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Johnny Cash, Christopher L. Heuertz and Christine D. Pohl, The White Stripes, Da Vinci, Matt Damon, Father Rick Frechette, Jimi Hendrix and much more

Thursday March 11, 2010

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A review of Johnny Cash’s American VI: Ain’t No Grave by Andy Whitman (Paste)
Make sure to buy Friendship at the Margins: Discovering Mutuality in Service and Mission by Christopher L. Heuertz and Christine D. Pohl (Amazon)
Exclusive first listen: The White Stripes Live (NPR)
Warners plans pic based on Da Vinci: Project set up with Adrian Askarieh (Variety)
Matt Damon on the Green Zone (The Mungle Show)
Love among the ruins: Caring for orphans, ransoming hostages, burying the dead—it’s all in a day’s work for Father Rick Frechette by Matt Labash (Weekly Standard)
The countersign: God’s servant in Haitiby Mark Earley (BreakPoint)
God stars in 3D book of Genesis Bible tale (Deadline)
Demi, Ashton and rest of us by Cheryl Wetzstein (Washington Times)
A review of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s Beat The Devil’s Tattoo by Josh Hurst (Christianity Today)
One-track mind about eight tracks: Tiny Tim’s former manager hopes to open a museum for eight tracks, one of the clunkiest and most short-lived music formats of all time. (Wall Street Journal)
Real-world beauty trumps ‘Avatar’ by Cathleen Falsani (Religion News Service)
Never-before released: Chicago’s timeless debut in true, discrete Quadraphonic sound for the first time ever (Rhino)
Obama’s spiritual Cabinet shapes policy, tends his soul by Daniel Burke (Religion News Service)
Lifehouse shuns Smoke & Mirrors by Jay Swartzendruber (TheFish)
Jimi Hendrix’s legacy lives on, say local musicians (Kansas City Star)
Bono’s Rosary, Larry Mullen’s Bible for sale in U2 auction (Irish Central)
Army tech seminar shows warfare’s future (Washington Times)
The net generation, unplugged. Technology and society: Is it really helpful to talk about a new generation of “digital natives” who have grown up with the internet?(Economist)
Interview: Bob Crawford. Keith Pavlischek talks with the bassist of the Avett Brothers. (Books & Culture)
The cult of originality by Nina Paley (NinaPaley.com)
Jeff Bridges: On Marriage. "I asked her out, and she said no. So I kept at it. That was so unlike me." By Jeff Bridges (Readers Digest)
Warm up at colorful orchid and garden shows: Orchid and garden shows are a wonderful way to warm up during winter and enjoy some colorful floral beauty. (CS Monitor)
Live Aid: the white pop star’s burden. The BBC’s critique of Live Aid replaces the view of Africans as victims with a view of them as corrupt by Nathalie Rothschild (Spiked)
The sound of Broken Bells: Broken Bells, the pop duo featuring Brian Burton, aka Danger Mouse, and James Mercer of The Shins, releases its self-titled debut—the kind of textured pop album that reveals new joys with repeated exposure. (Wall Street Journal)
• Video premiere: She & Him: “In the Sun” (Pitchfork)
Don’t be frightened of your garden by Alan Titchmarsh (Telegraph)
Culled out. Public input period for federal fishery strategy has ended. The Obama administration has ended public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing some of the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters. (ESPN)
Box office Pantheism: Critiques of Avatar’s spirituality should be winsome—and prophetic. (Christianity Today)
Can it: At-home preserving is ridiculously trendy by Sara Dickerman (Slate)
Story of ‘Precious’ told too often by Audrey Ward (UM Portal)
Church reaches out with drive-through (Atlanta Journal Constitution)
The Republic of Baseball: Just a business? By Eric Miller (Books & Culture)
It’s the end of the world, and we love it. We’re flocking to movies about the last days, even in the midst of a penny-pinching recession. Why? By
Mark Moring (Christianity Today)
Albert Einstein’s original Theory of Relativity manuscript goes on display (Art Knowledge News)
Minton sparks catches fire: The love child of Flannery O’Connor and Hank Williams lights up the stage by Marshall Chapman (Garden & Gun)
Are Chick Flicks ‘emotional porn’? It depends on how you view them by Laura Leonard (her.menutic)
Rugby and reconciliation: Clint Eastwood’s Invictus by Roy Anker (Books & Culture)
A policy change on abortion, but how radical? (Yahoo)
Mark Noll reviews Experimental Theology in America: Madame Guyon, Fenelon, and Their Readers by Patricia A. Ward (Books & Culture)
Jesus Ball in Slovakia: GoodSports reaches a culture suspicious of Christians by teaching kids how to hit an inside pitch by Patti McCracken (Christianity Today)

Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker, Sandra Bullock, The Blindside, Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart, Ryan Bingham, Marilynne Robinson, Son of Hamas, Ross Douthat and much more

