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JAMES PARKER

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Taking their lumps

Red-king-crabbing, pitbull smacking, and more bull riding
Across the underwater plains of Alaska’s Bering Sea go movable cities of red king crab, silently marching sideways.
By JAMES PARKER  |  May 01, 2007

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Choke holds

Chuck Barris’s Big Question, Shear Genius, Ultimate Fighter, and more bull rides
That interesting man Chuck Barris has written another book.
By JAMES PARKER  |  April 23, 2007

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Divine interventions

The cosmic rock of Young Gods
The trick with Switzerland’s Young Gods has always been to see past the mechanized or “industrial” elements of their sound.
By JAMES PARKER  |  April 23, 2007

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The dirt

Predatory bachelorettes, animal assassins
ABC’s The Bachelor has long been one of the dirtiest shows on TV, a softcore brothel spritzed with the air-freshener pieties of courtly love.
By JAMES PARKER  |  April 10, 2007

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Fun house

The Stooges, Orpheum Theatre, April 7, 2007
A full house of cave dwellers and recidivists welcomed the Stooges to the Orpheum on Saturday.
By JAMES PARKER  |  April 09, 2007

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From her to eternity

The real Nico emerges on The Frozen Borderline
As a consort of the elite, Nico ruled them all.
By JAMES PARKER  |  April 10, 2007

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Predators!

On the hunt with Rabbi Shmuley, Tred Barta, and prehistoric felines of the Arctic
I kept my appointment with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach this time and was rewarded.
By JAMES PARKER  |  April 02, 2007

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Bon appétit

Sometimes you eat the bull and sometimes . . .
With apologies to those of my readers who were expecting a poignant analysis of Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s Shalom in the Home .
By JAMES PARKER  |  March 28, 2007

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Soul metal

Jesu, Middle East Downstairs, March 17, 2007
“Some religious music,” wrote the late, great Whitney Balliett, jazz critic for the New Yorker, “shines with evil.”
By JAMES PARKER  |  March 20, 2007

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Flash!

Sedaris busted for unreal humor, apathetic Oxycontin addict discovered in California!
David Sedaris, laughing gnome of NPR and bestselling humorist, may — in the course of trying to be funny — have made a few things up.
By JAMES PARKER  |  March 20, 2007

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Where everything is meant to be seen

Baudrillard, the Pussy Cat Dolls, and Anna Nicole
So I’ve been reading Introducing Baudrillard (Verso).
By JAMES PARKER  |  March 14, 2007

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Breast friends

Stalking Pete Doherty and The Girls Next Door exact their pound of flesh
When it comes to reality TV, the Brits operate with a pungent, hot-button immediacy that America’s producer tribe must envy.
By JAMES PARKER  |  March 10, 2007

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Prometheus’s fire

Iggy and the Stooges bring it again
One year younger than Dolly Parton, Iggy is an indestructible trouper whose communion with his audience is vulgar, essential, perennial.
By JAMES PARKER  |  March 06, 2007

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Real housewives and blood diamonds

Another trip to Orange County, and bling’d in Sierra Leone
Literature, that slow cousin to Life, has in its prolonged non-engagement with reality TV been even denser and more dreamily backward than usual.
By JAMES PARKER  |  February 27, 2007

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London falling

Damon Albarn’s The Good, the Bad & the Queen
Damon Albarn — Blur frontman, Gorillaz supremo, and now millennial minstrel to the drowning city of London — is that eerie modern specimen, the pop star who talks like a critic. The Good, The Bad, and the Queen, "Kingdom of Doom" (streaming video)
By JAMES PARKER  |  February 21, 2007

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Miss you, Muncie

Armed and Famous goes down; Nashville Star 5 goes on
Inured by long acquaintance as I am to the caprices of reality TV, to its playful love of twists, surprises, rug pullings, plug pullings, and decapitations, I confess to having been thrown for a loop
By JAMES PARKER  |  February 20, 2007

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Snakes in the grass

Survivor 14 and The (White) Rapper Show
The Bleeding Queens, Coconut Riot, Fail and Fail Again . . . These are some of the names that will never be given to the competing tribes on Survivor .
By JAMES PARKER  |  February 13, 2007

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Sweet delusion

On American Idol it’s fame or nothing
Violence was in the air, and the promise of simmering humiliations.
By JAMES PARKER  |  February 06, 2007

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What’s the story?

Sorting through the ruins of Oasis
‘Liam Gallagher should have stayed in England,’ opined Newsday after a show on Long Island.
By JAMES PARKER  |  February 06, 2007

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Let the games begin

Onanism in Muncie, maxed-out credit in NYC, sleeper holds in nowheresville
The thing about reality is, you never quite know when you’re in it.
By JAMES PARKER  |  January 30, 2007
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