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JJ and the Fabulous Gentiles arrive in style
DAVIN MICHAELS, STAFF WRITER
Last Saturday night at Helmreich House, two bands played as part of the evening's entertainment: one band, The Unmentionables, previously seen performing at pub night a few weeks ago, and a new, very promising student band, JJ and the Fabulous Gentiles.
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The Strokes are still On Fire
SEAN TURLEY, COLUMNIST
After a week of listening to the Strokes' new album, Room on Fire, I've come to a tough realization: the album, gasp, is not perfect. It's not perfect because it coexists with the music of 2003 and not the sounds of 2001, the year Is This It transformed contemporary music.
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Polish pianist Krauze pleases
LESLIE BRIDGERS, STAFF WRITER
Students, teachers, and townsfolk packed into Gibson Recital Hall last Friday and helped themselves to hot drinks, cookies, and the innovative music of prominent Polish pianist Zygmunt Krauze.
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O'Reilly tells it like he thinks it
ALEX REED, STAFF WRITER
Bill O'Reilly, the wildly popular and bluntly confrontational host of Fox News's flagship show The O'Reilly Factor, has rounded off his literary career with his new "self-help" book called Who's Looking Out for You?, which hit shelves last month. Much like O'Reilly's previous two books, The O'Reilly Factor and The No Spin Zone, Who's Looking Out for You? can be paraphrased by the following three sentences: "I, Bill O'Reilly, am successful.
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Barenaked Ladies age semi-gracefully
LISA PETERSON, STAFF WRITER
Barenaked Ladies are back from the dead after a three-year long hiatus. Earlier this month BNL finally released Everything to Everyone, its follow-up to 2000's Maroon.
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Third time, some charm left
DIANA HEALD, STAFF WRITER
We've all seen more than a few horror movies that are hard to take seriously. Luckily, Scary Movie 3 makes fun of most of them and even goes the extra mile by making fun of some of the sub-par non-horror movies that have come out in the past few years.
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The video that kills
DAVIN MICHAELS, COLUMNIST
If the results of your midterm exams didn't scare you enough, you're in for a treat. A favorite pastime for Halloween trick-or-treating graduates is to watch scary movies.
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The Publick Musick travels time
ELAINE JOHANSON, STAFF WRITER
The sounds of Antonio Vivaldi filled Kresge Auditorium last Sunday, brought there by travelling eight-piece ensemble the Publick Musick. All the instruments used, including the harpsichord, recorder, oboe, and theorbo, were from the period in which the music was composed.
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