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Written by Carlos Gabriel Ruiz Tuesday, 05 March 2013 11:24

They can't all be gems.

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Written by Carlos Gabriel Ruiz Tuesday, 05 March 2013 10:48

Carlos breaks down the top ten best comics from 2012, along with a few that didn't quite make the cut.

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Written by Steve Higgins Monday, 04 March 2013 11:15

Comics, comics, everywhere, and barely a minute to read.

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Written by Alex Schreiber Thursday, 10 January 2013 14:37

Bat for Lashes, Beach House, Best Coast, and…John Mayer?

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Written by Alex Schreiber Thursday, 10 January 2013 14:32

I originally despised Carly Rae Jepson’s “Call Me Maybe,” but after hearing it everywhere I went, I began to thoroughly enjoy it.

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Written by Joseph O’Fallon Sunday, 06 January 2013 22:25

Top Songs of 2012

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Written by Ashley White Sunday, 06 January 2013 22:14

Making this list, I see I have an almost unreal fascination with reality TV, and I don’t know how I feel about that yet.

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Written by Mandy Jordan Sunday, 06 January 2013 22:10

Top 5 Albums of 2012

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Written by Alex Hodschayan Sunday, 06 January 2013 22:05

Best Albums of 2012

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Written by Jim Ousley Tuesday, 01 January 2013 21:30

Since last year's Top 10 list comprised video games my son kicked my ass at, I thought I'd focus on my five-year-old and his obsession with Fat Albert.

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Written by Mike Rengel Tuesday, 01 January 2013 21:08

Yes, my Top 10 contains 11 entries. I promise you I really can count—I just couldn't bear to leave any out.

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Written by Brett Berliner Tuesday, 01 January 2013 21:08

 The only way to describe 2012’s best release is 35 minutes of pure, unadulterated fun.

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Written by Jim Dunn Tuesday, 01 January 2013 14:12

“Well, that happened.”

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Written by Mike Rengel Sunday, 30 December 2012 20:14

This isn’t meant to be a definitive “these were the best albums ever made this year full stop” list. Like I know what I’m talking about.

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Written by Laura Hamlett Sunday, 30 December 2012 20:10

To my credit, #1 & 2 were both borrowed from the library, not obtained from publicists, so I don’t feel quite as guilty about them.

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Written by Laura Hamlett Sunday, 30 December 2012 20:07

#1 should have been sold out within hours of tickets going on sale; #2 was so woefully attended it was criminal.

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Written by Laura Hamlett Sunday, 30 December 2012 20:04

Top 10 songs of 2012

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Written by Laura Hamlett Sunday, 30 December 2012 19:53

Honestly, I just clicked on the link as a lark. I had never so much as heard Adam Lambert, although I knew too much about him from reading Entertainment Weekly.

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Written by Sarah Boslaugh Sunday, 30 December 2012 19:45

Judging feature films and documentaries head-to-head makes me uncomfortable, so I’m following the lead of the New York Times Book Review and dividing my top ten list of films into two best-of lists: one for features (i.e., fiction) and one for documentaries (i.e., nonfiction).

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Written by Janet Rhoads Sunday, 30 December 2012 19:37

The essential companion to love is music. I don’t know if you can even have one without the other, or why you’d want to.

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Written by Byron Kerman Sunday, 30 December 2012 16:40

Top 10 Hostess Treats (RIP, Friends)

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Written by Michael Koehler Sunday, 30 December 2012 16:37

The last few years, for various reasons, I have not been able to attend nearly as many shows I would have loved to. This year, however, I was able to get in close to 15 (it really could have been 25). 2012 was just a jam-packed year of shows. In order, this is my list of the best five I attended.

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Written by Michael Koehler Sunday, 30 December 2012 16:23

Another very strong year. I actually had a hard time paring my list down to this. There were quite a few albums I would have included, but I tried limiting the number as my list was rapidly approaching 50 albums. These are not in any order.

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Written by Michael Koehler Sunday, 30 December 2012 16:19

I drink a lot of—and a large variety of—beer. Out of all of the new beers I’ve tried this year, these are the best ones. (Some of these are not new brews from this year but ones I first tasted in 2012.

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Written by Matthew Newlin Sunday, 30 December 2012 16:14

Despite the prevailing pessimism circulating the interwebs declaring that “cinema is dead,” I think 2012 was a very good year for film.

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Written by Pete Timmermann Sunday, 30 December 2012 16:07

Well, 2012 was a good year for movies, but in an unusual way—more so than any other of the past 15 or so years, I feel like nearly everything I’ve seen this year has been at least pretty good.

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Written by Sarah Boslaugh Sunday, 30 December 2012 16:00

Five reasons why Zero Dark Thirty is the best movie of the year.

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Written by Pete Timmermann Sunday, 30 December 2012 15:46

I never seem to read enough of the current calendar year’s releases to warrant either a full top 10 list at the end of the year, or to justify splitting my list into the perhaps more logical Best Fiction and Best Nonfiction categories.

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Written by Sean Lass Sunday, 30 December 2012 15:39

When it comes to movies, 2012 was a tough year to characterize. There were plenty of good movies, but not many that really got me excited in a lasting way.

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Written by Andrea Braun Sunday, 30 December 2012 15:25

I’m counting to 10 like Spinal Tap does because I couldn’t figure out which show I could drop from this list.