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Yesterday | The Nation

SNL Spoofs Fox News' Election '09 Coverage

Saturday Night Live mocks the Fox News coverage of the 2009 elections and how they implied that they left their mark on the "end of the Obama administration." Hilarious parodies of Karl Rove, Greta Van Susteren and Glenn Beck discuss the Republican victories in Virginia and New Jersey, poking fun at the idea that this could mean the country's ...

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Saturday Night Live, Pop/Rock

Tuesday | The New York Times

'A Big Episode'

Aired Monday night on NBC : First Lady Michelle Obama appears on '"Sesame Street" to celebrate the show's 40th anniversary.

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Related Topix: Sesame Street, Animated TV, Children TV, Entertainment, Television, Pop/Rock, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Comedy

Mon Nov 09, 2009

NewsBusters.org

'Saturday Night Live' Mocks Fox News's Election Coverage

"Saturday Night Live" in its recent installment took shots at the Fox News Channel for what it saw as an amazingly one-sided, anti-Obama take on Tuesday's election results.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Pop/Rock

Sun Nov 08, 2009

The Huffington Post

SNL Mocks Fox's Election Coverage, Glenn Beck's Spelling Problems

"Saturday Night Live" opened last night with a sketch lampooning Fox News's election coverage.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Fri Nov 06, 2009

NME

Fiery Furnaces continue Radiohead insults and lay into Beck

The Fiery Furnaces ' singer Matthew Friedberger has laid into Radiohead for the second time this week.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Fiery Furnaces, Indie, MySpace.com, Startups, Social Software

Thu Nov 05, 2009

The Daily Record

Music News: Exclusive: Biffy Clyro given writing help on new album by Brokeback Mountain composer

ROCKERS Biffy Clyro were blown away when US singer Beck's father helped write tracks for their new album.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Arizona Republic

October's top 10 best singles

It's kind of weird that Chris Brown and Rihanna both checked in last month with their first proper singles since emerging as the Ike and Tina Turner of their generation back in February - weirder still that both singles were actually great in their own way.

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Related Topix: Ike & Tina Turner, Pop/Rock, Tina Turner, Black Entertainment, Latin, Julian, Music, Entertainment

TheSpectrum.com

Theron F. Beck

Theron F. Beck passed away on October 31st, 2009 in St. George Utah. He was born on January 25, 1923 in Heber, Utah to Stephen F. Beck and Maggie Orr Beck.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, St. George, UT, Heber, UT, Beaver, UT

Sat Oct 31, 2009

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Arbitron's electronic ratings device changes St. Louis radio

Since K-HITS 96 canned morning radio personality J.C. Corcoran a week ago, station chief John Beck has received more calls than he can count.

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Related Topix: Computers, Arbitron, Advertising, Pop/Rock

102.5 The Bear

Loser - Beck

Active: 90's, 2000's Born: July 8, 1970 in Los Angeles, CA Influences Similar Artists Followers Biography One of the most inventive and eclectic figures to emerge from the '90s alternative revolution, Beck was the epitome of postmodern chic in an era obsessed with junk culture.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Thu Oct 29, 2009

RTE 2FM

Playlist - Wednes...

Florence & The Machine - 'Cosmic Love' Beck - 'Loser' Oliver Cole - 'What Will You Do? We Should Be Dead - 'Forget Romance Let's Dance' The Happy Mondays - 'Kinky Afro' Marina & The Diamonds - 'Mowgli's Road' David Kitt - 'Alone Like That' Death Cab For Cutie - 'Meet Me At The Equinox' Guns N Roses - 'Welcome To The Jungle' Damian Jr Gong Marley - ...

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Happy Mondays, Alternative, Death Cab for Cutie, Dance, The Brothers

Wed Oct 28, 2009

Brooklynvegan

Yacht played the Dfa CMJ party @ Brooklyn Bowl - pics

While it would be easy to toss YACHT under the burgeoning umbrella of electro dance-pop, Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans take the genre to a whole different level with a visual presence that channels David Byrne, Annie Lennox and Odelay-era Beck.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Sun Oct 25, 2009

XL93

Where It's At - Beck

Studio and session guitarist Joe Beck was best known for hits when backing vocalist Esther Phillips on Kudu in the '70s. During the '80s he made a series of competent fusion and pop/jazz recordings for DMP and had a big hit recording with Dave Sanborn on CTI in 1975.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Jazz, Joe Beck, Esther Phillips

Fri Oct 23, 2009

Moonbattery

Communist Truther Van Jones' Green Graft Legacy Lives On

Remember Van Jones , the self-described communist and "rowdy black nationalist" who admitted to having been "radicalized in jail"? Comrade Obamao set him up as Green Jobs Czar and gave him a staggering $60 billion of our money to create green jobs, leaving even Newsreek to wonder where the money went when no one could even explain what a green job ...

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Wed Oct 21, 2009

The Phoenix

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IDENTITY CRISIS: Jeremy Udden's role models for his first album were Joe Henderson and Joe Lovano - but he was listening to Beck and Wilco.

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Related Topix: Joe Henderson, Jazz, Joe Lovano, Pop/Rock, Wilco, Plainville, MA, Music, Entertainment

Mon Oct 19, 2009

Valdosta Daily Times

PSST! sweepstakes create New York memories

Jenny Howard was thrilled last year on hearing that her mother had won Peach State Summer Theatre's first sweepstakes trip to New York City.

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Related Topix: Chinatown (New York, NY), Pop/Rock, Chinatown (Los Angeles, CA)

Sun Oct 18, 2009

OrlandoSentinel.com - Business

Darden walks fine line with advertising and TV-show boycotts

A t least three times this year, Orlando-based Darden Restaurants has faced pressure from groups angry about the content of TV shows on which the company ran ads.

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Related Topix: Darden Restaurants, Restaurant Management, Orlando, FL, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Pop/Rock, Late Show with David Letterman, David Letterman

Sat Oct 17, 2009

Examiner.com

CNN's hilariously lame defense of Mao-Loving White House Advisor Anita Dunn

CNN just can't abide people telling anyone the truth about how Obama's cronies are either admitted Communists , like the disgraced Van Jones, or just think Commies are awesome, like Anita Dunn.

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Related Topix: US News, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Pop/Rock

Thu Oct 15, 2009

UTV

Gus van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis join forces on film

The director of Milk and the author of American Psycho are to write a film about the lives and deaths of artists Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake Thursday, 15 October 2009 It is a tale of intrigue, paranoia and harassment by unseen forces, one which takes in the rock star Beck, the Church of Scientology and 9/11 conspiracies.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Milk, Pop/Rock, Religion, Scientology, Venice, CA

RTE 2FM

Playlist - Wednes...

Ian Brown - 'Stellify' Oasis - 'Falling Down' The Chemical Brothers - 'Galvanize' Delorentos - 'S.E.C.R.E.T' Santigold - 'My Superman' Billy Idol - 'White Wedding' Basement Jaxx - 'Raindrops' Ash - 'True Love 1980' R.E.M. - 'Drive' Florence & The Machine - 'You've Got The Love' Eurythmics - 'Sweet Dreams ' Beck - 'Devil's Haircut' Dinky Loop - ...

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Related Topix: The Chemical Brothers, Electronic, Dance, Basement Jaxx, Pop/Rock

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