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Musical 'NINE' pleases local audiences

By Meg McEvoy Cavalier Daily Staff Writer LiveArts' current musical "NINE" features some fantastic singing, a decent story and probably more skin than its audiences have seen in public in a long time.


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Jet Li stars in simple, cinematic 'Rise to Honor'

A recent trend in gaming has been to incorporate many cinematic elements into the game experience -- ideally to help tell a better story than games usually do, to allow players to become part of their favorite film or perhaps even to attempt some combination of the two.


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'Hidalgo' reaches far ends of movie world

"Mustang" accurately describes both horse and rider in Touchstone's latest release, "Hidalgo." The film is based on the true story of long-distance horse rider Frank Hopkins and his incredible horse, Hidalgo. Coming off his great performance in "Lord of the Rings," Viggo Mortensen stars in this film as Frank Hopkins, an American cowboy, who with Hidalgo has won every single long-distance race he has ever entered. The movie opens with a heart wrenching scene of the massacre at Wounded Knee Creek.


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Hansberry's play worth remembering

Though the actors have gone home and the picturesque set has been torn down, hopefully some residue of the drama department's recent production "Les Blancs" will remain.


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Rosebud Film Festival Nominees bloom

"And they say Marianne killed herself." Many people could identify these as lyrics to the Tori Amos song "Marianne." But to first-year Rom Alejandro, they have a much deeper meaning. "When we were coming up with ideas [for the movie], my friend Patrick told me that he had a friend who committed suicide," Alejandro said.


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Rosebud Film Festival Nominees bloom

"It creates a new way of seeing something -- it breaks down the conventions, and I enjoy that." This is how fourth-year Alex Stockwell described his independent film, which recently received a nomination for the Rosebud Film Festival.


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'After We Go' proves band's legitimacy, talent

Your debut album just conquered rock radio like it was France, and you're being hailed as the next "Next Big Thing." You swim daily through a giant pool of gold coins like Scrooge McDuck.Your band has just set the bar for as seemingly paradoxical a genre as acoustic metal.

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