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Back To Their Roots

By Nick Schmidt and Nicholas J. Schmidt · Thursday, Sept. 4,2003 12 a.m.

Approximately five and a half years ago, four Notre Dame students were nearing the end of their college years and were abruptly facing the harsh reality of "the real world." Putting off the inevitable 40 hour-a-week jobs as "professionals," they decided to form a band. Not without a few changes, the now older and wiser Umphrey's McGee, formerly of South Bend, has relocated to Chicago and is continuing to turn heads all over the nation.

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"Swimming Pool" not completely shallow

By C. Warner Sills and Jake Bilinski · Thursday, Sept. 4,2003 12 a.m.

As a film, "Swimming Pool" is somewhat as its title suggests: there's a surface to it, and beneath that surface there is so much more going on. The problem is the water gets a little murky. Sarah Morton (Charlotte Rampling) is a crime novelist lost for inspiration. At the suggestion of her publisher, John (Charles Dance), she escapes to his house in France to relax and concentrate on her next book.

Get Ready, Get Sloppy, 2003 Bar Preview

By C. Warner Sills and IDS WEEKEND reports · Thursday, Sept. 4,2003 12 a.m.

CRAZY HORSE FOOD AND DRINK EMPORIUM 214 W. FIFTH STREET They're back. Latin dance parties and local bands plan to rock Second Story for the second time around, as the bar opens after a short hiatus. Owner Phil Rhoade says the bar is available for benefits and special parties for anyone and everyoneys Second Story has gone back to the basic things that worked for their crowd in the past, like booking local ban,.

Guided by Voices' latest not 'earth' shaking

By C. Warner Sills and -Alec Toombs · Thursday, Sept. 4,2003 12 a.m.

Critics have begun singing Robert Pollard's praises again … perhaps they spoke too soon. With his highly prolific band, Guided By Voices, Pollard has unleashed Earthquake Glue. What's here is well-written, sung nicely in Pollard's trademark cigarette-tinged rasp and backed more than ably by his bandmates. True to form, most of the cuts are either too short or too long.

BLOGME

By C. Warner Sills and Jen Miller · Thursday, Sept. 4,2003 12 a.m.

For Internet aficionado and Vermont resident "NationalJ," logging onto Governor Howard Dean's Web site is a form of electronic therapy. "Honestly, lately when it gets to be too much, I get on this blog and am lifted to know that here's a big community of people from all over the place that are trying every day now to change all that jazz," he writes, a reference to the circus that typifies American politics. "The blog is my therapy."

F-Zero thwarts Nintendo's trend of easy games

By C. Warner Sills and David Antognoli · Thursday, Sept. 4,2003 12 a.m.

Nintendo's new futuristic racer, "F-Zero GX," while shimmering on the outside, may frustrate gamers upon closer inspection. The game boasts outstanding graphics and exhilaratingly fast-paced gameplay, beautifully updating the traditional F-Zero experience to next-generation console standards.

Mary J.'s hip hop soul is much o-Bliged

By C. Warner Sills and -Val Tsoutsouris · Thursday, Sept. 4,2003 12 a.m.

In the song "It's a Wrap" from her new album Love & Life, Mary J. Blige disses the cheating man in her life and you begin to wonder if Blige gets her sense of empowerment from the deepest depths as well as the highest highs. Such is her nature. Love & Life is such an emotionally-drenched operatic piece of work that after 18 tracks and 70 minutes, I was exhausted and felt a sudden urge for bon bons.

To grandmother's house I go

By C. Warner Sills and -Alec Toombs · Thursday, Sept. 4,2003 12 a.m.

While most of you were spending the last weeks of your summer moving, finishing jobs and/or internships or simply savoring your final days of freedom poolside with cocktail in hand, I was hanging out with my grandmother.

Jeepers Sleepers 2 is a sleeper

By C. Warner Sills and Natalie A. Trout · Thursday, Sept. 4,2003 12 a.m.

Every 23rd spring, for 23 days, it gets to eat." The Creeper (Jonathan Breck) is back, and it's only been a few days since the first movie left off. Jeepers Creepers 2 is the tale of a school bus full of egotistical basketball players and cigarette-smoking cheerleaders that spend a day and night in a broken-down bus watching teammate after teammate get consumed by the gruesome Creeper.

Hobbits strike back!

By C. Warner Sills and Abhi Kumar · Thursday, Sept. 4,2003 12 a.m.

It's back to Middle Earth for all you Tolkien fans, and director Peter Jackson goes all out. We witness the miraculous return of Gandalf the Wizard (played by Ian McKellen), we're introduced to the incredible and often disturbing Gollum and experience the epic battle fought at Helm's Deep.

It's Rancid, but it doesn't stink

By C. Warner Sills and Brian · Thursday, Sept. 4,2003 12 a.m.

Rancid's latest, Indestructible, is a politically-fueled, Clash-inspired album. It's a good effort, but can't reach the creative success of 1994's Let's Go or 1995's … And Out Come the Wolves. The band is in the right state of mind, but has lost the energy that made the aforementioned albums so great.

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'In This Skin?' More like 'In This Marriage"

By C. Warner Sills and Jennifer Whalen · Thursday, Sept. 4,2003 12 a.m.

Jessica Simpson returns with her junior album, In This Skin. After hit singles and power ballads such as "Irresistible" and "Where You Are," featuring husband Nick Lachey, Simpson proves she possesses a more sultry side to her voice in her latest album.

Sometimes I'm still pissed

By C. Warner Sills and Mia Partlow · Thursday, Sept. 4,2003 12 a.m.

As everyone knows, the rock revival is in full force. And as someone who grew up on punk rock in a medium-sized Midwestern city, I was annoyed at first. I felt betrayed; since middle school I had listened to underground music, wore the thrift-store clothes and espoused leftist politics.

French kiss and make up

By C. Warner Sills and -Kehla West · Thursday, Sept. 4,2003 12 a.m.

Quelle horreur! Le Divorce is a bit of a disappointment. I expected a sparkly little chick flick with plenty of good-looking French men. The reality was a quasi-comedy full of overwrought drama in all the wrong spots and a climax that was amazingly anticlimactic.

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Country-fried hip-hop

By C. Warner Sills and -Daniel Minchella · Thursday, Sept. 4,2003 12 a.m.

Even the country folks inevitably turn their head toward the cities at some point. In a genre as urbanized as hip hop, it's not terribly surprising that the Nappy Roots' sophomore album Wooden Leather features a more worldly sound and outlook than its uniquely Southern first album, Watermelon, Chicken & Gritz.

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F-Zero thwarts Nintendo's trend of easy games

By C. Warner Sills and David Antognoli · Wednesday, Sept. 3,2003 11:52 p.m.

Nintendo's new futuristic racer, "F-Zero GX," while shimmering on the outside, may frustrate gamers upon closer inspection. The game boasts outstanding graphics and exhilaratingly fast-paced gameplay, beautifully updating the traditional F-Zero experience to next-generation console standards.

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