Examiner Staff Writer
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Alec Baldwin goes on 'racist' rant
Ryan Vogt
Published: Mon, Feb 18, 2013
Not smart, Alec. While the rest of the nation was at church Sunday morning, Capital One spokesman, er, actor Alec Baldwin reportedly called a black New York Post photographer a "crackhead" and a "drug dealer," and topped it off with a racial epithet. Alec, 54, was walking his dogs near his...
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Video game review: 'Ni no Kuni' is a journey to another world
Ryan Vogt
Published: Mon, Feb 18, 2013
"Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch" is a role-playing game a mother could love. The art style will be instantly recognizable to any mom who's taken her kids to see "Princess Mononoke," "Spirited Away" or any other film by Studio Ghibli, which handles the animation here. A mom would appreciate...
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The Buzz: Brad gives Angie breath mints for V-Day
Ryan Vogt
Published: Thu, Feb 14, 2013
Warning: The characters in the following account are trained celebrities, with wealth, fame, good looks and a huge reservoir of potential mates to fall back on. Don't try this at home. For Valentine's Day, Brad Pitt, the most powerful male movie star in the world, gave fiancee Angelina Jolie,...
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The Buzz: Steve Martin fathers a child -- at age 67
Ryan Vogt
Published: Wed, Feb 13, 2013
He's been a wild and crazy guy for decades, but this might be his most daring move yet: Steve Martin is a first-time father at age 67. It's been an irony of Steve's career that the consummate on-screen dad never had kids of his own, but the star of "Planes, Train and Automobiles," "Father of...
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The Buzz: Kate Middleton captured in another photo scandal
Ryan Vogt
Updated: Tue, Feb 12, 2013
The royal midsection is not to be photographed. That's the message out of St. James's Palace following the revelation that Italian magazine Chi is publishing long-lens photos of Kate Middleton in a bikini. If Chi sounds familiar, that's because it's the same rag that ran long-lens photos of...
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Beyonce: Blue Ivy's 'my homey'
Ryan Vogt
Published: Mon, Feb 11, 2013
Beyonce's infant girl, Blue Ivy, isn't merely her daughter. "She's my road dog," the 31-year-old says in the March issue of Vogue. "She's my homey, my best friend." "I had a very strong connection with my child," the Super Bowl halftime performer says of the day she gave birth to her only...
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The Buzz: Charlie to fugitive: Call me maybe
Ryan Vogt
Published: Sun, Feb 10, 2013
Perhaps after some bad investment decisions, like giving the tax-troubled Lindsay Lohan a cool $100k last year, he's doing it for the reward. Amid the multistate manhunt for ex-Los Angeles cop Christopher Dorner, Charlie Sheen posted a video on TMZ asking Christopher to get in touch. In an...
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Video game review: Sly steals your time
Ryan Vogt
Published: Sun, Feb 10, 2013
You know how it's impossible to listen to "Don't Fear the Reaper" without hearing the cowbell in the foreground? "Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time" is kinda like that. Despite a quality foundation and high production values, a few annoying quirks that you hardly notice at first are eventually all you...
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Video game review: 'Space' stretches out
Ryan Vogt
Published: Sun, Feb 10, 2013
"Dead Space 3" doesn't know whether it's an action game or a horror game, so it's pretty good at being one and terrible at being the other. For a game to generate horror, it has to go all in; all action requires is a way to aim and a way to shoot. The identity crisis at the core of this...
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Video game review: 'Fire Emblem: Awakening' shows all's fair in love and war
Ryan Vogt
Published: Sun, Feb 3, 2013
"Fire Emblem: Awakening" is one part soap opera, one part rock-paper-scissors and two parts chess. If that sounds weird, it is, but the result is the best game in a great series. For the uninitiated, "Fire Emblem" games convert rock-paper-scissors into sword-lance-ax, with swords beating axes,...

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