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Decorating your studio with Christmas lights makes for brilliant recordings.

Adams gets country rock down to a science

By Wes Jakacki · Wednesday, Nov. 5,2008 3:28 p.m.

You won’t hear anything new with Cardinology, but the album is another signature effort for Ryan Adams. While those older fans won’t be amazed, the album would be a great starting point for those who are unfamiliar with Adams’ 12-year event-filled music career.

'Evolver' extends the legend

By Paul Mattingly · Wednesday, Nov. 5,2008 3:26 p.m.

Before you pop in a John Legend album, you count on hearing a few things: beautiful, effortless vocals; superior lyrics and good ol’ sweet, baby-making music. Evolver lives up to these standards.

Local bands shine on EP

By CJ Lotz · Wednesday, Nov. 5,2008 3:22 p.m.

Bloomington music lurks in basements. Red Solo cups waving through the air, it’s not just jungle juice that drives scene – it’s the bands that emerge from the underground.Prizzy Prizzy Please and Push-Pull are two of the B-town bands that went from the Statehouse (a popular basement venue) to the Bluebird and then throughout the Midwest, spreading this college town’s nerd-electro-dance-rock gospel.

Sidetracked

By Tyler James Perry , Paul Mattingly and Danielle Fleischman · Wednesday, Nov. 5,2008 3:17 p.m.

Three WEEKEND reviewers tackle music's latest tracks.

Miscalculating the ratings

By Cory Barker · Wednesday, Nov. 5,2008 3:15 p.m.

WEEKEND Reviews Editor Cory Barker tackles the ratings issues plaguing the TV industry.

This movie is nothing more than a vehicle for Chace Crawford's hotness.

Horror for ’tweens fails again

By Brian Hettmansperger · Wednesday, Nov. 5,2008 3:12 p.m.

With its predicable plot (save the somewhat surprise ending) and the young actors walking through their roles, the burden of the movie’s success factor is on first-time director Mickey Liddell, who gets an A for effort but an F for execution.

Ritchie’s new film is ‘Rockn’

By Brian Welk · Wednesday, Nov. 5,2008 3:07 p.m.

It’s entertaining, with an ending that does turn out to be remarkable and stylistic. But it could be so much more. With the same old story, it doesn’t have much that stands out.

Students still debating whether or not to vote for unlikely candidates

By Stephanie Kuzydym · Wednesday, Nov. 5,2008 2:40 p.m.

When students step in to vote Tuesday, Huckabee’s name will not appear on the ballot. However, the American public can still vote for him through a write-in ballot.

Clint Eastwood may be a better director than he was an actor.

Eastwood shines again

By Doug Evans · Wednesday, Nov. 5,2008 2:23 p.m.

“Changeling” attacks the structure of power, one in which police were ordered to cover things up and imprison troublemakers without cause. Though Christine Collins' search yielded no solace, her struggle is one that needed be told.

Borrowing from Judd Apatow has reinvigorated Kevin Smith's career.

Filth, nudity and heart

By Brent Williamson · Wednesday, Nov. 5,2008 2:20 p.m.

With an amazing cast from both Smith’s own movies and the more recent Apatow hits, Smith has made a standout film for a demographic becoming increasingly jaded by lackluster films attempting to be the next “Superbad” or “Anchorman” (I’m looking at you, “Pineapple Express” and “Step Brothers”). Where those movies fell, “Zach and Miri” stands strong– for those with the stomach to handle it.

Democrats win House, Senate seats

Wednesday, Nov. 5,2008 2:40 a.m.

Democrats expanded their control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in Tuesday's election.

The death and rebirth of news

By Thomas Wachtel · Wednesday, Nov. 5,2008 2:38 a.m.

When you read this, you will hopefully know who the next president of the United States will be, because that will mean everything went smoothly and there was no shadiness in 2008 as there was in Florida in 2000 and in Ohio in 2004. Of course, that poses a big problem for people like me who are getting paid (mostly) to talk about it. You see, as I’m writing this column, it’s Monday morning, but I know nobody will see this until press time Wednesday. I can’t talk about what’s going to happen, because you already know. I can’t talk about what happened, because I don’t know. And I sure as hell can’t talk about anything other than the election.

Oh la la ... pranked!

By Nick Wallace · Wednesday, Nov. 5,2008 2:36 a.m.

Sarah Palin's future has been on many pundits’ minds. Some have suggested she host a talk show. Others have suggested that she run in 2012 if McCain loses or if he only wants to serve one term. We small town, “pro-America” folk should have known better than to listen to those elite media liberals trying to tell us what our hero Sarah Palin might do. As a matter of fact, Palin’s happy to tell us about her career aspirations herself. She wants to go hunting with Nicolas Sarkozy, president of France.

