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2008-02-06
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2008-02-06
Are women ready to rule the world? Yes, according to Australian bio-ethicist Dr. Robert Sparrow, who suggested at a medical convention this past July that females could use frozen sperm to procreate and exist without men.
A new ABC legal drama, Eli Stone,"" which made its debut this January, featured a mother who, believing that a dangerous preservative in a vaccine caused her son's autism, sues a pharmaceutical company. ""America's Next Top Model"" shook up stereotypes when Heather, a knockout with Asberger syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder, entered the competition. An indie flick set to release this March, titled ""The Black Balloon,"" focuses on an adolescent who finds his life complicated by his autistic brother.
Few bands today are able to touch the human spirit with their music. It takes a rare degree of vulnerability, a delicate emotional connection that transcends past the physical senses to make the listener feel something truly soulful, as though the artist has tapped into one's innermost sense of being. Band of Horses are one of these few bands, and their newest release, Cease to Begin, plays gently on the heartstrings for an experience that is uniquely lighthearted and moving.
Every so often, a band comes along that is hailed as the recurrence of the British invasion—the next Beatles, Kinks, or Rolling Stones. Most recently, the Arctic Monkeys were hyped to high heaven, but in 2005 it was the Kaiser Chiefs who led the way for the return of Brit pop-rock. With their howling single ""I Predict A Riot"" and cheeky cockney charm, the band convinced desperate music fans all over Britain and the United States that rock ‘n' roll had finally returned. Although their impact was not quite so huge in America as in their homeland, the Kaiser Chiefs still sold millions of records and left fans in eager anticipation of their latest release, Yours Truly, Angry Mob.
In his past albums, Say Hi to Your Mom frontman Eric Elbogen has been known to spill his angst into clever songs about spaceships and robots; however, on the band's fourth and newest release, Impeccable Blahs, he chose to move onto a slightly darker material. The liner notes explicitly state that ""Impeccable Blahs is a record about vampires."" However, they are ""not creepy goth vampires but rather people like you and me who happen to get their nourishment from drinking blood."" An interesting subject matter for a band that once specialized in detailing the angst of girls and video games, but it works well for them. Elbogen continues to write witty lyrics, this time using vampire tendencies as a metaphor for romantic human love, resulting in an album that is both fun and intelligent.
A boring and clichAcd love story of forbidden love between the supernatural and humans, ""Blood and Chocolate"" is as bad as its laughable name. Based on the successful young adult novel by Annette Curtis Klause, the movie focuses on 19-year-old Vivian (Agnes Brucker), teenage girl by day and dangerous werewolf by night, and her struggle to choose between life as a mortal or as a ""loup-garoux,"" running wild at night with her pack.
Even Simon Cowell could not have predicted that Taylor Hicks would be the next American Idol when he voted to keep the gray-haired 29-year-old out of Hollywood back in the beginning of the show's fifth season. However, the charismatic singer soon shook, twisted and sang his way into the hearts of millions of viewers, inspiring a fanatically devoted fan base named the Soul Patrol"" and beating out Katharine McPhee in the final to become America's newest ""idol"".