Contributor

Kaitlin Fontana

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  Review – The Importance of Music to Girls and A Girl’s Guide to Rocking

  Kaitlin Fontana reviews two books “about music and our eternal desire to remind ourselves of our sex.” What is it, she wonders, “about us females that makes us want to get rid of boys and circle around each other like this?”

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  Review – District 9

  Not just a race relations metaphor, the new SF movie with the cool bus ads also has “big, gross, awesome, alien stuff,” promises Kaitlin Fontana.

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  Review – The Strain by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan

  Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro teams up with author Chuck Hogan for a vampire pandemic book.

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  List – Supergroups

  Kaitlin Fontana on new conglomerate Tinted Windows, with Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger and Smashing Pumpkins’ James Iha, and the best and worst of all-star teams.

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  Review – The Killers at Thunderbird Arena, Vancouver, April 24, 2009

  ‘Flowers is the glam to the rest of his band’s straight-ahead rock,’ writes Kaitlin Fontana. ‘And I would wager a bet that he knows it.’

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  La Dolce Vita

  Kaitlin Fontana, part Italian herself, revels in the Italian-ness of Fellini’s masterpiece.

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  Review – Fables

  After 10 volumes of building up to a crisis, a Fables’ storyline chokes to a finish. Still, it’s one of the better series from DC’s adult line, Vertigo.