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Tool rocks Breslin Center crowd

It was quite apparent that the fans at Breslin Center on Sunday were there for one thing: Tool. They were apathetic when Messughah hit the stage for a nearly two-thirds empty floor.

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Formula 51, Abandon premiere this weekend

Samuel L. Jackson returns to the big screen this weekend with the much anticipated “Formula 51.” Jackson plays college graduate and chemistry prodigy Elmo McElroy, who loses a chance at becoming a pharmacist after a drug possession charge in 1971.

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Weekend guide

Friday • The University Activities Board will feature Green & White Fridays Homecoming Kick-off as part of Homecoming celebrations from noon to 2 p.m.

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P. Diddy, O-Town create shallow reality TV

Flipping the channels one Saturday afternoon, my roommate and I saw an advertisement on MTV for its second installment of “Making the Band” - “Making the Band 2.” As I watched the commercial and waited for the announcement of another boy band/girl band-type group, I learned, much to my surprise, that a hip-hop group will be formed with the aid of P.

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Hand over hand

Fayetteville, W. Va. - Hanging from a rock 30 feet above the ground with only a thin climbing rope and a trusty belayer determining her safety, Dawn Smith hears the slight murmur of the New River hundreds of feet below her and searches for the next minuscule crack or ledge to propel higher on the almost-flat rock face. MSU Outing Club members on the ground called out advice to the deaf education junior, giving her advice as to where to go next. “You’re going to want to bring your right foot up to that crack just above your right knee,” one member shouts. From the ground, the cracks in the rock look enormous, but staring at them head-on, they only go a centimeter or two deep - and each hole’s circumference is tiny.

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China gives insight to Lansing living

Sometimes growing old brings us back to our youth. And English Assistant Professor Jeffrey Wray’s film “China” gave the audience a different perspective of life on Saturday during its premiere at the Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbott Road. Rudolph and Evelyn Jackson (Von Washington and Sheila Stewart) lead nauseating lives.

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Last DJ shows Pettys musical decline

Tom Petty is an artist who’s never struggled with creative excellence since he hit the music scene in the 1970s. Today, Petty has created a definitive hybrid of American music.