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Monday, December 14, 2009 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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EELS released a video for "In My Younger Days" from the upcoming End Times album.

FANFARLO and THE SWIMMERS played the World Cafe Friday. You can stream either set now via NPR.

CURTISS A stopped by the Current studios in support of his annual John Lennon Tribute Show. Three of my fave Lennon tunes, plus gossip about The Replacements and Stan Lee. What more could anyone want?

PHOENIX was profiled on NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday.

NELLIE McKAY got a feature plus tracks from her Doris Day tribute album on Weekend Edition Sunday.

SUFJAN STEVENS: "Put the Lights on the Tree."

EXPOSED: Why indie rockers are baring it all.

BERNARD SUMNER talks to the San Francisco Chronicle about Bad Lieutenant, New Order, Joy Division, etc.

THE XX is profiled by the New York Observer.

THE HOLD STEADY frontman Craig Finn talks to New York magazine about his screenplay adaptation of Chuck Klosterman's memoir Fargo Rock City.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Princess and the Frog easily topped the chart with 25 million, but that is at the low end of what industry "tracking" projected.  If the Frog lacks holiday legs, it could spell the end of 2-D animation at Disney. Lilo & Stitch opened to 35 million eight years ago; Disney hasn't come close since.  The Blind Side slipped back into th second slot with 15.5 million, but it has already taken in 150 million domestic on a 29 million budget.  Invictus debted in the third slot with nine million; it has a 60 million price tag, but should do well worldwide and carry well through awards season.  New Moon drops to the fourth spot with eight million on another big 48 percent drop -- not that anyone is going to cry over its 267.3 million total to date.  A Christmas Carol takes a small drop to round out the Top Five; it has made 242.7 worldwide against a 200 million budget.  It may yet have holdiday legs, though Avatar will take over 3-D screens this weekend.

TIGER WOODS has temporarily quit golf to sort out his private life. Gillette is officially phasing him out of their ads, but Nike is standing by their man. A woman who had a several-year affair with the golfer tried to get pregnant by him for years, according to RadarOnline. Plus, more allegations about the escort service surface at The Sun.

RENEE ZELLWEGER and BRADLEY COOPER: Playing house?

LINDSAY LOHAN is under attack from an Indian charity, which says she is claiming to have helped to rescue 40 child laborers in New Delhi when she was not actually in the country.

MADONNA is no longer Louis Vuitton's material girl, with a younger model taking her place as the face of the brand.

NATALIE PORTMAN will star in and produce "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies," a film that is based on the bestselling book written by Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen.

TERRY GILLIAM tells the Wall Street Journal how he finished "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" without Heath Ledger.

STAY COOL, a sort of high school comedy with an unusual cast, has a trailer online.

THE HURT LOCKER chosen as the year's best picture by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Gotta say I liked it.

IRAN says it is ready to exchange the bulk of its stockpile of enriched uranium for nuclear fuel rods - as proposed by the UN - but according to its own mechanisms and timetable. Hey, this wouldn't be yet another stalling tactic, would it?  An Iranian scientist who vanished six months ago has revealed secrets of his country's nuclear program with international weapons inspectors, according to the Sunday Telegraph.  Confidential intelligence documents obtained by The Times of London show that Iran is working on testing a key final component of a nuclear bomb.  Meanwhile, thousands are fleeing the country as the regime tightens the noose on dissent.

PAKISTAN signals a willingness to negotiate with the Taliban through sympathetic Islamist political parties.

IRAQ: Despite recent headline-grabbing bombings, the security situation is continuing to improve. Plenty of charts at the link.

SURPRISED KITTEH: The Sequel. Plus, a scientific explanation.

A DRUNKEN ELK terrorized the streets of Södertälje: "The game warden recognized the elk. It usually walks around and eats apples, gets drunk, and then gets aggressive," said police spokesperson Björn Engström.

PETUNIAS and POTATOES may actually be carnivorous plants, scientists now suggest.

A GIANT RODENT was found crushed to death at the Calgary Zoo, one of a string of odd incidents there.

GORILLAS will now be getting down at the Buffalo Zoo.

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