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Taking a moment to redefine divas

By Caitlin Peterkin · Tuesday, Oct. 6,2009 11:38 p.m.

Last weekend, I went home to get my wisdom teeth removed. After the surgery, I made the pain bearable with mass amounts of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, prescription drugs and plenty of time sitting in front of the television. I happened to flip through the channels and see that the 2009 “VH1 Divas” show was re-airing. Interested, I stayed tuned to see who would be named VH1’s top female performers.

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Film highlights art of ‘Typeface’

By Margaret Ely · Tuesday, Oct. 6,2009 11:37 p.m.

The fast-pace world of graphic design met the slow pace of a small town in Wisconsin to create “Typeface,” a documentary presented Tuesday at the School of Fine Arts. The film was screened free to the public and was followed by a question-and-answer session with panelists, including the film’s director Justine Nagan.

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Professor receives honor for book

By Anish More · Tuesday, Oct. 6,2009 11:35 p.m.

Professor Pravina Shukla received an award after spending 12 years working on a book that examines the role of clothing in Indian culture. Shukla, an associate professor of folklore and ethnomusicology, is the recipient of the 2009 Millia Davenport Publication Award given out by the Costume Society of America for her work, “The Grace of Four Moons: Dress, Adornment, and the Art of the Body in Modern India.”

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Kosher Ham ships funny Tees worldwide

By Danielle Paquette · Tuesday, Oct. 6,2009 11:07 p.m.

Amid oxymoronic creativity and a continuous flow of green beer, Kosher Ham was born. “I was probably about a dozen beers deep during St. Patrick’s Day of ’07 when I started thinking, ‘Everyone gets to be Irish for a day. Why can’t everyone dress Jewish for a day?’” said Jeremy Bloom, founder and president of the ironically named T-shirt company. “I was starving and thought, ‘Kosher Ham – I’ve got a great idea!’”

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Urban Market sets up shop at Peoples Park

By Danielle Paquette · Tuesday, Oct. 6,2009 11:05 p.m.

From her earliest memories, senior Kathleen Clark said she was captivated by the eclectic, eccentric world of garage sales. “I remember waking up early with my parents so we could get there first,” she said. “I told people that I was probably raised on the floor of a garage sale.”

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Books Building Dreams reaches out to children

By Benjamin Kerns · Tuesday, Oct. 6,2009 10:04 p.m.

Most people satisfy their charitable urges by donating an extra dollar in the collection box at Walmart or volunteering at the local animal shelter, but for IU student Jordan Feldstein, that wasn’t enough. He decided to start his own charity.

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24-hour news torture

By Waddell Hamer · Tuesday, Oct. 6,2009 9:33 p.m.

Perhaps my favorite and most frequent form of self-torture is my cheapest. All it requires me to do is turn to either CNN, MSNBC or Fox News.

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God forgot earlids

By John Brown · Tuesday, Oct. 6,2009 9:21 p.m.

Imagine walking out of a movie theater on a bright summer day. There’s just too much light to handle, because your eyes are used to the dark. So you close your eyelids. But when there’s too much noise, you can’t close your earlids. It’s kind of a bummer, actually.

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Normal sexism

By Rachel Goldberg · Tuesday, Oct. 6,2009 9:20 p.m.

Now that women have the right to vote, birth control and (supposedly) equal rights in the workplace, the need for feminism might be called into question. Do gender inequalities truly affect us on a daily basis? I say absolutely yes.

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Like babies with pacifiers

By Matt Straw · Tuesday, Oct. 6,2009 9:18 p.m.

The more I see the way people rely upon their cell phones so incessantly for all tasks and can no longer remember seven digits, the more I stand by my decision not to own one. The more I see about tracking people by a triangulation of their cell signal on television, the better off I feel.

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A new academic roadmap

By IDS · Tuesday, Oct. 6,2009 9:17 p.m.

WE SAY Three of the 13 points proposed by the Provost’s Task Force are immediate needs.

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Guards at Ind. jail stabbed in escape attempt

Tuesday, Oct. 6,2009 7:05 p.m.

VERNON, Ind. – Three teenage inmates in a southern Indiana jail attacked three guards and briefly held them hostage early Tuesday during an escape attempt that left one guard hospitalized with a stab wound to the head, authorities said.

"The Invention of Lying"

We’d be lying if we said it was inventive

Tuesday, Oct. 6,2009 6:10 p.m.

Though “The Invention of Lying” claims to be a comedy, the laughs come to an abrupt halt within the first 10 minutes of the film, when blunt truths about appearance and sexuality quickly lose their comic edge and the scenario becomes much darker.

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Invasion of cinema

Tuesday, Oct. 6,2009 5:55 p.m.

Hollywood has been going to the alien-well for decades. Sometimes the results are good – “E.T.” for example – and other times audiences get “K-Pax.” After much deliberation, the WEEKEND staff compiled this list of the 10 best and five worst alien-centric films of all time.

"Black Gives Way to Blue"

Give way to Alice in Chains

By Thomas Miller · Tuesday, Oct. 6,2009 5:49 p.m.

As a band, Alice in Chains has been through a lot, chiefly the death of its lead singer, grunge god Layne Staley in 2002. After Staley’s death, there didn’t seem to be much of a future for the rest of the band. Yet here we are with a new Alice in Chains album – one that is possibly the best record the band has done.

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