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Music
Run this town
No living man but Jay-Z could get a sold out Boston arena so excited about New York City. But for two hours last night, the sold out crowd at the Garden was in an Empire State of Mind, as “The Blueprint 3” tour rolled into town.
 
My Television
Back in the trenches
Steven Spielberg makes strikingly vivid, breathtakingly poetic movies about some of the most terrifying conflicts in the history of man. The filmmaking aesthetic he pioneered with “Saving Private Ryan” — and continues to perfect in HBO’s new WWII miniseries, “The Pacific” — was born out of a desire to translate as honestly as possible his conversations with veterans on their combat experience.
 
The Word
Is nothing in her life real anymore?
When we first read that Heidi Pratt was firing husband Spencer Pratt as her manager, we thought, “Yay! Heidi’s new face is finally doing something right!” But then we found out that although she did fire Spencer, it seems like she’s replacing him with psychic Aiden Chase to take the reigns on her “career” — and then we got scared.
 
Movies
Pattinson: A vampire in Brooklyn
Robert Pattinson has been playing Americans so often that he has forgotten how to talk like a Brit. In his latest, “Remember Me,” the “Twilight” heartthrob stars as a soulful young New Yorker attending NYU, but he insists he didn’t need any help sounding like a native. “I’ve never had a dialect coach or anything,” Pattinson says. “Ironically, I’ve only had a dialect coach for this film I’m doing now, which I’m doing in an English accent. I guess I’ve forgotten how to do an English accent.”
 
Published 02:47, November the 5th, 2009
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Pearl’s got a lot going on, including, but not limited to, rocking with one of her idols, Iggy Pop, on her new album.Pearl’s got a lot going on, including, but not limited to, rocking with one of her idols, Iggy Pop, on her new album.
 

Jemina Pearl’s got a new jam

When Nashville’s Be Your Own Pet broke up in 2008, Jemina Pearl and bandmate John Eatherly decided to take their act to Brooklyn.  Although Be Your Own Pet had discussed moving to New York, it took the breakup to spur the transition.

Still raw from what seemed a sudden split, Pearl took her act solo with the help of Eatherly. Like any kind of breakup, the leftover feelings helped spur her songwriting. Her debut album, which dropped last month, is called “Break it Up,” so it’s pretty clear what’s on her mind.

Solo work has its perks,  though. “It’s definitely very different not having four people, all of us having to agree,” she says. “Really, writing the songs, it’s been John and myself getting to experiment and do whatever we want.”

JESSICA LAMBERTSON