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Wu-Tang is still rap's revolutionaries
By ADRIAN RUHI | Nov. 28, 2007Wu-Tang Clan - "8 Diagrams"
The Avenue
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SEX
These gifts can be for the naughty or nice
By PAIGE USYK | Nov. 28, 2007Every year it seems like there's more pressure to buy my loved - and sometimes not-so-loved - ones awesome, creative, flawlessly wrapped gifts. Yet even though Black Friday came and went, I have not one giveable gift.
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Awesome gift ideas for the gamer…
By RYAN LEVICK | Nov. 28, 2007With video games more popular this holiday season than ever before, do you know what to buy for the gamer in your life?
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MOVIES AND TV
Best films of the year (or at least the first 11 months)
By DANNY DJELJOSEVIC | Nov. 28, 2007Editor's note: While Danny and I disagree somewhat on the year's best movies, remember he's the expert. Here are his picks.
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Carell's 'Dan' proves unexciting
By DANNY DJELJOSEVIC | Nov. 28, 2007There is a scene in "Dan in Real Life" where one of Steve Carell's character's shrill, insufferable daughters ("She sounds like a tea kettle," to quote an earlier, better Carell movie) is pleading emotionally with him to let her boyfriend stay over. Once she uses the word "love," Carell suddenly laughs uncontrollably at his daughter's naïve stupidity. Not only is it the only genuinely funny scene in the film, but his line also accurately depicts how I felt watching "Dan in Real Life": "You've got to be kidding me."
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Game screen to big screen? Not so much
By MARK KEREMEDJIEV | Nov. 28, 2007"Hitman" is perhaps one of the better film adaptations of a video game. However, that is not saying much. It is quick and highly stylized but suffers from a lack of depth.
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Rejoice in these rentals
By BETH ROMANIK | Nov. 28, 2007When you're home for the holidays and get to the point where you can't possibly stand your relatives any longer, turn to the entity that truly shaped your childhood: TV.
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MUSIC
Alicia Keys' sound matures
By ADRIAN RUHI | Nov. 14, 2007Alicia Keys has carried a piano prodigy stigma throughout her career, yet her two studio albums and Unplugged album were punctuated with a hip-hop edge indicative of her Harlem upbringing. But with her latest, "As I Am," Keys' sound matures, often reaching adult contemporary. It's her most mellow, most boring album, but it's still pretty good.
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New Mario game is out of this world
By RYAN LEVICK | Nov. 14, 2007It's tough for me to say, but if I had to pick one game that made me love playing video games, I would have to pick Mario 64.
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Compilation gets the Led out
By ROBERT HILSON | Nov. 14, 2007Holiday shopping season is rapidly nearing, and you know what that means: prime time for fossilized rock stars to release self-prostituting "best-of" compilations that collect and reorganize all the songs you already have.
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Tribute acts have bands covered
By ALYSSA LaRENZIE | Nov. 14, 2007Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Overheard in Gainesville
Nov. 14, 2007Ever accidentally eavesdropped and overheard something so ridiculous you had to laugh and tell all your friends later? Well, share it with the rest of us. Send your ridiculous, funny or ridiculously funny overheard quotes to Beth Romanik.
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The cyber (dating) age
By PAIGE USYK | Nov. 14, 2007There is nothing that defines relationships and sex for this generation more than Facebook.
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ART AND THEATER
Art Bash brings art up-close and personal
Nov. 14, 2007Drawing a perfect circle will be the goal for some UF artists Friday night.
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LIFESTYLE
Overheard in Gainesville
Nov. 7, 2007Maybe during the break after this class
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MOVIES AND TV
'Chuck and Larry' falls short of laughs
By DANNY DJELJOSEVIC | Nov. 7, 2007After my first viewing of the trailer for "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry," with its rampant homophobia and the sheer presence of Adam Sandler ("Punch Drunk Love" notwithstanding), I knew it was going to be a film to avoid. When it turned out to be my only viable choice at a movie theater one night, I knew deep within my soul that I was going to hate it and write a scathing review.
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How do you just 'know'?
By PAIGE USYK | Nov. 7, 2007You know what I hate? When people (or more often, movie characters) say, "You just know," when referring to significant others. I even had an older relative once tell me that they just knew "like you know about a good melon." But even that bewilders me - many a time I have cut open a not yet ripe cantaloupe.
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Johnny Cash's band plays his legendary songs tonight
By DAVID LOW | Nov. 7, 2007Talking to Bob Wootton is almost like communicating with a ghost.
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Record studios come with a price
By TRACI ROSENTHAL | Nov. 7, 2007Recording and releasing albums is no longer just for bigwigs in the music industry. Gainesville bands are also heading to the studios in order to give fans souvenirs, to get their songs heard and of course, to make some extra money.
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Jay-Z's new album goes back to roots
By ADRIAN RUHI | Nov. 7, 2007Jay-Z may have left the Brooklyn underworld more than a decade ago to establish himself as one of the most successful figures in the music industry, but that didn't stop him from revisiting his dark past on "American Gangster," his 10th studio album in 12 years. Inspired by the Ridley Scott film of the same name, Jay-Z weaves tales of a young drug dealer over 70s soul beats to mixed, but mostly positive, results.