Obama clinches Indiana late

By Peter Stevenson · Wednesday, Nov. 5,2008 2:34 a.m.

President-elect Barack Obama squeaked out a 13,000-vote victory in Indiana on Tuesday, putting the state’s electoral votes in the Democratic column for the first time since 1964.

Post-11/4 survival guide

By Chase Cooper · Wednesday, Nov. 5,2008 2:34 a.m.

“Western civilization had an Age of Reason and an Age of Enlightenment. In those periods, the quest for reason and enlightenment was the dominant intellectual drive and created a corresponding emotional atmosphere that fostered these values. Today we live in an Age of Envy.” – Ayn Rand As of the writing of this column, it’s not yet known whether Americans chose as our next president the liberal quasi-socialist with little executive experience or his Democratic opponent, who’s even worse. But it really doesn’t matter, because either way, we’ve got a lot of work to do if we want to spend the rest of our lives knowing the freedom and prosperity we experienced growing up. We must devote precious time and energy we normally would’ve spent pursuing our own dreams fighting for the very right to pursue these dreams at all.

Separation anxiety ’08

By Ayesha Awan · Wednesday, Nov. 5,2008 2:30 a.m.

As is the standard protocol here on the IDS opinion page, I’m turning this column in on Monday, and you are reading it on Wednesday. I don’t know the outcome of the election yet, though I am quite looking forward to making the long walk to Read – my designated polling place – and casting my first presidential election vote. At this point, I’m positive my e-mail inbox is at least half full of e-mails from Barack Obama, Joe Biden and David Plouffe. And I really have no idea how the Obama volunteers got a hold of my phone number, but I’m really glad they’ll finally stop calling me now.

Barack Obama supporter and self proclaimed "number one Cubs fan" Ronnie "Woo-Woo" Wickens shouts out "Obama Woo" Tuesday afternoon outside Grant Park in Chicago, IL.

Obama supporters ecstatic after lengthy campaign

By Kristi Oloffson · Wednesday, Nov. 5,2008 2:23 a.m.

CHICAGO – Believe. For a campaign based on that very slogan, some Barack Obama fans still can’t believe it. After 21 months of campaigning, they have their president. An endless sea of 125,000 jumping, screaming and singing fans gathered in Grant Park on Tuesday to witness a historic speech as Obama became the 44th president and first black president of the United States.

Rep. Baron Hill, D-9th, speaks during a rally for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. on Oct. 23 at the American Legion Mall in Indianapolis. Hill won another term in congress, defeating challenger Mike Sodrel.

Baron Hill re-elected

By Zina Kumok · Wednesday, Nov. 5,2008 2:23 a.m.

A fight between two long-time rivals ended in a landslide Tuesday.

Barack Obama gets his chance

Wednesday, Nov. 5,2008 2:22 a.m.

Welcome to the Obama-verse. It’s been a drawn-out, hard-fought battle, but it seems Barack Obama will be heading the good ol’ US of A for the next few years. You cast your ballots, you “rocked the vote” and you voted for change. Now, change is what you’re going to get. Well, sort of. After completing an exhausting, multi-year campaign, our new “numero uno” has his real work cut out for him. It’s time for him – and all of us, for that matter – to accept the reality that he will not be able to follow through on a good deal of his campaign promises. That’s just the way it works, especially in budget crunches like this. No matter how favorably disposed Congress might be toward him, it’s going to be an uphill battle to pass each new spending bill and to establish each new program. The economy, education, energy, the environment, ethics, foreign policy, health care, homeland security, Iraq, Social Security, taxes and veterans’ affairs are all in shaky upkeep and are vying for his attention like excessively needy 2-year-olds. Obama inherited his dominion, rather than building it from the ground up, and as such, he has more than a few messes to clean up before he can move on. Despite the multitude of constraints he faces, we hope that our new commander in chief will try his hardest to remain true to his commitment of stronger leadership and a better perspective for this country – that’s why we endorsed him.

Indiana still undecided hours after Obama declared winner

By Tom Davies · Wednesday, Nov. 5,2008 2:21 a.m.

GARY – Indiana voters split nearly down the middle in what was perhaps the closest race in the nation between president-elect Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. Obama was close to snapping Indiana’s streak of backing Republican presidential nominees for 10 straight elections, but counting continued late Tuesday as unofficial vote tallies by The Associated Press showed him holding a lead of about 8,000 votes out of some 2.6 million cast.