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Tonight's show a mix of music styles
By DAVID LOW | Oct. 10, 2007Alaska, the last frontier.
The Avenue
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Despite lack of crowd, out-of-towners put on good show
By DANNY DJELJOSEVIC | Oct. 10, 2007On Feb. 5, 2006, The Rolling Stones broke all sorts of attendance records playing in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. On, Oct. 5, the Lakeland band Joon played its first show in Gainesville, breaking a personal record in low attendance: eight people. If you count the bartender and the band members' girlfriends, the number rises to a staggering 11.
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Dashboard releases forgettable album
By ADRIAN RUHI | Oct. 3, 2007Dashboard Confessional - "The Shade of Poison Trees"
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SEX
Don't overlook anti-heroes
By PAIGE USYK | Oct. 3, 2007Filming recently began on a big-screen adaptation to the wildly successful HBO sitcom "Sex and the City." And because I own all seven DVDs, watch the Season Two finale religiously after a breakup and use Samantha quotes as pickup lines, it pains me to admit this, but I think the fairy tale is over.
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ART AND THEATER
Local actors give new spin to classic playwright's work
By VANESSA DIMAGGIO | Oct. 3, 2007Scot Davis and Shamrock McShane's rendition of David Mamet's play "American Buffalo" is not your conventional theater production.The dimming lights, heavy curtains and theatrical music are nowhere to be found.Instead, they opt to produce the play with what Davis calls "organic staging" - the stage is set up so the audience can be included in the dramatic action.The audience sits on and around the set in the intimate setting of the Civic Media Center stage, which can hold about 30 people at the most."They see it from every possible perspective," McShane said."American Buffalo" will be opening at the center, 1021 W University Ave., on Friday.
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LIFESTYLE
Horror Nights: Now with movie terrors
By GREG JOHNSON | Oct. 3, 2007Halloween Horror Nights is back and more intense than ever.
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MOVIES AND TV
'Kingdom' a smart thriller
By MARK KEREMEDJIEV | Oct. 3, 2007If I had to pick a word to describe the new movie "The Kingdom," I might choose "intense." "Rapid" also comes to mind.
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ART AND THEATER
No butts about exhibit
By CARLY BLUSTEIN | Oct. 3, 2007Gone are the days when Hollywood starlets glamorized smoking. Guys are finding it harder to pick up a girl in a bar by offering her a light.
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SEX
To make fantasies a reality, open up
By PAIGE USYK | Sep. 26, 2007My boy has a consistent bedtime routine: He brushes his teeth, sets his alarm and logs on to ESPN.com to check his fantasy baseball ranking and the homepage of his beloved Astros. I quickly learned I could tease him about his OCD-esque nightly redundancy, but I could never slight his Houston heroes.
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MOVIES AND TV
'Eastern Promises' delivers promised violence
By DANNY DJELJOSEVIC | Sep. 26, 2007There are probably some people who would confidently accuse David Cronenberg of selling out. Since 2002's "Spider," Cronenberg has seemed to purposefully avoid working in the horror and sci-fi genres in which he made some of his best films. Others would consider it as the director "maturing," as if his previous films were infantile (go rent the classic "Videodrome" and marvel "infantile" social commentary about our sick love affair with television).
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LIFESTYLE
Overheard in Gainesville
Sep. 26, 2007All I got was this collapsible laundry hamper
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360 or PS3? You be the judge
By Jason Wishnov | Sep. 26, 2007It's a bloody war, and the air is filled with smoke and fire. Partisan fanboys catcall from the battlefield, where Microsoft and Sony haul their guns to bear. And big guns they are, my friends: Both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 finally hit their long-delayed strides come autumn, as wave after wave of triple-A titles stream to our poor, budget-restricted arms. BioShock, Mass Effect and the quintessential Halo 3 face off against Haze, Lair and Heavenly Sword; the financially average student is going to need to pick a side.
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'Halo' lives up to hype
By RYAN LEVICK | Sep. 26, 2007My mom knows what Halo is.
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Trigger Happy, or How we learned to stop worrying and love the bullet
By KATE MULLAN | Sep. 26, 2007Freewheeling down 441 South to Micanopy Shooting Sports, Kate was growing antsy at the prospect of handling a pistol.
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MUSIC
Friday's show bids farewell to drummer
By LANE NIESET | Sep. 19, 2007When asked to describe what genre of music the band Binary Forest Faux Pas fits into, the members paused for a second before jokingly naming the genres "science rock" and "space rock."
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MOVIES AND TV
Mr. Woodcock: One Joke, 90 Minutes
By MARK KEREMEDJIEV | Sep. 19, 2007"Mr. Woodcock" is a textbook example of the preview showing all the funny parts of a movie. After an hour and a half, I can safely say there was only one scene not revealed in the previews worthy of a laugh. That's it. Only one. The rest of the film plods along with all the enthusiasm of a mollusk.
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LIFESTYLE
Potential PS3 buyers advised to wait
By RYAN LEVICK | Sep. 19, 2007Wouldn't it be great to have 214 gallons of gasoline for your car? Doesn't 4,000 packages of Ramen noodles sound delicious to you? Or would you prefer 831 cans of Budweiser? These items each could be yours for ,600.
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New Foo Fighters shows range of styles
By ADRIAN RUHI | Sep. 19, 2007Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace
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SEX
Forget self-control; get a DCB
By CEDRIC HARRIS | Sep. 19, 2007Most nights I go out, I need a DCB.
