Entertainment

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NFL preseason is here! Two weeks til draft day…

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Finally got the Dead Or Alive DVD yesterday. Booyah. PS2 wouldn’t play it because of the PAL output, but surprisingly Windows Media Player played the disc without complaining about the region code. Noticed that Record Runner is selling the DVD for $34, which is nuts, considering you can get it for $23 shipped from Amazon

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Dead Or Alive Evolution DVD is out today. Don’t think we’ll see a US release any time soon so I ordered a copy from the UK.

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Wedding Guide: Part I, Fifteen Fights to Have Before You Get Engaged. Been a while since I’ve read The Morning News, but this piece has been sitting in my mailbox for a while now. Enjoy. New Liz Phair album is out tomorrow. Despite some mixed reviews, I’m pretty excited. Finally watched the rest of Black

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Missed this somehow. Museum Mile Festival is today (second Tuesday of June) from 6-9pm. Free admission at nine museums along Fifth Ave.

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Liz Phair: Exiting From Guyville. Noticed in this weekend’s Sunday Styles section. I read on a mailing list that Liz played for about 20 minutes at the Field Day Music Festival at Giants Stadium this weekend.

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Just noticed last night in Time Out NY that Liz Phair is playing the Bowery Ballroom on 8/10. Apparently, tickets ($20) went on sale a few days ago, but the show is already sold out. Just called the box office (Mercury Lounge) and confirmed this. 🙁 At least one broker is already selling tickets for

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US detains children at Guantanamo Bay. The US military has admitted that children aged 16 years and younger are among the detainees being interrogated at its prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Flyers advance to the second round for the first time in three years with a huge 6-1 win over Toronto. My original prediction

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Caught Bend It Like Beckham this weekend. Fantastic flick with a great soundtrack as well. I may have a use for DeCSS after all… “Smoking gun” WMD site in Iraq turns out to contain pesticide. The turnaround was an embarrassment for the US forces in the region, which had been quick to say that they

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Texas Court Acts to Clear 38, Almost All Black, in Drug Case. Tulia convictions revisited. Speaking of the NY Times, I just noticed today that they revamped the archive so that even with a full link, stories older than 7 days are no longer freely available in their entirety. Looks like the Swimming DVD will