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Music Review: Robert Plant - Nine Lives Sampler Blogcritics.org
Are you ready for this? Nine Lives is a ten-disc box set that includes all nine of his solo albums, remastered and expanded with some "extras," if you know what I mean. It also includes a sixty-minute film on DVD that takes you on a tour of Robert's solo career, which began after Led Zeppelin disbanded in 1980. But that's not all on the DVD. There are interviews with Plant about each of the
Game sampler Austin American-Statesman
"Battlefield: 2142" — The fourth addition to the winning "Battlefield" universe jumps 200 years ahead with cool sci-fi innovations like battle walkers, cloaking devices and "Titan mode" in set-piece battles of up to 64 players in a wintry post-nuke milieu.
A sampler of Christmas tree farms Asbury Park Press
Only 17 more shopping days until Christmas! Area farms still offer pick- and cut-your-own Christmas trees. You can bring your own saw or have the farm personnel cut it for you.
NIST math technique opens clearer window on universe EurekAlert!
A: Galaxy UGC 10214 ("Tadpole"), imaged in 2002 by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows what NASA called a "Whitman's Sampler of galaxies" from
Mom knows best: Follow your instincts, not societal pressure, expert says The Toledo Blade
This past fall, Clarke Sanders, a Central Elementary School second-grader in
The fruit of her labors Sun-Sentinel
A spirited television performance of Black Horse and the Cherry Tree nearly turned Katharine McPhee into an American Idol.
What's next? Genetics gone amok Sun-Sentinel
Next. Michael Crichton. HarperCollins. $27.95. 432 pp.
MARMARA review Asbury Park Press
Marmara is full. Booked solid. It's rollicking, and you have to lean across the table to hear your dining companions speak. It feels like a party on this weekend night and, by the looks of the food-laden tables in the warm-toned dining spaces, it tastes like a party, too.
Critic's pick Lexington Herald-Leader
Sufjan Stevens Songs for Christmas Singalong Indie-pop songsmith Stevens designs holiday music the way some people knit sweaters. Take the way a piano chimes in and out of Peace, the most recent of the five EP discs that make up Songs For Christmas. Then listen to how bubbly synthesizers sit beside light, rustic folk on Hark!, the boxed set's second holiday sampler. Finally, watch how faith, pop
The GIFT of MUSIC Bradenton Herald
Don't box me in! This season's fancifully packaged, multi-disc music sets are all over the artistic map, from the hippest of jazz to the heaviest of rockers to the strangest of old-timey folk.
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