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Laura Linney wants the balloon, but Philip Seymour Hoffman wants all the joy to himself.

Savage love

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With her second film since the critically acclaimed "Slums of Beverly Hills," writer-director Tamara Jenkins is back to the big screen with "The Savages," her tale of two faltering siblings given the responsibility of caring for their elderly, abusive father.



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Bloody cinema

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Valentine's Day will never be the same again, at least not for those who attended the showing of the 1981 film "My Bloody Valentine" on Saturday night at the Cinemat.

Putting us to sleep

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Jack Johnson's music is the equivalent of the beach in Corona commercials: pleasant, unchanging, anonymous and happily oblivious to the stuff of real life.


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From Bloomington to Broadway and back

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Theatrical set and costume design master Robert O’Hearn retired from the IU faculty following the completion of William Bolcom’s opera “A Wedding” earlier this month.





Re-up still grindin'

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It doesn't take long on We Got It For Cheap Volume 3 to figure out what separates Clipse's coke-rap comrades AB Liva and Sandman -- collectively known as the Re-Up Gang -- from its peers.



Nada Surf borrowed its haircuts from 1992.

Lucky charms

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Twelve years after the breakthrough success of its single "Popular," and 10 years after difficulties with Elektra Records cast it out of the mainstream, Nada Surf continues to crank out surprisingly strong albums for a band once dismissed as "one-hit-wonders."



Good laugh, not great movie

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In the new family comedy "Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins," Martin Lawrence delivers a traditional comedic performance, but the movie is far from original in its efforts to entertain.




Lighting the way

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On first listen, Carrie Newcomer's album sounds like any other alt-country album I've heard.



Students hang out outside Hartzell’s Jiffy Treet after eating ice cream on Kirkwood.

Mild West show

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Vince Vaughn -- comedy's fleshy white everyman, object of admiration for dudes and bros the world over and eager heir to Will Farrell's throne -- should not be considered a sage giver of advice.


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Underwater Archeologists discuss Captain Kidd shipwreck

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Cannonballs, jars and rum bottles. These artifacts were found at the site of the Captain Kidd shipwreck in the Dominican Republic and sat on display outside the Whittenberger Auditorium Tuesday night after the hour-long lecture, “Columbus and the Taino to Captain Kidd and the Golden Age of Piracy.”