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October 17, 2026
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'View from the Top' doesn't ever get off the ground

By Lindsay Barnes | March 31, 2003

Billed as a light comedy, "View from the Top" is the latest in a genre I like to call "diet comedy." Like light cream cheese or low-fat chips, diet comedy bears somewhat of a resemblance to actual comedy, but it's watered-down and not nearly as enjoyable.

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White Stripes are raw and quirky as ever on 'Elephant'

By Carl Burnett | March 26, 2003

On The White Stripes' last album, 2001's "White Blood Cells," Jack White sang a brief ditty called "Little Room." In 50 seconds and 46 words, it managed to capture the band's ethos pretty well: "When you're in your little room/And you're working on something good/But if it's really good/You're gonna need a bigger room/And when you're in the bigger room/You might not know what to do/You might have to think of how you got started, sitting in your little room." The White Stripes' room is no longer little.

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Lewis Black is here -- and man, is he angry

By Lindsay Barnes | March 6, 2003

You'd better watch out, you'd better not cry, you'd better not pout, I'm telling you why: Lewis Black is coming to town, and if he catches you doing any of the above he's going to make you pay. The comedian of Comedy Central fame will be prowling the Spaulding Auditorium stage tonight, armed to take on pompous, self-righteous, whiny, petty and just plain stupid people in the public eye, just as he's done for decades as a stand-up comedian.

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The Datsuns: proving that rawer isn't always better

By Jessica Spradling | March 6, 2003

Rock is going back to its roots again. Now it is garage that is being hailed as the next "new" flavor of rock that is going to "save" rock from the previous next-big-thing that ruined it. This new breed of garage clawing its way into the air waves is not the kind of music your dad played in junior high after hearing the Kinks on AM radio.

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MTV takes a look at Greek life in two new series

By Jenna Krumminga | February 27, 2003

Beer pong, pledge mothers, and parties. Welcome to the latest breed of MTV's reality television: Greek Life. Last year MTV added to their long list of reality shows by introducing "Sorority Life," which followed the spring pledge class of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Pi at UC Davis.

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Thanks to 50 Cent, gangsta rap is back atop the charts

By Matt Lewis | February 17, 2003

Just how real is 50 Cent? Hyped by the likes of Eminem and Dr. Dre as the realest rapper to rise to the fore of the authenticity-starved rap scene, 50 Cent might seem poised to fall short of such daunting expectations. But 50 Cent has done everything but shortchange his supporters on his new album, "Get Rich or Die Trying." With his realness brandished and cocked, the Queens native unleashes 27 years of drug hustling and gunslinging over a heavy layer of thick, eerie beats engineered to put the fear of God, and inevitably 50 himself, into the listener. His realness speaks for itself; 50 needs none of the gristle and growl of rappers who have staked their flows, both cash and lyrical, on ferocity.

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'Debbie Does Dallas' cast recording is wholesome fun

By Kate Carolan | February 12, 2003

What happens when the most legendary porno film of all time becomes an off-Broadway musical? Well, it sells a lot of tickets and gets some pretty rave reviews. The plot -- that is, to the extent that pornos have plots-- surrounds the character Debbie Benton, who is invited to join the Dallas Cowgirls cheerleading squad.

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