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OPINION

 Why We Love 
 to Hate Anthropologie 

Man Shops Globe was widely panned—but Keith Johnson is just a 'whipping boy'

Oct 8, 09 11:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Man Shops Globe, the show following Anthropologie buyer Keith Johnson, premiered last night to much scoffing from critics—or, as Erika Kawalek calls it on DoubleX, “Anthropologie Rage.” Heather Havrilesky mocks Johnson’s job of “traveling the globe to buy enormous overpriced pieces of weird, ancient... More »

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entertainment • corporations • chain stores • antique • Jay-ZTV • Anthropologie

SLIDESHOW

 The Latest 
 From Paris: 
 12-Inch Heels 

Alexander McQueen creates a stir with his towering shoes

Oct 8, 09 10:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Alexander McQueen’s collection, inspired by Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species, had quite a few avant garde elements when it was unveiled last night in Paris—think shaved eyebrows, gills painted on temples, and devil-horn-shaped hair—but the shoes took the cake. The crystal-studded creations, part shoe... More »

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fashion • shoes • fashion designer • Jay-ZTV • designer fashion • Alexander McQueen

ANALYSIS

 Recession Finds 
 Place in Rap's 
 Latest Hits 

Jay-Z, Young Jeezy, Lil Wayne among those referencing sour economy

Oct 7, 09 9:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - The ugly economy is making more than a cameo in today’s hottest rap music, with Young Jeezy taking the cake by naming his latest album The Recession. Rap’s often been a barometer of such huge swings, Sara Libby writes, noting the impact last year of Barack Obama’s... More »

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entertainment • music industry • recession • rap music • Lil Wayne • Jay-Z • financial crisis • Jay-ZTV • Jay Sean • Young Jeezy • Lil Wayne jail • Lil Wayne pleads guilty • Lil Wayne going to jail

OPINION

 LiLo's Fashion Line 
 a Triumph for the Masses 

Sure, Lindsay Lohan's collection was dissed—but really, this is how fashion should be

Oct 7, 09 4:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Lindsay Lohan’s fashion debut was “widely panned,” which came as “no surprise, of course.” But though “the looks were inelegant, off-trend, and styled with about as much je ne sais quois as a drunk teen let loose inside a Forever 21,” Erika Kawalek... More »

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entertainment • fashion • Lindsay Lohan • celebrity • Fashion Week • fashion designer • fashion industry • Jay-ZTV • designer fashion

BOOK REVIEW

 Guys, Take a Page 
 From Chabon's 
 Manhood for 
 Amateurs 

Michael Chabon's essays on fatherhood, manhood paint him as quite a catch

Oct 7, 09 1:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Chabon throws his voice into the widening pool of “daddy diaries” with Manhood for Amateurs, which offers “poignant meditations on manhood, fatherhood, and aspects of his own childhood.” The Pulitzer Prize-winning author emerges from the essays “as a prince among men,” writes Heller... More »

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fatherhood • parenting • father • book • essay • Michael Chabon • Jay-ZTV • fathers • Ayelet Waldman

OPINION

 Pink Is Ridiculously Underrated 

She can out-sing all those pop starlets, so why isn't she getting the same hype?

Oct 7, 09 11:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - After watching Pink dangle from a trapeze 60 feet above the Radio City Music Hall stage—while belting out "Sober" perfectly—James Montgomery had a revelation: "Pink is totally underrated." She's "the total pop-star package,” he writes for MTV: tattooed, clever, confrontational, and a damn... More »

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entertainment • music • rock stars • pop music • celebrity • R&B • Jay-ZTV • Pink

MUSIC REVIEW

 Paramore's Latest 
 One of Year's Best 

Group is a welcome 'throwback' and—thanks to Hayley Williams—soars

Oct 6, 09 10:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - Paramore’s third album will likely enter the charts at No. 1—and it deserves to. Not only is it “the group’s best record yet,” Brand New Eyes is “one of 2009’s most exhilarating releases,” writes Jonah Weiner for Slate. “That sense... More »

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entertainment • music • album release • music review • Avril Lavigne • Blink-182 • Jay-ZTV • Paramore • Hayley Williams

music REVIEW

 Built to Spill 
 Back in Top Form 

Formerly great indie rockers make a triumphant comeback in There Is No Enemy

Oct 5, 09 5:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - Built to Spill went from producing “some of the most ambitious and resonant indie rock ever made” in the 1990s to “merely existing” in the 2000s. With its "unexpectedly terrific” new release There Is No Enemy, the band offers “an improbable late-career reawakening and heartening... More »

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entertainment • music • album release • music review • Jay-ZTV • Built to Spill • Doug Martsch

SLIDESHOW


 Fashion People 
 'Heartless': 
 Stella McCartney 

Designer wonders why the rest of the industry is still using fur and leather

Oct 5, 09 10:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - One of fashion’s most famous vegetarians, Stella McCartney talks—a little bit about her rise from “nervous” young designer to successful businesswoman, but mostly about the fashion industry’s lack of eco-consciousness—to the Guardian on the heels of her Paris show. “I think people in... More »

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Paul McCartney • fashion • fur • vegetarianism • leather • Fashion Week • fashion designer • fashion industry • Jay-ZTV • designer fashion • Stella McCartney

 11 Reasons to 
 Stop Hating the WNBA 

It's no NBA—but it shouldn't be, argues blogger. Plus, some players are hot.

