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Nobody in this town knows how to end a show like B.C. Camplight. Every couple months the big man with the high voice solicits a horn section and rocks a packed Johnny Brenda's (next one's this Fri., Aug. 21) with some sock-hopping, keyboard-pounding, top-of-his-lungs rock 'n' roll. Good golly, Miss Molly.
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Critics are always saying Friday Night Lights, the TV show based on Buzz Bissinger's book, isn't about football. They're right. It's a show about family, class and the dying American small town that worships teen gods in the arena-church every Friday. But it's also a show about football, and my fave player is heartbreaking QB1 Matt Saracen — played by Zach Gilford, who can be seen in Post Grad (see our review). Catch up on DVD before it comes back this fall.
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Matthew Gasteier has seen your lolcats. He is not amused. The author of the hit blog Fuck You, Penguin (fupenguin.com) can see past doe-eyed, head-cocked gazes and identify the real sins of the wild kingdom. With entries like "Sneaky hedgehogs want it both ways" and "Seals are always looking for a handout," Gasteier gives us all a fighting chance against the tyranny of excessive adorableness. Now available in convenient, take-to-the-zoo book form (F U, Penguin: Telling Cute Animals What's What, Villard, Aug. 25).
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Mystery Science Theater 3000's awesomeness was directly proportional to the awfulness of the movie they were riffing on. So while RiffTrax — wherein MST3K alums Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett mock Hollywood blockbusters via mp3 commentary tracks — is pretty funny, this Thursday's live-in-the-multiplex (8 p.m. at the Riverview) attack on Plan 9 from Outer Space should be hilarious.
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