Devon McReynolds

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• Fans accuse film of racism

  July 20, 2009 at 1:22 a.m.

  At this week’s Comic-Con International in San Diego, there will be more than just fictionalized drama in the air between superheroes and villains, clashing over good, evil and the fate-of-the-world kind of stuff.

• Woody Allen was justified in suing clothing retailer

  May 27, 2009 at 12:40 a.m.

  I’m a big fan of his and have always thought that a lot of the things Woody Allen does are figuratively worth about a million bucks. But last week, the filmmaker/actor/professional self-deprecator settled a lawsuit with American Apparel for the sum of $5 million dollars. That money could get you over 166,000 pairs of AA leggings or a crummy studio apartment on the Upper West Side.

• Maturity makes Disneyland fun

  May 20, 2009 at 1:16 a.m.

  The last time I went to Disneyland, I was an eye-rolling, headphone-wearing, anti-establishment 17-year-old, and at the end of the day, I vowed never to return. This was back in ’05, on a springtime school trip in high school with the ASB and journalism classes. It was one of those trips where the main part was for the popular ASB kids to hook up on the back of the charter bus.

• Trash talk a universal art form outside sports world

  May 13, 2009 at 1:01 a.m.

  I think that making the topic of this column “trash talking” is justified in the “Arts & Entertainment” section because trash talking is an art – and a fine one at that.

• Real books are sexy, Kindles are not

  May 6, 2009 at 12:08 a.m.

  So I guess we’re in some sort of digital revolution.
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  Atlanta band embraces ‘flower punk’

  April 29, 2009 at 1:15 a.m.

  Who would think that a little extra flower power could get a rock-and-roll band kicked out of Gandhi’s country?

• Universal appeal makes ‘30 Rock’ best show on TV

  April 29, 2009 at 1:11 a.m.

  This won’t come as news to anybody with two ears and a heart, but “30 Rock” is the greatest show on television right now.
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  Entertainment panel presents rare chance

  April 28, 2009 at 12:11 a.m.

  Anyone who’s interested in breaking into the behemoth entertainment industry knows the phrase, “It’s not about what you know, but who you know.”

• Coachella proves to be a worthy experience

  April 22, 2009 at 12:01 a.m.

  One opinion is that Coachella is a mythical, freeing experience where one can connect with other spirits in the universe. I’d also heard that it’s a corporate, over-priced, hot mess – and that it’s literally hot and messy.

• Looking for food and drink on a tight budget

  April 16, 2009 at 2:48 a.m.

  In his autobiographical ode to simpler times “A Moveable Feast,” Ernest Hemingway writes, “We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.”