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BEAT IT - Celebrating their 30th year, Birmingham, England-based ska rockers The English Beat are finally starting to make a foray into the competitive U.S. music industry. Their Saturday show at the 9:30 club blended an array of followers, from MILFs to

Can't stop the Beat from British invasion

By CAMILLE TUUTTI-WINKLER · Monday, March 3, 2008

If you ever wanted to catch a show with a truly diverse audience, try The English Beat. When this ska band performs, don't be surprised to see how the MILFs and their college-aged offspring, the usual 9:30 club hipster, a handful of mods and 30-something Beat heads swing their hips and skank elbow to elbow.

Songster grooves to 'delicious' beat of life

By Ty Budde · Monday, March 3, 2008

Mike Doughty, indie pop artist formally of Soul Coughing, recently released his second major solo record, "Golden Delicious," to solid reviews. It's a free-wheeling follow-up to 2005's "Haughty Melodic." Immediately following the release, he started his own micro-label, appropriately called Snack Bar.

Fun in the sun: Healthy break tips

By Darcie Piechowski · Monday, March 3, 2008

Ah, spring break. What could be better? You've got your fun, your sun and your scandalously low alcohol-consumption age limits abroad. Unless, of course, you are going home to Connecticut, in which case it probably will entail hours of uneventful daytime TV and special fun with Mom and Dad.

GET YOUR GREEN ON - The library's Media Services Center's "Green on the Screen" viewings take place every Thursday at 12:30 p.m.

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Library screens wide world of environment-friendly films

By Chris DeWitt | March 3

AU is, in many ways, a font of untapped resources. Imagine for a minute how much money is just sitting, rotting away in unused AUCC accounts, unspent dollars from inactive clubs. Someone should really check that out. It's got to be a ton of cash. But AU, small as it seems, in fact has many a good hidden gem.

BLEEDING HEART - Helen Frankenthaler pioneered a painting technique that later influenced other important Color Field artists such as Morris Louis. Frankenthaler's method took advantage of the properties of her unprimed canvases, allowing colors to bleed

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Geometric exhibit colors American Art Museum

By Kristen Powell | March 3

Splashes of color bleed across giant canvases, greeting visitors to "Color as Field: American Painting, 1950-1975." The new exhibit, which is open Feb. 29 through May 26 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, takes on the Color Field movement, one of the immediate heirs to Abstract Expressionism.

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Foreigners in Japan face social separation

By Andrew Robinson | March 3

Sometimes riding one of the numerous trains in Tokyo, I will look down the length of the car and notice a strange person. Unlike most of the people on the train, this person is usually not sleeping, texting someone with their cell phone, or staring at the floor avoiding eye contact or conversation with anyone around them.

MONET MONET - Claude Monet's painting "Impression, Sunrise" inspired the title of the artistic movement that dominated the late 19th century to early 20th century. Monet found his muse in nature, like other artists of the period.

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What's that: Impressionism sheds light on nature, emotions

By Ali Goldstein | March 3

From Degas' poised dancers to Monet's prismatic water lilies, Impressionism is one of the most pervasive and widely enjoyed art forms. Its vivid-color and evocative imagery allows impressionism to be immediately appreciated and enjoyed. However, understanding the questions that drove the movement places the paintings in a more complex frame than their ubiquitousness suggests.

ANGELIC - Crooner Annie Clark won audiences over with her candor, lovely face and beautiful voice Tuesday night at the Rock and Roll Hotel. "Marry Me," Clark's first album that was released under her pseudonym St. Vincent, takes on the subject of love fro

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St. Vincent steals crowd's heart

By Ty Budde | February 28

Annie Clark is talented, funny and beautiful. Her finger-picking is lovely, her power chords ugly, her skin so fair, her hair dark and everywhere. She, like the music she makes under the pseudonym St. Vincent, is high contrast, and she brought the entire spectrum of that contrast to her concert at the Rock and Roll Hotel Tuesday night.

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Typical fairy tale enchants audiences

By CLARE SHEPARD | February 28

What if fairy tale princesses were strong women who sent powerful messages of self-respect to young girls? What if Prince Charming was a jerk, and an impoverished gambling addict had to save the day? Why aren't there more good roles for little people? All of these questions are posed by the charming new fairy tale "Penelope.