Monday March 8, 2010

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‘Hurt Locker’ wins Best Picture, becoming the lowest-grossing film ever to win the Oscar for best picture. The film’s director, Kathryn Bigelow, was the first woman to win best director. (Wall Street Journal)
Kathryn Bigelow makes movies that go for the gut (NY Times)
Bullock wins; ‘Hurt Locker’ takes best picture Oscar (AP)
John Hughes High School reunion: Actors from the late writer-director’s 1980s teen comedies pay tribute during the Academy Awards ceremony. (LA Times)
The little song that could … win a very big Oscar. Ryan Bingham’s work on the ‘Crazy Heart’ soundtrack has taken the singer-songwriter’s career to a new level (Naperville Sun)
Simple gifts: A review of Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead and Home (Claremont Institute)
‘They need to be liberated from their God’: The ‘Son of Hamas’ author on his conversion to Christianity, spying for Israel, and shaming his family by Matthew Kaminiski (Wall Street Journal)
Beginning with the Word: How the cadences and diction of the King James Bible affected the prose style of American writers by Stephen Miller (Wall Street Journal)
When the honeymoon is over: Laura Vanderkam reviews three books about “working” on marriage: a social history of marriage counseling, a year in the lives of couples-therapy clients and a memoir of a partnership that didn’t work out. (Wall Street Journal)
‘We’re all theologians’: But is it the best or worst of times for doctrine? by Collin Hansen (Christianity Today)
Mass-market epiphany: Mysticism is dying, and taking true religion with it. Monasteries have dwindled. Contemplative orders have declined. Our religious leaders no longer preach the renunciation of the world; our culture scoffs at the idea. The closest most Americans come to real asceticism is giving up chocolate, cappuccinos, or (in my own not-quite-Francis-of-Assisi case) meat for lunch for Lent by Ross Douthat (NY Times)
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Why politicians always seem to believe they can get away with it by Christopher Buckley (Wall Street Journal)
The lukewarm generation by W. Bradford Wilcox (First Things)
Doing bad by doing good: How can we reconcile the axiom that “no good deed goes unpunished?” Among activists and academics who study the human impulse to do good, prescriptions can be blunt. (Wall Street Journal)
Sir Winston’s grandson: war correspondent, author, politician (Palm Beach Post)
The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis at David Zwirner, New York (Art Knowledge News)
Completely booked: When she’s not on stage, Shawn Colvin is working on a memoir (Birmingham News)
Game of tag divides London’s graffiti elite: In London, the battle between lost graffiti legend Robbo and acclaimed artist Banksy highlights a rift in the art world. (Wall Street Journal)
The Wal-Mart hippies by David Brooks (NY Times)
Brooks and the Tea Parties by Jonah Goldberg (National Review)
The making of a celebrity chef: It took 12 years and a team of experts to launch a new food star (Wall Street Journal)
The unsure artist: For the genius, self-doubt is the harshest of masters. In 1938 Benny Goodman did something that no one before him had ever dared try. He brought his big band to Carnegie Hall to play an evening-long program of nothing but jazz. Not surprisingly, the event attracted huge amounts of media attention—twice. Twelve years later, Goodman stumbled across a half-forgotten private recording of the concert, leased it to Columbia, then sat back and started counting money. To this day, it remains the best-selling live album in the history of jazz, an indelibly vivid souvenir of a great musical occasion by Terry Teachout (Wall Street Journal)
Good cliches vs. bad cliches: From ‘Human Target’ to ‘The Office’ to ‘The Pacific’ by Maureen Ryan (Chicago Tribune)
A transfiguring moment: Caravaggio’s potent, astonishing ‘Conversion of Saul’ by Karen Wilkin (Wall Street Journal)
• Grateful Dead: Now playing at the New-York Historical Society (Art Knowledge News)

Carolina Chocolate Drops, Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix, Anne Rice, Kim Yu-na, The Dawn Treader, Smoking Ribs and much more

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Carolina Chocolate Drops: Tradition from jug to kazoo (NPR, photo by Julie Roberts)
A review of Xinran’s Message From An Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love (Spectator)
The last chapter in Johnny Cash’s ‘American’ series: Despite the title — ‘Ain’t No Graves’ — it wasn’t meant to be Cash’s swan song, producer Rick [...]

Skateboard art, Rethinking The Passion of the Christ, Shroud of Turin, Marilynne Robinson and John Calvin, The Dude, Jonny Lang, Denver Roller Derby and much more

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Skateboards now hang in galleries, but are they wheelie art? (Wall Street Journal)
Movies that changed my life: A film geek’s retrospect on cinematic paradigm shifts. Best of the decade #7: The Passion of the Christ by Matthew K (Salon)
Vatican gives holy seal of approval to its top ten ‘pop milestones’ (Times)
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Johnny Cash, Nick Curran, The Hours of Catherine of Cleves, The Wolfman, Tim Burton, Nigella Lawson and much more

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Johnny Cash’s final chapter is the most compelling by James Reed (Boston Globe)
Studies: Belief in God relieves depression (Washington Times)
Water-cooler effect: Internet can be TV’s friend (NY Times)
Nielsens: Olympics soar, even over ‘Idol’ (USA Today)
Nick Curran & the Lowlifes: “Reform School Girl” reviewed by Josh Hurst (The Hurst Review)
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Jimi Hendrix, Crazy Heart, Johnny Cash, Charlie Peacock, Nick Curran, Fisk Jubilee Singers, Bob Dylan and much more

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Putting Jimi Hendrix’s house in order: Janie Hendrix hopes that ‘Valleys of Neptune’ and other official releases help restore her guitar hero stepbrother’s recording legacy. (LA Times)
Robert Duvall finds fresh inspiration in independent films like Crazy Heart by Christa A. Banister (Crosswalk)
Johnny Cash’s ‘Ain’t No Grave’: The right epitaph to a [...]

Love American Style, Jake Burton, Jonathan Edwards, Sade, E. D. Hirsh, Pierce Brosnan, Nicholas Sparks, Charlie Wilson and much more

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New Orleans Saints, Drew Brees, Mahalia Jackson, Jeff Beck, Damien Rice, Frank Sinatra, Tim Burton, Willie Mays and much more

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To Write Love On Her Arms, Phil Jackson, Who Dat Nation, Lost, Barack Obama, Introverts for Jesus and much more

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Christopher Hitchens, Willie Mitchell, Jack White, Wanda Jackson, The Pompadour, Brian Eno, J.D. Salinger and much more

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Lost, El Greco, The New Orleans Saints, Ellen Page, Theodicy, Bagpipes, U.S. Grant and much more

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