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Velvet Sun | Dreamhome | Flotation

Essentially a one-man band, Scott Weinkle uses simplistic rock formulas and basic sonic tricks to expand conventional rock in a fashion where the rock of the past can still hold relevance in the prese...
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Film Review: “A Knight’s Tale”

After watching the first couple of minutes unfold in "A Knight's Tale," one quickly figures out that they're going to have to get into a different frame of mind in order to enjoy the film.
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Electronic Summer Listening Guide

Spring, as I'm sure you've garnered from the warm weather and flower-powered Ross commercials, has sprung, and a new crop of CDs have landed on the Artsweek desk in ripe abundance.
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Straight-To-Video Classics: “Left Behind”

Instead of a specific film, there is a whole genre of films that is blowing up that you need to know about if you consider yourself a true film connoisseur. That genre is Christian home video.
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Film Review: “The Center of the World”

This is a love story. Boy meets girl in the non-threatening coffee shop. Boy finds out girl is a rock drummer by day and stripper by night.
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Film Review: “Boesman and Lena”

Set against the backdrop of the desolate mud flats outside Cape Town, South Africa, it is a tale of loss and survival during that nation's period of apartheid.
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Interview: Judith Olauson

Judith Olauson, director of "A Raisin in the Sun", shared a few insights about this compelling drama.
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Alien Ant Farm | ANThology | New Noize

Despite the apparently political connotations of this record, Alien Ant Farm truly relies on the interesting and conflicting relationship between contemporary alternative metal and sentiments of life ...
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The Rapture | Out of the Races and On To the Tracks | Sub Pop

Now that the founder of Up Records is dead, and Matador Records' taste is nearly as moribund, Sub Pop is left as one of the last high-profile indie rock labels in the biz.
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Soft Boys | Underwater Moonlight | Matador

Two discs of reissue bliss, Soft Boys' Underwater Moonlight kicks out the jams.
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Artsweek Recognition of Excellence Award: Shy Pilgreen, Miss Isla Vista 2001

Talent, personality and how hot the girls looked in "Friday Night Fun Wear" were all taken into consideration as 16 of I.V.'s loveliest ladies duked it out for the Miss Isla Vista crown.
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Weekend on Dreamworks

The press notice made it sound too good to be true. Hallowed Hollywood studio DreamWorks was going to put me and a bunch of other college journalists up at the Brentwood Holiday Inn and pamper us with...
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Film Review: “The Mummy Returns”

While Brendon Fraser, Rachel Weisz and the WWF's The Rock may be the flesh stars of the movie, whatever entertainment the film provides comes from visual effects maestro John Berton.
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Straight to Video Classics: “Cutaway”

They knew how to bait me. The good people at Artisan Entertainment assembled a cast bigger than life for "Cutaway," and as soon as I laid eyes on that beautiful poster I was hooked and ready to be ree...
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Theater Review: “Fiddler on the Roof”

Tradition! One word - one theme - anchors "Fiddler on the Roof's" portrayal of a Jewish family living in Czarist Russia at the end of the 19th century.
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