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By Tamara Brown | September 22

Aries (March 21 - April 19) Are you feeling spontaneous this week? Surprise your friends with a new hairstyle. That's right, cut your roommate's hair while he or she sleeps. You'll get lucky in: Hughes Hall. Taurus (April 20 - May 20) On Wednesday, you may feel as though you are surrounded by people who just don't think the same way you do.

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Tasteful gore in 'History'

By Robyn Abzug | September 22

Sometimes David Cronenberg seems a little crazy. According to his International Movie Database biography, his nickname is "Deprave," and he is known as both "The King of Venereal Horror," and "The Baron of Blood." Kind of makes a person stop and wonder who this man is.

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Out of context

September 22

"Even if Hurricane Rita destroys Texas - let's say it takes out Oklahoma, too - it still won't end pork politics in Congress." - A School of Public Affairs professor discussing Hurricane Rita's potential effects. An impressionable young girl and her mother were seen walking through the amphitheater Wednesday afternoon, serenaded by a blasting boom box on the stage.

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MC5 guitarist offers guidance to young political activists

By Josh Goodman | September 22

Since the day in 1965 that he teamed up with Fred "Sonic" Smith to form Detroit's MC5, guitarist Wayne Kramer has been one of the most influential and important political rock and roll musicians of all time. The first MC5 album, "Kick Out the Jams," which opens by entreating listeners to "decide whether they are part of the problem or part of the solution," is still regarded by many to be the greatest live album in the history of rock music.

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MPAA president visits AU, condemns movie piracy

By Tiffany Heimbuch-Maybee | September 22

"Mom, Dad, this is Larry Kroger, the boy who molested me last month. We have to get married." This quote is from the National Lampoon classic "Animal House," CEO and President of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) Dan Glickman's favorite movie.

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Special thanks to a special man, with love

By Josh Berg | September 22

It's a just a couple of guys braiding each other's hair. Taking a bath. Shopping for bed sheets. But don't worry, there's nothing weird about it. But before I indulge you - my reader - with the reason I bring this up, I would like to use this forum to thank AU for making my experience as a Katrina transfer student from Tulane as painless as conceivably possible.

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Comic book heroes come to Baltimore

By Danny Friedman | September 22

Last weekend Baltimore hosted the sixth annual Baltimore Comic Convention. Baltimore's is not typically a big convention for news, since it takes place after the much bigger "cons" in San Diego, Chicago and Philadelphia, but Baltimore was what comic conventions are really all about: comic fans meeting with creators and vendors to buy, read and talk about comics.

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Jazz wars

By Neal Fersko and Andrew Yonki | September 22

The Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz's 18th annual international competition was an invitation to jazz guitarists all over the world, an opportunity to prove their skills on a stage that has evolved into a generational testing ground for the likes of Joshua Redmond, Jane Monheit and Tierney Sutton, among many others.

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Jodie Foster sticks to 'Plan'

By Robyn Abzug | September 22

"Flightplan" shows viewers three simple things. Sean Bean likes playing slightly boring authority figures, Jodie Foster favors confined spaces, and Hollywood has a thing for psychologically damaged mothers who may or may not have imaginary children. In the movie, Foster ("Silence of the Lambs," "Panic Room" - in which Foster spends much of the movie in a claustrophobic room) plays propulsion engineer Kyle Pratt.

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Mario's new game is almost a grand slam

September 19

The pennant race is heating up, and Mario and his friends are getting caught up in the love of the game. In "Mario Superstar Baseball," classic Nintendo characters from the Mushroom Kingdom, like Donkey Kong, Luigi and Bowser, take their conflicts to the baseball diamond.

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Doves show fosters concert faux pas

By Rebecca Armendariz | September 19

"You guys, this is not a Van Halen concert." Manchester's Doves blinded audience members with their bright lights and Brit slur at Baltimore's Sonar Saturday night, but not before a group of five drunken townies came close to ruining the night for people surrounding them.

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Tech bits

September 19

Nintendo unveils 'Revolutionary' Controller After months of speculation, Nintendo last week unveiled the controller design for its next-generation console, "Revolution." As the name implies, the device is truly different. The controller looks much like a T.

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Death brings smiles, sells DVDs

By Michael Reichenberg | September 19

Think of the cute, harmonic "Alvin and The Chipmunks." Now imagine them getting brutally slaughtered. This is "Happy Tree Friends," a collection of cute and furry animals that are just begging to be mutilated. No matter what the story is, each episode ends with a bloody "Kill Bill"-esque death for each adorable forest creature.

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Fashion king

By Hillary Beulah | September 19

It seems as if men are always getting pushed to the side when it comes to fashion. The power and prestige resides with the women's wear designers, and on the red carpet the "Who are you wearing?" question is always directed towards the female. Men's fashion is harder to pull off.

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Quick bites

By Marissa Newhall | September 19

Busboys and Poets 14 and V s, NW (202) 387-7638 Metro: U Street/Cardozo-African American Civil War Memorial (green line) B- Oh, thank heavens! D.C. has another trendy coffeehouse/lounge/restaurant/bar/bookstore/club/"performance caf?"/place to go when it's really, really, REALLY necessary for one to tangibly convey having reached the outer orbits of absolute hipster ecstasy.

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The hit list

September 19

1. Dinosaur Comics at www.qwantz.com Few things have made this Scene staffer laugh until she choked quite like www.qwantz.com's "Dinosaur Comics," what Canadian creator Ryan North calls "a comic about talking dinosaurs" and "hopes you think it's pretty okay!" The daily comic features T-rex ("a dinosaur who is enthusiastic about ideas"), Dromiceiomimus (who "likes dinosaur sex!") and Utahraptor ("a good friend"), three companions who tackle all sorts of issues ranging from conversational plagiarism to the infinity of time and space.

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'Sigur' rocks Strathmore

By Chris Moreno | September 19

Paying $50 for a show may seem crazy to some, but money is no object with Iceland's Sigur Ros. The sheer beauty and power of Sigur Ros' sound is an escape from the overbearing nuisances of inflation, high gas rates and - most importantly - reality. The sound that Sigur Ros emits is so ethereal and ambient, one might think they are actually in Iceland as they are listening to them play.

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