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For years, I had a yellowed, slightly torn "Calvin and Hobbes" newspaper comic strip attached to my refrigerator with a magnet. In it, 6-year-old Calvin held open a book. In a...
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If blink-182's last record, the surprisingly maudlin Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, was like a pinch of novocaine in the Vaseline, the debut from Boxcar Racer (a side project...
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A police detective (Koji Yakusho, star of Eureka and Shall We Dance?) is confronted with a series of inexplicable homicides. All have the same M.O., but they involve different...
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So you say your double-wide manufactured home has been socked with a higher property tax appraisal this year, meaning heftier taxes for you and more meals of Hamburger Helper,...
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It's too easy to write him off, though the temptation's there; has been for damned near two decades, since he asked us to dance and promptly strapped on two left feet. Ah, but...
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Directed by Joe and Harry Gantz, of HBO's popular Taxicab Confessions, Sex With Strangers follows three couples in the swinging "lifestyle." Mississippians Shannon and Gerard...
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Up in ArmsCall out the Army: Mr. John MacCormack has written an insightful essay on the plight of Americans who live along the Rio Bravo in the Vega Verde area ("Open Season,"...
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At last year's Latin Grammys, Juanes was the most nominated artist (seven), eventually winning three trophies. But on the same day he was going to have the Big Night...
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As astute an appraisal of post-modern feminine confusion as today's cinema has to offer, this freakish fish story from French-Canadian writer-director Denis Villeneuve (August...
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For all its technical, sample-splicing glory, the reason DJ Shadow's Endtroducing... became a modern classic was how deftly it conjured the raw source code of human melancholy...
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A freshly scrubbed alternative to last week's grungy Edgefest, KISS-FM's summer throwdown might be the perfect little diversion this weekend if you're looking for moderately...
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Reasons why Guided By Voices' new Universal Truths and Cycles (due June 18) will be called a "return to form" or some such: Because it's filled with the kind of let-it-blurt...
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December 2000. Snoop Dogg is scheduled to perform at the Gypsy Tea Room as part of a promotional tour for his new release, Tha Last Meal. At the time, I found myself in the...
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Your quick Danzig for Dummies: Back when you were in grade school, he was in a band called The Misfits. You went to junior high, he started Samhain. By the time you got your...
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While this summer's biggest affront to expectation unquestionably belongs to David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar--who besides their managers would've guessed a year ago that these...
