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A Celebration of Life

Kapow! Explodes on Music Scene

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Fledgling rock band Kapow! is getting its name known around Bloomington by leaving it where people can see. Sketches of its comic-like logo explode on multicolored CD envelopes all over town. Free demos sit in front of the register at Soma and on the counter at Dharma Emporium on Kirkwood. Local merchants don't know where they came from. "If they came in and left those CDs, I didn't see them," says a Dharma Emporium employee.


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Visions Of Hardcore's Future

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Orange County's Eighteen Visions is no stranger to the hardcore scene; in fact, they've been working hard for almost a decade. Eighteen Visions is a band whose members have never been afraid to be themselves and it shows in their music and image.


Pooh and Company pull a Macauley Culkin.

Overcoming stereotypes with Pooh

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Winnie, Tigger, Piglet, Rabbit and Eeyore take the backseat in "Pooh's Heffalump Movie," an amusing tale of disproving prejudice and finding new friends.


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Scorsese gem finally gets released

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It's widely considered the greatest film of the '80s. It gathered eight Academy Award nominations including Robert De Niro's second Oscar win. It stands alongside other Scorsese masterworks such as "Goodfellas," "Taxi Driver" and most recently "The Aviator." And finally, after years of being out of print, "Raging Bull" has finally been rereleased as a two-disc collector's edition set.

Chris Pickrell

'Drake' breaks hearts, opens minds

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"Vera Drake" ostensibly tells the story of a London woman who "helps out young girls" in the 1950s. (That translates to "back-alley abortions" for the euphemistically challenged.) But the true story, the one that sticks, is of a poor family struggling in post-war London. They work hard, they fall in love slowly and they always, no matter what, try to do the right thing. And Vera herself teaches us that whatever the matter, there's no problem so insurmountable that it can't be fixed with a nice cup of tea and a word of comfort. This is a quiet little movie, but it speaks loudly.


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Syndicating 'The Sopranos' to help TV

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The three questions that zipped through my mind when I heard that A&E -- the basic cable channel most widely known for its somniferous series "Biography" -- had acquired HBO's hit mob drama "The Sopranos," were: 1) When will it start? 2) How much did they pay? And 3) Is it going to be shown unedited?


Charleston Fire

Escaping into the '90s

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Let me start this by saying that I truly love the '90s. When the first installment of the series, appropriately titled "I Love the '90s," premiered on VH1 last summer, I ate it up. Through the extensive reruns aired daily, I'm pretty sure I prematurely reminisced about every year in the glorious decade with the well selected panel of comedians.


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Comic Relief

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Over the past half-decade the popular masses have discovered that comic books are not exclusively for kids. There has been a general misunderstanding that this is a change from years past, but comics' main audience has always been more adult in nature.


Aaron Bernstein

Peels offer up a refined debut

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Rock 'n' roll came back with the Strokes and has been stuck in a Stooges rut ever since. This is only acceptable since I can't have that signature Ron Asheton crunch outside of their catalog. Meanwhile, new rock bands have been keeping the hipsters happy with repetitive riffs and slurred speech. In picking up this record, the Peels looked like another '70s throwback, but it turns out that's not all they've been listening to.


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The team enters the field to touch the rock during a home football game.

Smith gets 'Jiggy With It' in romantic comedy

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The funny thing about love is how different people like to experience it. Some people want it to happen fast, and others try to make it slow way down. Still other poor souls don't know how they like it, and by the time they've discovered their strategy isn't working, it's too late to fix the problem.


Karly Tearney

'Seventeen Days' not enough to write album

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With three hit songs and multiple music award nominations under their belt thanks to their last two radio-friendly LPs, Escatawpa, Miss. quartet 3 Doors Down continues to record rock for the working man on their latest release, Seventeen Days; an album as pedestrian as it is superficially earnest.


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Educators ditching chalkboards for mousepads

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When Professor Kalynn Brower teaches in the Telecommunications building, her classroom is equipped with a projector, Internet access, an audio system and a DVD and VHS player. Though she has faced technology problems before, the only thing she's worried about this semester is tripping over a wire.



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Around the state

INDIANAPOLIS -- A bill that would mandate that all of Indiana observe daylight-saving time advanced to the full House on a party-line committee vote Wednesday, but some Republican supporters said Democrats were making it a partisan issue and could kill its chances of clearing that chamber.



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IT fair helps students with computer woes

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Bold signs and bright balloons attracted students and faculty Wednesday to browse the Indiana Memorial Union's Frangipani Room for University Information Technology Services' fifth annual Making IT Happen! event.


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Visions Of Hardcore's Future

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Orange County's Eighteen Visions is no stranger to the hardcore scene; in fact, they've been working hard for almost a decade. Eighteen Visions is a band whose members have never been afraid to be themselves and it shows in their music and image.


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Business in brief

CHICAGO -- A bankruptcy judge approved a deal Tuesday, dramatically reducing how much of O'Hare International Airport's debt United Airlines must pay.


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Possible increase in interest rates looming

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NEW YORK -- Stocks staggered to a mixed finish Wednesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told a congressional committee the economy is strong, a sign that the central bank is likely to continue raising interest rates.


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Cut me some slack

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The act of "slacking" is generally done by the species Lazy-us Slackimus, otherwise known as the "slacker." In the past, slacking was viewed as a noble lifestyle where the slacker lived at home in his parents' basement.