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Movie Review: A Beautiful Mind: A Terrible Thing To Lose

Spanning some 40 years, from post-World War II through the early '90s, "A Beautiful Mind" is a sugar-coated bio-pic/period piece about the mental anguish of theoretical mathematician John Nash (Russel...
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Movie Review: The Wide Blue Road: No Man Is an Island

"The Wide Blue Road" is a film about a town of fishermen in Italy in the midst of a post-World War II economic slump
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The Sleeper Must Awaken

Hollywood loves Americans for the same reason the rest of the world hates us: We are fast food-eating, carbonated beverage-drinking, pleasure-seeking layabouts with little ambition other than to maint...
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Kid Rock | Cocky | Atlantic

Who is that substitute pimp charging out of the Motor City with an army of what appears to be moonshine-slammin' Metallica fans? It's Kid Rock and the Twisted Brown Trucker Band.
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Champagne Kiss | Dancing in the Pockets of Thieves | Troubleman Unlimited

Champagne Kiss is the latest offering from Michelle Maskovich and Russell White, the motivating forces behind Moog-happy bands The Shortwave Channel and Camera Obscura.
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Laurie Anderson | Life on a String | Nonesuch

Since 1981, Laurie Anderson has been one of the biggest avant-garde spoken word and experimental rock singers/songwriters to hit the mainstream American music scene.
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Various Artists | Sundays, Volume 1 | Nude Recordings

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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!

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

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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