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Liz Stanton

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  Halifax Pop Explosion Oct 24 2009

  Girl Talk finishes off the East Coast music festival in typical mash-up style. Despite her complaints about the toll on her aging bones, TheLiz is going to miss the hoopla.

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  Halifax Pop Explosion Oct 23 2009

  Continuing her coverage of the East Coast music festival, theLizStanton pulls double duty as reviewer and photographer whilst seeing Dan Mangan, the First Aid Kit and entire cities.

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  Halifax Pop Explosion Oct 22 2009

  Think About Life, Cadence Weapon, Herman Dune—’Send beer money!’ writes Liz Stanton.

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  Halifax Pop Explosion Oct 21 2009

  Sprengjuhollin, Mates of State, the Fat Stupids and the Stolen Minks are part of the fun on the second night of the East Coast’s biggest pop music happening.

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  True Blood – more sex, please, we’re vampires

  Don’t give her any pish-posh about vampires, maenads, or telepaths—it’s the sex that keeps Liz Stanton coming back for more in the HBO hit True Blood.

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  Review – Vans Warped Tour ‘09

  Liz Stanton emerges from that annual sea of raging teenage hormones battered but unbowed.

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  Review – Spread

  “So excruciatingly painful” she would’ve liked to have left after the first 30 minutes, Liz Stanton nonetheless finds the inner strength to share her thoughts.

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  Review – (500) Days of Summer Soundtrack

  Liz Stanton indulges in a little Zooeyenvy in this review of the somewhat lazy soundtrack to the new romantic comedy (500) Days of Summer.

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  Review – The Ugly Truth

  Liz Stanton loves her romantic comedies with plenty of romance and comedy, but The Ugly Truth doesn’t offer enough of either. But at least there are swears.

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  Review – The Girlfriend Experience

  The star of Sasha Grey’s Anatomy keeps her clothes on (most of the time) in Steven Soderbergh’s latest. Audiences go, “meh.”

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  List – 10 Couple-Friendly Chick Flicks

  Guttersnipe challenged Liz Stanton (bestlizandkate.com) to come up with 10 chick flicks even guys can enjoy. This is her list… what, Meet Joe Black but no How to Lose a Guy in 10 Dates or Don Juan deMarco?

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  Review – The Hangover

  If “a jerk” like her can enjoy The Hangover, the latest addition to the “boys-will-be-boys” genre of contemporary cinema, Liz Stanton is pretty sure you will too.

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  List – The 10 Fictional Guys Who’ve Ruined All Men For Me

  Who are the 10 fictional characters who have raised your expectations of the opposite sex to insane levels? Liz Stanton’s list includes some of the usual suspects, and quite a few surprises…

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  Review – The Sam Bradley Band at Richard’s on Richards, Vancouver May 4 2009

  Sam Bradley played to screams of approval from adoring fans last night in Vancouver. But were the screams for him, or for his one degree of vamipiration from Twilight idol Robert Pattinson? Liz Stanton fills us in.