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June 5, 2026
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Ten years gone, but Cobain's music still holds strong

By Carl Burnett | April 8, 2004

Ten years ago today, the world learned that the lead singer of one of history's biggest rock bands and the proverbial messiah of grunge rock, Kurt Cobain, had put a gun to his head and ended his own life, leaving behind a piece of paper on which he predicted, "This note should be pretty easy to understand." For millions of teenagers and 20-somethings, understanding wasn't so easy.

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A league of their own: Undergrads head to Brown for fourth annual Ivy Film Festival

By Rebecca Leffler | April 6, 2004

It's known for purple hair and blase attitudes towards grading. More recently, however, Brown University has become famous for its annual Ivy Film Festival dedicated to the pursuit of undergraduate filmmaking. This student-run festival began in 2001 by Brown undergraduate students David Peck and Justin Slosky, who wanted to create a venue for the recognition of student filmmakers and for events allowing these burgeoning filmmakers to learn from industry experts.

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Sadly, 'The Prince' not altogether too charming

By Lisa Chau | March 29, 2004

"The Prince & Me" begins with a car race in scenic Copenhagen, undoubtedly an early reward for the scores of males who have agreed to watch a movie based on an old-fashioned fairy tale targeted at pre-pubescent girls.

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'Passion' draws emphasis on Jesus' human suffering

By Alison Schmauch | March 3, 2004

The hour is early morning; an otherworldly blue haze swirls over the Garden of Gethsemane. Off in a quiet corner, an anguished man kneels in prayer, his brow and tousled hair dripping with sweat, as he quietly struggles to put to rest some inner dilemma. In this opening scene of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ," the anguished man alone in the garden is, of course, Jesus Christ moments before his arrest. Yet what is most striking about this opening scene is precisely how human this Jesus is, how ordinary he seems as he prepares to meet his crucifixion. Indeed, throughout the movie, Gibson's Jesus remains, above all, human -- and it is in so humanizing Jesus that the film is at its most powerful. All of the dialogue is in Aramaic, Latin or Hebrew, seemingly to prevent translation from creating yet another degree of separation between the viewer and the human Jesus. In flashbacks throughout the film, we see non-Biblically based flashbacks of Jesus' childhood again seemingly calculated to humanize him.

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Peru Negro gives Spaulding rhythm

By Chris Bateman | February 25, 2004

It's not every night that a Spaulding crowd, whose constituents can range from blas college students to senior citizens, unanimously rises from its seats mid-performance to sing and dance along with the performers.

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La Vie en Manolos: 'Sex and the City' bids farewell

By Rebecca Leffler | February 24, 2004

What a long, strange trip it's been. From Manhattan to the Hamptons to Paris and back, our four favorite single and fabulous-exclamation-point ladies have finally gone out with a bang (and I mean that in all senses of the word). Carrie Bradshaw and company have bid farewell to not only their primetime home on HBO, but also to an unforgettable era of television history.

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