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Technology plays radio name game

By Ryne Shadday · Thursday, April 14,2005 12:14 a.m.

Driving down the road listening to the radio, you come across a great song which you don't recognize but really want to download or purchase on CD. The problem arises. You won't know the song's title or artist unless the disc jockey specifically says it while you're in the car.

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Fair and ... untruthful?

By Alyson Brodsy and Evan Ross · Thursday, April 14,2005 12:14 a.m.

The problem with newspapers is that once something's written, it's forever remembered that way. Any information, whether true or false, in an original story is perceived by readers as the actual, honest to God, truth. And it's almost impossible to scrape away misinformation from people's minds once it's been in print.

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No 'time' for bickering

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, April 14,2005 12:12 a.m.

Next April, Hoosiers will hopefully join the residents of the other 47 continental states that observe daylight-saving time. If that happens, as it should, national and international businesses are more likely to extend a welcoming economic hand to the needing arms of local willing and able bodies. Daylight-saving time is an overdue and welcomed tool to help Indiana recover from its hard times.

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Eric Rudolph pleads guilty to bombings

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, April 14,2005 12:07 a.m.

ATLANTA -- A defiant Eric Rudolph pleaded guilty Wednesday to carrying out the deadly bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and three other attacks, saying he picked the Summer Games to embarrass the U.S. government in front of the world "for its abominable sanctioning of abortion on demand."

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Video tape shows Northern Indiana man as Iraqi hostage

By Alyson Brodsy and Traci Carl · Thursday, April 14,2005 12:06 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- An Indiana man, scared and clutching his passport to his chest, was shown at gunpoint on a videotape aired by Al-Jazeera television Wednesday, two days after he was kidnapped from a water treatment plant near Baghdad. The station said he pleaded for his life and urged U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraq.

FILM Paul Haggis

Forget about "Fahrenheit"

By Chris Wisner and compiled by Chris Wisner · Thursday, April 14,2005 12 a.m.

In the documentary world of filmmaking, it's easy to miss out on important features when you've got big films like "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "Super Size Me" grabbing for your attention. Sure it's easy to be attracted to Michael Moore's anti-Bush tirade or Morgan Spurlock's insane McDonald's eating binge, but what about documentaries dealing with a bigger subject range? Chances are you probably never heard much buzz about "The Corporation," so consider yourself about to be informed.

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Get 'Lost' with the Books

By Nate Gowdy · Thursday, April 14,2005 12 a.m.

"Revolution 9," John Lennon's noise experiment from the Beatles' White Album, was different than anything that had come before it. Thirty-five years later the Books' third album, Lost and Safe, expands on the landscape created by "Revolution 9." It's more listenable and a full-length album.

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Farrelly flick misses fences

By -Alec Toombs · Thursday, April 14,2005 12 a.m.

Baseball season is officially here and with it comes the aptly-timed flick "Fever Pitch." As directed by the Farrelly brothers (purveyors of the '90s glut of gross-out comedies, i.e. "Dumb and Dumber," "Kingpin" and "There's Something About Mary"), the film is an across-the-pond adaptation of British author Nick Hornby's ("High Fidelity," "About a Boy") semi-autobiographical book. The difference: in Hornby's memoir and its 1997 cinematic translation starring Colin Firth ("Bridget Jones's Diary") the protagonist is a high school English teacher and avid Arsenal booster; here he's Ben Wrightman (Jimmy Fallon), a high school math teacher and die-hard Boston Red Sox supporter. It's an appropriate switch, as the Brit soccer club makes its fans suffer nearly as much as the BoSox did until they won last fall's World Series -- ending an 86-year slump.

Patrons of the Video Saloon, affectionately known as “the Vid” to regulars, play a game of pool in the virtually empty bar.

Layin' LOW

By Laura Haynes · Thursday, April 14,2005 12 a.m.

A typical night on the town for senior Ali McCoy, like many of her fellow peers, consists of a three-bar rotation. First, McCoy and her crew hit up the notorious upper-class joint, Nick's English Hut, for a round of "Sink the Biz." Next, after checking her account balance at the ATM outside of Tacos Don Chuy, McCoy braves the cold in line for Upstairs in hopes for a taste (or two) of their AMF drink.

