zac Efron delves into an introspective character whose future […]

 In the grand scheme of things, we should have known it wouldn’t be so long after Breakfast of Champions that we’d be having Dinner for Schmucks

Bravo’s “Real Housewives” franchise has already embarrassed the women of Southern California, New York City, Atlanta and New Jersey

Ned Oldham released several records with the Anomoanon. With multi-instrumentalist Matty Metcalf, bassist Michael Clem and drummer Brian Caputo, he performs as Old Calf. What are you working on right now? I’m just trying to finish the artwork on a Ned Oldham single, or a three-song, 7" EP, coming out on Gold Robot Records. A […]

Movie trilogies can be as depressing as they are predictable.

MasterChef Tuesday 9pm, Fox Between “Hell’s Kitchen,” “Kitchen Nightmares,” and this new show, celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has become the ruddy, heavily creased face of the Fox Network. Logic dictates that we should be sick of him, and yet he’s undeniably charming when not screaming at incompetents and calling them “donkey.” His latest reality endeavor […]

I’m working on a large-scale multimedia project about climate change, what’s taking place in the Arctic Ocean underneath the ice.

Considering what else is out there, Inception could have been the best movie of the summer without even trying. But it’s a Christopher Nolan movie, so of course it tries. Hard. As the logical extension of whatever through-line might be drawn from Memento to The Dark Knight, Inception has all we’d want from Nolan: the […]