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Park explores his mediocrity, feelings

By Brian Eliott Johnson and Brian Elliott Johnson · Thursday, July 17,2003 12:02 p.m.

Patrick Park's latest album, Loneliness Knows My Name is an astounding tour of mediocrity. The album tracks seem as though they could take off at any moment and become at least catchy, if not inspiring, but that just isn't the case. It's not that Park can't sing, play his guitar or write decent songs, he can do all of these things, he just can't do them with any kind of force.

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More 'Songs' about barrios and food

By -Val Tsoutsouris · Thursday, July 17,2003 12:01 p.m.

Quetzal has the worst quality a rock en espanol band can have. It's not from a Spanish-speaking country. In fact, the group is from Los Angeles. That's too bad because while the new Cafe Tacuba album gets most of the attention among recently released rock en espanol albums, Quetzal's Worksongs is hardly far behind.

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It's kind of like dinner with your mother

By Michael Tapscott · Thursday, July 17,2003 12 p.m.

With a haze that recalls Yo La Tengo, hooks that resemble Pavement, song structures and vocals that evoke Elliott Smith and a producer who is duck-call player Jason Lytle from Grandaddy, Earlimart has the attention of the indie crowd which isn't obsessed with originality. And since the album title makes a statement for solidarity, Earlimart sounds like the house band for its forefathers.

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Guster musters to 'Keep It Together'

By -Alec Toombs · Thursday, July 17,2003 11:59 a.m.

Boston-based rockers Guster have returned following a four-year hiatus with the intermittently entertaining and ultimately unchallenging Keep It Together. The trio, best known for its simplistic acoustic guitar and bongo-driven sound, has diversified by integrating pianos, banjos and the occasional flirtation with all instruments electric into the mix. This broader sonic palette makes Keep It Together a moderately more interesting listen than its predecessors, and yet, Guster seems unable to lift itself into the higher echelons of the pop pantheon.

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Banhart conjures his demos and the cosmos

By Michael Tapscott · Thursday, July 17,2003 11:58 a.m.

Following a disappointing Xiu Xiu show, my friends and I sauntered from the bar at Schuba's in Chicago to the stage to begrudgingly watch the following act. We met Devendra Banhart with good-natured shock. The shaggy, playful guy, who was a dead ringer for Cat Stevens, who played a Nick Drake-style of nylon sting picking and had tremendous control over his tenor with a powerful vibrato.

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Apparently Oklahoma folks are a little different

By Jessica Halverson · Thursday, July 17,2003 11:57 a.m.

Let's call this Pavement-based, weirdo rock by kids who listen to hip hop. The Starlight Mints second album, Built on Squares, is a transmission of desert space alien rock, with lyrics about girls and stories that give them a touch of earthiness. Even when they are ripping licks off the Kinks, this seven-person unit sounds tight in a cello, triangle, sound effects sort of way.

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'Space-cowboy' pretenders

By Michael Tapscott · Thursday, July 17,2003 11:56 a.m.

Seriously, so much for the city. These guys sound so sick of the California stock that they feel the need to sonically reference old school retreatists the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers. It's kind of perplexing to find out that The Thrills are actually from Dublin.

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'League' just ordinary

By Abhi Kumar · Thursday, July 17,2003 11:52 a.m.

The basic concept of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" is so fascinating that it wouldn't take much to adapt it into a great movie. This movie, however, is merely decent. Loosely-based on the six-part comic book series of the same name, this movie brings together a team of 19th century literary characters such as Alan Quatermain from King Solomon's Mines, Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde, and even Captain Nemo of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to battle the enemies of the British Empire.

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'Pirates' action-packed summer fun

By Jake Bilinski · Thursday, July 17,2003 11:51 a.m.

It's about time a pirate flick wormed its way to the big screen again. What says adventure more than stingy, tooth-decayed scourges of the seas striving to snatch some booty? Needless to say, my expectations were high for this summer blockbuster, and happily, they were met.

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('Phone Booth' -- R)

By Jessica Smith · Thursday, July 17,2003 11:47 a.m.

It had potential. "Phone Booth" could have been a good movie, possibly. The basic premise is a snotty, small-time publicist with a big head and basic disrespect for humanity is trapped inside a phone booth by a sniper wanting to either kill him or change his life forever. Kiefer Sutherland plays the "voice" on the phone -- the sniper -- and successfully comes across as a psychopath. Colin Farrell's performance is very intense and he displays his acting chops very well.

