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"NOTHING is over until WE decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? HELL, NO!"
-- John "Bluto" Blutarsky, National Lampoon's Animal House, 1978...
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All across the country, punk rockers recognize him. New Yorkers know his byline. But if you're neither, the name George Tabb might draw a blank.
In short, he's the...
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What would you eat if it were your last night on Earth, and you could have just about anything you wanted? That's the hypothetical dilemma I've been mulling since a friend of...
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Some of the best performances of the year can be found in Mean Creek, a small independent film that marks the auspicious feature debut of 31-year-old writer/director Jacob...
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What good is sitting alone in your room when you can go watch the folks at Phoenix Theatre flog another famous musical to death? Cabaret is PT's latest awkward attempt to look...
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Wanna keep on rockin' in the free world? Then take an active role in shaping that freedom, urges Krist Novoselic, who knows a little something about rocking -- and democracy....
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These days, few students at Gateway Community College at 40th Street and Van Buren are aware of the horrible events that happened at the site more than 13 years ago.
On a...
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There's a reason crime and punishment stories work best in an antiquated setting. Bloody jpegs of a crime scene can't match the romance of sepia-toned photos of outlaws...
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"Ash is feeling a little bit under the weather, so I'll be taking charge." So says Shaun (Simon Pegg) to his valiant crew of appliance salespeople, but if you don't get the...
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The world is bursting with people who would just as soon jack off as get laid, so it's no surprise that, for some folks, pretend awards programs are just as valuable as those...
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THU 23
Talk about pulling some strings. Organizers rounded up some rocking raffle prizes for this Thursday's "DIY Benefit Show" for the American Diabetes Association. The...
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Prêt-à-Porter Ranch
It's a sausage fest in Old Town Scottsdale on this Thursday night. And the J-grrl and I are at Martini Ranch, beholding a sea of horny,...
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On Demons, its second album, this Baltimore band demonstrates that emo needn't be the sound of 15-year-old guys complaining about a dateless prom night. Liars Academy plays a...
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The very best thing about A Dirty Shame, a giddy sex farce from John Waters, is the credits. What's not to love about a list of characters that includes "Sylvia Stickles,"...
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Rick Schroder's character takes a hell of a pounding in his new movie. In his role as the film's writer, director and producer, Schroder had to roll with the punches as well. ...
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Downtown Buzz
Quibbles and bits: I enjoyed your review titled "Finding Nemo" (Stephen Lemons, September 9), and not for the reasons you might suspect. I'm a total foodie...
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Steve Earle created a firestorm when he wrote a sympathetic song about John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban," so he'll probably take monster flak for this anti-Iraq war,...
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In this year of political movies, in which agendas serve as plots, comes the unlikeliest candidate of them all, The Forgotten, in which the climactic moment hinges upon the...
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Sun 9/26
So much for not speaking ill of the dead. Whenever celebrities head to the great beyond, vicious rumors tend to fly (see Hudson, Rock). To wit: Gadabouts have...
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Here's the line no one can resist quoting in reviews of Wet From Birth, the fourth album by the Omaha-based electro-punk act the Faint: "I was acting indifferent at the merch...
