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the fray

The Fray represents everything that is wrong with America today. On principal alone, I would rather get a Foley catheter than listen to the band's new, self-titled album. The record belongs among...


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push

I always thought plagiarism was illegal. Fifty years after Stan Lee created the X-Men, Push enters the fray as the latest mutant-driven super-power movie.


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Akoka modernizes Messiaen masterpiece

This weekend, Page Auditorium will be swept into the apocalypse-through classical, hip-hop and klezmer music, that is. Akoka: After Messiaen's 'Quartet for the End of Time' is a refreshing approach...


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wendy and lucy

Though it sounds like a bubbly story about a girl-and-dog duo taking on the world, do not be fooled. Wendy and Lucy, Kelly Reichardt's powerful, minimalist new film, is not your happy dog-walk in...


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ben kweller

Changing Horses is not an album typical of a native San Franciscan, as Ben Kweller is. However, it is an album from a man whose family moved him to Emory, Texas (population: 1,000) before his...