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Award-winning performers in Chinese circus

(Published May 11, PDI-Entertainment) By Oliver M. Pulumbarit Contributor The Grand China National Acrobatic Circus, which previously performed in the country in December 2010, is back this week for a “grander, more heart-... more

Previous blog entries:
May 11	-	Cool Random $#!+ Part Eight
May 11	-	Mayest I Be Amused
May 5	-	Thankful
Oliver's favorite blog entries:
Jan 30	-	Triumvirate
Jan 17	-	Team Conan
Jan 17	-	Unusual Defender of Gay Marriage
Dec 21	-	LNA: Five Years Later
Dec 21	-	Santas Good, Bad, Badass
Nov 6	-	Godric and Eric, Sires and Makers
Sep 19	-	My Life According to Heather Nova
Aug 11	-	Conventional Geekdom
Aug 4	-	Kindergarten Mugshot
Jul 25	-	Mellow Yeller
Jul 21	-	Turning Points and Tendencies
Jul 17	-	Face Front
Jul 11	-	Spidey and Deadpool Discuss Underwear
Jul 5	-	Slumberland
Jul 1	-	Alexander Skarsgard: True Blood Calling
Jul 1	-	Za’s Vid!
Jun 21	-	Kaskade, Dance Floor Maestro
Jun 15	-	Jenny Sparks, Electric Blue
Jun 15	-	Assemble Your Action Figure Army
Jun 5	-	Dean Winchester and a Slash Fan
May 22	-	Finding the human in five space spectacles
May 9	-	Celebrating Free Comic Book Day
May 4	-	Geek Week
May 4	-	Fan Artistry
Apr 28	-	The Bi-Curious Case of Buffy Summers
Apr 26	-	Smurfs Up (Or, Vanity Fairest)
Apr 18	-	Really, Wolvie?
Apr 18	-	Michael Bay on Effing Up the Thundercats
Mar 14	-	Back in the Summer of ‘89
Mar 4	-	Miguel Escueta wants to do epic rock
Mar 3	-	In a Different Light
Feb 24	-	Flight Ringing
Feb 8	-	Daze of Future Past
Jan 27	-	Spectral Spectacle
Jan 12	-	Heal the Hole That Ripped in Living
Jan 4	-	Super Trooper
Dec 27	-	The Year in Words, Oh Eight Edition
Dec 23	-	Santa Jack, Merry X-Men, Groonk Tidings
Dec 23	-	Exclusive Fang Clubs
Dec 18	-	The 12 Episodes of Christmas
Dec 18	-	Mighty Slott Machine
Dec 16	-	Couch Caroling
Dec 8	-	Rollicking Relics
Nov 30	-	Doktora Holmes: Spirituality, Superstition, Sexuality and Sanity
Nov 26	-	Avenging, Assembling
Nov 22	-	Most Likely To Forget He Had a Wife
Nov 14	-	Comedy Gold
Nov 14	-	Sam Shines On a Rainy Day
Nov 13	-	Quick Quotes
Nov 9	-	Comic Queerdom
Nov 9	-	Happy, Sad
Nov 9	-	Blood Thirst
Nov 3	-	Birthday Munching and Spanking
Oct 29	-	Pumpkin Pails and Playthings
Oct 29	-	Critter Compendiums
Oct 29	-	She Saved the World a Lot
Oct 15	-	Mourning Larry Bodine
Oct 15	-	Tickled, Titillated, Touched
Oct 7	-	Card Captor
Oct 7	-	Hello, Motto
Oct 1	-	Artisans All
Sep 16	-	Judge and Rip
Sep 16	-	Now That’s Obscene
Aug 21	-	Mix Tape, July 1998: LILITH ANTHEMS
Aug 21	-	August Axioms
Aug 15	-	Swipes and Simulacra
Aug 15	-	Indie-fatigable
Aug 10	-	Viewing Displeasure (or, Please Shut the Hell Up?)
Aug 8	-	Some Super Slugfests
Aug 1	-	Glory Days, Merry Mutants
Jul 25	-	Deadpool, Meet Kitty Pryde
Jul 24	-	Frozen D-light
Jul 13	-	Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner
Jul 3	-	Brain Color, Star Sign, Invisible Touch
Jun 29	-	40 Baffling Comic Book Moments
Jun 5	-	Just Astonishing
Jun 5	-	Flashback: LNA
May 18	-	40 Gay Heroes
May 5	-	Rein in the Summertime
May 1	-	Bizarre Behavior
Apr 25	-	Rock Hard Women
Apr 7	-	Trapped in a Box
Jan 20	-	Gay Dads, Back Issues
Jan 16	-	TV Therapy
Oct 23	-	Mash Master
Oct 14	-	Firsts and That Sense of Self
Sep 16	-	Sprawling Synaptic Squigglings
Sep 1	-	Homophobia is Hell

Listen and Understand

Wow. That’s… beautiful. This made me tear up and smile. Congrats, by the way, to those who fought against Prop 8. May that victory help enlighten other people from different places on gay equality as well.

Previous videos:
Dec 6	-	"It Gets Better" — Love, Pixar
Aug 4	-	The Smithereens - Blue Period
Jul 15	-	Stars - Your Ex-Lover Is Dead

‘Revenge’ best served cold, sweet

(Published May 9, PDI-Entertainment)
By Oliver M. Pulumbarit
Contributor

A young woman avenges her wronged father in “Revenge,” an addictive drama with lots of wish-fulfilment scenarios.

