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Give Me LIBERTY Or Give Me Death (CAB)

The 2008 version of MTV's 2004 "Vote or Die" campaign - the "Ultimate College Bowl" - was unveiled to the masses for the first time on TRL.

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Storming the Desert

Consider the assaultive title just the tip of the big screwed-up iceberg that is Towelhead, Alan Ball's disturbing portrait of a 13-year-old Lebanese-American girl's coming-of-age in a Texas suburb during the Gulf War.

by PHIL MALACZEWSKI

I Want Jew To Rock

The "smallest letter in the Hebrew alphabet" is coming to one of the biggest venues on Penn's campus.

by ANDREW KENER

Dejá Vu Dejá Vu

Just in case someone forgot that he's a bad motherfucka, Samuel L. Jackson's New Years' resolution in 1998 was to "continue to kick ass." In the decade since, he's appeared in the quintessential badass role in basically every movie he could fit into: a fast-action FBI agent in Snakes on a Plane, a no-bullshit man of God in Black Snake Moan.

by CLINT COHEN

The Defibrillator

Neil Young On The Beach 1974 After the critical and commercial successes of After The Gold Rush and Harvest, Young released a tense series of albums now referred to as the "Ditch Trilogy." On The Beach was the first of these albums and Rolling Stone branded it "despairing." The album was rawer than anything Young had released in the '70s.

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Guilty Pleasures

Sugar & Spice 2001 I have a confession. I often find myself sucked into ABC Family's weekend movie marathons while channel surfing, and this weekend was no different.

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Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Ghost Town follows Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais), the quintessential snide, cynical jerk who, after a glitch during a routine colonoscopy, dies for seven minutes.

by CAROLYN GROSS

We're Not in Tuscany Anymore

Weepy, timeless love stories are what Nicholas Sparks does best, and the screen adaptation of his novel Nights in Rodanthe lives up to the writer's literary stylings.

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Goodbye Kitty

The other day, I was sitting in my freshman seminar on the origins of music. I listened in awe as my professor explained the incredible complexity of the human brain's ability to process sound, the sensitivity of the tiny hairs within our ears and the countless combinations of neuron connections that take place and cause us to perceive waves of compressed air as sound.

by ALEX REMNICK

Dim Lighting

Amidst the sometimes sweeping ambitions of the indie-dance scene, Fujiya & Miyagi seem content sticking with what they do best: creating extremely cool, understated electro-pop unabashedly influenced by a wide range of styles, from the Krautrock of Neu!

by SAM BARRETT

Oh, the places you'll go

First Unitarian Church 2125 Chestnut St., All ages In between songs this summer, a sweaty and shirtless Justin Vernon (of Bon Iver) kept asking the crowd if they were okay.

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Guilty Pleasure

Don’t tell anyone, but National Treasure is one of my favorite movies. I conveniently “forget” to mention it when asked to list my all-time favorites, and no evidence of my love for the historical-fiction-film-slash-action-movie-slash-crime-caper can be found amongst my possessions.

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Cannes you dig it?

Day 1 Feel like I am in an episode of Entourage. It was hard to appreciate the enormity of this festival last night, when I was wandering through the central Palais, my head fuzzy with jetlag.

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Fall Movie Preview

With fall comes the start of classes, cooler temperatures and vicious competition at the box office for Academy Awards contention.

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Always Ford The River

It's almost impossible to analyze the Will Sheff-led Okkervil River's fifth LP without remembering their fourth.

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Fall Movie Preview

With fall comes the start of classes, cooler temperatures and vicious competition at the box office for Academy Awards contention.

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Oh, The Places You Will Go!

Johnny Brenda's 1201 Frankford Avenue, 21+ Brought to you by the owners of Standard Tap, Johnny Brenda's is a classic Philadelphia gastropub and music venue located in Fishtown.

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Who's Got Soul?

Whether a quest for complete dominance of your parents' attention or an attempt to prove which child is the better of the offspring, sibling rivalry isn't new.

by RHAISA KAI

Cannes You Dig It?

Day 1 Feel like I am in an episode of Entourage. It was hard to appreciate the enormity of this festival last night, when I was wandering through the central Palais, my head fuzzy with jetlag.

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This Week In Music

Tonight: GZA Trocadero, All ages 9:00 p.m. Legendary Wu-Tang wordsmith GZA continues the nostalgia-inspired tour that finds him performing his 1995 seminal classic Liquid Swords in full.

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