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'Blue Crush' worth the ticket price

Angela Williams | August 20

Surfing hugely dangerous waves in Hawaii? Yeah, we girls kicked that ass. Or so we prove in "Blue Crush," a movie that came at the end of summer, but keeps the tingling, relaxing feeling that the days of June and July bring. Starring Kate Bosworth, last seen in Robert Redford's "The Horse Whisperer," and Michelle Rodriguez known from the independent film stunner "Girlfight," this movie is about girl power in the non-Spice Girl, scary sense of the words.

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'Trainspotting' play unlike movie

Amber L. Earls | August 20

Trainspotting, a book, a movie, and now - a play showing at the Vortex Theater. First off, if you've seen the movie starring Ewan McGregor, you'll notice a few slight differences. For one, the climax isn't included in the play version - a stage adaptation by Harry Gibson, based on the novel by Irvine Welsh.

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Excess bass drowns De La Soul show

Marisa Demarco | August 20

How much bass can the Sunshine Theater handle? Judging by the sound at the De La Soul concert on Wednesday, Aug. 14, not much. De La Soul is one of the most groundbreaking and inventive hip-hop groups around and its influence stems all the way back to its 1989 debut Three Feet High and Rising.

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Band continues avant-garde jaunt

Mike Sanchez | August 19

Dredg treads familiar and similarly fascinating ground with its second major-label release El Cielo. Following in the footsteps of the heavily lauded major-label debut of Leitmotif, Dredg continue upon the avant-garde concept album rock path. El Cielo yields such lines as “watch clouds peek over the tallest mountain tops, cuz they unveil honest opinions about the stars” from the album’s real opener “Same Ol’ Road”.

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Film adaptation collects dust

Dustin Habermann | August 19

The problem with reviewing local cinema is that you worry that Billy Garberina might hunt you down and kick your ass for giving him a bad review. Who is Billy Garberina? He is the writer, co-director, producer and star of the entirely locally made full-length feature: “Collecting Rooftops.

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‘Signs’ nearly a tour de force

Marisa Demarco | August 19

Ever felt a growing sense of dread from something as simple as watching a man stare into a darkened cornfield? If you see “Signs” — written, directed and produced by M. Night Shyamalan — you might. Shyamalan, director of “The Sixth Sense” and “Unbreakable,” follows a kind of Hitchcock-esque methodology in “Signs.

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Flaming Lips spits out new serene masterpiece

Angela Williams | August 19

Everyone’s doing retro pop these days. The ’60s are long gone, but pop from that era is all over the place. But left out of that is psychedelic pop — that LSD-fueled sub-genre that Pink Floyd started out in before building The Wall. Leave it to The Flaming Lips to make sure that psychedelic pop is represented.

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LETTER: Pledge not in need of revision since it does not violate laws

August 18

Editor, I am writing in response to the letter I just finished reading sent to you by one Seth Warren Heath. His letter remarked that the pledge defied the Constitution. I would like to point out that in his letter he commented that the government required people to say the Pledge of Allegiance.

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Film illuminates hip-hop culture

Dustin Habermann | July 25

Currently making waves at venues throughout Northern California, a group of independent visionary filmmakers are taking their Hip Hop Film Fest on the road and to Albuquerque's Guild Theater from July 26 through Aug. 1.

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Sound Off

Simon Trujillo | July 25

Complaints about the banality of popular culture are nothing dramatically new. Working against the uniformity of early 20th century American culture, social critic and philosopher Theodor Adorno wrote the provocative essay "On Popular Music." In it, he rails against popular music's numbing and monotonous tendency - identifying with prophetic precision the lack of originality and mental vitalization it offers its listeners. Bear in mind that Adorno was writing in the early 1940s.

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Music today a divider for people

Mike Sanchez | July 25

What's going on in the music industry nowadays? You hear it every day, "Pop music is going to bust! Any day now! It'll be gone!" Of course, these prophets are countered with screaming little girls hungering for the next boy band release, waiting to help them sell a million copies in the first hour.

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'Hit Me Baby' today's 'Respect'

Nathan Jacquez | July 25

Thirty years ago Janis Joplin was selling records and touring the country with her own brand of music and style. Before that, Aretha Franklin was a huge star. People loved these women's voices and the soul they put in their music. They were respected for who they were and what they represented. Neither of these women were playmate material.

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O.M.F. fuses sports and song

July 25

What's a summer music festival without winter sports? The Jeep World Outside Music Festival had something for everyone. Over the weekend a large percent of the sports-and-music enthused citizens of Albuquerque were at the Journal Pavilion enjoying the largest music event yet this summer.

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