The show takes soap-tested situations and cleverly... more

Previous reviews:
May 5	-	New ‘Zaturnnah’ zips and zooms
Apr 26	-	Awe-inspiring assemblage
Apr 20	-	Updated heroine, vanity thrills
Oliver's favorite reviews:
Jul 30	-	Powered ‘Up’ and flying high
Jul 30	-	‘Flight of the Conchords’ soars anew
Jul 29	-	‘Orphan’: Little Miss Moonshine
Jul 26	-	‘PU-239’: Uncommon enterprise
Jul 25	-	‘Legion’ Forever
Jul 21	-	Finding ‘Adventureland’
Jul 17	-	‘Half-Blood’ Heartache
Jul 11	-	Losing to ‘Messiah War’
Jul 11	-	Know Your ‘Marvel Pets’
Jul 5	-	Officially hilarious again
Jul 5	-	‘Astro City: The Dark Age’: History lessons
Jun 28	-	‘Ice Age 3’: Jurassic Perks
Jun 28	-	How the Mighty Have ‘Fallen’
Jun 15	-	Loving ‘How I Met Your Mother’
Jun 10	-	‘Generation Kill’ goes to war
Mar 7	-	Finally, ‘Watchmen’
Jan 17	-	‘The Secret Life of Bees’: Beekeepers’ blues
Jan 4	-	‘Heroes: Villains’: Good times, bad times
Dec 6	-	Akafellas album in the key of Christmas
Nov 13	-	Endings of a New Kind: A joyride with Taken by Cars
Oct 29	-	'Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride': The re-animated and the romantic (2005)
Oct 23	-	Vanessa Redgrave’s ‘Fever’ dream realized (interview)
Oct 23	-	‘Red Eye’: Flying paranoid (2005)
Oct 7	-	‘Mirrors’: Warped reflections
Oct 1	-	Scathing, smoking ‘Weeds’
Sep 26	-	‘The Office’: Weirdness in the workplace
Sep 16	-	‘Step Brothers’ lovingly lowbrow
Sep 13	-	‘Sunshine’: Courage amidst cosmic chaos (2007)
Sep 13	-	‘The Fountain’: Challenging, puzzling experiment (2007)
Sep 11	-	‘Mad Men’ cooks up compelling campaigns
Sep 10	-	‘The Clone Wars’: Re-cloning of the Star Wars saga
Sep 10	-	‘Babylon A.D.’: Post-doomsday cliché
Sep 2	-	‘Flight of the Conchords’: Flighty music and comedy
Sep 2	-	‘The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor’: Treachery in terra cotta
Aug 15	-	‘X-Files: I Want to Believe’: Mulder and Scully, back to basics
Jul 24	-	‘The Big Bang Theory’ celebrates nerds
Jul 17	-	Gotham’s charismatic freaks clash in ‘The Dark Knight’
Jul 13	-	‘Pushing Daisies’: Life never-lasting
Jul 3	-	‘Wanted’: Bone-breaking fun
Jun 29	-	'Nancy Jane' a clever move
Apr 7	-	Inimitably ‘Rome’
Mar 1	-	A magical mystery tour ‘Across the Universe’
Feb 23	-	The human monstrosity in 'The Mist'
Feb 23	-	‘Cloverfield’: The beast that burdens
Feb 23	-	Therapy with Lorraine Bracco (interview)
Dec 26	-	ML Cannonball blasts off
Dec 26	-	Thor, Lord of Asgard, owneth
Dec 1	-	Sam Rockwell: Rockin’ beta male (interview)
Dec 1	-	David Fincher: Cinematic style and substance (interview)
Dec 1	-	Ian Tracey on playing a shady character (interview)
Nov 20	-	‘Kitchen Confidential’ whets appetites
Nov 20	-	Mighty, flighty ‘Beowulf’
Nov 13	-	The bravery and burdens of Beowulf (Neil Gaiman, Roger Avary interview)
Nov 13	-	Zack Grobler creates artistic magic for “Lost” (interview)
Nov 10	-	That lovely Donna Troy toy
Nov 7	-	Marvel Legends Banshee: One angry X-Man
Nov 7	-	’30 Days of Night’: Nocturnal beasties party
Nov 5	-	Hasbro's Marvel Girl marvels
Oct 14	-	Hits from Diane Warren’s dusty room (2004 interview)
Sep 26	-	Village People: Men, music and masquerades (2006 interview)
Sep 19	-	Pixar's Gini Cruz Santos: Incredible Pinay animator (2004 interview)
Sep 12	-	Iza Calzado would rather be an actress, not a star (2006 interview)
Sep 8	-	The Beatles' ‘Love’ everlasting
Sep 8	-	‘Day Watch’: Unearthly, unwieldy fantasy epic
Sep 8	-	Jamie Cullum: Boy-faced jazzman is hip, hot, and humble (2004 interview)
Sep 4	-	Brittany Murphy dances to her heartsongs (interview)
Sep 2	-	'Brokeback Mountain': Celebrating the closeted cowboys (2006)
Sep 2	-	Margie Holmes: The doctor is out (interview)
Aug 31	-	From dark avengers to feuding tricksters (Bale & Jackman interviews)