Oct 4, 09 12:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - The WNBA finals are going on, which has—in the past—led Sam Greenspan to joke, “Man I hope one of the players lands a one-handed breakaway dunk to seal the best-of-one series!” The league is “universally ripped on,” he writes for 11points.com, but the... More »

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sports • NBA • WNBA • women's basketball • basketball • sexism • Jay-ZTV

 West-Gaga Tour Canceled 

No word on what killed the 'Fame Kills' partnership

Oct 1, 09 7:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Kanye West and Lady Gaga aren’t hitting the road together after all, but there’s no word tonight on what might have been the death knell for the Fame Kills Tour. The circus was to have opened Nov. 10, but in addition to rumors it was on thin ice... More »

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entertainment • Kanye West • concert tour • Jay-ZTV • Lady Gaga • Taylor Swift • MTV Video Music Awards • Fame Kills Tour

 U2 Tour Costs $750K a Day 

Bono and the boys talk pop stardom, expansive tour with Rolling Stone

Sep 30, 09 11:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rolling Stone goes behind the scenes—and tags along in a private jet—for its cover story on the U2360° Tour (aka “the biggest rock tour of all time”), which is comprised of a 170-ton stage carted around by 200 trucks, 250 speakers, almost 400 employees—and... More »

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entertainment • music • U2 • pop music • concert tour • Jay-ZTV

OPINION

 Nation at Odds? 
 Miley's 'Party' 
 to the Rescue 

Pop starlet's latest song is her best—and it could help heal a fractured nation

Sep 29, 09 12:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - At heart, Miley Cyrus is a “peace broker: She loves trying to get seemingly irreconcilable forces to hug, or at least sit together at the same lunch table.” Her most recent career milestone—“Party in the USA” became her highest-charting single ever—takes this role to a... More »

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entertainment • music • celebrity • Miley Cyrus • bipartisanship • Jay-ZTV

 Yorke, Flea in Unholy Union 

Radiohead frontman teams up with 'sock-penised' Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist

Sep 29, 09 11:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Radiohead purists, prepare yourselves: Frontman Thom Yorke is teaming up with, of all people, Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The "sock-penised" bassist, along with Beck drummer Joey Waronker, percussionist Mauro Refosco, and Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, will back Yorke up as he performs material from his 2006... More »

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entertainment • music • Radiohead • Thom Yorke • Jay-ZTV • Red Hot Chili Peppers

SLIDESHOW

 Best and Worst 
 of Milan Fashion Week  

Some collections reflect current industry inertia, but a few rise above

Sep 29, 09 10:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - With economic stresses making it more difficult for designers to be creative—and the growing trend of manufacturing being outsourced to other countries—the Italian spring collections in Milan were somewhat “joyless,” but still offered a few standouts, writes Cathy Horyn for the New York Times. The... More »

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fashion • Milan • Fashion Week • fashion designer • fashion label • fashion industry • Jay-ZTV • designer fashion • Cathy Horyn

 The Books Jay-Z Lives By 

The rapper talks to Oprah's magazine about books that inspire him

Sep 28, 09 1:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jay-Z has gone from rapper to mogul, and he shares some of the books that helped him along the way with O magazine:
  • The Seat of the Soul, by Gary Zukav: "There are two books that I absolutely live my life by. This is one of them. I
... More »

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entertainment • celebrity • book • Jay-Z • O, the Oprah Magazine • Jay-ZTV • books

 Worst Films of the Decade 

From Larry the Cable Guy to Antonio Banderas, these actors should have said no

Sep 25, 09 1:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - Some films—including a few released mere weeks ago (we’re looking at you, All About Steve)—are just plain bad. Rotten Tomatoes compiles the absolute worst 100 of the decade so far. A sampling from the top 10, aka the bottom 10:
  • Witless Protection: “
... More »

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entertainment • movies • films • Jay-ZTV • All About Steve • Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever • One Missed Call • Pinocchio • Roberto Benigni • National Lampoon's Gold Diggers • Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 • Witless Protection • Larry the Cable Guy

MUSIC REVIEW

 Girls' Debut 
 'Dizzily 
 Powerful' 

Up-and-coming band 'getting a ton of blog love' for 'heartbreaking' debut

Sep 25, 09 1:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - The frontman of the pop duo Girls has a backstory that’s “epically sad and squalid and ultimately triumphant,” but you don’t need to know his history to recognize Girls' debut, Album, as “a dizzily powerful piece of work,” writes Tom Breihan for Pitchfork.... More »

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entertainment • music • pop music • album release • music review • Beach Boys • Jay-ZTV • Girls • Christopher Owens • Chet White

movie review

 Coco Before 
 Chanel Is 
 'Beautifully 
 Woven' 

Reviewers mostly positive on biopic of French designer

Sep 25, 09 12:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Coco Before Chanel gets mostly positive reviews for its portrayal of the legendary designer in the days before her rise to fame.
  • “The most obvious credit goes to the strong, sure performance of Audrey Tautou,” writes Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times. “Tautou
... More »

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fashion • film • movie review • Chanel • fashion designer • fashion label • Jay-ZTV • Coco Chanel • Audrey Tautou • Emile Zola • Theodore Dreiser

 'Obama 
 Effect' 
 Cleaning 
 Up Rap 

Common says hip-hop turning more positive

Sep 24, 09 12:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Thanks to President Obama, today’s rap focuses less on drugs, bling, and violence, and the “conscious rapper” is on the rise—at least according to Common. “I don't find as much gangsta talk,” the rapper/actor tells CNN. “You see the whole chain-shining-and-rim era is gone.... More »

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hip-hop • rapper • rap music • bling • Jay-ZTV • Common

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