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Evil gal's latest album is a tribute to influences on the first listen, or maybe even the second or third. At times, the album drags, becoming a little too atmospheric for its own good. But overall, it's a refreshing shot of creativity and originality that more musicians in both jazz and country could take a lesson from.

Soundtrack brings back the noinch

Style overtakes substance on eighth album

Mayor to find different location for local gun range

City officials have scrapped plans to put a police gun range near the Blucher Poole sewage treatment plant on the city's rural northern outskirts. Bloomington Mayor John Fernandez said he was pulling the proposed $150,000 appropriation from the $48 million budget to defuse a potential controversy.

Red Cross still needs blood, monetary donations

The massive death and injury tolls being reported from attack sites on the East Coast have left hospitals and blood banks in those areas short on staff and resources.

Don't call them a bluegrass band

Mainstream VMA's reward shameless self-promotion

MTV VMA's unsurprising, uninspired, unfunny.

'Game' needs to work on strategy

Think of everything you would expect to be in this movie, and that's exactly what you'll get. Entertaining, but predictable, "Two Can Play That Game" is full of some good one-liners, but not good enough to be remembered in years to come -- or even days, for that matter.

Style overtakes substance on eighth album

Paying the price for MTV's success

Paying the price for MTV's success Weaning the masses: one who was there reflects on 20 years of MTV Twenty years and not always pop Video regresses: 20 years of MTV

Soundtrack brings back the noinch

Fifteen minutes of fame too much

Bloomington IN THE DARK

Suze has had a long night. She's been waiting tables at the Waffle House for nearly four hours now, and the night's just starting to pick up. She's doing her own bussing and putting in orders, pausing to help the restaurant's sole cook when she can. She's hoping business will die down so she can take a breather. But the possibilities of such luck are slim. A gaggle of well-dressed, polished and hairsprayed young women sits down at a center table. They're ready for their drink order, but Suze hasn't gotten to them yet.

'The Musketeer' shoots blanks

The Musketeer" is the most recent in a long line of renditions of Alexandre Dumas' literary classic, "The Three Musketeers," and comes in the form of this stilted yet mildly entertaining flick.

The best from the beau of zydeco

DVD entertaining back to front

That is why everyone should see this movie, and now that it is in DVD, everyone should see this movie more than once. The special features aren't amazing, but the movie stands on its own as a worthy buy. As mentioned before, this movie shocked audiences by being totally unconventional and surprising, thus making it astounding. Now, if you have seen "Memento" you can understand why the first paragraph is written as it is. If you have not, pay attention.

Quiet, please!

Folky fiends together again

Still our neighbor

Sex, drugs and rock n' roll

Seeing Mark "Marky Mark" Wahlberg wearing heavy eye make-up is somewhat disturbing. Despite this factor, "Rock Star" puts on a good show of the ups and downs of the rock and roll life. Wahlberg plays Blood Pollution front man Chris Cole. Pollution is a Steel Dragon tribute band, and Cole dedicates his life to the music of the heavy metal kings. But Cole is a little too psychotic in his Steel Dragon devotion, and Blood Pollution boots him from frontman duties.