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'Orphan Black,' Emmy snubs and questions of identity
The chronology of recent Big Public Events in Television — the Emmy nominations announcements followed a few weeks later by Comic-Con — spotlights an almost identical philosophical issue: There's the Emmy nominations, and then there's Comic-Con. Reality goes metaphor. An estimated 130,000 Comic-Con attendees descended on the San Diego Convention Center over the last few days in large part to pledge their devotion to certain shows, but only a few of those shows ("Game of Thrones," "The Big Bang Theory," "American Horror Story") are part of the Emmy race this year. Popularity does not denote quality, of course, but many of the dramas that...
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'Orphan Black,' Emmy snubs and questions of identity
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The Music Academy of the West's grand adventure
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Foster the People mural paints a picture of city's policy adjustment
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Summer sci-fi: an up-to-minute reflection of our transnational world
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Motley Crue goes out with a bang at Hollywood Bowl
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Fox offer for Time Warner could bring out rival suitors
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After a five-year absence, La Roux returns with 'Trouble in Paradise'
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Joan Rivers riles Young Hollywood, but she's got youth on her side
The moment Joan Rivers stormed out of a CNN interview earlier this month, she thought she might be losing her mind. "I was worried," she said, "because the first sign of Alzheimer's is that you get crankier. I swear to you." But at 9...
Brad Paisley, Taylor Swift and country's twang heard around the world
Country musician Brad Paisley's first tour of the United Kingdom in 2000 didn't leave him much to write home to West Virginia about. Paisley and the other acts on the tour flew commercial airlines and saw their precious band gear stashed into...
In war-torn Ukraine, a film festival as tonic
In early May, this picturesque city on the Black Sea suffered a surprising, gruesome tragedy. Forty-eight people were killed when Ukrainian nationalists and pro-Russian separatists faced off in a bloody street fight that culminated in a fire at a...
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, an L.A. band, stare at 'Hypnotic Eye'
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'Transcendence'? Not in this Johnny Depp sci-fi thriller
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Indie musicians help movie soundtracks hit right emotional note
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For Bruce Boxleitner, a personal code shaped by Marshal Dillon
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Chaplin film kicks off Agoura Hills' outdoor summer screenings
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Huntington's new gallery rooms show promise
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Getty Research Institute gets photos of performance art 'Happenings'
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Dixie Longate rings up laughs and sales in 'Dixie's Tupperware Party'
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Morgan Freeman, the voice of gravitas, is wise to his image
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