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TV draws criticism, praise for recent gay trends

They're five gay men, out to take over the world - one straight guy at a time. "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" uses its five gay main characters and their respective talents - fashion, grooming, culture, interior design, and food and wine - to rescue style-deprived, straight men. As more producers realize the marketability of gay characters on reality television shows, cable television shows and network sitcoms, programs such as "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," "Will & Grace," and "Queer as Folk" are continuing to find their way into network programming. "I remember back in the early '90s when allusions to gay lifestyle were done in a very cautious way," MSU Professor Gary Hoppenstand said.

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'Missing' comes up short

Shaun Byron
December 2, 2003

Westerns seem to be coming back into style - now it's just a matter of creating something new. Ron Howard's latest is "The Missing," and stars Tommy Lee Jones as Samuel Jones, a white man who left his family to live with a tribe of Native Americans.

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Fraternity sponsors breakthrough singer's tour

Kristofer Karol
December 2, 2003

Pi Kappa Phi has been good to Ryan Cabrera, and now the Dallas-raised musician is giving back to the fraternity, which has supplied him with venues for a nationwide tour.Cabrera brings his pop sound to the Auditorium tonight, and all proceeds will benefit the fraternity's Push America organization, which collects money for people with disabilities.

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'Flood' more than just another Giant classic

Kristofer Karol
December 1, 2003

"Flood," the 1990 classic from They Might Be Giants, saturates its listeners with 19 entertaining and quirky ditties. It's an album best known to many college folk as the CD which spawned two songs that cartoon shorts were created for on "Tiny Toon Adventures" - "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" and "Particle Man." But "Flood" is more than just a nostalgic piece of art.

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Hidden Agenda's newest hit-or-miss

Kristofer Karol
December 1, 2003

In a letter to me, keyboardist Joe Denslow made it clear his band has no hidden agenda with its debut album, "Believe In America." The Lansing-based quartet known as Hidden Agenda has been making music since the '80s, but has finally released its 15-track album, full of mellow melodies that will put most minds at ease or even into contemplation. Hidden Agenda does fall short in some areas, such as showing off its vocal talent as well as it could, but for the low-key music fan, the album should strike a chord.

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Top Ten

In the past several months, I've inundated readers with a smorgasbord of top ten music lists. So today, as a culmination of all the semester's lists, there will be a battle royale among the No.

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Improvisation in courtroom challenges aspiring attorneys

Adrienne Broaddus
December 1, 2003

With a little bit of theatrics, jurors decided Tuesday night that Artemus Mann was guilty for leaving the scene of an accident, but not guilty on both counts of operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol, causing death.Mann was charged for the deaths of Michael Ice and Blake Trout during the mock trial for Trial I of the Geoffrey Fieger Trial Practice Institute class.

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Local stores perk hip-hop interest

By Blake Schmidt Special for The State News At the age of 7, she was listening to hip-hop. By second grade, she had learned to break dance. Now, 26-year-old Jaime Wilkins, aka Addverse, is the owner of Code of tha Cutz, a record store specializing in hip-hop and vinyl that opened earlier this year. The store, located at 317 E.

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Britney continues to mature on 'Zone'

Bethany Chismark
November 25, 2003

When the name Britney Spears comes up, many thoughts come to mind: naughty schoolgirl, heartbreaker of America's favorite *NSYNC babe and the newest installment of pop-culture commercialism - the Madonna kiss. Her last stints with the public haven't had anything to do with music, including posing topless and bottomless for numerous magazines like "Rolling Stone" and "Esquire." Although everyone has an opinion about how talented Miss Britney is, she's back at it again after two years with her fourth album, "In The Zone," from Jive Records.