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POPNOTES | OPINION: Dissecting the 2024 Oscar nominations

yesterday 1

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OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: Snubbing Ichiro

wednesday 2

El Dorado News Times

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Snubbing Ichiro

28.01.2025 2

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No success like failure

27.01.2025 5

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No success like failure

26.01.2025 9

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CRITICAL MASS | OPINION: Can art make us better people? A few filmmakers try

25.01.2025 10

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POPNOTES | OPINION: David Lynch took us to some weird but fascinating places

24.01.2025 5

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OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: America's religious narrative

22.01.2025 2

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OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: America’s religious narrative

21.01.2025 7

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Opinion: When good artists go bad

20.01.2025 2

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When good artists go bad

19.01.2025 5

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POPNOTES | OPINION: Tarantino: Cinematic ‘remixing,’ homage

17.01.2025 5

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OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: Slow day

15.01.2025 5

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Slow day

14.01.2025 5

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London dogs vs. Jamesian dogs

14.01.2025 7

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London dogs vs. Jamesian dogs

12.01.2025 10

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ONBOOKS | OPINION: ‘Question 7’: More an account of memory, not fact

09.01.2025 3

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POPNOTES | OPINION: Jerry Jones excels in ‘Landman’

09.01.2025 2

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Getting better all the time

07.01.2025 5

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The virtue of being wrong

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes." -- Oscar Wilde A friend recently had a testy email exchange--I wouldn't exactly call it an...

06.01.2025 3

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The virtue of being wrong

05.01.2025 1

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ONBOOKS | OPINION: So many books (from Ross to Cawdine); so little time

04.01.2025 3

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POPNOTES | OPINION: Bob Dylan reimagined through the years on film

03.01.2025 2

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ONBOOKS | OPINION: Remembering Jimmy Carter for his words, deeds

03.01.2025 3

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OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: No golden light

01.01.2025 1

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No golden light

31.12.2024 2

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Opinion: The tensionbetween graceand retribution

Bright-line rules and zero-tolerance policies tend to simplify complex problems at the expense of fairness and nuance. President Joe Biden's recent...

30.12.2024 2

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The tensionbetween graceand retribution

29.12.2024 4

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CRITICAL MASS | OPINION: These 2024 movies have the power to transcend screens and spaces to remind us of our shared humanity

28.12.2024 2

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Opinion: The old football

Once upon a time, in a little town in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in western North Carolina, there lived a pair of brothers. They had...

27.12.2024 2

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The old football

24.12.2024 30

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OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: Christmas lights

He didn't put up Christmas lights this year. It didn't feel right, even 13 months after she'd gone. Last year, he put them up early because it...

23.12.2024 2

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Christmas lights

22.12.2024 6

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ONBOOKS | OPINION: A good percentage of people never pick up a book nowadays

21.12.2024 2

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POPNOTES | OPINION: SEFCA’s Top 10 suggest quality is not commercial

20.12.2024 10

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OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: Pretty Boy Luigi

by Philip Martin Yes, as through this world I've wandered, I've seen lots of funny men; Some will rob you with a six-gun, and some with a fountain...

19.12.2024 3

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Pretty Boy Luigi

17.12.2024 6

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The story of Big Stick Allen

15.12.2024 6

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CRITICAL MASS | OPINION: Music is unstuck in time, but here’s my 2024

14.12.2024 5

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POPNOTES | OPINION: The sheer volume of offerings is a testament to the richness and diversity of TV — but it means that no single critic can be expected to watch everything

12.12.2024 5

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OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: The crying game

Today at 3:22 a.m. by Philip Martin I like my insurance agent. He's handled our home and car insurance for more than 30 years, and we've never had...

12.12.2024 5

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Opinion: Long December

December 8, 2024 at 1:55 a.m. by Philip Martin I use guitars as tools for composition more than for performance. I don't invest energy in trying to...

11.12.2024 1

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The crying game

10.12.2024 2

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Long December

08.12.2024 4

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POPNOTES | OPINION: Life during wartime: Our day will come

06.12.2024 5

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What it was was football

03.12.2024 5

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OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: Boys and men

I was a jock. I spent a lot of time in locker rooms, on buses, and in the company of teammates and coaches. Had I been more talented or more...

02.12.2024 3

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OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: Boys and men

01.12.2024 2

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POPNOTES | OPINION: Recognizably human characters make ‘Landman’ worth watching

28.11.2024 4

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OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: Dimming of the day

There is a Richard Thompson song from 1975 called "Dimming of the Day." It was released on "Pour Down Like Silver," the third album Thompson...

27.11.2024 2

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