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John McLame
By JAKE KNOTT | Feb. 14, 2013Film: A Good Day to Die Hard Release Date: Feb. 14 Studio: Giant Pictures Grade: D+
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Love tracks
Feb. 12, 2013Music can make or break a sexual encounter. It can help set the mood for you and your partner and even give some motivation to the timid.
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Views for Valentine's Day
Feb. 12, 2013Movies and romance are like peanut butter and jelly: classic counterparts that can either make your day or kill you - depending on what you're "allergic" to.
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Comme des Carson - Mend your mainstream mistakes
Feb. 12, 2013Editor's note: This article is a satire piece. It is not to be taken literally. 'Carson' is a pen name.
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Serenade them
By ADRIEN D'ANGELO and SAM FERNANDO | Feb. 12, 2013Whatever your situation may be, the perfect Valentine's Day gift is very affordable, thoughtful and quite simple - a song.
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Soderbergh remains affective
By JAKE KNOTT | Feb. 10, 2013She looks lifeless from the start. Her face is masked in desolation, as her wide, barren eyes gaze into bleak nothingness.
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McGraw drives to freedom
By BRIANNA HOKAJ | Feb. 10, 2013The misconception that country music is simply a bunch of beer-drinking, truck-riding and fried-chicken-eating hillbillies has been revamped. Country music veteran Tim McGraw has earned his title as a respected entity within the genre and his latest album Two Lanes of Freedom manifests why. After nearly two successful decades with Curb Records, Tim McGraw left the label and signed with Big Machine Records for the release of his latest album Two Lanes of Freedom on Feb.
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"Poverty, prison and photography"
By NICHOLAS C. TURTON | Feb. 10, 2013The lens of one accomplished photographer has reached across expanses of time and space, capturing the likes of desolate desert landscapes, poverty-stricken rural dwellers and the lives of prisoners on death row. His name is Bruce Jackson, the James Agee Professor of American Culture and English at UB.
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"A Wonderful, Glorious future "
By KIERA MEDVED | Feb. 10, 2013Having a lifelong relationship with a band isn't always easy. One year, they can release an album and you'll swear they wrote each lyric just for you.
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My Bloody Valentine amazes again after decades-long hiatus: m b v album review
By Brian Josephs | Feb. 7, 2013Album: m b v Artist: My Bloody Valentine Label: Self-released Grade: B+ My Bloody Valentine's landmark achievement, 1991's Loveless, is full of stunning moments from its mind-altering opener, "Only Shallow," to the guitar-distorted fantasy of "Soon." However, there's a particularly stunning moment in the middle of it all where vocalists Bilinda Butcher and Kevin Shield sing on "When You Sleep." "When I look at you/I don't know what's real," they sing. How can they be so self-aware?
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Harlem shakes back onto the stage
By NICHOLAS C. TURTON | Feb. 7, 2013Inspiration and vivacity captivated North Campus this week, as a group of talented and stifled dancers returned to the stage after declaring bankruptcy in 2004. The Dance Theatre of Harlem took the stage at UB's Center For the Arts Wednesday evening with 12 dancers.
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Coming full circle
By TIM ALLMAN | Feb. 3, 2013In 2008, the curtains closed on Studio Arena Theatre and it almost became a parking lot. Last Friday, Buffalo's theater scene came back to life with the Road Less Traveled's production of Annie Baker's hilarious Circle Mirror Transformation. Formerly known as Studio Arena, 710 Main St.
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Angels and AIDS
By KIERA MEDVED | Feb. 3, 2013A huge theater, elaborate costumes and over 20 stage crewmembers aren't necessary to put on an extraordinary theatrical performance - an exemplary set is.
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Heartthrob: A guilty pleasure: Tegan and Sara album review
By MAX CRINNIN | Jan. 31, 2013Artist: Tegan and Sara Album: Heartthrob Release Date: Jan. 29 Label: Warner Bros. Grade: B Guilty pleasures are the things you really enjoy when no one's around.
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Acoustic album recruits new Beliebers: Believe Acoustic album review
By FELICIA HUNT | Jan. 31, 2013Artist: Justin Bieber Album: Believe Acoustic Release Date: Jan. 29 Label: Island Records Grade: B+ Who would have thought a rap about Buzz Lightyear
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Artwork of the Internet arrives at CFA
By PETE SHAPIRO | Jan. 29, 2013Inside the Center for the Arts art gallery, a small television greets you, commanding attention from all who enter and catching the more traditional patrons by surprise. The television, however, is not there for simple recreational purposes.
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Mixtape Monthly #10: Student Edition
By BRIAN JOSEPHS and DUANE OWENS | Jan. 29, 2013Nuzzcrew - Tuned Poetry
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Portals delivers a cure for our longing
By TIM ALLMAN | Jan. 27, 2013Let the naysayers be damned - classical music still speaks to us today.
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Don't mess with this Mama
By JAKE KNOTT | Jan. 24, 2013Have the main characters of Mama never been introduced to the horror genre? Nothing good can ever, ever stem from adopting two satanic-looking orphans.
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Tales of the Haudenosaunee
By BRIANNA HOKAJ | Jan. 24, 2013A small and eager group sat huddled together, as an elder weaved stories relating to many different aspects of life. People migrated to the C.G.
