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Yo La Tengo's 'sun' burns brightly

By -Val Tsoutsouris · Thursday, April 24,2003 12 a.m.

Yo La Tengo's biggest weakness is that its members are the smartest people to walk into any room. No three people are bigger rock geeks than Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley and James McNew. Kaplan even used to be a rock critic.

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Event featuring popular arcade game raises money for children's hospital

By Jennifer Mehalik · Thursday, April 24,2003 12 a.m.

Loud, thumping techno music blasts through the arcade of the Indiana Memorial Union as Jim Halliday dances. Yellow and pink lights shine down on him as he steps on red and blue squares with arrows on them, lighting them up like a disco floor. While stepping on the four squares, he keeps his head up, focused on the arrows on the TV screen in front of him. His feet move to the beat, but his arms stay close to his side. He starts to draw a crowd with his performance. Halliday isn't just dancing, he's playing a videogame called Dance Dance Revolution. This weekend, he is going to combine his interest in the unconventional video game with his interest in raising money for Riley Children's Hospital with a fundraiser at Lazerlite, 4505 E. Third St. The DDR-A-Thon will happen from 4 p.m. to midnight on Friday, and from 1 p.m. to midnight on Saturday.

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Yorn covers old territory

By Brian Eliott Johnson and Brian Elliott Johnson · Thursday, April 24,2003 12 a.m.

On the initial listening of Pete Yorn's second album, Day I Forgot, it seems a string of stuttering, distorted guitar songs that would serve just as well in the background of a party as in between headphones, blocking everything out. In fact, Day I Forgot could have been a very boring album. It only has around three real songs on it and one of them was cliché ten years ago. But if you do plug in the headphones you'll find yourself surrounded by Yorn's dominating voice. Yorn cares about his songs and the people in them. Then listen to his lyrics and know that they're meaningful, even if a little convoluted.

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Local band plans to take sinister sound on the road

By -Brandon Tucker · Thursday, April 24,2003 12 a.m.

Libby Bulloff, a fan, describes a typical Turn Pale performance as follows: The stage is dark when Turn Pale begins its performance. Red lights ominously illuminate the stage and smoke crawls around the room. Band members stoically play their instruments and the lead singer is in the crowd groping audience members between lyrics.

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15 flicks for summer

By -Alec Toombs · Thursday, April 24,2003 12 a.m.

Robots, monsters, mutants, pirates and all other things violent. Another summer filmgoing season is upon us, and as such, I'm recommending 15 flicks that look to be worth both your time and money.

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Rap stars lend faces to game

By -Mitch Nelson · Thursday, April 24,2003 12 a.m.

A new generation of video games was reached recently when EA Sports came out with its newest game "Def Jam Vendetta." This game combines the tradition of a fighting game with the popularity of hip-hop culture, represented by the Def Jam record label. The game itself is a standard street fighting or wrestling game, but the characters are big-name entertainers, including DMX, Ludacris, Method Man and Scarface. The story mode itself is challenging and offers the opportunity to unlock hidden characters, levels and special moves.

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Zombie's 'Corpses' a homage to excesses

By by Isaac Edwards and Issaac Edwards · Thursday, April 24,2003 12 a.m.

First and foremost, before Rob Zombie's newest foray into the grisly netherworld can be critiqued, it is of utmost importance to understand where "House of 1000 Corpses" is coming from. If you understood the creepily encryptic title to this review, which contains no less than five references to '70s slasher/cult/B-films, then "House of 1000 Corpses" was made for you. If the names Jack Hill, Tobe Hooper or early Wes Craven send a tremble down your spine and gives you happy pants, then this is a valentine from Satan Himself. If you gleamed not one reference to any film from the title, if said names send little less than an urge to avert the eyes to the next article, then "House of 1000 Corpses" may still be for you.

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Living 'real' life through a TV set

By Jessica Palmer · Wednesday, April 23,2003 5:35 p.m.

How does a television craze become a cultural phenomenon? It seems to move in stages. First, it becomes wildly popular, provoking an unusual amount of thought and conversation. Then the copycats emerge, each trying to get their piece of the action. Finally, everybody's doing it in some form or fashion and it becomes somewhat inescapable. Such is the phenomenon that currently inundates American television programming, that of reality television.

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15 flicks for summer

By -Alec Toombs · Wednesday, April 23,2003 4:39 p.m.

Robots, monsters, mutants, pirates and all other things violent. Another summer filmgoing season is upon us, and as such, I'm recommending 15 flicks that look to be worth both your time and money.

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My dream for America

By Joe Ptak · Wednesday, April 23,2003 4:39 p.m.