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Little 500 Concert Guide

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, April 14,2005 12 a.m.

Tonight The Roots, presented by Union Board, at 8 p.m. at the IU Auditorium. Tickets are $27 for students with valid student ID and $35 for non-students. Tickets are available at the IU Auditorium box office or any Ticketmaster location.

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Clive Cussler confection convoluted

By Mike Malik · Thursday, April 14,2005 12 a.m.

Take the suave style of James Bond, the action/adventure of Indiana Jones and the oddly timed humor of Austin Powers and you have main character, Dirk Pitt (Matthew McConaughey), created for the movie "Sahara."

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Up the creek

By -Nate Bethea · Thursday, April 14,2005 12 a.m.

Three Rivers Jackson are tired of playing for their friends. It's 9:30 p.m. on a Monday night, and Pablo Svirsky, Sean Donnelly and Dustin Koester are setting up for a rehearsal in the basement of the music annex. Speaking above amps sputtering feedback and the feet of a drum kit scraping the floor, Svirsky tells a story about one of his acoustic gigs played with Donnelly.

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An 'orgasmic' DVD release

By Karen Green · Thursday, April 14,2005 12 a.m.

It was nine years ago that "Orgazmo," the brainchild of "the 'South Park' guys" Trey Parker and Matt Stone, was shot and completed. Cursed with an NC-17 rating and released independently, it was received coldly by filmgoers in 1997. Perhaps that's not a bad thing, as a movie like this is best viewed on DVD anyway.

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Name changes, music doesn't

By Tony Sams · Thursday, April 14,2005 12 a.m.

There's something wonderfully hypnotic about Jason Molina's voice. It's that well balanced blend of melancholy and hope that slows you down and makes you smile. It's that you-can-listen-to-me-all-night kind of wallowing. In other words, I anoint him Neil Young II.

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MTV doesn't suck?

By -Alec Toombs · Thursday, April 14,2005 12 a.m.

Let's get something straight: I hate MTV. I dug it when I was a kid and it actually showed music videos (good stuff like the Smashing Pumpkins' "Tonight, Tonight" and "1979," the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage," Weezer's "Buddy Holly" and Aerosmith's Alicia Silverstone trilogy) or had decent shows like "Beavis and Butt-head," but in recent years it has turned into something else entirely. What's the point of having something called "Music Television" that doesn't show any damned videos? You got me? Thankfully, someone of some modicum of intelligence over at the Viacom-owned corporation saw it fit to remedy the problem. The solution: the newly revamped MTV2.

MIDEAST ISRAEL PALESTINIANS RAMADAN

Aesop 'rocks' the Bluebird

By Lucretia Fernandez · Thursday, April 14,2005 12 a.m.

Indie hip-hop lyricist Aesop Rock (Ian Bavitz) brought his eclectic, urban vibe to the Bluebird's stage last Friday and his energy ran through the entire crowd of more than 400. Heads, hands and hips were moving to the Aesop rhythm. Appearing with Aesop Rock was Mr. Lif, another Definitive Jux Records artist.

Fashion Zac Posen

The heat is on

By -Nate Bethea · Thursday, April 14,2005 12 a.m.

It was never going to last. Hot Hot Heat managed to create something unique on their last record, 2002's Make Up the Breakdown -- it was the sound of human exhaustion, of too many stimulants and not enough sleep combined with an ear for shiny, snappy pop. Nevermind the alphabet soup lyrics and shrill pogo-stick voice, Make Up the Breakdown was the pitch-perfect soundtrack to an amphetamine-laced road trip taken by rolling down a hill in a shopping cart.

Get your swerve on with 'Sideways'

By Tony Sams · Thursday, April 14,2005 12 a.m.

Defying my critic brethren, I could not love Alexander Payne's "Sideways," a buddy road trip filtered through California's wine country for the midlife crisis crowd's palette. I liked it well enough; I wrote in this very newspaper a few months ago that it was "a good movie that wasn't THAT good." If you haven't seen it previously, don't take a chance and buy it. But it's still worth -- in this case -- the rental price.

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