Pop Culture Roundup March 24, 2006

Heritage Auctions is selling off a whole mess of Mad Magazine original art.



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Starting next fall, "Veronica Mars" will air Tuesday on the merged WB and UPN networks, now called CW. So, no more choosing between this great show and "Lost." If you haven't seen VM, check it out. Very wittily written and well played. I liken it to Nancy Drew Meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer in Twin Peaks.

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T-Bone Burnett, best known in recent years for producing the soundtracks for films like "O Brother, Where Art Thou" and heading up the Lost Highway label, releases his first album in 14 years on May 16. The True False Identity features 12 new tunes.

Out the same day, is a two-disk overview of Burnett's earlier work, Twenty Twenty - The Essential T Bone Burnett. It'll include songs dating back to the groundbreaking Alpha Band (the group formed in 1976 by T Bone, Steven Soles, and David Mansfield, fellow travelers in Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue); tracks from each of T Bone's solo albums; rarities including "The People's Limousine" (the single T Bone recorded with Elvis Costello as "The Coward Brothers"); and previously unreleased material.

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Bubblegumfink goes hunting for Bigfoot--And finds him!!

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Scar Stuff shares some vintage BBC horror sound effects albums.

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Bring self-referentiality to new levels: A bigscreen film is planned about the three teens who made a shot-for-shot remake of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" back in the 1980s. Cartoonist Daniel Clowes ("Ghost World") is writing the script.

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