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Tuesday Dec 15 | Examiner.com

Jack Black to guest star on NBC comedy, but which one?

It's been awhile since we used our "Chastising 'Community' Header Pic", so here it is.

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Related Topix: Tropic Thunder, Community, Entertainment, Television, Comedy, Tenacious D, Jack Black, Pop/Rock

Sat Dec 12, 2009

Examiner.com

2009 holiday game guide: honorable mentions

There are too many great games on the market not to mention a couple in passing.

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Related Topix: Video Games, Pop/Rock, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

Fri Dec 11, 2009

Stereogum

Pixies & "Weird" Al, Flea, Tenacious D @ Echoplex LA

Well, this had to have been the the best thing to attend on so many levels. Background: Jennifer Bertrand, a friend of Frank Black's wife Violet Clark, has a son named Winston, a ten-month old born with "two rare and complex malformations called lymphatic and venous malformations." They threaten his life, and his health care costs are astronomical.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Pixies, Flea, Frank Black

Wed Dec 09, 2009

Spin

Frank Black & Friends Rock L.A. Benefit Concert

More than the music -- which was nothing short of spectacular -- Tuesday night's sold-out Winston Calling benefit concert at the Echoplex in Los Angeles was about random acts of kindness.

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Related Topix: Frank Black, Pop/Rock, The Pixies, Olathe, KS, Love and Rockets

Tue Dec 08, 2009

Metromix Indianapolis

Winston Calling, feat. Black Francis, Flea, David J., Weird Al...

Winston Calling, feat. Black Francis, Flea, David J., Weird Al Yankovic, Michael Penn, the 88, and more Rock 'n roll for a good cause? Yes please! Winston Calling is a benefit for baby Winston Bertrand and will be hosted by Black Francis, doing band and solo performances on Tuesday night with special guest appearances by members of the Pixies, Love ...

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Pixies, Jack Black, Kyle Gass, Music, Entertainment

Tue Nov 10, 2009

Los Angeles Times

Yucks = bucks: Peter Boyle memorial adds $700,000 to myeloma fight

Although few people may be familiar with myeloma, you'd be hard pressed to find anyone in Hollywood who isn't familiar with the late actor Peter Boyle -- the larger-than-life actor who cut a comedic swath through popular culture that included the tap-dancing monster in "Young Frankenstein" and the sitcom curmudgeon Frank Barone on ' Everybody Loves ...

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Related Topix: Peter Boyle, Pop/Rock

Thu Nov 05, 2009

RecordNET

Sowing musical seeds

Maynard James Keenan grows wine grapes and plants futuristic concepts. His main Tool used to be a million-selling band by that name.

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Related Topix: Maynard James Keenan, Tool, Pop/Rock, Wine, Drink, A Perfect Circle, Audioslave

Fri Oct 30, 2009

Sacramento Bee

Tough games? This one is Brutal

After being crushed by his own set, Eddie Riggs awakens to a bizarre world of heavy metal that would be nightmarish for some but not for him.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Tim Curry, PlayStation 3, Video Games, Xbox 360

Fri Oct 23, 2009

Game Industry

Black And Hargosh, together at last

I know I'm going to get a lot of flack for saying this. However I'm going to say it...I usually don't find Jack Black funny.

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Related Topix: Tropic Thunder, Year One, Comedy, Entertainment, Tenacious D, Television, Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Pop/Rock, Opinion

Sat Oct 17, 2009

Western Courier

Four celebrities who shouldn't be famous

A lot of people say Paris Hilton shouldn't be a celebrity, but I happen to disagree.

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Related Topix: Jack Black, Blackjack, Pop/Rock

Thu Oct 15, 2009

Newsday

Designer Tim Schafer's 'Brutal' dream come true

Album art a ' metal's hallucinatory hellscapes, with their blood-red skies, lava-filled lakes and mountains of skulls a ' once defined the genre every bit as much as grinding guitars and wailing vocals.

