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    <title>How did the states establish long, straight borders before GPS?</title>
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        By cecil adams
      
      
      How is it that, in places without natural features such as a river or mountain range to mark a border, U.S. states could establish a nice, even line over hundreds of miles before GPS? &mdash; Granite-Morale &nbsp; The lines aren&#39;t always nice and even. Study a U.S. atlas and you&#39;ll find many supposedly straight boundaries with slants and zigzags in them, the work of surveyors who were, and it pains me to say this, borderline incompetent. Still, the remarkable thing
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    <category>Bad Habits/Straight Dope</category>
    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Free Will Astrology</title>
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        Nov. 18-24...
       
      
        By Rob Brezsny
      
      
      SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): &quot;There&#39;s nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it&#39;s going to be a butterfly,&quot; said philosopher Buckminster Fuller. I encourage you to make that your personal motto in the coming weeks, Scorpio. From what I can tell, you are capable of generating a transformation that will look impossible to casual observers. You have the power to change something that everyone said would never change. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Have you resolved every last detail of your
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    <title>Earth-friendly sex toys, frogs with fangs and more</title>
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        By Chuck Shepherd
      
      
      LEAD STORY: For some consumers, good environmental citizenship is important even when choosing sex accessories. No longer will they tolerate plastic personal vibrators made with softeners called phthalates; or body lubricants that contain toxic chemicals typically found in, say, antifreeze; or leather restraints from slaughtered cattle. In an October issue, Time magazine described a market of organic lubricants, biodegradable whips and handcuffs, vegan condoms, and glass or mahogany vibrators (even hand-crankable models, eliminating the need for batteries). Some Catholic Church
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    <category>Bad Habits/News of the Weird</category>
    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>CL&amp;#39;s picks for the week&amp;#39;s best shows</title>
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      WED/18 DAVID GUETTA Famous for his &quot;Fuck me, I&#39;m famous&quot; club parties and mix records, this Parisian DJ has been known as the first to spin house records in France. His latest endeavor finds him on the production end of a star-studded album, teaming up with Akon, Will.i.am, Estelle, Kid Cudi, Ne-Yo, and Kelly Rowland, among others. Despite the crossover appeal, dude&#39;s first love still resides behind the decks. $40-$75. 9 p.m. Opera. 404-874-0428. www.operaatlanta.com. &mdash; Alejandro Leal LYLE LOVETT
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    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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        Director Roland Emmerich is the John Holmes of disaster porn...
       
      
        By Curt Holman
      
      
      GENRE: Disaster movie on a planetary scaleTHE PITCH: Technobabble about solar flares plus mumbo-jumbo about Mayan predictions equals catastrophes that could destroy all life on Earth, even movie stars. A White House science advisor (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a novelist/limo driver (John Cusack), his ex-wife (Amanda Peet), and a shaggy conspiracy theorist (Woody Harrelson) all try to keep ahead of the fireballs and falling skyscrapers.MONEY SHOTS: Director Roland Emmerich remains the John Holmes of disaster porn. Highlights include the heroes out-driving a
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    <title>Sandra Bullock Blind Sides Atlanta</title>
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        Film fumbles a potentially intriguing story of a nouveau riche family who adopts a future NFL star...
       
      
        By Curt Holman
      
      
      The prologue to the warm-n-fuzzy sports story The Blind Side plays so well, it&rsquo;s like seeing a team return an opening kickoff to score a touchdown. A Southern-accented Sandra Bullock narrates an insider&rsquo;s perspective on the five fateful seconds that cost the Washington Redskins&rsquo; Joe Theismann his career. Michael Lewis&rsquo; book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game provides the film with tasty tidbits about football machinations on and off the field, but director John Lee Hancock fumbles the rags-to-riches
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    <category>Movies &amp;amp; TV/Movie Review</category>
    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Bizarre crimes from Atlanta police reports</title>
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        By Lauren Keating
      
      
      PEE-DITTY, PART I: An officer was patrolling the area of Courtland Avenue and Ralph McGill Boulevard, when he reported a man &ldquo;behind the statues on the Northwest corner, urinating on the base of the statue.&rdquo; The officer asked the man what he was doing. &ldquo;He stated he was getting his food together. I then asked him what else he was doing and he admitted that he had to urinate and could not hold it in.&rdquo; (The Blotter Diva googled &ldquo;statue&rdquo;
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    <title>Los Fabulosos Cadillacs:&amp;amp;nbsp;El Arte de la Elegancia de LFC</title>
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        Sony Music...
       
