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‘Symphony for Three’ to premiere today

By Savannah Worley · Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 12:26 a.m.

Instead of showing a typical version of “Romeo and Juliet,” where two young people fall deeply in love, the Bloomington Playwrights Project will present a story unafraid to examine imperfect love.

Hot Chip would like you to consider buying some exciting stone statuary along with its album.

Dancing in the dark

By Jacob Stewart , Wes Jakacki and Jake Stewart · Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 12 a.m.

Hot Chip's 2006 record The Warning became one of the most loveable dance records of the year, from the infectiously repetitive "Over and Over" to the catchy and endearing "And I Was a Boy From School."

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Weather delays Rookie Week events

By Brian Buckey · Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 12 a.m.

With Little 500 Rookie Week underway, icy conditions delayed what would have been the first-year riders’ first time on the track at Bill Armstrong Stadium.

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Shotgun 'Wedding'

By Aaron Beard and Chris Duncan · Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 12 a.m.

Noah Baumbach's newest film isn't a great dysfunctional-family drama like his first major success "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou," which he co-wrote with Wes Anderson, nor did it quite meet the expectations fostered by his last movie "The Squid and the Whale," as a result of a few missteps.

Garrison Keillor gives his famous Lake Wobegon monologue on "A Prairie Home Companion," which comes to Bloomington this Saturday, Feb. 16. Photo courtesy of "A Prairie Home Companion"

Radio heads

By Peter Chen and Ab D. Phillip · Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 12 a.m.

Before Sue Scott and Tim Russell bring "A Prairie Home Companion" to life in Bloomington, WEEKEND hit their digits

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

Savage love

By Aaron Beard · Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 12 a.m.

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

By Katie McKenna and Alexa Altman · Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 12 a.m.

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

By Shannon McEnerney · Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 12 a.m.

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

By Tom Edwards · Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 12 a.m.

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'

By Alex Cohen and Abra Oliver · Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 12 a.m.

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

By Brian J. McFillen and Aparna Venkatraman · Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 12 a.m.

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

By Michael Reschke · Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 12 a.m.

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.

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