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Heist: Dishonor Among Thieves

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

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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The Avalanches | Since I Left You | Sire/Modular

For recording artists, the line between sampling and stealing can be very fine. And copyright infringement can be an expensive lesson learned.
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Techno Animal | The Brotherhood of the Bomb | Matador

To put it simply, this is Techno Animal: a slowed electronic rhythm with hard drums and heavy bass.
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Alana Davis | Fortune Cookies | Elektra

It's a new world, Ms. Davis - you're not the only multicultural, pop songstress anymore. While you hit it big in 1997 with "Thirty-two Flavors," there is more competition now; a catchy pop chorus just...
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Growing Old Together

We might not walk, talk or look the the same, but I still love you baby. Artsweek celebrates a two-decade long relationship with animation.
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Seasoning Your Words

Performance poetry, as of late, has experienced a renaissance fueled by the energy and fervor of young bards who reject the constraints of traditional poetry forums.
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Waking Life: Brownia Motion

A 99-minute fully animated dream sequence containing numerous dream subplots, false awakenings, philosophical brainteasers and, yet, no clear story line - sounds like the perfect recipe for a Hollywoo...
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Monsters Inc.: Out of the Closet

A summer of animation successes and failures taught Pixar/Disney an important lesson: amazing technology can't make up for a worthless script.
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Pink Floyd | Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd | EMD/Capital

Pink Floyd, the band Barrett helped to make famous with his insanity, offers Echoes, a greatest hits album, combining popular favorites with Barrett's early work.
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Incubus | Morning View | Epic

As a longtime Incubus junkie, it is with great displeasure that I admit Morning View, though introspective and chock-full of musical surprises, is far from a stellar achievement.
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Lexicon | It’s the L | Spytech

With its first full-length release, It's the L, the Southern Cali-based duo hopes to broaden its local rep and become "popular" nationwide. Shit ... I remember what it was like to be 15, too.
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Genre, All Mixed Up

The Associated Students - sponsored "From Chaos" tour - opened by Alien Ant Farm and headlined by 311 - was a heaven-sent purgation from the festering ulcer that midterms week had become.
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One for the Road

"I'm tired of Budweiser," said Spencer Moody. "I drank four and a half years of Budweiser on tour, so I'm drinking Heineken on this one."
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‘Mulholland Drive’: The Long and Winding Road

After his Oscar-winning Disney departure from new noir, "The Straight Story," director David Lynch returns to the off-kilter, double fantasies that made "Lost Highway" so maddeningly enthralling.
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