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							  You have never seen anything like  District 9  — or so went the early buzz for Neill Blomkamp's feature-length directorial debut. The concept is the stuff nerdgasms are made of: a vérité sci-fi thriller set in an alternate-reality South Africa where 2.5 million Cthulhu-faced bug aliens crash-land into human society and a zillion boffo explosions ensue.  
							
							 
						
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							 This week's reminder that journalism isn't in Kansas anymore comes via a funky advertising concept showcased at  nytimes.com/magazine  — where, as you'd expect, the contents of the  New York Times Magazine  are available for Web readers. 
							
							 
						
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							  Let me get this straight up front: I didn't go to Woodstock. But I was teaching a "student-initiated course" in pop-music history at Antioch College at the time, and a number of my students announced that they were going to miss a couple of classes because they had tickets to Woodstock.  
							
							 
						
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							  Let me get this straight up front: I didn't go to Woodstock. But I was teaching a "student-initiated course" in pop-music history at Antioch College at the time, and a number of my students announced that they were going to miss a couple of classes because they had tickets to Woodstock.  
							
							 
						
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							  The Pretenders + Cat Power + Juliette Lewis | August 12, 2009 at Bank of America Pavilion  
							
							 
						
					 
				 
			 
			
				
					
					
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							  Braving the early crowds for street-food flavors from Baja and Puebla  
							
							 
						
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							  The biggest news made by the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals the past two weekends was that they happened at all.  
							
							 
						
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							   Bands come and go. Especially local ones. The money's not great, personalities clash, young and single people tend to move around a lot. Kyle Gervais with Cosades had a band a lot of us in Portland will remember for a long time, but they broke up last year for the reasons that bands break up.   
							
							 
						
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							 If you’re an up-and-popping band or artist, you first need to find fans, friends, and fiends on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and, of course, in real life. But where do you go from there? 
							
							 
						
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							 This Sunday is the premiere of the third season of  Mad Men  (AMC, 10 pm), the Emmy-winning show that made fans of good television have to figure out where AMC was on their basic-cable schedules. 
							
							 
						
					 
				 
			 
			
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