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Entries from September 2007

101 Best Baseball Blogs of 2007

September 30th, 2007 · 22 Comments

As the regular season draws to a close, it’s time to look back on all those baseball blogs that carried us through the workday through the spring and summer months. We asked for your vote and you filled our inbox. Here are the 101 Best Baseball Blogs as chosen by LA Snark readers:

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Silversun Pickups at the Wiltern 10/20/07

September 29th, 2007 · No Comments

LA Snark’s favorite band of 2007 makes it’s way to the Wiltern on October 20th with supporting act Midnight Movies.
Tickets available here.

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iPhone update - not good for some innovative first-gen owners

September 27th, 2007 · No Comments

Today, Apple released the 1.1.1 update for the iPhone that has some iPhone-meddlers (people that installed 3rd party software on their iPhone) nervous. The upgrade comes with a warning:
“WARNING: Apple has discovered that some of the unauthorized unlocking programs available on the Internet may cause irreparable damage to the iPhone’s software,” the message read. [...]

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Free show tonight: Ladytron and Great Northern

September 27th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Ladytron will be playing an all-ages show with Great Northern at Hollywoood & Highland tonight. You’ll need a metro ticket to view the show. We recommend parking far away and taking the train in.  Show starts at 8. [...]

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Tom Cruise vows to find farter

September 26th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Tom Cruise is recently became furious on the set of his latest film Valkyrie, a World War II drama (yes another one) filming in Berlin. Apparently the director and other members of the set staff including Cruise had called for a moment of silence in honor of all of the victims of WWII when [...]

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Catch them before they break: The Hermit Crabs

September 26th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Acoustic based Glasgowian(?) indie poppers The Hermit Crabs are set to blow up soon.  With an album set for release this summer, the Crabs might just be crawling onto US shores sooner than they expected.  For now check out their myspace page for some samples.

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Jessica Biel - Wonder Woman?

September 25th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Variety is reporting that Jessica Biel may snag the role of Wonder Woman in the upcoming Justice League film, causing a whole new generation of boys to take an unhealthy obsession with superheros to a whole new level. Will Superman and Batman be sharing the spotlight in this movie? If so, will Superman [...]

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Get Bent

September 25th, 2007 · No Comments

Bent Objects is a nice little Blogger blog that features, well, bent objects. Mostly bent wire acting as legs and arms to random things like, well you’ll see.

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New music from Iron & Wine out today

September 25th, 2007 · No Comments

Iron & Wine (yeah that guy that covered Such Great Heights for the Garden State soundtrack) has just released his latest album “The Shepherd’s Dog” on Sub Pop records.  Each album seems to add more instrumentation to the mix than the last, but this album features a few returns to the early, simpler acoustic pieces.
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Yo La Tengo in San Diego

September 25th, 2007 · No Comments

New Jersey indie rock veterans Yo La Tengo will perform at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego’s La Jolla site on November 4th.  The band will play an acoustic set and tell stories (think VH1 Storytellers, except hopefully they don’t water the music down with too many cellos) and take questions from the audience.  [...]

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