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Flip Down South

By Jamieson Hawkins · Thursday, May 1,2003 12 a.m.

With 16 songs under its belt and about 20 in the works, Flip Down South is well on its way to becoming a staple in the ever-changing Bloomington music scene. Combining influences from bands such as Incubus, 311 and Blackalicious, its music provides an energetic mix of funk, melody and lyrical rhyme.

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Bless the Impossible Shapes

By Jessica Palmer · Thursday, May 1,2003 12 a.m.

Local Bloomington favorites The Impossible Shapes are back with their fourth album, a more pristine sound and the world at their feet. Bless the Headless, the newest effort from the four-piece group, promises an exciting new era for the band and aptly captures the Shapes in their finest hour thus far. To the dedicated listener, the album is a deviation from the Shapes listeners know and love, albeit a moderate one.

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Rigby's quirky vision carries album

By -Val Tsoutsouris · Thursday, May 1,2003 12 a.m.

Amy Rigby's 1996 album was called Diary of a Mod Housewife, which also happens to serve as an accurate description. On her new Til the Wheels Fall Off, she sings a song where she hopes to fit in her man between the PTA and CNN. Though Rigby has a certain wit and a unique voice about her, her style puts her in a competitive music genre. Maybe there have been so many fine singer-songwriter records this year -- The Go-Betweens, Kristin Hersh and Lucinda Williams to name three -- that my standards have risen.

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Disc golf: A basket in one

By Adam Aasen · Thursday, May 1,2003 12 a.m.

Golfer Jason Nawrot, a Bloomington resident, eyes his target as he begins to tee off. He pulls his arms back, twists his hips and releases across the course. But there is no nine iron in his hand, or any sort of golf club. Nawrot is one of thousands of Americans who choose to play golf with a frisbee instead of a ball.

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Douglas clan stars in 'Family.'

By -Paul Straw · Thursday, May 1,2003 12 a.m.

In a family affair, all of the Douglas' come out for "It Runs in the Family" to give performances that feel real in their own right, even though they develop slowly in the movie.

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Country-rock in a plastic bag

By Michael Tapscott and Mike Tapscott · Thursday, May 1,2003 12 a.m.

Three on the Tree's debut album could be a recording of Wayne Coyne and Townes Van Zandt sitting in front of a nighttime fireplace trying to beat each other in a snoozing, country songwriting competition. So, obviously it's pretty music.

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Why I'm great

By Michael Tapscott and Mike Tapscott · Thursday, May 1,2003 12 a.m.

Both Voltaire and Kris Kristofferson decried the "best of all possible worlds," claiming that it could never exist. They're pessimists, and I never believed the president woke up, rubbed his feet together and thought about how he could destroy some people's lives. The best of all possible worlds does exist, and it lies somewhere between blissful ignorance and inspired critical thought.

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'Off-Road' packs a powerful punch

By -Mitch Nelson · Thursday, May 1,2003 12 a.m.

Nothing says spring is here like four wheelers blasting through scenic terrain. Sony Games must have thought the same thing when it brought out "ATV Off-Road Fury 2." The game is sequel to a previous PS2 hit that brought the wild four-wheeler scene into gamers' counsel.

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Material Girl stumbles over her own words

By K James Sward · Thursday, May 1,2003 12 a.m.

Twenty years ago, America was graced with the presence of an iconoclastic, yet seemingly heaven-sent musician. Her very name was a paradox in itself, a woman whose nationally televised, rosary-clad homage to virginity would go on to stir the religious community into an uproar, while at the same time revving male libidos everywhere. On a pedestal of materialism and sex, Madonna lay the foundation for her inevitable status as an American icon. American Life could destroy the very pedestal that the artist has so depended on throughout her decade-spanning career.

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Math, music make me merry

By Jason Gaddis · Thursday, May 1,2003 12 a.m.

I have this general impression that people think I'm weird, strange or just plain out there. All the journalism majors think I'm nuts for being a mathematics major, and the math majors can't figure out what I'm doing in the journalism school. I spend all my time between Ernie Pyle Hall and Swain East and West. My life, for the past year, has been consumed by words and numbers. What amazes me is that more people don't readily see the correlation between the two.

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McDormand steals 'Canyon' with rockstar role

By by Isaac Edwards and Isaac Edwards · Thursday, May 1,2003 12 a.m.

