For the final days leading up to Halloween, we’ll review and rate a couple of the area’s most creative haunted houses.
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“World War Z”
The current proliferation of zombie books, movies, and television shows suggests that we now dwell in the time of the living dead, a horrible but not entirely surprising prospect. Born in the 1930’s, the most creative decade in cinema history, the genre reflected some particular realities of its era — the fact of race, the […]
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MUSIC INTERVIEW: Mulu Lizi
Usually when discussing a concept album or a band with an ongoing narrative, you figure that theatrics aren’t far behind. Mulu Lizi is a Rochester quartet that has aliens and zombies wandering in and out of its post-but-not-that-post-90’s sound. The band’s brooding music doesn’t necessarily lend itself sonically to the walking dead and the extraterrestrial, […]
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The zombie class
The current political debate may seem like it’s about jobs, taxes, and the national debt. But what Americans are really experiencing is a philosophical crisis involving the middle class, said Stephen Shapiro, a professor of English at the University of Warwick in Britain. The crisis is revealed, he said, in the zombie film craze. Much […]
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“The Walking Dead” Season 2 Episode 12: Who’s your daddy?
Another main character dead.A twist in the very development of how people become walkers.A character confrontation that has been building since the very start of the show. And yet, I can’t get into the episode as a whole.
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“The Walking Dead” Season 2, Episode 11: He’s a threat!
Oh man. It took right up until the end, but Jesus tap-dancing Christ, everything managed to came full circle and end on such an intense note. Wow. This is why I love “The Walking Dead.”
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“The Walking Dead” Season 2, Episode 10: 18 miles down the road, the farms that way
Not quite the wrenching follow up to last week’s killer episode, but “The Walking Dead” took a much slower, though somewhat overdue, look at the constantly strained relationships within the group.
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“The Walking Dead” Season 2, Episode 9: Guiding Light (But with more blood!)
And just when you think a show can’t shock you, “The Walking Dead” returned with some much needed gusto. The two situations from last week that had run dry really pulled through, creating some down right awesome moments for the show.
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“The Walking Dead” Season 2, Episode 8: Living in the fallout
After the startling midseason finale reveal that Sophia(Madison Lintz)had been a walker all along, this week’s return to “The Walking Dead” dealt with reactions to the bitter end of a failed search and rescue attempt.
