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Interview: The New Deal

The New Deal isn't trying to impress you. They just want you to dance.
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Hip Hop Column: Sound + Vision

It's hard to keep a good Robotsex down, especially a beautiful, bikini-clad Robotsex.
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Theater Review: “Collected Stories”

Where is an author allowed to draw inspiration for his story? Are all experiences fair game, or are others' experiences outside that realm?
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Atmosphere | Lucy Ford | Rhymesayers Entertainment

Every once in a long while I hear an album that, upon first listen, I know will be the best album of the year.
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Bats and Mice | s/t | Lovitt

I feel dirty, sullied, debased, degraded and all around icky. But let me start at the beginning.
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Sasha Alexander | Dedicated To … | Reprise

Sasha Alexander boasts superstardom in Europe and a nomination for Best International Male Artist at the 1999 MTV Europe Awards.
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Interview: Propagandhi

Artsweek talks with frontman Chris Hannah from the Canadian punk rock band Propagandhi about the new album, politics and death threats.
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Film Review: “Bridget Jones’s Diary”

Every couple of months it seems a movie comes out featuring “thirtysomething” women looking for that dream guy who has escaped them their whole lives. “Sweet November,” “...
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Film Review: Memento

At last we have a winner. British director Christopher Nolan has made the first truly great film of the year with “Memento.” An immaculate and challenging tale about a man with severe shor...
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Straight To Video Classics: “I’m Bout It”

Before I begin my praise of a fine film, let me express my apologies for not previously addressing the current, most prevalent form of straight-to-video cinema: gangsta rap star autobiographies starri...
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Art Review: “Three Women”

“Three Women,” the new art show at the Women’s Center, is not a trio of overzealous feminists using their paints and canvases to declare why men are devils. These women, Megan Kitche...
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Film Review: “Venus Beauty Institute”

A Tonie Marshall film, “Venus Beauty Institute” is a disappointingly inert film that moves like a tugboat through the emotional slough that is the protagonist’s love life. With littl...
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Jedi Mind Tricks | Violent By Design | Superegular

Conspiracy theories have been a common theme among hip hop artists and their songs since the days of Melle Mel, but the trend reached its apex during the independent upsurge of 1997. Everyone had an o...
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Kings of Convenience | Quiet is the New Loud | Astralwerks

Coffeehouses of America rejoice: Your newest soundtrack has just come out. Full of folksy recollections and preening optimism, Kings of Convenience has created a mellow accompaniment for the beret and...
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Rick Braun | Kisses in the Rain | Warner Bros.

I must admit that I am no jazz connoisseur, let alone opinionated on or knowledgeable of its style or form. My experience is limited to the overtly obvious in the jazz world (I can recognize tracks of...
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