Album Reviews :: Swingin' Utters :: Go Deep :: The Weeds :: Point of View![]() Andrea Janov, CC2K Music Editor | Saturday, 18 May 2013 Read more |
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![]() CC2K’s Comics on the Horizon: May 9, 2013Every so often a new comic series is announced months or a year in advance. If you’re not on top of your comic... Read more |
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![]() 'The Sapphires' Shines Bright With a Rocking SoundtrackI’m a sucker for sentimental 1960s-tinged musicals, so it should be no surprise that I adored The Sapp... Read more |
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![]() FREE COMIC BOOK DAY : SAT, MAY 4THEvery year the comic book industry puts on the even known as Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) on the first Saturday ... Read more |
![]() Conan the BarbarianLance Carmichael examines how John Milius and Arnold Schwarzenegger conquered the proto-fascist 80s. Has ther... Read more |
![]() The Symptoms of Literary SexismFor a long time, I’ve had this feeling that women were getting the short end of the stick in literature. ... Read more |
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![]() Nicholas Sparks and the Authorial PeakSince I originally wrote this piece about a year and a half ago, Nicholas Sparks fever has only intensified.... Read more |
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On the Scene: National Book Festival 2009CC2K's Tom Hardej attended the National Book Festival on Saturday, September 26 and discovered some inte... Read more |
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![]() In Response to CSMonitor's Condemnation of CODMW2If you happened to be one of the millions of people watching the Sunday Night Football game between the Steele... Read more |
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Television Collision: Has Project Runway Lost Its Fierceness?It’s back, but is it still good? I was a fairly happy camper when I found out a while ago that after all the legal drama between Bravo and... Read more |
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