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things you need to know: your favorite actor isn’t sexy unless ‘People’ magazine says so

Fri, Nov 18, 2011
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You probably didn’t know that you’re not allowed to get turned on by someone who isn’t this year’s Sexiest Man or Woman Alive…

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The Hunger Games (trailer)

Tue, Nov 15, 2011
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Occupy the Hunger Games!

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London photo of the day: green bike

Sat, Nov 05, 2011
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A bicycle inexplicably covered in greenery at the Occupy camp at St. Paul’s Cathedral.

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London photo of the day: name these brands

Fri, Nov 04, 2011
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Sign at the Occupy camp at St. Paul’s Cathedral points out how the human environment and our individual mindsets are dominated by corporations.

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London photo of the day: “You are the 99%”

Thu, Nov 03, 2011
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It’s true, you know. (Another image from the Occupy camp at St. Paul’s Cathedral.)

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London photo of the day: Banksy work at Occupy camp

Wed, Nov 02, 2011
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Banksy donated this work, his take on the Monopoly board game, to the folks at the Occupy camp at St. Paul’s Cathedral.

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Tower Heist movie review: Bastille on the Hudson

Tue, Nov 01, 2011
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For a film critic, there are few pleasures more satisfying than ripping into a bad movie. But one of those few is discovering that a film that you were expecting to hate — a movie that you had no doubts whatsoever would turn out to be utterly awful — turns out to be wonderful.

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watch it: “13 out of 99 Part I”

Tue, Nov 01, 2011
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Yup, pretty much, it’s all hippies. No, wait, it’s all overprivileged college hipsters. No, wait, it’s a cross-section of America…

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London photo of the day: “Caring is everyone’s business”

Tue, Nov 01, 2011
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Signage at the Occupy camp outside St. Paul’s Cathedral.

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In Time (review)

Mon, Oct 31, 2011
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I’m starting to worry that Andrew Niccol has already said, with Gattaca and The Truman Show, all he has to say.

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