O’Brien: Silicon Valley style romance blooms in World of Warcraft
Is World of Warcraft the next Match.com? For at least one San Jose couple, it turned out the perfect place to meet, court, and start a friendship that blossomed into a real world romance.
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Elv1s 30 #1 Hits $4.43 In 1987, RCA released a one-disc Elvis compilation called The Number One Hits that featured 18 tracks. So how did the label come up with 12 additional number ones (13 if you count the sensational “A Little Less Conversation” remix that brings the King into the 21st century as a bona fide dance/electronica star)? Well, the ‘87 compilation featured only Billboard number ones. “In the Ghetto” and “Bu… |
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Conversation $9.99 Pianist and composer David Benoit has something to say. It s clear from his multi-dimensional body of work across three-and-a-half decades, and his deep jazz roots that still allow room for forays into classical, Latin, pop, world music and a range of other sounds. The connections and associations he has made along the way have resulted in a fascinating and ongoing interplay between musics, musici… |
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Ladies of the Canyon $4.08 Joni Mitchell’s third album offers a bridge between the artful but sometimes dour meditations of her earlier work and the more mature, confessional revelations of the classics that would follow. Voice and guitar still hew to the pretty filigree of a folk poet, but there’s the giggling rush of rock & roll freedom in “Big Yellow Taxi,” and the formal metaphor of her older songs (“The Circle Game,” a… |
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Conversation Piece / Gruppo Di Famiglia In Un Interno [Blu-ray] $12.99 This compelling Italian drama by Luchino Visconti stars Burt Lancaster as a misanthropic American professor whose life is changed when an eccentric countess and her daughter move into his palazzo. Will Lancaster be sorry he allowed them to sign a yearlong lease once he discovers his old-fashioned values don’t quite square with theirs? Co-stars Helmut Berger, Silvana Mangano. 131 min. Widescreen So… |
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Heat [Blu-ray] $8.87 Having developed his skill as a master of contemporary crime drama, writer-director Michael Mann displayed every aspect of that mastery in this intelligent, character-driven thriller from 1995, which also marked the first onscreen pairing of Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. The two great actors had played father and son in the separate time periods of The Godfather, Part II, but this was the first fi… |
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Sicko (Special Edition) $1.90 SiCKO is more like a controlled howl of protest than a documentary. Toning down the rhetoric of past efforts–no CEOs, congressmen, or celebrities were accosted in the making of this film–Michael Moore’s latest provocation is just as heartfelt, if not more heartbreaking. As he clarifies from the outset, his subject isn’t the 45 million Americans without insurance, but those whose coverage has fai… |
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Enemy of the State $5.99 Robert Clayton Dean (Will Smith) is a lawyer with a wife and family whose happily normal life is turned upside down after a chance meeting with a college buddy (Jason Lee) at a lingerie shop. Unbeknownst to the lawyer, he’s just been burdened with a videotape of a congressman’s assassination. Hot on the tail of this tape is a ruthless group of National Security Agents commanded by a belligerently … |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Conversations with Dead People Board $26.99 17 5/8″ x 12″ board with pressed board planchette, includes an instruction sheet featuring all-new comic panels.What is more conducive to speaking to the spirits than a game board based on the world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer? In the tradition of the Sunnydale Hellmouth, through which countless entities gained entry, let voices from the other side move the planchette along the board, choosing let… |
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Wireless Stereo Headset $99.99 Wireless Stereo Headset… Experience The Ultimate Audio Advantage with the official PS3 Wireless Stereo Headset. Hear the enemy before they see you with 7.1 virtual surround sound. Mobilize your squad during intense multiplayer gaming using the highest quality voice chat. Maintain the edge by stayingrmed with on-screen headset status updates. Get fast access to key buttons like microphone mute an… |
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Mass Effect 2 Platinum Hits $15.99 The second chapter in the Mass Effect trilogy takes you to the darkest reaches of space, where you must uncover the mystery behind the disappearance of humans across many worlds. Prepare yourself for a suicide mission to save mankind. Travel the galaxy to assemble a team of soldiers and combat specialists, and launch an all-out assault on the heart of enemy territory…. |
