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Fire Emblem

For those who have played the fabled Super Smash Brothers: Melee (SSBM) for the Gamecube, the image on the cover of Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance may contain a familiar face.


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Indie Rockers Cash In, Sell Out?

When Death Cab for Cutie signed to Atlantic Records last year, the indie rock world was shaken-the band that had promised never to sign to a major label had finally done it, and apparently seemed...


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Recesstop 5

5. Yet Another Reason to go Greek. After a particularly tempestuous season, for the first time in history, we've run out of names like Michael Jackson has minors (allegedly.


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Stay

For a movie that claims to be a psychological thriller, Stay, by critically acclaimed director Marc Forster (Finding Neverland, Monster's Ball), is strangely lacking in thrills.


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Franz Ferdinand

You Could Have It So Much Better proves that alt-funk-punk-pop-rock sounds best with a Scottish accent.


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Thumbsucker

Thumbsucker lives in the world of the dirty Q-word. If you promise not to tell anyone, I'll tell you what the word is. It's "quirky.


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Recess top 5

5. Supreme eyeliner. The newest Bench nominee/junkyard pit bull/Texas sweetheart Harriet Miers sports the gothest eyeliner since Marilyn Manson.


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Now I Can Die In Peace

The world needs another book written about the 2004 World Series Champion Boston Red Sox as much as MTV needs another reality series about celebrity families.


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Two for the Money

Ever gone to Wal-Mart and seen the rack of "value-priced" movies? You know the ones I mean, those movies that, while maybe not terrible, just weren't good enough for anyone to want them? D.J.


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Celine Dion

I have to admit that I was optimistic when I first listened to On Ne Change Pas, Celine Dion's new best-of compilation.


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X-Men Legends 2

Beginning with a tense alliance between the X-Men and the Brotherhood of Mutants, X-Men II: Rise of Apocalypse sends players against the invading armies of Apocalypse and his Four Horsemen in an...


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Bellrays to raise the roof at 506

Once in a while a band comes along that actually does "defy genre classification", "hook you in with their rockin' beats" and "get better with every listen." The Bellrays do not.