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If you're looking for some unique gift ideas for this holiday season consider the work from the DVD Talk Review Staff ... (DVD Talk) - This week we have a very special giveaway from Kino International for an exclusive set of DVDs as featured in their 2008 DVD Catalog including: Battleship Potemkin - Kino International has a new restoration of Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 masterpiece (one of most influential silent film of all time), Nosferatu: The Ultimate Two-DVD Edition - F.W. Murnau's classic is triumphantly reborn in this ...

Sex in McEwan’s novel is not bad enough to impress judges (Times Online) - Weeks after his novel about a young couple’s unconsummated wedding night was beaten to the Man Booker Prize, Ian McEwan will be feeling relieved that On Chesil Beach has failed to make the shortlist for the Bad Sex in Fiction Award...

TV Review: CSI:NY - "One Wedding And A Funeral" (Blogcritics.org) - Stella has a bombshell for Drew while Mac closes in on the 333 caller. There's nothing like getting married in Central Park. Unless, of course, murder interrupts. When Brett Dohn (Bill Heck, The Closer) is discovered dead by his fiancee Emma Blackston (Emily Foxler), Det. Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise), head of the NYPD crime lab, and homicide Det. Don Flack team up with Dr. Sheldon Hawkes (Hill ...

Man Arrested After Gun Fired at Church (The San Francisco Examiner) - RENO, Nev. ( Map , News ) - A California man was arrested after a gun was fired during a fight at a wedding reception at a Reno church, officers said. Pasilio Tevita Tava, 23, was taken into custody after the incident late Saturday afternoon at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Review: Web site helps travelers plan by organizing reservations, flights, other details (The Journal News) - A new Web site called TripIt came to the rescue as I was planning three out-of-town weekends in a row this fall.

Music review: Billy Joel's past pleasures (The Oregonian) - Billy Joel isn't trying to keep up with the Joneses -- or the White Stripes or the Hives or the Shins or whatever other band is drawing the latest critical gushes. He doesn't have to. He's Billy Joel.

Review: 'Margot at the Wedding' (The Oregonian) - During the holiday movie season, there's usually something for every demographic, including bitter moviegoers aghast at the notion of enforced proximity to their dysfunctional families.

Review: Clueless 'Margot' spoils sister's wedding (San Francisco Chronicle) - RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE)Margot at the Wedding: Comedy-drama. Starring Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jack Black. Directed by Noah Baumbach. (R. 91 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Writer-director Noah Baumbach likes to cast a wide net. He throws a...

Hemp: The little plant that could (MSNBC) - Its bad reputation aside, hemp is an easily renewable plant that can be used to make goods like paper, food, fuel, beauty products, clothing and accessories. GreenDAY’s Marisa Belger sheds new light on the overlooked crop.

Book Review: Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain by Scott Adams (Blogcritics.org) - The creator of "Dilbert" puts together a hefty helping of comic bloggish musings. In a recent episode of Corner Gas (recent to the U.S., that is), Hank Yarbo, the Canadian sitcom's chatty doofus, launched his own web log as a forum for his less-than-deep ruminations on topics like who would win in a fight between werewolves and robots. The rest of the show's characters encouraged Hank in his ...