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TV from others' misery

By Ben Lozovsky | April 10

BEN LOZOVSKY Attention to all appropriate personnel: In my continuing effort to attract and enrapture readers with my bi-monthly musings, I would like to unveil my new policy in regards to potential content. No longer am I satisfied with writing columns about tales of everyday loss, struggle and sadness.

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Recommendations for hip-hopping around

April 10

Welcome to this week's installment of "Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em," where, as always, Sammy Skrilla and Birdgang bring you their finest recommendations from hip-hop's dusty vaults. So sit back, check it out and, as Redman once said, "Light your spliffs up and let the funk be your guiding light.

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Music notes

April 10

Southern Culture on the Skids "Double Wide and Live" (YepRoc) Sounds Like: A Southern-fried stew of distorted, reverb-laden guitars, swampy grooves and garage attitude. B Recorded live at Local 506 in Chapel Hill, N.C., this live album by Southern Culture on the Skids (SCOTS for short) is a fun-filled stomp through various musical styles like surf, blues, country and garage rock.

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MACrock 'n' roll

By Jeff Lambert | April 10

College radio has always been the lifeblood of indie rock, giving artists whose talents fell below the stony gaze of the Top 40 a chance to be heard by America's multitudes of graphic design students. The Mid Atlantic College Radio Conference, or MACRock, has been fostering that relationship for ten years.

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Shoulder to cry on no good if already soaking wet

By Blair Bryant Nichols | April 6

You have heard me write many times about how much I value my friends and how I have always set them above any guy that has come my way. But I am sure you can agree that there are times when friends, whether knowingly or not, can be your absolute worst enemies.

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Comic DVD delivers laughs

By Chris Moreno | April 6

Patton Oswalt: No Reason to Complain Comedy Central $19.99 Grade: B In the late '90s there was a comic boom that made many stand up comics household names. After the burnout of this craze, very few comics stayed around because they felt there was no need to.

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The sound and the shape

By Chris DeWitt | April 6

In the 19th century and earlier, much of life in the rural South revolved around the Grange Hall. Oft times simply a one-room meetinghouse, the Hall would host dances, performances and potluck dinners. Grange Halls have by and large disappeared. For the most part, communities are so large and disparate that in some sense, they're not communities at all.

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D.C.'s Darkest Hour prove themselves leaders of metal

By Andrew Yonki | April 6

Among the over-saturated wave of new American metal (read: metalcore), there are few bands that stand out. In order to do so in a scene overrun with mediocrity, a band must truly do something different; and not just do it differently, but do it well. Fortunately for metal fans at the 9:30 club on Saturday night, all three groups who performed are standout bands.

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Life in the 'friend zone:' lonely'

By Lenore Costello | April 6

It's that time of year again. The birds are singing, the cherry blossoms are blooming and the weather is just warm enough to start taking romantic walks through Georgetown or the mall. Everyone is thinking about love. But with love comes relationships, and with relationships come problems.

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Shoulder to cry on no good if already soaking wet

April 6

Shari Sangster, a sophomore in the School of Communication, represented her sorority in an event during Greek Week. Sororites and fraternities compteted for Greek Achievment Points during the night of singing. This year's events are Olympic-themed, putting the Greek groups into teams of countries, competing for the treasured achievment points.

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British bands play slow, dreamy sets on U Street

By Rebecca Armendariz | April 3

Hard-Fi hail from Staines, England, which they try to pass off as West London (Americans won't know the difference!). Tom Smith's Editors call Birmingham, a former northern factory town, their home, and make no mention of their English citizenship in their songs.

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Students indifferent about SG elections

By Erie Meyer | April 3

The quad was peppered with students this past Sunday afternoon. Some were sunning themselves; others were un-tagging unflattering photos of themselves from Facebook or catching up with friends. What no one seemed to be doing, however, was talking about this week's Student Government elections.

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Oddities on the Internet

By Jen Turner | April 3

Ah, the Internet. Back in 1998 when everyone first got 60 free hours of America Online, the world seemed to open up into a new and glorious place where you could seriously talk to someone who lived in Los Angeles and liked the same No Doubt albums you did! A community was built - a "World Wide Web," if you will.

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Mammoth love story melts ice, hearts in new kids' film

By Chris Moreno | April 3

It's been almost four years since the hit animated movie "Ice Age" was released to the acclaim of critics and viewers alike. "Ice Age" was one of many in a slew of animated flicks that appeal to both adults and children. Thanks largely to the success of movies like "Shrek," "Ice Age" drew in a huge crowd at the box office, quickly becoming one of the favorite movies of 2002.

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Music notes

April 3

Willy Mason "Where the Humans Eat" (Astralwerks) Sounds Like: A young Dylan with a younger vocabulary. C+ Folk is fast becoming the "next big thing" in indie rock. Standing valiantly above a sea of synth-punk dance bands, these new heroes of rock music are still indebted, and far less sincere, than the Folkies of days gone by.

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The cherry blossoms arrive

By Erie Meyer | April 3

Since Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo, Japan gave Washington, D.C. the gift of 3.000 Japanese cherry trees on March 27th, 1912, Washingtonians have annually enjoyed the blooms and bemoaned the tourists. The trees helped to enhance the friendship that the United States and previously isolationist Japan were developing.

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Horoscopes

By Tamara Brown | March 30

Aries (March 21 - April 19) Jinkies! It will be extremely difficult to solve the mysteries placed before you this week, Aries. If you get the right people in the van and supply them with a large quantity of sandwiches, you will discover who or what has been haunting the amusement park.

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