It’s Friday and on DiS throughout 2009 that meant we did a Spotify playlist to compliment our editorial (archived here). Yeah, it is not unlike a covermount cassette wot you used to get on Melody Maker (RIP). Simply CLICK THIS LINK and you’ll be whisked to the founder and current editor of this..

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Spotifriday: DiS Editor’s Top 40 Songs of 2009

Juliette Fairley’s play is affable, but it’s also painfully simplistic and not quite ready for the professional stage.

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Theater Review | ‘The Making of a Mulatto’: Growing Up Biracial Before Obama: Years of Pain and Eventual Progress

I have chosen 100 singles I really do implore you to get your sticky mits on. If I had had to put them in order I would have had a breadvan, so I am sure you will excuse the absence of cheap – and vaguely pointless – countdowning.

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DrownedinSound’s Singles of the Year: 2009

Looking for a calendar for 2010? You can find it here! I’m pleased to be able to offer a 2010 About Photography calendar. The calendar is a series of pages (one per month) for your desktop background so you’ll always have the calendar in front of you

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2010 About Photography Calendar

Grade: C+ | Genre: Romantic Comedy Summary: “It’s Complicated” is largely a dumbed down version of “Something’s Gotta Give” Have you ever walked out of a movie thinking, “this movie so wasn’t made for me?” That’s how I felt leaving the theater after seeing “It’s Complicated.” I thought to myself my mom would love this.

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It’s Complicated

The North Platte Telegraph Area artists are being invited to enter their work in a special contest being sponsored next month by the Art and Gift Gallery in North Platte. But this show isn’t for just any artwork. Show Chairman Sandy Meyer is looking for mini art.

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Gallery to feature mini art (North Platte Telegraph)

Nigel Blake posted a photo: This is an image that I did three conversions from RAW at -1, 0 and +1 stop with, tonemapped & combined in Photomatix then converted to mono and added the tint, duplicated the layer twice and applied neon glow to one layer and posterised and slightly embossed the other layer, then played with the opacities of the layers to get something I liked, flattened the layers then “beefed-up” the saturation! _26K0182neonmonotint

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Typhoon gold

A 34-page complaint sent to Monterey County’s district attorney by the principal figure in a disputed Pebble Beach art heist has been disavowed by the attorney whose name appears on the document.

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Rambling complaint is latest twist in Pebble Beach art heist (San Jose Mercury News)

Reuters – Japan’s government said it aimed for economic growth of more than 2 percent over the next decade, but its long-term plan unveiled on Wednesday lacked detail needed to convince investors the goal is realistic.

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Japan sets long-term economic goals, meets skepticism
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ASPEN – Don Argott has been accused repeatedly of making his documentary film, “Art of the Steal,” a propaganda piece. Argott can defend himself on various grounds: For one, the film is about a subject – post-Impressionist and early Modernist art – on which Argott didn’t have much of a point of view

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Idiosyncratic instruction, extraordinary collection are the heart of ‘Art of the Steal’ (The Aspen Times)

Pam Yearout Bezusko raised two daughters of her own but nurtured many others during her more than 30 years as an art teacher at Garland High School.

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PAM YEAROUT BEZUSKO: Garland art teacher devoted life to students (Dallas Morning News)

“The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond,” starring Bryce Dallas Howard as an emotionally unstable heiress in 1920s Memphis, exhumes an obscure Tennessee Williams screenplay.

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Movie Review | ‘The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond’: Gasping for Breath in a Prison of Gentility

To most of the world, David Levine was a brilliant artist best-known for his caricatures of public figures, published for more than years in the New York Review of Books. He definitely was that. But in Brooklyn Heights, Levine, 83, …

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If there’s any sort of philosophy we subscribe to on this site, it would have to be “Nothing exceeds like excess.” That’s why on a website I used to run we featured as our man of the year a guy who owned a trebuchet. In fact, you know what? To hell with it, watch this: Direct link for the feedreaders

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Cherpumple: The Franken-Kaiju Pie-Cake From Hell

So last year we advised you that The Complete Monty Python’s Flying Circus 16-Ton Megaset was on sale for $40 . Twice, in fact . It’s got the complete series, plus the two-disc set that is available separately as Monty Python Live (reviewed here) .

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Stuff Bulletin: Python on (Even Better) Sale

Playbill – Banana Shpeel , the new Cirque du Soleil production written and directed by David Shiner, has shifted its New York City performance dates and will now begin previews at the Beacon Theatre on Feb. 25, 2010, rather than Feb. 4.

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‘Banana Shpeel’ Will Slip Into NYC’s Beacon Later Than Expected
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Playbill – Casting has been announced for Court Theatre’s Chicago premiere of Tony Kushner’s The Illusion , drawing from Pierre Corneille’s 17th-century classic. Charles Newell will direct the production, to run March 11-April 11, 2010.

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Gudahl, Ledo, Reeger Among Conjurers of Kushner’s ‘Illusion’ in Chicago
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Playbill – Ricky Jay, the actor and sleight of hand artist known for his acclaimed solo shows exploring card tricks, illusion, deception and popular entertainment, launches his new show, Ricky Jay: A Rogue’s Gallery – An Evening of Conversation and Performance , Dec. 29 on the mainstage of the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.

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Ricky Jay Opens "Cabinet of Curiosities" in ‘Rogue’s Gallery’ at Geffen
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Playbill – The producers of the new musical The Addams Family confirmed on Dec. 29 that director Jerry Zaks will join the show as a creative consultant and work with the entire creative team over the next three months as they prepare for an April 8 opening at Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.

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Zaks Is New Patriarch of ‘Addams Family’; Previews Will Now Begin March 8
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Playbill – Jan Buttram’s latest play Phantom Killer , about a murderer stalking a rural Texas town, will have its world premiere at the Abingdon Theatre Company beginning Jan. 22, 2010.

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Schmidt, Bess and McCormick to Encounter ‘Phantom Killer’ Off-Broadway
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Playbill – Tony nominee Stephanie D’Abruzzo, Benjamin Howes, Ben Nordstrom and Amy Justman will put their heads and voices together to create a new musical in the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis production of [title of show] .

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Broadway’s D’Abruzzo and Howes Set for ‘[title of show]‘ in St. Louis
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AP – A computer hacker who helped orchestrate the theft of tens of millions of credit and debit card numbers from major retailers in one of the largest such thefts in U.S. history pleaded guilty Tuesday in the last of three cases brought by federal prosecutors.

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Hacker pleads guilty in Mass. to fraud case
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Reuters – U.S. consumer confidence rose to a three-month high in December, while prices in the hard-hit housing sector stalled in October, breaking a five-month string of gains.

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Consumer confidence up, house prices stall
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