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Live Oak — Record Store Days

By Gart Calamar & Phil Gallo

Hardcover, 238 pages ($19.95)

The local record store has fallen on hard times in today’s digital, Internet age. But thanks to collectors, audiophiles and nostalgic baby boomers, shops selling vinyl LPs— “long-playing” records—are making a comeback. This colorful, photo-rich celebration chronicles the rise, fall and modern resurgence of these once-vital retail cogs in the American pop machine, places without which, as noted by producer Sam Phillips, “there would be no Elvis, no Johnny Cash, no B.B. King.”

—Neil Pond, American Profile

Saving Private Ryan

Blu-ray ($39.99)

Director Steven Spielberg’s hard-hitting WWII epic looks crisper, gloriously grittier and more wrenchingly realistic than ever in hi-def Blu-ray. But the real treasures here are ten bonus featurettes, including cast members reminiscing about the intense boot camp they endured to prepare for their roles, a look at the special-effects magic behind the movie’s D-Day recreation, and a Tom Hanks-narrated documentary on real-life World War II combat photographers.

—Neil Pond, American Profile

Life

Blu-ray $69.99 / DVD $59.98

The breathtaking, 11-part BBC/Discovery Channel series, which aired earlier this spring, was spectacular in both subject matter and scope: Taking high-definition cameras onto every continent, into the air and under the sea, for an amazing sweep of animals and plants in habitats where simply surviving can be difficult. Now available on DVD, this collection includes several bonus documentaries about the extraordinary techniques---and technology---used by the globetrotting filmmakers to bring these 130 separate “life” stories to the screen. And that familiar-sounding narrator? Oprah Winfrey!

—Neil Pond, American Profile

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VIDEO: 'Ring of fire' solar eclipse

The solar eclipse that took place Sunday evening was an annular eclipse, one in which the moon blocks almost all of the sun. Some of the best viewing was in Asia, as with this video filmed in Japan.

May 21, 2012 1 Photo
Hope Notes reception for donors, volunteers, school personnel and those involved in this project May 15 at 6 p.m. at The Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park
May 13, 2012 1 Photo
Viral video: Zoo lion goes crazy over zebra-striped baby
A baby boy wearing black and white stripes -- like a zebra -- looked awfully tempting to a lioness at the zoo in Portland, Ore. this week. His parents captured video of the big cat pawing at her glass cage, trying to eat him.

May 3, 2012 1 Photo
Viral video: Family sings 'Bohemian Rhapsody' on way to school
One dad starts the weekdays off right by staging a sing-along to Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" with his three kids during their morning ride to school.

April 27, 2012 1 Photo
Viral video: Bears interrupt weather report at Pa. TV station
A mama bear and three of her cubs were caught on camera at a northeastern Pennsylvania television station seconds before a live weather report was about to begin.

April 25, 2012 1 Photo
Photo tribute: 100 years of baseball at Fenway Park
This year Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox, celebrates its 100th anniversary as America's oldest Major League stadium -- and the setting for some of baseball's greatest players, historic wins and crushing losses. That sacred magic is captured in two exhibits at the 20-year-old Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, a Boston suburb.

April 19, 2012 1 Photo 1 Slideshow
Viral video: High school prom spills into street for 'Footloose' dance
A group of high school students from Oklahoma made their prom memorable by staging a choreographed dance to "Footloose" in the middle of the street. The video of students from Hennessey High School in Hennessey, Okla., was shot Saturday night and is quickly going viral.

April 17, 2012 1 Photo
Viral video: Rain delay antics at college baseball game
Fans aren't the only ones who get bored during rain delays in college baseball -- the players do too. But the teams from the Southern Miss and Ole Miss found some creative ways to pass the time this week during an extended delay at Trustmark Park in Pearl, Miss.

April 5, 2012
100th anniversary of sinking of titanic special coverage
Online coverage begins today will include fascinating and emotional stories, slideshows and videos. Content updated daily.

April 4, 2012 1 Photo
DJ "Dr. Don," The Big 98 and Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park to revive Bluegrass Radio Show
The first show with The Big 98.1 will be broadcast from The Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park Radio Studio this Sunday, April 1, from 5 - 7 p.m.

March 31, 2012 1 Photo
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