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My, what one can do with a nylon-string guitar these days. Originating from the simple concept of two classically trained players taking a stab at melding all sorts of disparate musical genres, Acoust...
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What do you get when you compile eight of the top art students at a university and give them the chance to create and organize their own show? The answer is part classical and part modernist, a little...
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Samara Morgan first crawled out of TV sets - and into the hearts of American moviegoers - in 2002's "The Ring." The video cassette-born villainess apparently spooked audiences enough that her creators...
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Are you one of those people who thinks cartoons are dumb? When someone says animation, do you think singing crabs and midgets with pickaxes? Well, prepare to have all your preconceived notions about a...
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Nearly 10 years after the release of Odelay, Beck finds himself reinventing the art of reinvention and excelling in the self-deprecation that made "Loser" the definitive slacker anthem of the early '9...
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The Mars Volta do not write albums for the timid. Those who seek feel good, pop songs about love and happiness that can easily fit into a radio station's play list are advised to look elsewhere.
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In the Queens of the Stone Age's latest album, Lullabies to Paralyze, Josh Homme awakens the desert spirits. Peyote-spawned demons? Probably.
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There was a time before "Chicago" and "Moulin Rouge" when the movie musical was an endangered species in Hollywood. Musicals are expensive and risky sells to American audiences.
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"Pentecost" is ultimately a story of revolution and the struggles of the human spirit. The play focuses on a woman possessed by a secret discovery and her search for the truth behind it. It is about a...
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It's been a sad winter as the music scene has seemingly been on hiatus in the United States. With shows few and far between and new releases nowhere to be seen, it was not hard to forget about Ticketm...
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It seems indie rockers are finally taking some vocal lessons. Singer-songwriter Jeff Hanson sings with a lilt in his voice, a Celtic soprano that drifts away with the melodies in his songs.
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Local favorite Jack Johnson knows his niche, and for that alone we must grant him a bit of credit. Folksy vocals, lazy guitar strumming and campfire-ready melodies define his latest, In Between Dreams...
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There's something about southern rock that seems to be far more interesting that plain old rock 'n' roll. Say what you will about the politics of Lynyrd Skynyrd, but they knew how to rock with that l...
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Jonathan Caouette's "Tarnation" is a force to be reckoned with. In a time when documentary film has come to be defined through the highly subjective works of Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock, Caouett...
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
“Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury
“Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut
“The Giver” by Lois Lowry
“The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood
“The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky
“Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley
“Wicked” by Gregory Maguire
“The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath
"The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger
“1984” by George Orwell
“Lord of the Flies” by William Golding
