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The most patriotic thing you can do

From a post by Mark Cuban: I agree with everything in this post. What’s interesting is how both the right and left are taking it as a referendum on their point of view. In fact, it’s neither. It does not say that if you get rich, you have an obligation to pay more than your [...]

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Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Viva Elvis’ is a hunka hunka burnin’ fun

The biggest problem with doing a show based on Elvis Presley’s life is that he became larger than life (no, that’s not a “Fat Elvis” joke); a legend that nothing could ever live up to, then sadly — a parody, a stereotype. How, then, to get around that problem to produce something that is not [...]

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I. want. this.

Those of you who may have forgotten my recent birthday can make amends by buying this as a belated gift. Fear not; I will forgive you.

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Cirque du Soleil’s LOVE is all you need

I’ve been a Beatles fan nearly all my life, discovering the Fab Four only shortly after their breakup in 1970. Since then, I’ve spent a fair chunk of my disposable income on buying Beatles albums in all sorts of iterations: vinyl, 8-track, cassette, CD and even video. I’ve bought “regular” albums, re-mastered albums, rarities, anthologies [...]

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