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Less 'Mary' is actually 'More'

By -Alec Toombs · Thursday, July 17,2003 11:46 a.m.

"There's Something About Mary" was an undeniably special film upon its release some five years ago. It hearkened back to the gross-out genre established by such classics as "Animal House" and "Caddyshack," which had gone ignored by major Hollywood studios for the better part of two decades. Replete with potshots at the mentally handicapped, long, lingering shots of breasts (albeit sagging, wrinkly ones) and a variety of jokes revolving around Ben Stiller's penis, "Mary" was and still is a revelation. There really is something about "Mary" -- hence, the new DVD treatment.

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Califone makes some movie music

By Jessica Halverson · Thursday, July 17,2003 11:35 a.m.

Fith Deceleration Two, Chicago band Califone takes the "concept album" to a new level. This album has three concepts and was partially recorded live (at Columbia College, a music school in Chicago).

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Farrar's turn to experiment

By Brian Eliott Johnson and Brian Elliott Johnson · Thursday, July 17,2003 11:35 a.m.

Jay Farrar, founding member of Uncle Tupelo, has been around long enough to know his stuff. Whether or not you agree that Uncle Tupelo was the pioneering alternative country act, the power behind Farrar and co-founder Jeff Tweedy was undeniable.

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Nothing beats a bunch of nerdy kids in a spelling bee

By Michael Tapscott · Thursday, July 17,2003 11:35 a.m.

"Spellbound" is a uniquely boring and uncritical look at the National Spelling Bee. Focusing on eight children and their quest for the championship, the movie pries ever so gently into the lives of these kids, barely unearthing their possibilities and disturbing elements. As one mother says, "someone told me this was another form of child abuse."

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'Thirteen'

By Jessica Halverson · Thursday, July 17,2003 11:34 a.m.

I'm worried that someday maybe my life won't amount to anything. I started college with lofty goals, how I was going to be a journalist to help people. I'd write about the untouchables no one had heard about who needed help and inform the world.

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Luke Wilson, what the hell happened?

Thursday, July 17,2003 11:34 a.m.

Luke Wilson comes across as a generally nice fellow onscreen. Usually, he portrays the affable everyman, and that's most assuredly part of his appeal. Dudes relate to him and chicks want to have relations with him.

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Streetball comes to Indy

By Micah Sturr · Thursday, July 17,2003 11:34 a.m.

Conseco Field House in Indianapolis throbbed with bass and hip-hop showmanship. Dizzying combinations of white spotlights and erratically swerving blue and amber lights punctuated a pair of rap artists on the basketball court exhorting the crowd to "bounce -- everybody bounce, bounce." The act was prelude to a game between the AND 1 company's traveling team of streetballers plus the "home" team, which consists of more AND 1 players as well as three young men from Indianapolis. The "home" team qualified to be a part of the spectacle by beating out 97 other players in an open run tournament in the parking lot of the Field House earlier in the day. The play was an extravagantly flashy modification of Harlem Globetrotters style tricks and entertainment, stripped of the comedic camp and infused with an over-the-top playground style. Players are christened with colorful superhero-esque names like Flash, Headache and Chisel for their streetball alter-egos.

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Ashton resident found dead

By Brandon Morley and Brandon S Morley · Thursday, July 17,2003 10:18 a.m.

An Ivy Tech student renting housing space at IU was found dead by a Resident Assistant in the first floor shower of Ashton Center's Weatherly Hall on Saturday evening. Douglas A. Weddle's body was discovered at approximately 7:30 p.m. when another resident reported the shower being used by Weddle had been running for roughly an hour.

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Banhart conjures his demos and the cosmos

By Michael Tapscott and Mike Tapscott · Thursday, July 17,2003 12 a.m.

Following a disappointing Xiu Xiu show, my friends and I sauntered from the bar at Schuba's in Chicago to the stage to begrudgingly watch the following act. We met Devendra Banhart with good-natured shock. The shaggy, playful guy, who was a dead ringer for Cat Stevens, who played a Nick Drake-style of nylon sting picking and had tremendous control over his tenor with a powerful vibrato.

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'Thirteen'

By Jessica Halverson and Jesscia Halverson · Thursday, July 17,2003 12 a.m.

I'm worried that someday maybe my life won't amount to anything. I started college with lofty goals, how I was going to be a journalist to help people. I'd write about the untouchables no one had heard about who needed help and inform the world.

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