Following on the distantly echoing footsteps of her critically-acclaimed film "High Art," writer and director Lisa Cholodenko has delivered to us another film chronicling the collision between high society, upscale bohemia and true love. "Laurel Canyon" is a seemingly cliché story of reactionary generations, the free-loving, substance-abusing baby-boomer and the rigid, high-achieving offspring and the inevitability of what happens when their worlds are thrown into one another. Cholodenko manages to breathe fresh life into a burnt-out formula with an exceptionally written script, excellent direction, and some amazing performances. She presents us with a simple set-up, one that we've all seen before, but her intricate weaving together of simplicity with character complexity is what makes "Laurel Canyon" feel new, alive and important.

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Beautiful people in Cancun: a winning formula

By Sam Shahrani · Thursday, May 1,2003 12 a.m.

If purchasing the "Real World Uncensored" or "Girls Gone Wild" tapes is something you've either done or are seriously considering, then "The Real Cancun" is definitely a film you'd be interested in. The film, produced by Mary Ellis Bunim and John Murray of "Real World" and "Road Rules" fame, takes 16 supposedly real college students down to Cancun for a week and lets us watch as they make complete fools of themselves, usually in as little clothing as possible.

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Hoffman shines as 'Confidence' falls hard

By Jack M. Silverstein and Jack Silverstein · Thursday, May 1,2003 12 a.m.

In a movie about how people con other people out of their money, "Confidence"'s biggest con is pulled off at the expense of the viewing public who was conned into thinking that this movie is some kind of brilliant cross between "Pulp Fiction" and "The Sting." It is really more of an overly complex and less entertaining episode of "Scooby-Doo." Narrated by Edward Burns, at the behest of the man standing behind him with a gun, "Confidence" feels like it was written by a second-grader using the "Hamburger" paragraph technique.

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Coping with the stress of I-Core

By Elise LeBlanc and Sonja Khunau · Wednesday, April 30,2003 3:23 p.m.

Fifteen students stare glumly ahead at people who already have dibs on a work station in the fifth-floor computer lab of the Main Library. Some tap their feet or shift their weight, while others talk on their cell phones to maintain some semblance of a social life as they begin to glare at the people who constantly move but never leave.

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Barely worth 50 cents

By Natalie A. Trout · Wednesday, April 30,2003 10:48 a.m.

After viewing 50 Cent's "The New Breed," one can come to the conclusion that rappers are just as egotistical, sexual and violent as they've always been. While the DVD does offer two of 50's hottest videos, "In Da Club" and "Wanksta," the rest of the DVD is just an open forum for 50 and his crew, the G-Unit, to say whatever they want.

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'Off-Road' packs a powerful punch

By -Mitch Nelson · Wednesday, April 30,2003 10:47 a.m.

Nothing says spring is here like four wheelers blasting through scenic terrain. Sony Games must have thought the same thing when it brought out "ATV Off-Road Fury 2." The game is sequel to a previous PS2 hit that brought the wild four-wheeler scene into gamers' counsel.

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Douglas clan stars in 'Family.'

By -Paul Straw · Wednesday, April 30,2003 10:45 a.m.

In a family affair, all of the Douglas' come out for "It Runs in the Family" to give performances that feel real in their own right, even though they develop slowly in the movie.

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Beautiful people in Cancun: a winning formula

By Sam Shahrani · Wednesday, April 30,2003 10:43 a.m.

If purchasing the "Real World Uncensored" or "Girls Gone Wild" tapes is something you've either done or are seriously considering, then "The Real Cancun" is definitely a film you'd be interested in. The film, produced by Mary Ellis Bunim and John Murray of "Real World" and "Road Rules" fame, takes 16 supposedly real college students down to Cancun for a week and lets us watch as they make complete fools of themselves, usually in as little clothing as possible.

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McDormand steals 'Canyon' with rockstar role

By by Isaac Edwards and Isaac Edwards · Wednesday, April 30,2003 10:41 a.m.

Following on the distantly echoing footsteps of her critically-acclaimed film "High Art," writer and director Lisa Cholodenko has delivered to us another film chronicling the collision between high society, upscale bohemia and true love. "Laurel Canyon" is a seemingly cliché story of reactionary generations, the free-loving, substance-abusing baby-boomer and the rigid, high-achieving offspring and the inevitability of what happens when their worlds are thrown into one another. Cholodenko manages to breathe fresh life into a burnt-out formula with an exceptionally written script, excellent direction, and some amazing performances. She presents us with a simple set-up, one that we've all seen before, but her intricate weaving together of simplicity with character complexity is what makes "Laurel Canyon" feel new, alive and important.

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