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Black Knight is disgustingly horrible
If I ever meet Martin Lawrence in public, I swear I will kick him in the groin as hard as I can.
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BoarsHead presents comedy Bellyfruit tonight
“Bellyfruit,” a play about unplanned pregnancies, kicked off BoarsHead Theater’s Dark Night series Monday evening and ends at 7 tonight with a free performance. Put on by BoarsHead’s four interns and director K.
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Subject of recent books shed in frightful lights
Sometimes too much isn’t the answer. I work at a bookstore in my hometown and during Thanksgiving break I spent some time behind the cash wrap, saving up some dough for spring break and Christmas presents. I’ve worked there since I was a junior in high school, and in that time I’ve come across many books that tackled various issues and current affairs of our nation and world.
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Production comes to Wharton this weekend
Technology and theater have merged in a new production opening Thursday at the Wharton Center. “CTRL+ALT+DELETE” is a history play, as author Anthony Clarvoe describes it.
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Consumers succumb to escapism
America’s tastes have gone downhill. Don’t worry though, this time I’m not complaining about food - this one’s about TV. Our need for more channels and nonstop entertainment is disturbing.
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Game lacks drive, intensity
So, I’m walking into my favorite theater to see the new release “Spy Game,” and who should be standing there than our very own governor, Mr. John Engler.
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Television is mockery of everyday life
During Thanksgiving break I planned on immersing myself in homework. But every time I sat down to study, I looked up to see that black cyclops named TV staring back at me.
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Revisited for die-hards only
Chances are, if you own a DVD player you own a copy of “The Matrix.” Along with “Gladiator,” it seems to be one of the movies they really should just package along with every new DVD player.
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Band chronicles smashing career
’Tis the season for no new music and greatest hits releases. Traditionally, record companies don’t like releasing new music by big name artists right before the holidays, so what fans are usually left with are greatest hits compilations.
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Bleachmobile disappoints on latest
Americans love Japanese culture. From anime to action figures, people stateside can’t help but import every little thing that comes out of the land of the rising sun. And often, that fetish for the other culture goes both ways. Just as things such as “Dragonball,” “Pokémon” and “Gundam Wing” have fused with our Saturday morning cartoons, American pop and rock music has merged with Japanese entertainment.
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Like film, album leaves streaks
The Wash Soundtrack (Interscope) Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg might be bumpin’ again, but “The Wash” is often washed out. Dre and Snoop’s umpteenth collaboration provides the straight West Coast stuff that fans expect from the rap veterans who steer the nation’s gangsta direction.
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The Wash needs cleaner plot
Who wants to bet a million bucks that any movie labeled as comedy and starring Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg would involve jokes about a)weed, and b)ho’s?
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Art Apartment features Holocaust exhibit
On Nov. 9, 1938, anti-Semites ran through the streets of German-held territory setting fire and laying waste to anything Jewish in a massive planned pogrom known as Kristallnacht, or The Night of Broken Glass. Until last year, Susan Hensel, director of The Art Apartment, hadn’t been able to express this tragic event with her art.
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Rap college tour canceled at Auditorium
After driving two hours from the city of Sturgis, 17-year-old Chris Moses was disappointed when he discovered the hip-hop show scheduled for Friday night at the Auditorium was canceled because of promotional and technical problems.
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Sloan impresses many at State Theatre
Detroit - Less than half of my chocolate milkshake was left after Chris Murphy took a few huge swigs and reached for another one of my french fries. The part-time frontman of the band Sloan, one of the most popular exports from Canada, is also an expert of getting ketchup out of the bottle, hardly spattering me at all with the tomato extract. The gangly, secondhand clothes-donning, scraggly haired group of guys were obviously not your average run-of-the-mill hockey fans sitting down for a burger at Johnny Rockets restaurant on a Friday night in Detroit. This lead to recognition from passers by. But the rock band doesn’t mind the attention, as long as people don’t pry too much into the members’ personal lives. “I’m into attention,” Murphy said.
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Play focuses on emotional struggles
“Golf With Alan Shepard” is not a bad show for a play about four old guys playing golf. It opened Thursday at the Boarshead Theater, 425 S.
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Ours performs Saturday night
While it may not have performed in front of a sold-out house, the rock band Ours played a high-energy performance Saturday night that rattled the walls of the Erickson Kiva.Playing a majority of the material off its latest album, “Distorted Lullabies,” Ours played for more than an hour and cruised solidly through the singles “Drowning,” “Sometimes” and “Here is the Light,” among others.
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Books offer escape from grown-up world
I never thought anything could compare to snozzcumbers, frobscottle and gobstoppers. But that was before I read about Muggles, Quidditch, Quaffles and Galleons.
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Roundabout Way to perform at Common Grounds tonight
Common Grounds, in the basement of Akers Hall, features Roundabout Way on Saturday night. The five-piece band, made up of four MSU students and a Central Michigan University student, is optimistic it will be the next big thing, so if you want to catch them before they get famous, this is your chance. “We are going to be the next big thing out of East Lansing,” said guitarist and songwriter Brian Urnovitz, a telecommunication junior.
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Harry Potter is as faithful as possible to book
All right, I know I’m dealing with a holy tome here, so I’m going to watch my Ps and Qs, or I can see my e-mail filling up from hateful little “Harry Potter” fans.