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Entertainment

Mastodon — Crack the Skye

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Wired Oregon’s Jayson Berray reviews his favorite album of 2009, the heavy metal masterpiece “Crack the Skye” by Mastodon. Read the review, then listen to the album here.

by Jayson Berray
Entertainment

2009 Boe Badley Awards — your Academy alternative

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As soon as I got my first computer in 1996, I couldn’t wait to start a spreadsheet of all the movies I was seeing in the theater. Not being able to resist the temptations that my geekdom casts upon me, I decided to channel my love for movies into a special little award given only by me, the quintessential film expert.

by Boe Badley
Entertainment

TV shows you should be watching

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Network shows are pretty lame across the board. … Nowadays, the best shows seem to be on cable. Other than “The Wire,” the bar was set pretty high by “The Shield,” “Dexter” and “Mad Men.”

by Eric Jones
Entertainment

Cop Out

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This movie is AWESOMEly bad. I have only walked out of one movie in my life — “Meet Wally Sparks,” starring Rodney Dangerfield. This was almost the second.

by Eric Jones
Entertainment

Johnny Cash — American VI: Ain’t No Grave

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Wired Oregon’s Jayson Berray reviews Johnny Cash’s American VI: Ain’t No Grave. Read the review, then listen to the album here.

by Jayson Berray
Entertainment

NBC’s whale of a fail

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A month after NBC went through a public relations nightmare with its late-night line-up, the network once again finds itself in the midst of a firestorm, this time due to its lackluster coverage of the Winter Olympics.

by Joshua Kagi