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...Like most technologically savvy music lovers, I'm a dedicated iTunes customer and an iPod addict. But iTunes has yet to offer the tasting-menu option known as subscription downloads, that allows you to download all you want for a monthly fee, keeping the songs playable as long as you remain a subscriber. Last year, subscription-content privileges were extended to portable devices, but Apple still had no reason to fear: the software-and-player combinations paled in comparison to the iTunes/iPod powerhouse. While this remains mostly true, Urge is the best reason to date why Apple should avoid resting...
...don’t get along well,” Mitnick says. “Some of the scenes are purely sort of slap-stick, and some of them are very slow-moving, and then some of them just have some meth addict running around on stage,” Pope says of the play’s variety. Although one can receive what the producers call “a seating experience” for $20, this frenetic mix, which will take place in the Adams House Pool Theatre at 7:30 p.m. from Thursday through Saturday...
Wurtzel, who would crush and snort the Ritalin pills that were prescribed to her for her attention disorder, lived for months as a drug addict while writing her second book in Florida...
...recovering drug addict is getting frantic in a run-down Niagara Falls motel as she and her ex-con spouse await word on whether they can regain custody of their baby daughter from foster care. In another room, a family man prepares for an interview for a job beneath his skills and dignity while coping with his failing marriage. And in the motel's seen-better-days Riverside Grill, a pregnant, recently widowed waitress considers performing in porn films to earn enough to support her unborn child. Interspersed in and among those stories: a kidnapping, a suicide attempt, a heart...
...past few years, broadcast and basic-cable networks have gradually introduced flawed, even criminal protagonists to all kinds of shows: the antiheroes of FX's The Shield, Nip/Tuck and Rescue Me; the cruelly sarcastic doctor on House; and the castaways of Lost, who include a heroin addict, a torturer and several killers. (Fox's Prison Break is also set among criminals, although it's about a wrongfully imprisoned man and the brother who is trying to spring him from jail.) "Mainstream audiences are now getting comfortable with the fact that there are different kinds of lead characters," says Reilly...