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June 5, 2026
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Udu fuses theater and activism

By Mosopefoluwa Ogunyemi | January 18, 2001

Because the institution of slavery has been eradicated for over a century in the United States and is rehashed only in history lessons, it can be easy to forget that the practice is continued in other parts of the world.

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Orchestra to amplify three silent movies

By Jeffrey Tanenhaus | January 10, 2001

This weekend three silent comedies will be screened in Spaulding Auditorium, but the theater will be anything but silent. Instead, Alloy Orchestra will provide a live accompaniment to the classic American movies and fill the theater with sounds so convincing and synchronized one would think they were coming from movies themselves. Widely considered the premier silent movie band, Alloy is able to manufacture and convey the right mood through its eclectic assortment of instruments that include both conventional, state-of-the-art and highly original items known as the "rack of junk" that are more closely related to junkyard scrap metal than anything sold in a music store. Alloy's ingenuity derives from its ability to convincingly manufacture any sound to match the events in a silent movie, whether it be Martian radio signals or a German bar band from the 1920s, much to the audience's auditory delight. Alloy has existed for 10 years and each year they create a new score, which is performed at the Telluride Film Festival in southwestern Colorado.

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'Traffic' offers chilling perspective on drugs, addiction

By Hank Leukart | January 8, 2001

In Steven Soderbergh's "Traffic," the U.S. drug czar's daughter has a boyfriend who suggests to her, "I want to have sex and do a [cocaine] hit right as we're both coming." In the bleak world of Soderbergh's film, these are the kind of romantic pickup lines prep school kids use when they can obtain crack cocaine more easily than alcohol. Adapted from a 10-year-old, five-part "Masterpiece Theater" series named "Traffik," the film explores the illegal drug trafficking industry in the United States and Mexico.

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Gibson charms in new comedy

By Justin Bow | January 4, 2001

What happens when you take a confirmed male chauvinist and magically grant him the ability to hear everything that happens inside the minds of women?

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