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Wed Jan 19

A LIST OF WORK, THE LONG VERSION:

Briefer list of highlights coming soon. 
Last updated 2/23/13.

GRANTLAND
A Super-Fan’s Humble Requests for Louie Season Four
Ranking the Guest Verses on Nicki Minaj’s Roman Reloaded


BILLBOARD
• NEW: Eels mastermind Mark Oliver Everett for Wonderful, Glorious
• Farewell, Thrice: A Thunderous Appreciation
• Crosby, Stills & Nash Rewind to 1969 in Tour Closer
An Interview with Kevin Bacon About Playing Music
• Track-by-Track Review: Muse - The 2nd Law
• Track-by-Track Review: Mumford & Sons - Babel
Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba Goes Solo: “It’s Gonna Be Loud”
• Say Anything’s Max Bemis: “This Record Is About Rebellion” 


FAST COMPANY’S CO.CREATE

Profile of RCRD LBL founder/expert tastemaker Elliot Aronow
• Feature: Filmmakers Henry & Rel (Paranormal Activity 3)
• Feature: Interactive ‘Bear 71’ Film
• Anthony Bourdain’s Creative Process for ‘No Reservations’
• Interview: Shaq
• How ‘Alcatraz’ Recreated the Iconic ‘Bullitt’ Chase
Q&A: ‘Bully’ Documentary Director Lee Hirsch
Q&A: Web Showrunner Ze Frank on Creativity and Brain Cracks
Feature: Director Kevin Macdonald and the ‘Marley’ Documentary
• Master Class: DJ Pogo Teaches You How to Make a Remix
• Danish Director Talks ‘Klown’ and Danny McBride’s Adaptation


GQ

 WTF with Marc Maron podcast for GQ’s Comedy Issue 
• Q&A: Actor Michael Emerson (Ben Linus on ‘LOST’) 
• Q&A: Author Joe Hill (Stephen King’s son) 
• Q&A: Comedian Demetri Martin
• Gig Report: Muse is the Best Band Playing Stadiums Today
• Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains’ Live Finale Report
• Q&A: Oscar-winning James Cameron producer Jon Landau
• Career Retrospective: Director F. Gary Gray (‘Friday,’ ‘The Italian Job’)
• Review: Stephen King’s ‘Under the Dome’
• Stephen King’s New Novella: Will Non-Baseball Fans Care? At All?
• Cinema’s Laziest Layabouts, Sloths, and Do-Nothings [Slideshow] 
• The Great ‘Heroes’ Experiment: Live-Blogging a Horrible Show
• The Muppet Man’ Is Hollywood’s Hottest Script? Seriously? 


NEW YORK MAGAZINE’S VULTURE

A Lovingly Crafted Series of Essayish Recaps for ‘Louie’ Season Three
Comedienne Tig Notaro Has Cancer and Did an Amazing Set About It
Louie’s Loves: Ranking the 20 Roughest Romantic Interludes on ‘Louie’
Muse Welcomes Skrillex’s Colonization of All the World’s Music
The RZA Adding Comic Book Movies to His Creative Dynasty
Azealia Banks Releases Her Most Substantial Mixtape Yet
Metallica’s James Hetfield Has Some Sunglasses to Sell You
Frank Ocean Shares the Story of His First Love, a Man
‘I Am Me’ Video: Willow Smith Is Herself, Or Will Smith
Louis C.K. Now Selling Tickets Straight to Fans
• ‘The Shining’ May Get a Big Screen Prequel
‘Sinister’ Trailer: Pagan’s Place
The Five Best Moments from Nicki Minaj’s Hot 97 Rebuttal
Jennifer Egan’s ’New Yorker’ Story Being Serialized on Twitter
A Long Talk With Woody Allen’s Old/Louis C.K.’s Editor Susan E. Morse
Salty Black Sabbath Drummer Sitting Out Reunion Tour
There Are Things Kanye West and Friends Dislike
Mark Wahlberg May Sell Your Grandma Some Avon
Stephen King May Have Another Gorefest in Him Yet
Britney Spears’s Creepy Husband Will Be Her Creepy Co-Conservator
At Last, 98 Degrees Reunite
Three Reasons For, And Eight Against, Ron Howard’s ‘Dark Tower’ Adaptation
Q&A: Derek Miller on Sleigh Bells’s ‘Reign of Terror’
Elusive Odd Future Hero Earl Sweatshirt Returns
• Louis C.K.’s Downloadable Comedy Special Already Earning Big Bucks
• Paul McCartney’s New “Back to the Roots” Album May Be Interesting


IDOLATOR

• Jay-Z & Kanye West Live Review: The Garden Bows to The Throne 


MEN’S FITNESS

Becoming the Healthiest Man Alive: A Talk With Author AJ Jacobs 


NOISECREEP

Thrice Dazzle Sell-Out Crowd in NYC


THE MORNING SENTINEL (WATERVILLE, MAINE)
Getting ‘LOST’ Always Led Me Home
‘The Kings’ and I


NYZD CONVERSATIONS WITH CREATORS
SERIES

New media maestro and writer Eryk Salvaggio
Austrian writer Bastian Kresser
Filmmaker Alec Helm
Digital photographer Alicia Mullins
Italian writer Elena Premoli
Filmmaker and musician Matthew Lizzotte


POPEATER

• Zombies on AMC? Yes, and ‘The Walking Dead’ Is a Perfect Fit
• Why Do I Care About ‘Iron Man 2’ So Damn Much?
• Writer Attempts to Understand Sister’s ‘Twilight’ Obsession
• Q&A: ‘The Office’ star Craig ‘Darryl’ Robinson 
• Q&A: ‘Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’ star Tatyana Ali
• Q&A: ‘Fresh Prince’ star Karyn Parsons
• Q&A: Writer/actor Larry David 
• Q&A: YouTube musical phenom Greyson Chance 
• Video Interview: ‘Next Food Network Star’ winner Aarti Sequeira
• Q&A: Actor Frankie Muniz
• Q&A: Comedian Paul Scheer
• Q&A: Artist Mike Mitchell (‘I’m With Coco’ image)
• Pigeon fanciers discuss Mike Tyson 
• Q&A: ‘The Walking Dead’ zombie Joe Giles
• Q&A: Pop-covering Belgian choirmaster brothers Scala & Kolacny 
• Why Doesn’t Anyone Get Kanye West’s Jokes?
• Five Series Reality TV Should Never Adapt
• Watching the ‘Boardwalk Empire’ Finale, Moonshine in Hand
• Greyson Chance’s Concert Debut
• Q&A: ‘Two Gentlemen of Lebowski’ author Adam Bertocci
• In the Time It Took to Watch ‘LOST,’ We Could Have…
• Can Justin Bieber Seriously Speak French?
• I’m a Guy and I Love ‘Sex and the City.’ All Of It
• 10 Ridiculous Roles for ‘The Office’ Cast


THE MAINE CAMPUS

• Beer’s Grand Unifying Theory
• Finishing His Last Drink 
• Welcome to Chickenfest 
• Speak Easy and Carry a Big Cup 
• Flannel Magazine: ‘This Is Maine’ 
• A Long Road Home
• The King of ‘Cade 
• Q&A: Swedish metal bassist Peter Iwers of In Flames
• A Tale of Two Bookstores: One Sinking, One Solvent 
• Psyopus — ‘Odd Senses’ review 
• Revolutionary Road’ review


VIDEO

• Reading the ‘Mad Men’ Memoir 
• Charlie Sheen, We Need to Have a Talk 
Which Celebrity Tattoos Hurt the Worst? 
Envisioning Taylor Swift’s Next Breakup Song [Music Video]

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