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Time for 'Bettermen?'

The great bands of our era are disappearing. With the Pumpkins smashed and Rage machine-less, we must treat each group's release as if it were the last.


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Hot Coffee

For some, the biggest jive about the Blue Devil Beanery isn't the java but the guys behind the counter serving it.


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Not a Heartbreaking Follow Up

Remember that quote from lit class in high school, "The best-laid plans of mice and men oft go awry?" Throughout their whirlwind globe-trot, the two main characters in You Shall Know Our...


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The Artist as a Young Woman

I suppose the easiest way to convince the student body to lay aside the half-finished term papers for a few hours and see Frida is to announce that the movie includes a number of scenes that...


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Stylish Femme

I went into Femme Fatale wondering two things: one, if model-turned-actress Rebecca Romijn-Stamos could carry a movie by herself; two, if writer/director Brian De Palma could carry out both his...


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Blazin' A New Trail

Not just the doped-up goofball we remember from Half Baked and Saturday Night Live, Jim Breuer is on the road right now--with his kids, no less--on a stand-up comedy tour of the nation.


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My Big Fat Greek Meal

In a pathetic attempt to apply what I've learned in my entrepreneurship class about "niche markets," I reasoned that the name Papa's Grill was a poor choice for a restaurant because it didn't...


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Kinda Precious

For as much as people compare him to Jeff Buckley, Ours' lead singer Jimmy Gnecco's image is a much darker one.


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Mainstream Mediocrity

People love to give music critics a hard time for immediately rejecting any form of mainstream pop, dismissing all things radio-friendly without a second thought in favor of the latest indie act to...


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Midnight Marauders

My favorite dates are always with my partner in crime. We're not going out or anything, but our senses of humor match up like jeans and a good pair of Pumas.