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'Rejects' a disturbing treat

By Chris Wisner and compiled by Chris Wisner · Thursday, July 28,2005 12 a.m.

Despite his rather disappointing directorial debut "House of 1000 Corpses," Rob Zombie's pseudo-sequel "The Devil's Rejects" drops the creepy carnival-esque camp found in its predecessor, replacing it with 70's grind house grit.

Black returns with third solo album

By C. Warner Sills and Ty Schrock · Thursday, July 28,2005 12 a.m.

When Frank Black was forming the Pixies, he ran an ad looking for musicians that were into Hüsker Dü and Peter, Paul & Mary.

It's not TV … it's HBO

By C. Warner Sills · Thursday, July 28,2005 12 a.m.

It is quite safe to say that I have become a junkie for HBO television.

Pimpin' ain't easy

By -Alec Toombs · Thursday, July 28,2005 12 a.m.

Winning the Audience Award at this year's Sundance Film Festival helped secure newbie writer/director Craig Brewer's "Hustle & Flow" a record-setting $9 million distribution deal with Paramount Classics and MTV Films, which, in turn, will propel the film into popular consciousness and 1,000-plus theaters.

An alienating love story

By Chris Wisner and compiled by Chris Wisner · Thursday, July 28,2005 12 a.m.

Michelangelo Antonioni's "L'Eclisse" ("The Eclipse") is a difficult film to discuss without providing a more personal angle.

Schmaltz on ice

By C. Warner Sills and John Barnett · Thursday, July 28,2005 12 a.m.

Casey Carlyle (hottie and former child-spy Michelle Trachtenberg) is a math whiz on the road to Harvard who just wants to be a professional ice skater.

'Constantine' gut-wrenchingly bad

By C. Warner Sills and Rob O'Connor · Thursday, July 28,2005 12 a.m.

"Constantine" is the story of supernatural detective John Constantine (Keanu Reeves) who serves as the ballast in a war between heaven and hell.

Billy Bob 'Bad' again

By C. Warner Sills and Doug Evans · Thursday, July 28,2005 12 a.m.

In previews for "Bad News Bears," it looks as though Billy Bob Thornton brings back his piss-drunk "Bad Santa" character to play a Little League baseball coach.

TREE RELIEF

By David A. Nosko · Thursday, July 28,2005 12 a.m.

Folklorist Joseph Campbell once said that God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'ah!'

5 saxophone players join forces to be a Musical Mafia

By C. Warner Sills and Holly Pilewski · Thursday, July 28,2005 12 a.m.

Out of the dark, murky club, the voices start singing.

Everybody loves a penguin

By -Kehla West · Thursday, July 28,2005 12 a.m.

Each year, emperor penguins march more than 70 miles to their ancestral breeding ground.

Hot club of Naptown heats up July

By Annysa LaMantia and Anyssa LaMantia · Wednesday, July 27,2005 11:59 p.m.

Art and music lovers came out by the hundreds Friday night to the IU Art Museum for an evening of live music on the Sculpture Terrace. The cost-free event was the last of four performances in the Jazz in July series put on by the museum and other sponsors.

Opera 'Pinafore' promises fun, laughs

By Adam Sedia · Wednesday, July 27,2005 11:56 p.m.

What do opera and "Saturday Night Live" have in common? The ability to delight audiences even after years have passed, according to IU stage director, Vince Liotta.

Local restaurants, stores sweat through the heat

By David A. Nosko · Wednesday, July 27,2005 11:51 p.m.

After sweating through a week-long heat wave that vibrated through most of the nation, several local businesses remained unaffected while others received minimal financial damage.

Swimming in ice cream

By David A. Nosko · Wednesday, July 27,2005 11:47 p.m.

Before melting underneath the glaring heat and suffocating humidity of the city's recent weeklong sweat fest, some residents and guests slurped and licked their way to cooler body temperatures despite oppressive heat waves.

Changing opinions

By Alyson Brodsy and Brian J. McFillen · Wednesday, July 27,2005 11:34 p.m.

It's not often one is deeply disturbed by a public editor column. But leave it to The New York Times to do the extraordinary.

Police arrest suspected July 21 bomber

By Alyson Brodsy and Beth Gardiner · Wednesday, July 27,2005 11:30 p.m.

BIRMINGHAM, England -- Police pursuing suspects in the failed July 21 terror bombings in London raided four homes across Britain on Wednesday and detained four people, including a Somali man believed to be one of the fugitive bombers, media reports and a witness said.

Give it 10 more years

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, July 27,2005 11:21 p.m.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted to renew the USA PATRIOT Act in a 257-171 vote and it now sits ready for a Senate vote. This time, however, the House voted to make 14 of the Act's 16 provisions permanent, while the more controversial ones dealing with roving wiretaps and secret searches of library and medical records will expire and be reviewed again in 10 years.

'No' to Patriot Act

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, July 27,2005 11:19 p.m.

Renewing the Patriot Act for even one more day is a continued travesty for the American people -- patriots of a nation gone rabid by continued war. The 9-11 attacks mangled any hope of the American dream, as exemplified by the first-responder legislated reaction to unanimously support the further stripping of sacred liberties in the name of "necessity" and "national security."

200 killed in record monsoon rains in India

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, July 27,2005 11 p.m.

BOMBAY, India -- Authorities said Wednesday they had recovered at least 200 bodies in western India after the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in the country shut down the financial hub of Bombay, snapped communication lines and marooned thousands of people in the past two days.

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