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Confounding War Porn, Anyone? The A-Team gets a tone-deaf reboot

The A-Team is a creepily bizarre weirdo of a movie that’ll wreck your day.
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The A-Team is a creepily bizarre weirdo of a movie that'll wreck your day. Eager to see it because you whiled away happy childhood hours watching Hannibal, B.A., Face and Murdock don disguises, build wacky tanks, flip cars and help with problems no one else could help with? Well, what you'll get movie-wise is a queasy gobbledygook of a party to which you're not invited.
Liam Neeson chews scenery as Hannibal Smith, leader of The A-Team. In the film's opening, he assembles his crack commando unit of egregious miscasting: sleepy ultimate fighter Quinton “Rampage” Jackson as temperamental ass-kicker B.A. Baracus, District 9's unfunny Sharlto Copley as hilariously crazy Murdock, and shrill, pornographic Bradley Cooper as a smooth-talking ladies man Face. This tribute-band version of The A-Team heads for a wacky trifle of a war zone called Iraq, where they're framed for stealing counterfeit moneymaking plates and must then bust out of jail to clear their name.

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10 Reasons to Dislike Miley Cyrus

Reason #1! Her teeth look like someone knocked them out with a jackhammer, and then shot them back inside her mouth using a T-shirt cannon.
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Reason #1! Her teeth look like someone knocked them out with a jackhammer, and then shot them back inside her mouth using a T-shirt cannon.
Reason #2! Watching an episode of her long-running Disney Channel TV show, Hannah Montana, is like experiencing a production of A Midsummer's Night's Dream by the Royal Shakespeare Company – if the play were cast with spastic chimps dosed up on goofballs, who are either furiously masturbating or crapping onto one of the Bard's sonnets, which they then either hurl at the audience or consume for their own enjoyment.

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Failure To Engage: Lost Planet sequel never finds its way

Lost Planet was a straight-ahead shooter that distinguished itself with its large, harsh landscape. Set on the snow-covered planet of E.D.N. III, the game made survival precarious.
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Lost Planet was a straight-ahead shooter that distinguished itself with its large, harsh landscape. Set on the snow-covered planet of E.D.N. III, the game made survival precarious. It was only by battling the native life forms and dominant government that I was able to scrape together the energy required to keep myself from freezing.
The sequel, however, has migrated to warmer climates. E.D.N. III has accumulated deserts and sprouted jungles, making it much more like a generic videogame planet instead of, well, Lost Planet. It also makes it possible for me to walk through water and sand with as little effect as when I passed through snow.

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No Frills Grill: Baldy's BBQ secrets revealed just in time for summer

Lets face it—almost anyone can grill a burger. You need only marginally better grilling skills to grill chicken (even less if you plan to eat all that blackened chicken skin), but to create a great rack of ribs is a culinary challenge.
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Lets face it – almost anyone can grill a burger. You need only marginally better grilling skills to grill chicken (even less if you plan to eat all that blackened chicken skin), but to create a great rack of ribs is a culinary challenge. It takes time and patience to prepare this tricky cut of meat in order to render all of its delicious, tender love. For the home cook without a giant smoker, use a flavorful spice rub, a long slow roast, and a final trip to the grill to add a flavorful glaze and a crisp exterior that will leave you with sticky fingers and the satisfied feeling that all that patience was totally worth it. It takes hours to make a great rack of ribs, so plan ahead and take your time.
I had the pleasure of visiting with Brian Dioguardi, chef and owner of Baldy's BBQ on Century Drive, and he was happy to share his rib-making secrets. Dioguardi hails from Chicago, a city that is no stranger to great food and great BBQ, and started his culinary career at the tender age (no pun intended) of 15 working in a friend's barbecue restaurant. Soon he was traveling on the competitive barbecue circuit where he spent the next 15 years. He eventually bought the restaurant where he worked and gave up competing, but never lost his true passion to make “something really good.”

