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'Blue Dragon' diversifies XBox 360 game library

By Michael Carusi | January 31

The original Xbox had a game library consisting largely of first-person shooters and sports games, with only a few memorable exceptions. Now, the Xbox 360 offers a variety of different genres, including the classic role-playing game, as exemplified by "Blue Dragon.

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Review: DS game focuses on vision training

By Mike Carusi | January 28

Among the "Brain Age," "Brain Age 2" and "Big Brain Academy" games, Nintendo DS players must feel like their brains have been finely honed. What about your peripheral vision? Enter "Flash Focus," a game published by Nintendo as a semi-spinoff of the "Brain Age" games.

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Just for the health of it: New health column approves snack attack

By Darcie Piechowski | January 28

Over the years, snacking has earned itself a bad rap. Every time someone goes on a diet, we inevitably hear the phrase, "Well, I just cut out the snacking." Poor snacking. What did it ever do to all the dieters of the world to get so quickly ripped from their lives without warning? Snacking is actually not bad for you.

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Explore Smith's melancholy indie successors

By Madalyn Wasilczuk | January 28

Elliott Smith's melancholy acoustics and tortured life are well-known to music fans as varied as sound track listeners and indie junkies. His lyrics, laden with angst yet often stimulated by optimism, are consistently laced with the artist's brilliant musical pieces and airy vocals, creating a distinct fusion that audiences continue to embrace time and time again, evidenced by the success of his two posthumous releases "From a Basement on the Hill" and "New Moon.

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Tips to fight winter blues

By Lara Busche | January 28

Most people believe the winter blues are a commercialized concept to sell more essence candles, warm sweaters, cookies and astounding amounts of chocolate and milk, but there is more than superstition to this syndrome. Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD, is a type of depression that affects up to one in 20 people, with younger people aged 18 to 40 more likely to be affected, according to BBC Health.

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Review: 'Persepolis' tells complex story with simple images

By Andrew Gardner | January 28

Evolving a tumultuous life into a graphic novel and then an animated film is what makes "Persepolis" so refreshingly unexpected. It's also what makes this autobiography of Marjane Satrapi, the book's author and the film's director, so much more creatively significant.

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Learn main strokes of Baroque

By Kristen Powell | January 28

If you've heard of Baroque, it's likely it was from Disney's animated Magnum opus "Beauty and the Beast." While giving her a tour of the castle, Cogsworth quips to Belle, "If it's not Baroque, don't fix it!" Cogsworth was gushing over the architecture of the castle, but Baroque also refers to a style of painting and sculpture (as well as orchestral music - but that's a whole other story).

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Class, spunk define Hepburn legacy

By Kristen Powell | January 28

"I am absolutely fascinating!" renowned actress Katharine Hepburn once exclaimed to interviewer Dick Cavett. Though Hepburn's appraisal might be cocky, after viewing "One Life: Katharine Hepburn," visitors to the National Portrait Gallery might have some trouble disagreeing with the starlet.

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Eight fabulous trends for a brighter 2008

January 28

Whether it's to eat healthier (less Tavern, more salad bar), venturing off the red line of the Metro or seeing more of the things D.C. offers, we try our best to stick to our New Year's resolutions. As for us, we want to keep everyone on campus looking fashionably fabulous for 2008.

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Review: Mars Volta unleashes 'Bedlam' on new album

By Rob Natale | January 24

About 20 years ago, prog-rock died a deserved death. Humiliated by new wave and devoured by its own bloat, progressive bands like King Crimson and Yes faded into obscurity, scaled back to play for fundamentalists or slicked up their sounds to fit the current trends.

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Restaurant Week offers cheap eats for students

By Jennifer Anderson | January 24

Getting out into the vibrant D.C. food scene can be taxing on a student's budget, but D.C.'s 12th Restaurant Week, held from Jan. 14 to Jan. 20, provided an opportunity to venture beyond the monotonous campus fare and get a taste of what the city really has to offer.

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'Hook'-up etiquette for horny lads, lasses

By JANE DE BELLEVILLE and JACK RACKAM AND GRACE O'MALLEY | January 24

At AU, we are surrounded by thousands of similarly aged students, allowing for both sexual and nonsexual self-discovery. This unique environment, with its lack of curfew, few responsibilities and zero parental guidance, is an exciting prospect for most college students.

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Review: All Hour Cymbals: A

January 24

Yeasayer "All Hour Cymbals" Sounds like: Beach Boys meet Animal Collective Yeasayer has become the biggest indie sensation since whatever the last indie sensation was. Fortunately, the Brooklyn band's debut album "All Hour Cymbals" meets the hype. Complex, yet accessible, Yeasayer's sound has an air of vague familiarity, though few will be able to pin down exactly what it is.

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Folger Library teaches volumes

By Elena Isella | January 24

With the presidential election campaign well underway, Americans are no strangers to spin. Today, the Folger Shakespeare Library opens "History in the Making: How Early Modern Britain Imagined its Past," which shows through books, art and other artifacts how the British rewrote their political and religious history to win over the public in the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Scene Calendar

January 24

Thursday, Jan. 24 DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist 7:30 p.m. WHERE: 9:30 club, 815 V St. N.W. METRO: U Street-Cardozo (green and yellow lines) INFO: DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist come together for an electric, live mixing show. COST: $35 An Evening with the Asylum Street Spankers 8 p.

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January 17

Thursday, Jan. 17 "The Brothers Size" 8 p.m. WHERE: The Studio Theatre, 1501 14th St. N.W. AMOUNT: $41-$46 METRO: Dupont Circle (red line) INFO: The story of two Louisiana brothers set to a sound track of energetic drumming. Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad 6 p.

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New Wu album 'weeps' for ODB

January 17

Holy Fuck "Holy F**k" Young Turks Sounds like: LCD Soundsystem, rockified Grade: A Holy Fuck have proven they are more than just a shocking name. In their first full-length album, this Toronto-based electronic post-rock group stands undaunted before a palette of lo-fi synthesizers and several drum kits to create a sound that is truly unique.

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