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Various Artists | Sundays, Volume 1 | Nude Recordings

January 10, 2002 by

The people at Nude Recordings have put together a compilation that made me wet my bed. Last night I dreamt I was stranded on a deserted island, making love to my dream girl.
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Various Artists | Orange County Soundtrack | Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax

January 10, 2002 by

Orange County, the county, is nondescript. It's somewhere you pass through on your way to somewhere more exciting. Often pleasant, but not much to challenge or offend you.
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Out of the Forest, into the Jungle

November 29, 2001 by

The Sherwood Players, an independent student-run theater group on campus, takes a look at the Vietnam War through the eyes of men who were there in their latest production.
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Digital Masterplan

November 29, 2001 by

In 1995, when Brent Meeske decided to make a feature-length documentary, he really had only one format option within his price range: a small, first-generation, digital-eight camera.
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Disquiet on the Western Front

November 29, 2001 by

"Here is New York" - the Santa Monica exhibition of over 300 photos thematically centered on the events of Sept. 11 - is drawing so well that gallery organizers want to push the early Dec. 8 closing d...
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Harry Potter: The Wizardry of Madison Avenue

November 29, 2001 by

The buildup for "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" resembled the sort of drama and fanfare reserved for royal weddings and papal appointments.
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Jewel | This Way | Atlantic Records

November 29, 2001 by

While it seems at first glance that a pop sensibility has eaten up and regurgitated another talent for blind-baby-bird-public consumption, there are some really great tracks hidden in This Way.
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John Coltrane | The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording | Impulse!

November 29, 2001 by

The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording, the first issue of John Coltrane's final captured live performance, reaches an ecstatic boiling point in the free jazz movement.
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John Mayer | Room for Squares | Sony

November 29, 2001 by

If this were a hard and fast rule Room for Squares would probably be pulled over for reckless endangerment. The album rides the line between following the caravan and diverging into John Mayer's own a...
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Give Me Space

November 15, 2001 by

White space, or a lack there of, is not a new complaint from young artists struggling to display their bodies of work. That dialogue is as old as the art form itself.
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Out of Many, One

November 15, 2001 by

Jude Narita, actress, producer and playwright, brings her own one-woman show to Campbell Hall this Friday night. Critically acclaimed, "Stories Waiting to be Told" is a performance that celebrates the...
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Under Construction

November 15, 2001 by

The dancers enter in a line. They are wearing blazing orange safety vests with reflective stripes and wield brooms with metal caps on the end.
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Taking a Bite Out of the Big Apple

November 15, 2001 by

The main theme explored is human fallibility. Single mother Betty and her son Bert attempt to reunite their family in Bangor, Maine. They travel to New York to retrieve an estranged member of their cl...
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Heist: Dishonor Among Thieves

November 15, 2001 by

Mamet's newest modern noir, "Heist," has the muted monochromatic color scheme of its timeless predecessors. More crime than con game, an abundance of double-crossings and plot twists are still intact.
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Radiohead | I Might Be Wrong Live Recordings Radiohead | Capitol Records

November 15, 2001 by

Radiohead doesn't know when to take a break. This latest offering is their third major release in 13 months, coming only five months after Amnesiac and barely a year since Kid A. Not that we mind.
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