      
        By Alejandro A. Leal
      
      
      Fans of the veteran Argentinean rockers Los Fabulosos Cadillacs ought to be used to a release like El Arte de la Elegancia de LFC. A compilation of rerecorded and reinterpreted B-side tracks, it follows the same pattern that has propelled the band to revered status among the Rock en Espa&ntilde;ol faithful: Every few years, they&#39;re able to rerelease old material that suddenly catches fire. For El Arte, the goal was to get the band together to capture its current sound,
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    <title>Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel: Live</title>
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        Self-released...
       
      
        By Chad Radford
      
      
      Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel&#39;s latest offering captures two sprawling masses of improvised drones too harmonious to be called avant-garde and too experimental for stuffy modern classical terms. These sounds are the product of two minds sharing a single headspace and letting the music drive &ndash; which is typical of the Atlanta duo. From the onset of the 23:56 minute opener &quot;Live at Eyedrum,&quot; the lines are blurred as each instrument&#39;s respective whines and whirs waver in a dream
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    <title>Blockhead: The Music Scene</title>
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        Ninja Tune...
       
      
        By Ben Westhoff
      
      
      Though his production work on albums for Aesop Rock and other elite indie rappers gets a lot more attention, Manhattan beatmaker Blockhead has quietly been releasing consistently strong solo albums in the last half-decade. His tracks for other artists tend to be more in the hard-hitting, slicing-and-dicing, traditional hip-hop vein, but albums such as his latest, The Music Scene, give him an opportunity to be more atmospheric and experimental, and at times, to simply space out. The disc is at
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    <title>White Denim: Fits</title>
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        Downtown Music...
       
      
        By Chad Radford
      
      
      White Denim&#39;s Fits wields a dizzying, ADD aesthetic that brims with rhythmic dexterity. By design, nothing stays in one place for too long. &quot;Radio Milk How Can You Stand It&quot; opens with a wash of noise that bursts into rhythms snaking through funk, psychedelia and art-rock terrain. The music careens wildly, crashing against the noise-damaged, Tex-Mex spaz of &quot;El Hard Attack Dcwyw&quot; and the spaced-out dub of &quot;Sex Prayer.&quot; At the half-way point, the group&#39;s meds seem to kick in
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    <title>A&amp;amp;E gift guide</title>
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        Gift baskets themed to local arts, comedy, highbrow culture, action, girly content and geek stuff...
       
      
        By Curt Holman
      
      
      Our society covets few things so passionately as the gift basket &mdash; the richer, fancier cousin to the gift bag. People will gush over gift baskets full of crap nobody could possibly want, that&rsquo;s how much cachet they have. To make the people on your shopping list feel special, consider loading up a basket with these themed suggestions. Some can be a little pricey, so consider the baskets a collective stimulus package for the still-anemic economy. THE LOCAL ARTS BASKET
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    <category>A&amp;amp;E/A&amp;amp;E Feature</category>
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    <title>First Look: Pure Taqueria and El Toro</title>
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        What's with all the sub-par Tex-Mex border cuisine in Atlanta?...
       
      
        By Cliff Bostock
      
      
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    <category>Food &amp;amp; Drink/Grazing</category>
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    <title>Comfort food: Holiday recipes as art and identity</title>
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        When life gives you lemons, make lemon potatoes...
       
      
        By Besha Rodell
      
      
      A few weeks ago, my family and I were in a bad car accident. Driving down Ga. 400 at about 60 miles per hour, my back right tire blew and my brakes failed. After a few terrifying seconds fishtailing back and forth, all my weight on a useless brake pedal, the car spun around and hit the concrete divider. The airbags deployed, and the car filled with smoke. None of us was hurt, save a nasty bruise for me from
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    <title>Promoter Bob Patton kept James Brown on the good foot</title>
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        His legacy lives on through the soul of American music...
       
      
        By Grant Britt
      
      
      When James Brown wanted to give Bobby Kennedy his endorsement for president, Bob Patton was the guy Brown chose to deliver the message. Patton&#39;s skills as a music promoter attracted the biggest names in music, including such clients as Al Green, Jerry Lee Lewis, B.B. King, Solomon Burke and Otis Redding. Known as the go-to guy for getting artists exposure in Georgia and beyond for nearly four decades, Patton died Oct. 7 at the age of 70 from an aortic
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