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Teeny boppers need to get 'Real'

February 28

The Wagner Logic "Easiest to Grab" Wilderhood Records Sounds like: A neat spin on your everyday garage band Grade: B- With the release of their latest album, "Easiest to Grab," Alaskan natives The Wagner Logic have concentrated their efforts, giving rise to a new form of music they call "Basementia.

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Web exclusive: An interview with St. Vincent

By Siram Coalter | February 28

At this point in her career, Annie Clark inhabits her moniker St. Vincent like an old hat. After all, the 25-year-old singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist already boasts an indie track record that would befit an act with a few more rings around its trunk.

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Protect your body before, after sex

By JACK RACKAM and JANE DE BELLEVILLE AND CAPTAIN GRACE O'MALLEY | February 28

Anyone who is sexually active should be prepared to confront sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Despite what you learned in your abstinence-only high school sex ed course, you won't get every STI every time you have sex, but when you are unprotected and exposed, you run the risk of getting chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, herpes, HPV and HIV, among others.

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The week in fun: Know your city

February 28

Thursday, February 28 "From the Streets to the Gallery: How Contemporary Art Is Being Influenced by the Urban Experience" 6:30-8:30 p.m. WHERE: Katzen Arts Center, room 151 INFO: New York curators Marc and Sara Schiller present a visual lecture on graffiti art and the role it plays in the contemporary art scene.

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Dorm Recipe: Decadent dessert pizza

By Linda Beck | February 28

Dessert Pizza Cooking Time: 15 minutes Servings: 6 I have a major sweet tooth for chocolate and always try to think of new ways to eat it. I had heard of the idea of a dessert pizza before, so I thought I would give it a try with some of my favorite things: Nutella, chocolate chips and marshmallows.

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Kosovo may set precedent

By Carolyn Phenicie | February 28

In a strange fate of timing, I arrived back in Madrid from Barcelona, just a few hours after Kosovo broke away from Serbia and declared its independence. Kosovo, though formally part of Serbia, had been under U.N. and NATO control since the end of the Kosovo War in 1999.

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Romanticism: Where's the love?

By Kristen Powell | February 25

Though this may sound counterintuitive, Romanticism, in terms of the visual arts, is often anything but romantic. Romanticism developed in late 18th- and 19th-century Europe as an overall intellectual movement. There is no way of simply defining Romantic art in stylistic terms.

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Just for the health of it: Let your painful sports injuries inspire new ways for working out

By Darcie Piechowski | February 25

In the last month that I have been doing jiu-jitsu, I have sprained an ankle, broken a toe, overextended an elbow and pulled a half dozen muscles. While this may be a bit extreme, injuries are not exclusive to martial arts. Weight lifting can strain your muscles and running can cause shin splints.

TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES - A-Tec's mixing room, known by some students as the "room of doom," has one working light, average temperatures in the 80s and the occasional mouse, and is a central part of A-Tec students' experience at AU. With only one mixing ro

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A-Tec students struggle to be heard

By Traci J. Brooks | February 25

Imagine a chemistry lab where students share only one Bunsen burner. The classroom has no chairs and isn't big enough for the whole class, so several students stand outside in the hallway. Students coax the outdated Bunsen burner to work to complete their assignments, and the temperature of the classroom rests at a sweltering 87 degrees.

BACK TO BLACK - Jack Black and Mos Def remake several popular films for Mr. Fletcher's (Danny Glover) video store in "Be Kind Rewind," the newest film by Academy Award-winning French director Michel Gondry.

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Review: Gondry's 'Rewind' lets viewers unwind

By Stephen Tringali | February 25

"Be Kind Rewind" might seem like a regressive step for famed French director Michel Gondry. Compared to his last two fictional films, "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and "The Science of Sleep," this flick starring Jack Black and Mos Def appears downright ordinary - not ordinary in the sense that it is mediocre, which it certainly is not, but ordinary in the sense that it is simple.

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Eco-fashion makes it easy to be green

February 25

As prominent celebrities and politicians speak out about protecting the environment, fashion designers quickly follow suit. More and more, high fashion has incorporated eco-conscious trends-and surprisingly, we love what we're seeing. This year on Jan. 31, Earth Pledge staged its first "FutureFashion" show.

The UFL and Why it's Good for the Sport

Section 202 hosts Connor Sturniolo and Gabrielle McNamee are joined by fellow Eagle staff member and phenomenal sports photographer, Josh Markowitz. Follow along as they discuss the United Football League and the benefits it provides for the world of professional football.

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