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Left Behind

I just spent a week in Canyon Country in Utah staring at pictographs from hundreds of years ago and it reminded me that it is human nature to leave our mark.
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I just spent a week in Canyon Country in Utah staring at pictographs from hundreds of years ago and it reminded me that it is human nature to leave our mark. At our bar, it usually seems to be upon the men's bathroom paper towel dispenser, which I am now thinking taunts men who are just trying to keep their hands clean by saying, “Hey there, you look like the sort of muscular young lad you might be able to rip me off this wall!” or “Wouldn't I look better with a crack down my front?” Then there's our rechargeable tea lights, which are utterly worthless to anyone without the $400 charger yet are nonetheless stolen.
But sometimes what we forget is to cherish what people leave behind.

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The Black Keys: Brothers

What gets me about these two-person bands – the White Stripes, Jucifer, Juanita & the Rabbit – is how big they can sound. And on their new album (the band's sixth), the Black Keys don't just sound big.
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What gets me about these two-person bands – the White Stripes, Jucifer, Juanita & the Rabbit – is how big they can sound. And on their new album (the band's sixth), the Black Keys don't just sound big. They sound like a goddamn orchestra.

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Our Picks for 6/16 – 6/24: Artisphere, Bend Elks Opening weekend, Merle Haggard and The Strangers, KPOV Birthday Bash and more

Last Band Standing: The Semifinalsthursday 17After two grueling months of preliminaries, we’ve finally reached the semifinal round of Last Band Standing.
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Last Band Standing: The Semifinals
thursday 17
After two grueling months of preliminaries, we've finally reached the semifinal round of Last Band Standing. Performing for a slot in the final showcase are Tuck N Roll, Elliot, Hot Tea Cold, Blowin' Smoke, Still Fear and Mosley Wotta (who will be releasing his brand-new CD at the show). Also, did you know they have $2 Ninkasi beers?! $3/adv, $5/door. 8pm. Boondock's Bar and Grill, 70 NW Newport Ave.

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A Tale of Two Gushers: Obama looks for an ass to kick, Arkansas's tragedy and a mystery in Carolina

The author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as America.
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The author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as America. He is reporting from a breakfast table, eating Jimmy Dean and drinking Tea Party, watching grown men chase a ball around a field on TV, for Or-Bust.com and The Source Weekly.
Kicking the Mule
As President Obama spends several days on camera in the Gulf and addresses the nation about BP's big mess, the behind-the-scenes maneuvering is of real import: BP has won permission to burn-off rather than collect oil, and pledged to triple the amount it stops spewing (so it can burn it) hoping to trap 2.2 million gallons daily. Daily! What started as a supposed drip (5,000 barrels) is really much bigger. So too is the pain BP shareholders are feeling, the stock losing $90 billion in value in two months and hitting a 14-year low, forcing new British Prime Minister David Cameron to ask Obama to back-off his tough stance. Last week, Obama said he wants to know “whose ass to kick” – then had a “warm and constructive” phone call with Cameron about their “special relationship,” despite the Anglo-European petroleum monster continuing to befoul North America. If you haven't forgotten, BP's Texas City refinery explosion in 2005 killed 15 and injured 170, with the company forced to pay millions and plead guilty to criminal charges, then two major spills in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay in 2006 dumped 200,000 gallons onto the North Slope, with even the oil-friendly Bush-Cheney junta filing civil suits against BP. Now Obama wants BP to create a $20 billion fund to cover its latest disaster, promising that the Gulf will be in “better shape than it was before.” Please wear those steel-toed boots you've been sporting on camera when you finally find “whose ass to kick” Mr. President.

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Don't Blame Nosler

Nosler, Inc. has been in the same neighborhood for probably more years than many of the homes. There used to be very little development in that area for decades.
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Nosler, Inc. has been in the same neighborhood for probably more years than many of the homes. There used to be very little development in that area for decades. But, as with residential buildup around airports and other established industrial areas, cities have allowed residential building without clear thought to exactly how all will be affected. Money is a great motivator. This area is a great example of “mixed use” areas. It is the current philosophy of urban planners to have mixed-use areas with both business and residential uses side by side. Did one think it meant just little retail shops, coffee shops, small high-priced grocery stores and wine shops? How quaint and provincial, but not very job or sustainable income producing.

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