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Design specialists talk about graphics in sports

By Josh Kramer | March 9

On the Feb. 28, Washington's branch of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, or AIGADC, held an event called "Good Design is Smart Sports Business." Sponsored by America Online and Neehan Paper, and held at the decadent Carnegie Institution in Dupont Circle, the event showcased two prominent figures in the world of sports design - Todd Raydum, a freelance sports logo designer, and Marcus Stevens, creative director of Under Armour, Inc.

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Highlights and lowlights of Oscar night

By Robyn Abzug | March 9

While everyone knows that the Oscars only really matter to film geeks (and anyone who's ever has won), there's something inside that still would love to one day walk up those steps and say: "I'd like to thank the Academy." Come on, everyone dreams. Yet each year, there are screw-ups, stunners and surprises that should be take noted.

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Books on Tape aren't quite noise, nor electronica

By Chris Moreno | March 9

"I like everything to happen fast, like a car crash," said Todd Drootin, mastermind behind the Los Angeles force that is Books on Tape. Books on Tape is difficult to wrap one's head around at first. Their music is something that Drootin describes as "electronic noise rock," but it goes so much further than that.

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Can't teach old film new tricks

By Jeff Lambert | March 9

A shaggy dog story is a sort of long-winded and ultimately anticlimactic tale, where the joke lies less in the punch line but more in the absurd and irrelevant events leading up to it (think "The Aristocrats"), The historic shaggy dog story ends with someone remarking that the talking shaggy dog, promised to appear throughout the story, isn't that shaggy at all.

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Two nights of Belle and Sebastian satiate fans

By Rebecca Armendariz | March 9

Stuart Murdoch dances like he's recently come off a stint of watching hours of "The Breakfast Club" on loop. He twirls and kicks as if the ghosts of Molly Ringwald's past characters have him possessed. The presuppositions about Belle and Sebastian's set possibilities abounded with thoughts of peaceful yawning and wishing for a seat, but two nights of the band's fast-paced new sound at the 9:30 club debunked these theories.

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Documentary captures anguished artistic genius

By Chris DeWitt | March 9

Take a drive down Guadalupe Street in Austin, Texas, and right before you pass Mamie Mam's Thai Restaurant and the University of Texas' Main Campus, there will be a huge black and white mural on the side of a building. That building used to house Tower Records, boasting a swank collection of music worthy of Austin's notoriously discerning tastes, but now it's a Baja Fresh.

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Students share their Spring Break plans

By Mia Steinle | March 9

"I'm possibly going to New York, but I'm not sure yet. It's not for business or work, just fun." -Makda Ammanuel, freshman in the Kogod School of Business "I'm going up to Boston and Providence to visit a few friends and run around in the snow. I'm going to be reading a lot of books.

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Horoscopes

By Tamara Brown | March 9

Aries (March 21 - April 19) This is the weekend that will make you famous. The stars will align for you all week, and everything you do will be the makings of a legend. Unfortunately, the slow-speed car chase and subsequent mug shots will undoubtedly be the things that your adoring public will remember.

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Scoring with rebounds isn't a perpetual chore

By Blair Bryant Nichols | March 9

"You're too short for me," my girlfriend's former co-worker quipped at the club, "but you're not too short for my friend." I rolled my eyes and glanced over at his friend. Not bad, but I wasn't exactly drooling. My other friends were otherwise engaged, so I figured there wouldn't be any harm in dancing with him.

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Craven horror remake much gorier than before

By Andrew Yonki | March 9

Known by most people for his work as the man behind the first two popular "Nightmare on Elm Street" films and all three installments of "Scream," Wes Craven has carved a solid niche for himself in the horror movie community. As producer of the remake of his 1977 cult classic "The Hills Have Eyes," Craven remains firmly implanted in the scary movie pantheon.

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Royal debauchery kills

By Marjorie Korn | March 9

The first scene of Laurence Dunmore's "The Libertine" opens to a dark room, where a flickering light sporadically illuminates the face of the Earl of Rochester (Johnny Depp). He urges the ladies and the gentleman to stay away from him, for coming too close will cost them dearly.

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'Walkathon' struts across two screens

By Daniel Longino | March 6

It's no secret that I love Paul Walker. The 2Hot 2Talented hard-bodied bro has had a string of amazing films, cementing his place in movie history. Walker first made a splash in the Disney surfing buddy comedy "Meet the Deedles"(not to be confused with Peter Jackson's Muppets-on-acid "Meet the Feebles," which I did once, and I'm not really sure how those kids handled the scene in which the bunny puppet thinks he has an STD).

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A guide to New York City's hardcore musical landscape

By Andrew Yonki | March 6

After the first wave of punk rock died off in the early '80s, small scenes in Southern California and Washington, D.C., began to crank out punk rock in a louder, faster, more aggressive form. This sound of punk rock became known as hardcore. Conspicuously absent in the early years of hardcore was any contribution from New York City, where punk started.

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The cream is cheesy, but the clothes are not

By Lenore Costello | March 6

Annie Creamcheese 3279 M Street Monday - Wednesday, 11 a.m. - 8 p.m. Thursday - Saturday, 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. Sunday, 12 p.m. - 6 p.m. www.anniecreamcheese.com The words "vintage clothing store" may bring to mind an image of the dimly lit thrift shop down the street that somehow always smelled distinctly of "old.

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The hit list

March 6

1.. Renting movies that are too old to be on the Oscars All the good stuff has already been done before, dudes. You can get hot love stories and totally awesome action in any given selection from the Hollywood video archives, so why even mess around? "Classics" usually only cost like $1.

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Sugimoto stuns spectators with Hirshhorn show

By Andrew Gardner | March 6

Hiroshi Sugimoto Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden On display through May 14 Admission: Free A+ Washington, D.C., is, as some may forget, a veritable candyland of free museums. But culture at the expense of Joe and Jane Taxpayer does not always mean that the Smithsonian museums deliver the goods; sometimes stuff sucks.

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SOC professor takes on a new role, gets laughs

By David Wilezol | March 6

School of Communication professor Chris Palmer is a Renaissance Man. He's served in the British Navy, been a high school boxing champion and worked on an Israeli kibbutz. He was a naval officer, an engineer, a business consultant, an energy analyst, the chief energy advisor to a senior U.

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