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'Call of Duty 2' should please fans of first-person shooting

Chris Barsotti
November 29, 2005

"Call of Duty 2: Big Red One" hits its mark for the Xbox system. Activision had a successful game with the original "Call of Duty" and took a chance on the second one and made it even better. The gameplay is relatively smooth and keeps the gamer involved throughout the game as the player progresses through the stages of war. Some of the better aspects of "Duty" are the various types of guns that are presented.

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The Living Blue brings indie-rock stylings to Mac's tonight

Benita Mehta
November 28, 2005

The Living Blue has been through a lot since Stephen Ucherek helped found the band in 1998 — two name changes, new band members, a new label, performing at the South by Southwest music festival, being featured on a show on The WB and touring with bands such as The Strokes and the New York Dolls.

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Riverwalk's 'Beauty' takes 'Shrek'-esque turn

Jacqueline Wayneguite
November 28, 2005

The Brothers Grimm don't want you to know every embarrassing detail about Prince Charming. In the brothers' new careers in their public relations firm, they edit fairy tales to show the prince in the best light in the original children's production "Sleeping Beauty" at Riverwalk Theatre, which opened this weekend. The combination play and musical is a comical adaptation of the traditional fairy tale.

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'Rent' a disappointment

Ryan Mccormick
November 28, 2005

The Chinese philosopher Confucius once said "Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it." The film version of the Broadway musical "Rent" is corny, predictable and rather boring to sit through.

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'Friends' full of laughs

Ryan Mccormick
November 28, 2005

"Just Friends" won't change your life or surprise you with any plot twists, but it will make you laugh. The film does what is aims to do: Create as many hysterical moments as possible.

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Pay it fashion-forward

Jacqueline Wayneguite
November 23, 2005

One aspect that defines "Rent" — both the Broadway musical and the movie — are the characters' Bohemian style. Since the characters slum in New York City, it's easy to adapt their style and not worry about the weather at the same time, since both New York and Michigan similar climates. For a Bohemian look that'll keep you warm as the weather turns nasty, you need to get creative.

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"Rent" opens today in theaters nationwide

Lauren Phillips
November 23, 2005

The film version of the Broadway musical "Rent" premieres in theaters nationwide today. This is the first movie adaptation of the groundbreaking 1996 musical, which many say began a social dialogue of then-taboo issues such as AIDS, drug addiction and homosexuality. Set in New York City's East Village, "Rent" explores the lives of eight bohemian, artistic friends who fall in love, struggle to survive in poverty and battle illness. "It tries to provoke the greater tolerance in general for all groups in society, especially those that have been looked on in disfavor in the past, simply by offering a powerful dramatization through music of attitudes that were already in circulation," said Sam Goldstein, an English professor at Daytona Beach Community College. Goldstein has acted in or directed about 70 off-Broadway adaptations. "The musical is powerful and humanistic.

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Five favorites

The State News presents five things going on in the world of pop culture that might make your life a little bit better. 1.

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(SCENE) exhibit brings circus, carnival to life

Jacqueline Wayneguite
November 22, 2005

A visit to (SCENE) Metrospace could trigger patrons' childhood memories of a circus or carnival, complete with a cotton candy machine, dangling balloons and fanciful music. "Cir·cus/Car·ni·val" opened Friday at the gallery, 303 Abbott Road, to a full crowd of eager art lovers and will run through Jan.

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Drag king performance raises funds for MSU student

Lauren Phillips
November 21, 2005

The lights dimmed down as the last lyrics played in the Boyz II Men song "End of the Road," but the applause for Drag King Rebellion kept going. Five members of Drag King Rebellion, or DKR, a group that calls itself a gender performance troupe, bowed as they finished their "Greatest Hits" show Friday night at Club 505, 505 E.