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Related Topix: Video Games, Hard-Rock, Black Sabbath, Heavy-Metal, Iron Maiden, Metal, Megadeth, Pop/Rock

Wed Oct 14, 2009

Television Without Pity

Where the Wild Things Are: The Ten Greatest Things Spike Jonze Has Ever Filmed

Anticipation for Spike Jonze's latest film, Where the Wild Things Are , has reached an all-time high, and early reviews are skewing towards the positive, giving us all hope that the movie will not only capture the magic of the classic children's book, but live up to Jonze's previous offerings.

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Related Topix: Where the Wild Things Are, Comedy Movies, Drama Movies, Being John Malkovich, Spike Jonze, Comedy, Tenacious D, Entertainment, Television, Pop/Rock, Kyle Gass

Newsday

'Brutal Legend': Rocking story, middling gameplay

Critics don't respect it, kids are more likely to spend their allowances on hip-hop, and parents stopped worrying long ago about whether Black Sabbath was going to turn their teens into devil worshippers.

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Related Topix: Hard-Rock, Black Sabbath, Pop/Rock, Jack Black, Xbox 360, Video Games, PlayStation 3

Tue Oct 13, 2009

Play.tm

Brutal Legend Review

Anyone for a Mosh Pit? Things seem so much simpler in the Age of Rock. When hard-working roadie Eddie Riggs - enthusiastically voiced by Tenacious D funnyman Jack Black - is crushed beneath a huge chunk of faulty stage scenery, he bleeds into his mystical belt buckle, summoning a gargantuan fire-breathing beast that transports him back to a fantasy ...

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Jack Black

Sat Oct 10, 2009

Music-News.com

Br tal Legend to give away Tenacious D guitar

Brutal Legend, the all-new heavy metal rock themed action-adventure from ElectronicArts, in-store from October 16, 2009.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Video Games, Jack Black, PlayStation 3

Fri Oct 09, 2009

UTV

Jack Black and other once-good actors who suck

Cast your mind back and recall the days when Jack Black was funny, Jude Law could act, Scarlett Johansson was fresh.

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Related Topix: Tropic Thunder, Year One, Jack Black, Jude Law, Video Games, Pop/Rock

MELODIKA.net

GameStop to Host Midnight Openings for Br tal Legend and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

GameStop , the world's largest video game and entertainment software retailer, today announced that it will host midnight openings for Electronic Arts' Brutal Legend and Sony's Uncharted 2: Among Thieves at more than 800 stores nationwide.

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Related Topix: Retail, GameStop, Video Games, Pop/Rock

Thu Oct 08, 2009

TMZ.com

Jack Black -- Sick Sense of Humor

Posted at 8:06PM on Oct 8th 2009 by 66rock 3. The Pap sucks for assuming he was carrying narcotic type medicine.. lame!!! Jack you rule Posted at 5:44PM on Oct 8th 2009 by Obama Rules 4. phlegm Posted at 5:48PM on Oct 8th 2009 by CC 5. Jack, work with Will Ferrel and Seth Rogen in a movie, us stoners need a good new flick! Posted at 5:49PM on Oct ...

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Related Topix: Jack Black, Pop/Rock, Life, Food, Vegetables

Sat Sep 12, 2009

Noozhawk

Paul Mann, Outside Lands Festival, Day 3

A sleepy shroud of San Francisco fog returned to Golden Gate Park for the third and final day of the Outside Lands Festival .

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Related Topix: San Francisco, CA, Hip-Hop, The Beastie Boys, Pop/Rock, Coachella, CA

Fri Sep 11, 2009

Xbox 360 Fanboy

Rock Band Weekly: Tenacious D, Anvil, Dinosaur Jr., The Guess Who

There are also tracks from Brtal Legend "star" Jack Black's band Tenacious D. It'll actually be pretty quiet week, as the Wii doesn't add its usual mega-list of back catalog tracks and is in sync with the Xbox and PS3 versions.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Guess Who, Metal, Anvil

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