I have a dream -- to get you tuning into NBC every Sunday night to watch the television series, "American Dreams." The drama centers on a middle class Philadelphia family during the 1960s as it deals with social challenges brought forth by an era of great transformation. It demonstrates how many found refuge in music and dancing by presenting us with a backstage pass to the show "American Bandstand." Much of the cultural turmoil depicted still echoes today as loudly as the upbeat music of the time.

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Cartoon DVD funny but lacks extras

By -Alec Toombs · Wednesday, April 23,2003 4:37 p.m.

"Family Guy" is one of the most underrated shows in recent memory. Luckily, the animated adventures of the Griffin clan established a cult following and Twentieth Century Fox finally saw it fit to release the first two seasons of this much lamented and impeccably hilarious cartoon on DVD. "Family Guy" centers on the sordid misadventures of the Quahog, Rhode Island-based Griffins: Peter, the patriarch is cut from the mold of a dumber Homer Simpson, and Lois, his doting and incessantly patient wife.

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Rap stars lend faces to game

By -Mitch Nelson · Wednesday, April 23,2003 4:36 p.m.

A new generation of video games was reached recently when EA Sports came out with its newest game "Def Jam Vendetta." This game combines the tradition of a fighting game with the popularity of hip-hop culture, represented by the Def Jam record label. The game itself is a standard street fighting or wrestling game, but the characters are big-name entertainers, including DMX, Ludacris, Method Man and Scarface. The story mode itself is challenging and offers the opportunity to unlock hidden characters, levels and special moves.

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Folk-rock goddess plays amazing set

By Amy Oringer and Amy Orringer · Wednesday, April 23,2003 4:35 p.m.

It's hard to leave a Dar Williams concert without a rose-colored outlook on life, and Monday's concert was no exception. Her brand of genuine folk-rock appeals to all sexes and several generations left the packed house smiling and dancing. Opening performances by Jenny DeVoe and the Ben Taylor Band were the tiny roses on the seven-layer cake Williams created with her act.

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Zombie's 'Corpses' a homage to excesses

By by Isaac Edwards and Issaac Edwards · Wednesday, April 23,2003 4:33 p.m.

First and foremost, before Rob Zombie's newest foray into the grisly netherworld can be critiqued, it is of utmost importance to understand where "House of 1000 Corpses" is coming from. If you understood the creepily encryptic title to this review, which contains no less than five references to '70s slasher/cult/B-films, then "House of 1000 Corpses" was made for you. If the names Jack Hill, Tobe Hooper or early Wes Craven send a tremble down your spine and gives you happy pants, then this is a valentine from Satan Himself. If you gleamed not one reference to any film from the title, if said names send little less than an urge to avert the eyes to the next article, then "House of 1000 Corpses" may still be for you.

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Kennedy's latest 'Experiment' a riot

By Jake Bilinski · Wednesday, April 23,2003 4:32 p.m.

This is one of the most ridiculous movies ever. It's cheap, immature, goofy and stereotypical. It's so white, it's not, and I loved every second of it.

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'Holes' a kids movie adults can enjoy

By -Paul Straw · Wednesday, April 23,2003 4:31 p.m.

It is hard to make good movies for children. They are often filled with either crude humor or made overly simple because it is assumed the children who see the movie won't notice. "Holes" fits neither of these molds. "Holes" is even better than most adult movies.

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'Bulletproof Monk' needs more meditation

By Sam Shahrani · Wednesday, April 23,2003 4:31 p.m.

Despite the mediocre title, "Bulletproof Monk" is a reasonably entertaining film, a sort of modern take on B-movie, chopsocky films. Admittedly, this film's only hope for an award is from MTV, but for mindless entertainment, you could do worse.

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Yo La Tengo's 'sun' burns brightly

By -Val Tsoutsouris · Wednesday, April 23,2003 4:30 p.m.

Yo La Tengo's biggest weakness is that its members are the smartest people to walk into any room. No three people are bigger rock geeks than Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley and James McNew. Kaplan even used to be a rock critic.

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EP a 20 minute, sonically diverse trail

By -Alec Toombs · Wednesday, April 23,2003 4:29 p.m.

Austin-based rockers And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead bridge the gap between last year's Source Tags and Codes and whatever its next album happens to be with the inspired EP, The Secret of Elena's Tomb.

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Rumours are true: Fleetwood Mac's back

By -Val Tsoutsouris · Wednesday, April 23,2003 4:28 p.m.

Forget Dr. Dre and Tupac. In the mid-'70s, it was Fleetwood Mac that documented California love after recruiting lovers/singers/ songwriters Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham and morphing from a blues band into a pop-rock outfit. Say You Will marks Fleetwood Mac's first studio album with Buckingham, the band's MVP, since 1987's Tango in the Night. Buckingham has been missing since a 1992 solo album and apparently he's got huge backlog, as this album inexplicably rambles on for 18 tracks and over 76 minutes with no sign any time has passed.

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