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Episode 64! Listen live on Thursdays from 7pm to 9pm on 103.3 FM KSCU Santa Clara, or online at http://www.kscu.org/
New Releases 5/2/13:
Movies:
www.fandango.com
DVD/Blu-ray:
1.Silver Linings Playbook – Blu/DVD – Showing that life isn’t always what you want it to be but what it can be when given a chance. Also oscar winner for Jennifer Lawrence, and nominated all over.
2.Patlabor (OVA) – Blu – In a near future where giant robots, called Labors, are common, the police must respond in kind. But the crew of Section 2 is far from ordinary, can this motley crew really keep the city clean, and keep their superiors in check?
3.Not Fade Away – Blu/DVD – Film debute by David Chase, of The Sopranos fame. He tells a story loosely based on his growing up in New Jersey in 1964, when the Rolling Stones appeared on TV, inspiring a group of friends to make their on band.
4.Night of the Living Dead: Resurrection – DVD – The dead rise again, this time they’re shuffling through the English country side.
5.Broken City – Blu/DVD – A former cop turned Priviate Investigator, Billy Taggart, is tasked with following the mayor’s wife, leading into a twisted mystery with time running out and little hope of freedom. Can Billy save his own life and expose this corruption?
6.Body Melt – DVD – A deformed body disrupts the quiet of Homesville. A victim of a new dietary supplement gone horribly wrong.
Video Games:
5/2/2013 http://www.gamespot.com/newthisweek.html
Comics:
Marvel:
1.Hawkeye #10 – Assassin in greasepaint, mystery and mayhem.
2.Superior Spiderman #9 – Shaking things up in the web-head’s world
DC:
1.The Movement #1 – The 99% get a super hero team
2.Fairest #15 – This one is set in India
Indie:
1.The Hypernaturals #11 – The fate of the universe hangs in the balance, can the Hypernaturals put aside their enmity with Sublime to save it?
2.Suicide Risk #1 – Super villans out number the super heroes. One cop risks it big to even the score.
3.Polarity #2 – Tim, decides that it’s time for a little vengeance on those that tormented him before
4.Ten Grand #1 – Looking to retire a hitman’s final job takes a weird turn in the realms of angels & demons.
Web:
1.This weekend Hope Larson, an Eisner award winning graphic novelist will be making appearances, in Berkeley. She’ll be promoting her new novel _Who is AC?_ which she was the writer for. Dates and time available on her website.
News:
1.http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/02/scarlet-witch-and-quicksilver-confirmed-for-marvels-the-avengers-2?abthid=5181ca0a7bed93c064000031
2.http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/microsoft-illumiroom-tech-extends-games-beyond-tv-173553271.html
3.http://www.polygon.com/2013/5/1/4291132/researchers-attempt-to-use-video-games-to-improve-visual-impairment
4.http://news.yahoo.com/wow-monster-hurricane-saturn-spied-nasa-spacecraft-220410980.html
5.http://gizmodo.com/this-arctic-spray-freezes-cockroaches-for-easy-disposal-486245314
6.http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2418501,00.asp
7.http://gizmodo.com/renewable-recyclable-3d-printing-with-wood-and-salt-486558507
Caleb’s Corner:
Let’s open up the publicly funded science – https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=9220
Game Discussion:
– Jam Souls
– Magnetic By Nature
– Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
The Core
Discussion Topic:
The “Near Future” is it a lie?