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Vincent Balestriere
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It’s so easy for a video game critic to spend pages vivisecting mediocre games, picking apart all the nuances that keep them from being worthy of purchase. The trouble is, there are actually monumental games out there – those are far more difficult to pin down without waxing poetic. Halo 4 is one of those [...]
Vincent Balestriere wrote a new blog post: Meet the New Chief, Better Than the Old Chief 4 months, 1 week ago · View
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As I get older and the car companies continually reinvent their mass-market creations, a thought occurs to me. Cars today stink, and we’re feeding into the increasingly nauseating cesspool, lapping up the offerings like Stockholm Syndrome-inflicted slaves. Only a decade ago, you didn’t have to buy a sports car to have a fun driving experience. [...]
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In the shadow of the 12-12-12 Sandy benefit concert at Madison Square Garden, some of Staten Island’s musicians came together and organized a benefit concert of their own. Justin Sarachik (Process of Fusion), Jay Campbell (Everynightdrive), and Valerie Bond (Spread the Rumor) sat down with me on the 12th to talk about their own benefit [...]
Vincent Balestriere wrote a new blog post: Bands & Benefit Concerts: Staten Island Musicians Converge for a Cause 5 months ago · View
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Christmas music is out of control in this country. Every autumn, a barrage of marketing and advertisements inundates consumers, urging them to spend their money on any number of stupid crap and useless items. But Christmas, unlike any other holiday, has its own “season,” a period that starts arbitrarily, some time around Thanksgiving. And with [...]
Vincent Balestriere wrote a new blog post: Way too early for eggnog and Santa Clause 5 months, 2 weeks ago · View
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For six months, the annoying, pseudo-hipster/carefree college girl anthem (“Call Me Maybe”) has dominated New York pop stations, which is bad enough in my book. But at least I could get some peace easily by switching the station. Then the song crept into retail store playlists, and my psychotic hatred for both Jepsen and her [...]
Vincent Balestriere wrote a new blog post: Call Me Never: Carly Rae Jepsen wins new artist, go away maybe? 6 months ago · View
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If you love rock and roll, you love Led Zeppelin. They were the harbingers of heavy rock and carried the counterculture torch from the late 60s to late 70s, bringing back funk and the blues along the way. There’s always debate over which Led Zeppelin song is the greatest – Rolling Stone, whose opinion I [...]
Vincent Balestriere wrote a new blog post: Rolling Stone: “Whole Lotta Love” is the Best Led Zeppelin Song, This is a Lazy List 6 months, 1 week ago · View
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The culture of video game publishing is so often focused on the macro – what company releases the games, which studio directed the project, etc. Rarely are those who put in the background work celebrated, even if their roles are essential. 343 Studios’ newest release, the highly-anticipated Halo 4 , is no exception. Kenneth Scott : Scott was the [...]
Vincent Balestriere wrote a new blog post: Beyond the Public Face of Halo 6 months, 2 weeks ago · View
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…and Guitar World’s list sucks. Eddie Van Halen, Brian May, and Alex Lifeson were all placed before Jimi Hendrix (4) and Stevie Ray Vaughan (8). Listen, I’m as hot for teacher as the next guy who grew up with Guitar Hero. But Eddie Van Halen isn’t the ” greatest guitarist of all time. ” He shouldn’t even [...]
Vincent Balestriere wrote a new blog post: Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love: Eddie Van Halen is not #1… 7 months, 1 week ago · View
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The video game industry usually lends fame to studios and design teams rather than specific people. But even in this group accomplishment-driven, “all equal effort” medium, there are some who are more equal than the rest. Mark Lamia, Studio Head at Treyarch. Mark Lamia is the brain behind the wildly successful Call of Duty branch series Black [...]
