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"Brick City" Offers More Real Talk Than Pep Talks
Via Baratunde Thurston of Jack and Jill Politics, a stirring clip from Brick City, the Sundance Channel documentary on Newark, New Jersey and its Mayor, Cory Booker: I pulled this clip because I think it’s the most powerful monologue I’ve seen in a good long while. The speaker is not an actor, however. This is…
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UPDATE: The World:"President Who? Rio Wins."
UPDATE: Rio is gonna get it poppin’ in 2016. Now about those pesky favelas… ORIGINAL STORY With everything tip top domestically and otherwise, President Obama made a final pitch to the IOC in Copenhagen for a Chicago Olympic Games in 2016. From CNN: Obama’s address to the 106 IOC members gathered in Copenhagen, Denmark, was…
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Male Nudity, Illicit Substances and Ill-Timed Professions of Love
Welcome to the age of the bromance—a comedy, at times romantic, that showcases a deep-rooted, affectionate, borderline gay relationship between two or more white men. Lately, Hollywood has been packing and repacking the same successful recipe for male bonding on film: hijinks, dirty jokes and a handful of “hetero” man love sprinkled throughout. The 40-Year-Old…
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‘More Than a Game’ Is About More Than LeBron
When More Than a Game opens (in select theaters) on Oct. 2, one scene is all it’ll take for people to understand what the documentary is really about. The star of the film, LeBron James, and the rest of his teammates on the St. Vincent-St. Mary High School basketball team are being escorted out by…
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A Black Republican's Memo to Democrats
Speaking today in the aftermath of hushed diplomatic talks in Geneva about Iranian nuclear ambitions, President Barack Obama told Iran: “Our patience is not unlimited.” Mr. and Mrs. America: Here we go again. The rogue nation (yes, I said rogue) is making promises to “talk” and to allow in International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors, yada, yada,…
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On Health Care, Rep. Alan Grayson Calls Republicans "Neanderthals." Really?
Democratic Florida Congressman Alan Grayson has a bone to pick with the Republican party. Watch: He continued his tirade on CNN, calling the GOP more names. The Republican party may be many things, but “foot-dragging, knuckle-dragging Neanderthals”? I think not. As someone who spent 20 years in the GOP (I now consider myself an independent),…
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This. Really. Works.
It is possible for hair to be glossy and shiny—Jane Carter Solution has the remedy. Established in 2005 by CEO Jane Carter (who has 20+ years experience in the hair industry), the brand was created specifically to answer the desperate calls about dry, brittle hair. “Hair is hair,” says the company literature: And the word is these products work beautifully on strands of all…
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Sweet Dream
There’s a good chance you hate your alarm clock. It’s loud. It’s annoying. And it’s the first thing you see when you wake up in the morning. Which is why the new Hewlett-Packard DreamScreen 100 ($249) is, well, such a dream. Designed to be a companion to your PC, the DreamScreen connects to your wireless network seamlessly and, in many ways, does everything your…
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Book ’Em!
When it comes to the brand-new IREX DR800SG eReader, don’t judge a book by its cover. Though the IREX ($399; available at select Best Buy locations) doesn’t carry as much weight (yet) as Amazon does with the Kindle ($299), or Sony does with the Reader Daily Edition ($299), here’s everything you need to know: In 2001,…