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Music Tuesday Newsday: New Releases By Nelly, Norah Jones, Josh Groban, Bruce Springsteen, and Bryan Adams

November 16, 2010 - 5:36 pm

New Pink, greatest hits that is…Rhianna’s already getting major kudos for her new album, Loud…Norah Jones releases a compilation CD of her collaborative hits…The Boss gives us some bonus tracks from 1978′s Darkness on the Edge of Town…Annie Lennox gives us more Christmas songs…and a new one from Nelly…see ya in a week.

Bryan Adams - Bare Bones

Bombay Bicycle Club - Flaws

Josh Groban – Illuminations

Cassidy – Cash

Crushed Stars - Convalescing In Braille

Keith Urban – Get Closer

Curren$y – Pilot Talk II

Lee DeWyze - Live It Up

Norah Jones – …Featuring Norah Jones [collection of collaborations]

Kid Rock – Born Free

Annie Lennox - A Christmas Cornucopia

Carol Bui Mira - You’re Free With Me

Nelly – 5.0

Bruce Springsteen - The Promise (unreleased tracks from Darkness on the Edge of Town sessions

Hellmouth – Gravestone Skylines

Contributors GEEK ACTIVISM: The Nerdy Bird Uses Her Powers to Fight for the MDA

by Teresa Jusino

November 16, 2010 - 10:59 am

Pantozzi cosplays as a Red Lantern

Geeks know how to mobilize. Contrary to what you might think, they don’t just mobilize to save failing television shows. Sometimes, they use their vast social networking skills to mobilize for good. Sometimes, they mobilize to change the world. I hope to regularly spotlight those geeky activists here at ChinaShop to show the world what I already know; that the Geek Community is made up of some of the most caring and heroic people on the planet!

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Art/Design Featured Gallery Marxist Glue: A Bottle of Blasphemy

by Nicole Pajer and Zoetica Ebb

November 15, 2010 - 3:17 pm

Last year, members of the California wheat pasting community attempted to throw together an art exhibition in a Los Angeles warehouse. The local law enforcement, however, was not as receptive to this idea, as wheat pasting is a form of graffiti and is technically illegal. With much disappointment, the exhibit was shut down and frustrated artists gave up on this dream. This was until Hold Up Art owner/curator Brian Lee decided to team up with wheat pasting mastermind Cryptik, and with the help of fellow curator Toks Shoyoye, was able to bring “Marxist Glue” to downtown Los Angeles.

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Art/Design Featured Gallery Jessica Joslin’s Hybrids at La Luz De Jesus

by Zoetica Ebb

November 15, 2010 - 11:05 am

Last Saturday, La Luz De Jesus gallery drew crowds to marvel at the newest creations of Chicago-based artist Jessica Joslin. Joslin has been astonishing fans for years with her whimsical, intricate sculptures of brass and bone and found objects galore. At the reception, wine flowed, gallery-goers oohed, ahhed and lavished praise. The sculptures were artfully lit – last-minute the night before the show, according to gallery director Matt Kennedy, but you’d have never known from the looks of things. In fact, the ornate shadows cast on the walls by mischievous cat-monkeys, fish-birds and other mystery pets seemed very much part of the exhibit.

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Fashion Fashion For Action: Turning Superficial Into Significant

by Carrie Tucker

November 15, 2010 - 11:03 am

Hey NYC peeps, wondering how to fill your empty weekend hours? Feel like you’ve been taking and taking from society and want to find a way to give back? Well, why don’t you go shopping?

Yeah, you heard me. Turn your superficial pastime into something quite, er, not superficial at the Housing Works seventh annual Fashion For Action event. Chaired by Thom Browne, it kicks off Thursday, November 18^th with an opening night benefit and silent auction, and runs through Sunday, November 21^st.with the extraordinary sample sale.

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Music Music Magic 11/12/10

by Amanda Boyd

November 12, 2010 - 11:53 am

Really digging the latest from Patrick Wolf, “Time of My Life.” It’s been a minute since we’ve heard anything new from Mr. Wolf (2009’s The Bachelor, if we want to get all specific and whatnot) and I for one am very excited about his upcoming album. Lamentably, it won’t be out until May 2011. But, in the mean time, check out the aforementioned single below:

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Music Red Bull Soundclash: Interview Shiny Toy Guns

by Shop Keeper

November 12, 2010 - 11:18 am

The Shiny Toy Guns have always been a band hell-bent on trailblazing. STG pioneered the fusion of dance and rock music with their first two albums We Are Pilots (2006) and Season of Poison (2008). The band was also a trailblazer in the intense musical conversation know as Red Bull Soundclash. Well, the boys (and girl) are back at it with a new album and a second showing at Red Bull Soundclash. ChinaShop sat down with the band to discuss tales of pioneering past as well as to explore which envelopes they will be pushing in 2011 and beyond.

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Film Film Fridays: How to Survive the 3D Plague

by Jeff Nau

November 12, 2010 - 11:17 am

After seeing the latest Saw — and sitting through soon-to-be AFI classics like Beowulf and Clash of the Titans — I’ve realized that the 3D movie experience is not unlike, well, some good sex: the act can actually prompt some deep philosophical pondering, though it comes with that pesky side effect of unmitigated honesty.

I admit proudly that I had no more than one thought for each of the 4 acts in Saw 3D, and in this order:

1. I will never get this hour and a half back. Must… leave now… before it is too late. For God’s sake — hey, cleavage! OK, leave after this part.

2. I’d last two minutes in these traps, just cause I’d have to keep rewinding the f*%king instructional tapes.

3. 3D my ass! I’m never going to sit through one of these again. Definitely not another Saw movie. Or at least not another Sean Patrick Flannery movie. Unless they make another Boondock Saints film.

4. Hey, you know what movie would look cool in 3D? Boondock Saints, that’s what.

And after all, who wants it to look too realistic? Look what happened with Avatar. When we have to leave, WE WANT TO KILL OURSELVES.

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Fashion GEEK FASHION: Connect to your Caprican Roots!

by Teresa Jusino

November 11, 2010 - 11:42 am

It’s been over two millenia since the Colonials and the Cylons first inhabited our world, becoming the catalysts for humanity as we know it, but we continue to discover more about our past. As recently as January 2009, scientists have uncovered a lot of information about life on the colonies before the first Cylon War. In addition to the discovery of the connection between the ancient holoband and cylons as we know them, we’ve also learned a great deal about what they wore and how they lived. This week, a relic was discovered in an archeological dig in Tunisia, a briefcase that contained, among other things, a fashion magazine called Caprican Woman that was surprisingly well-preserved. The cover tells us that it is the “Tauron Issue”, and one of the photo spreads contrasts the differences in women’s fashion on Caprica and Tauron. Below, you’ll find a scan of the surviving pages of the photo spread.

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Music Holy Sons’ Emil Amos shares his Survivalist Tales

by Rich Thomas

November 11, 2010 - 11:37 am

Since 2007, Emil Amos has had a hand in 15 records released across six different bands and eight labels. (There may be more, I don’t know.) Prolific doesn’t even begin to describe his game, and when you take into account the sonic and thematic diversity between his three main groups—Grails, OM and Holy Sons—you begin to see that each outlet reveals a very different part of Amos’ creative subconsciousness. Though he’s most often credited as a drummer, Amos’ abilities extend far beyond percussion, and he’s become a master of the kind of low-fi sturm und drang that would make Tom Waits jealous. We chatted with Amos about his latest album as Holy Sons, Survivalist Tales!, and how it lines up with the rest of his recent work.

Holy Sons – “Slow Days”

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