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Cave In's fifth almost too 'Perfect'

By Chris Wisner · Thursday, Sept. 22,2005 12 a.m.

For being the fifth full-length release in Cave In's long career, chances are that if they didn't get noticed with their previous album Antenna, then maybe their latest effort, Perfect Pitch Black, might finally pull them out of the underground.

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Hollywood Hoosier

By Chris Wisner and compiled by Chris Wisner · Wednesday, Sept. 21,2005 11:28 p.m.

Standing amid the glass cases of the Lilly Library -- cases which house some of the 30,000 comic books donated as part of a special exhibition running from now until December 17th -- Michael Uslan finally feels like he is back at home.

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Marathon Runner: Jonathan Rossing

By Maggie Bozich · Wednesday, Sept. 21,2005 10:42 p.m.

In the past two years, Jonathan Rossing has run 7 marathons, clocking in more than 180 miles in those races, plus the miles and miles of training. But this Communication and Culture PhD student's real dream?

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Not a bad 'fever'

By Greg Schoenbaecheler · Wednesday, Sept. 21,2005 10:02 p.m.

The insight into a hardcore Boston Red Sox fan cannot be summed up any better. "Fever Pitch" is the latest installment of the great comedic string of movies created by the Farrelly brothers. These brothers brought together the elements of a romantic comedy better than many recent movies.

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InVenture supports Indiana small businesses

By Laura Jane Hyde · Wednesday, Sept. 21,2005 10:02 p.m.

InVenture, a joint endeavor between IU and Bloomington, recently celebrated the end of its first year helping University-related, technology-based businesses take off. InVenture, located in the IU Research Park in downtown Bloomington, has a mission to provide entrepreneurs with business support, to provide a professional facility and to initiate a business venture with limited financial exposure, according to the inVenture Web site.

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Don't let this 'Hitchhiker' guide you

By Evan Ross · Wednesday, Sept. 21,2005 9:54 p.m.

One of the more beloved science fiction works of the last half century has been Douglas Adams' "The "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," finally released into theaters earlier this year. Many obsessed Adams fans worried that his bizarrely inspired smart slapstick space opera would be diluted by the big screen. As a film, "Hitchhiker's" captures the whimsy and magic of Adams' book. However, as capturing an exciting film on DVD, the disc falters.

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What hath Arizona wrought

By C. Warner Stills · Wednesday, Sept. 21,2005 9:49 p.m.

The idea of combing the soothing vocals of Iron & Wine's Sam Beam, with the smooth, Western-influenced sounds of Calexico is not something I would have predicted, however, after listening to the seven track EP, In The Reins, featuring these musicians in their prime, I was left wanting more.

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Gray's dramatic 'life'

By John Barnett · Wednesday, Sept. 21,2005 9:45 p.m.

In 2000, seven years and four albums into his career, Manchester, England's own David Gray infiltrated the mainstream with the gorgeously infectious electro-folk of White Ladder. Seemingly stunned by that LP's six million sales, Gray offered up a sparse hit-and-miss, A New Day at Midnight in 2002, followed now by Life In Slow Motion, a record combining the heartfelt delivery of his early albums with the anthemic tendencies and everyman balladry of his later works, minus White Ladder's electronic flourishes.

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Cave In's fifth almost too 'Perfect'

By Chris Wisner · Wednesday, Sept. 21,2005 9:41 p.m.

For being the fifth full-length release in Cave In's long career, chances are that if they didn't get noticed with their previous album Antenna, then maybe their latest effort, Perfect Pitch Black, might finally pull them out of the underground.

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Banhart has a whole lotof heart

By Nate Gowdy · Wednesday, Sept. 21,2005 9:38 p.m.

Last spring Bright Eyes' It's Morning, I'm Wide Awake let me have it -- it was that cold bucket of water over the head that opens your eyes long before the sun is up. The Shins and Iron & Wine (both featured on that one soundtrack for that "Garden"-something movie) weren't the only ones making folk music beyond that of those making it 30 years earlier.

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'Venom' is like poison to your eyes

By Matt McMullan · Wednesday, Sept. 21,2005 9:32 p.m.

There is a reason that "Venom" is only playing in one theater in the Indianapolis metropolitan area. And I bet you know what that reason is. It's kind of lame. Surprise!

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Niccol thrives on realism in 'War'

By Robert O'Connor · Wednesday, Sept. 21,2005 9:30 p.m.

"Lord of War" is the newest film by Andrew Niccol ("Gattaca"). It's the story of how Yuri Orlov (Nicholas Cage), a Russian immigrant, rises from poverty in the New York ghetto, Little Odessa, to eventually become one of the biggest arms dealers in the world.

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Whodunit disguised as a slasher

By Sean Abbott · Wednesday, Sept. 21,2005 9:28 p.m.

It has been a long time since a good "slasher" flick has graced the screen. It's been almost ten years since the last good one, "Scream," and over twice as long since the classics. And this is assuming you believe any slice-and-dice scary movie could be called "classic" or even "good," because most people do not.

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Welcome to 'Heaven'

By Olivia Morales · Wednesday, Sept. 21,2005 9:25 p.m.

In the romantic comedy "Just Like Heaven," ever-affable good-natured Mark Ruffalo moves into a "haunted" apartment in San Francisco. Its view and privately accessible rooftop make the place a mouth-watering find, though one does pause to wonder how he can see all of San Francisco from a third-story walk-up.

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Hoosiers echo accusations of racism in Katrina relief

By David A. Nosko · Wednesday, Sept. 21,2005 5:08 p.m.

Black leaders from the Rev. Jesse Jackson to rapper Kanye West have accused federal officials of racism and classism for standing aside while Hurricane Katrina claimed the lives of poor black people in flooded areas of the Gulf Coast. Eric Love, IU's director of diversity education, agrees with this characterization.

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200 to zero in 73 laps

By David A. Nosko · Wednesday, Sept. 21,2005 5:05 p.m.

American racing fans learned a valuable lesson Sunday during the U.S. Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway: the Formula 1 product is disorganized, uninteresting and a flimflam cloaked as an international spectacle.

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