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News

A guide to grocery shopping near AU

By Allen Nguyen | August 27

Whole Foods vs. Safeway: a battle of epic proportions.

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Music

Lupe Fiasco and Travis Porter play to amped crowd

By Jane Morice | August 27

AU SUB brings artists Lupe Fiasco and Travis Porter to packed arena.

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News

Fall Movie Preview

By Mark Lieberman | August 27

An early glimpse at five promising fall movies and a list of other potentially interesting contenders

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Music

Q&A: The Coathangers

By Sean Meehan | August 27

Atlanta punk queens The Coathangers have had a busy summer since returning from their second European tour.

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News

Movie Review: You’re Next

By David Kahen-Kashi | August 27

Adam Wingard’s “You’re Next” is a upper class, low down gritty slasher horror that cuts its teeth and bone into a small, seemingly well-to-do family come under siege in a home invasion from some ne’er do wells simply christened as The Animals.

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News

Movie Review: Austenland

By David Kahen-Kashi | August 27

“Austenland,” based off a novel by Shannon Hale, arrived to the same acclaim from readers of the novel and sought to demolish some of the mystery that comes with being the ever mercurial Mr. Darcy.

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Music

The Scene’s VMA Recap

By Mark Lieberman | August 27

The “2013 MTV Video Music Awards was a relatively steady affair.

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News

Movie Review: The World’s End

By Hoai-Tran Bui | August 27

“The World’s End” tells the story of Gary King (Simon Pegg, “Star Trek Into Darkness”), an emotionally stunted alcoholic desperately trying to relive his glory days, who decides to reunite his high school friends to finally complete the Golden Mile, a pub crawl at their hometown of Newton Haven.

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News

9 Places to Find Cheap Books

By David Kahen-Kashi | August 22

Textbooks are quite annoying to purchase, especially when the back to school late rush hits the stores.

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News

Top Songs of Summer from the Scene

August 22

Whether they accompanied us on the beach, a long summer road trip, or quietly through our headphones at our summer internships, a good summer song will stick with you and remind you of freedom whether it is the dead of winter or the middle of your hardest semester.

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News

Meet the Scene

August 20

Want to know what's going on off- and on-campus? Look no further! The Eagle’s the Scene is determined to keep you updated on all things art, entertainment, music, pop culture, fashion, food and more at AU and throughout the District. So meet the staff working to make sure you make the most of your ...

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News

Q&A: Betty Who

By Sydney Gore | August 19

Correction appended Betty Who is not like the other girls, but that’s why she’s so popular. Born in Australia but native to Los Angeles, the 21-year-old has been involved with music her entire life. While she claims to have grown up on pop music, she learned to play cello at age four, which led ...

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News

Movie Review: Jobs

By David Kahen-Kashi | August 16

The film is a series of biographical vignettes sprinkled with what can be only described as unabashed advertisements for Apple and its many sterile products.

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News

Movie Review: Kick-Ass 2

By Hoai-Tran Bui | August 16

While the film made a valiant effort at the wry, black comedy that made the original famous, it failed to recapture the shocking humor of the first "Kick-Ass."

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News

Movie Review: The Butler

By Clarence Cabanero | August 16

Lee Daniels is not the kind of director one associates with stuffy, Oscar-bait, historical films, but he succeeds with "The Butler" by keeping audiences entertained and engrossed.

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News

Movie Review: Elysium

By Hoai-Tran Bui | August 9

In a grandiose follow-up to his breakout first film “District 9,” Neill Blomkamp once again creates a socially aware movie that attempts to break the boundaries of classism. However, “Elysium” doesn’t hold the same emotional resonance as its predecessor and ends up coming off as a sanctimonious ...

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News

Movie Review: Lovelace

By David Kahen-Kashi | August 9

Linda Lovelace, the luminary scion of the American adult industry, was just a mere teenager when she began her short lived career. But that career included one of the most famous and profitable films in the history of pornography that was the slyly titled with a Nixonian satirical edge: “Deep Throat.” ...

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