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US – Thursday, March 18

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The week's releases

Metro staff reviews the latest CDs, DVDs and books for your reading pleasure.

Bullock gets ‘Blind Side’d by alleged affair

It seemed too crazy to be true — America’s sweetheart Sandra Bullock fell for Jesse James, a heavily tattooed former bodyguard for Slayer turned custom motorcycle maker who was once married to a porn star.

‘A fun night of music, a little shindig’ with STP

For the first time in nearly a decade, Stone Temple Pilots will be premiering material from a new album, kicking off a tour with a show tonight at the 3,000-capacity Austin Music Hall at the SXSW Music Conference in Texas. But as guitarist Dean DeLeo says, size doesn’t matter.

Philly Going Out

Second helpings in Philly this spring

Movie sequels are rarely as good as the originals. So don’t think of these openings as sequels, but second acts.

Dreaming up life in a ‘Future City’

Gene Coleman has a recurring dream in which he finds himself in a strange city. “I don’t know where this place is, and I don’t think it’s any place that actually exists,” he says. “But it has these fantastic, almost surrealistic architectural qualities to it.”

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Pimp my moccasins?

GOSSIP. Did you guys know that Steven Seagal might actually have a reality show in development?

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Kanye West hates pretty blond singers

The world was still abuzz yesterday about Kanye West’s outburst at Sunday night’s VMAs. But in thinking about it, we started to remember other things Kanye has stolen over the years besides Taylor Swift’s thunder.

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‘Bachelorette’ a real live girl!

In Monday’s Word, we made a joke about Jillian Harris and Ed Swiderski of “The Bachelorette” being in a “fake relationship.” Our rationale behind making that claim was because 1: What reality TV show couple isn’t just a tiny bit fake? And 2: Because People magazine quoted Harris as saying, “I’m looking forward to … making dinners, waking up early, cleaning house.” So we joked: “‘Cleaning house’ is ‘perfect?’ Yeah, total fakery. What real woman would say that?’”

The March MMMpod features conversation and music from Surfer Blood and The Allman Brothers Band (There's a double-bill you're not too likely to see. However, Gregg Allman does mention Hannah Montana!). We also speak with Vampire Weekend and the Dropkick Murphys.