Vincent Balestriere wrote a new blog post: Three Power Players in Video Game Production 7 months, 2 weeks ago · View
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Well, that’s not a popular sentiment, is it. Everyone from Rolling Stone to actual music fans has taken a shot at Nickelback in the past few years. “Alternative” music fans hate Nickelback and their formulaic, chart-topping albums. The records earn low scores and disdain from the “cultured” rock community. But they’ve got a much better [...]
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The beginning of autumn always has the baseball – there’s always a division or two still up for grabs. No matter who you root for, late September is always an exciting time to be at the ballpark. Unless you’re a Mets fan like I am. In which case, meet me at the bar on Nelson [...]
Vincent Balestriere wrote a new blog post: Give Me One Wild Card, and Leave the Playoffs Alone 7 months, 3 weeks ago · View
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Popular music always has its “edgy” outliers – bands you tell normal people that you like, so they’ll think you’re cool. Like the Foo Fighters: “hard” enough to give you some actual cred, but accessible enough for Z100 . Linkin Park challenged labels like that – they burst onto the popular music scene in 2000 with the release [...]
Vincent Balestriere wrote a new blog post: Hybrid Theory should stay in the past 8 months ago · View
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The winter holidays are always an important time for video game releases – the big ticket games are usually released to coincide with the Christmas shopping season. Not all of these games’ release date are technically within the season’s dates, but the dates are increasingly fluid anyway (look out for Christmas music on the radio the day after [...]
Vincent Balestriere wrote a new blog post: Five Games to Play this Fall 8 months, 2 weeks ago · View
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Domestic violence isn’t a new development, and I don’t pretend to be any more horrified than the average person is about it. About 1.3 million women physically assaulted in the US each year – one of those women in 2009 was Rihanna, the Barbadian pop singer. Last week at the VMAs, Chris Brown, Rihanna’s assaulter, was [...]
Vincent Balestriere wrote a new blog post: The world “Don’t Judge” Chris Brown 8 months, 2 weeks ago · View
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There are plenty of “critics” out there who tear video games apart like hyenas upon the carcass of a gazelle. James Rolfe, the “Angry Video Game Nerd,” is one of many who pushes said schtick. But those people are common in the gaming community, and usually try way too hard to be funny and clever. Which is okay , [...]
Vincent Balestriere wrote a new blog post: Chris Pereira, not just scores 8 months, 3 weeks ago · View
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The Cab is a five piece pop-rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada. Their first album, Whisper War , debuted at #108 on the US Billboard 200, released on the notable pop-rock/punk record label Fueled By Ramen . However, the band left FBR in 2011, before they were able to release another album for the label. Enter Symphony Soldier , The Cab’s second [...]
Vincent Balestriere wrote a new blog post: “Symphony Soldier” is No Sophomore Slump 1 year ago · View
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Dennis O’Reilly, beast photographer. Fantastic shot.
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Sierra Kessler is a thirteen year veteran of the Richmondtown Historical Museum, a “living museum” in the hear of Staten Island. There, visitors can learn about the Island’s rich cultural history as both a hub for microbreweries and oyster fishing. Kessler answers patrons’ queries like most other museum workers from time to time, but as [...]
Vincent Balestriere wrote a new blog post: Native Staten Islander, Teacher, Historian 1 year ago · View
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The Staten Island Museum complex is multifaceted – though the Snug Harbor Cultural Center stands prominent atop Randall Manor, overlooking the harbor, there is a number of other museums that document Staten Island’s residents and artists. One of those “other” museums is the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum , a small cottage on the northeast shore of the borough. Fritz Weiss, [...]
Vincent Balestriere wrote a new blog post: Venice: Digital Photography Meets Watercolor Painting 1 year, 1 month ago · View
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Since 2006, one building on the crest overlooking the Staten Island ferry had been vacant, and in disrepair from neglect. It had traditionally be used to house artists, but its doors were shut and its funding cut by the acting administration. But its story would not end there. The Snug Harbor Cultural Center, situated in the [...]
Vincent Balestriere wrote a new blog post: Fresh Blood to Rejuvenate Tradition 1 year, 2 months ago · View
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