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The Glorious, Parodic Comedy of Documentary Now!

Edit Houston Press 11 Oct 2016
A A. Facebook-. Twitter -. More shares recommend reddit email -. - ... funny people with hearts of gold ... Last season, they parodied Grey Gardens (with Armisen and Hader doing dead-on takes of Big Edie & Little Edie, respectively), The Thin Blue Line and — my favorite — Nanook of the North, with Armisen playing the lead Eskimo as a dunderheaded diva and Hader, covered in prosthetics, as an elderly cameraman recalling the shoot....

Minnesota Gophers hockey team scores six goals, again, to top UAF

Edit Fox Sports 10 Oct 2016
The Gophers outshot the Nanooks 27-20 on the night ... ....

Classic films on celluloid screen for free Wednesday evenings this fall at the Anchorage Museum (Anchorage Museum)

Edit Public Technologies 04 Oct 2016
(Source. Anchorage Museum). Classic films on celluloid screen for free Wednesday evenings this fall at the Anchorage Museum. Contact. Thomas Gokey - ... ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Nanook of the North (with DJ accompaniment), The Mouse That Roared, and Night of the Living Dead are among the classic 16mm films slated for screening in the Anchorage Museum auditorium at 7 p.m. Wednesdays from Oct. 12 through Dec ... Nanook of the North by Robert Flaherety ... 2....

Halifax HMC Ships return from Northern Operations (Canadian Navy)

Edit Public Technologies 03 Oct 2016
(Source. Canadian Navy) ... Quotes ... - Lieutenant Commander Dale St. Croix, Commanding Officer HMCS Shawinigan ... Quick Facts HMC Ships Shawinigan and Moncton deployed for seven weeks to Canada's Arctic in support of Operations NANOOK and QIMMIQ. Operation NANOOK takes place annually in several locations across Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut ... Both ships conducted Hydrographic surveys and attended Op NANOOK community days ... (noodl....

A Tale of Billionaires & Ballot Bandits

Edit CounterPunch 23 Sep 2016
One of the American Left’s knights in shining armor, Greg Palast, is back with a new film. The trench coat, fedora-wearing Palast is to investigative reporting what Raymond Chandler’s private eye, Philip Marlowe, is to detective novels ... Palast condemns this scurrilous scheme as “lynching by laptop.” ... His Etok is far from Robert Flaherty’s 1922 Nanook of the North, a classic narrative about a real life Eskimo’s Arctic culture ... See. ... 30 ... ....

My pet rocks | Nanook

Edit Courier Journal 16 Sep 2016
Nanook is the "ultimate farm puppy' who loves to play in the pond, romp around with the alpacas and follow the chickens around.        .   ... ....

Fred Armisen, Bill Hader kick off 'Documentary Now!' Season 2 as 'super insane' politicos

Edit The Oregonian 15 Sep 2016
 . In Season 1, the series created by Fred Armisen (of "Portlandia") fame, and his fellow "Saturday Night Live" veterans Bill Hader, Seth Meyers and Rhys Thomas, treated us to loving yet pointed parodies of  "Grey Gardens," "Nanook of the North," and "The Thin Blue Line," and others.   ...  . Season 2, which premieres Wednesday, Sept ...   ...  . Riffing on the original film, directed by D.A ...   ...   ... " ... ....

Documentary Now Is a Parody That Knows the Power of Nostalgia

Edit The Atlantic 14 Sep 2016
Documentary Now Is a Parody That Knows the Power of Nostalgia" >. IFC’s anthology series Documentary Now will always be a show of niche appeal, with its highly specific parodies of works ranging from Grey Gardens to Vice news docs ... While the War Room directors D. A ... Even season one’s “Kunuk Uncovered,” a take on the documentary about the landmark 1922 work Nanook of the North, found a way to shake up a staid formula ... ....

Chicago River: The surprising business of fishing

Edit Chicago Sun-Times 14 Sep 2016
As we arranged wet bags and coolers, Capt. Pat Harrison said, “First thing in the morning when I come down here, there’s thousands of minnows.”. He gestured to the space between the pier and wall last week at the Richard J. Daley Boat Launch on the Sanitary Ship Canal ... Mallards floated ... “I turned 60 on Aug ... Harrison runs a Princecraft Nanook with a 75hp Evinrude, quiet enough that he can tell stories while running ... ....

Outstanding alumni to be honored at Nanook Rendezvous (University of Alaska Fairbanks)

Edit Public Technologies 12 Sep 2016
(Source ... Walsh will be recognized during the Nanook Rendevzous awards dinner, which will be held from 6-10 p.m. Sept ... The dinner will be part of UAF's annual alumni reunion, Nanook Rendezvous, which is scheduled for Sept ... A schedule of Nanook Rendezvous events and registration information are available online at http.//www.uaf.edu/alumni/reunion ... Original documenthttp.//news.uaf.edu/outstanding-alumni-to-be-honored-at-nanook-rendezvous/....

PacWest teams split on the road

Edit Star Advertiser 10 Sep 2016
The Chaminade women’s volleyball team split a pair of matches in San Francisco on Friday. The Silverswords defeated host San Francisco State 22-25, 25-21, 25-23, 25-23, but fell to Concordia Oregon 20-25, 25-18, 25-22, 25-20 ... Amanda Acosta led HPU (4-4) with 26 digs in the win over the Nanooks (1-5), while Perla Escobar finished with nine kills in the loss to the Wolves (1-4) ... Asing, Zietz fall in Hurley Pro ... ....

Operation Nanook 2016 concludes in Canada's North (Canada's Air Force)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Sep 2016
The 2016 edition of Operation NANOOK, the Canadian Armed Forces' annual northern sovereignty operation, ended on September 2, 2016 ... 'By engaging in Operation Nanook annually for the last nine years, the Canadian Armed Forces, as well as our partners at the federal, provincial, and municipal levels, have developed whole-of-government approaches to meet the challenges we face in the North,' said Minister of National Defence Harjit S....

Gulls sign seven to AHL contracts (AHL - American Hockey League)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Sep 2016
(Source. AHL - American Hockey League). September 8, 2016. The San Diego Gulls announced that the American Hockey League (AHL) club has signed defensemen Stu Bickel and Brian Cooper, and forwards Antoine Laganiere, Zac Larraza, Tyler Morley, Scott Sabourin and Nick Tarnasky to one-year contracts ... The Burnaby, British Columbia native appeared in 129 career games for the Nanooks, posting 60-62=122 points with a +11 rating ... (noodl....
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