Energy level must stay elevated in Minnesota


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Sometimes, fans assume that sports are like algebra. If Team A beats Team B by 21, and if Team B beats Team C by 14, then it follows that Team A should beat Team C by 35. Right? No — at least, not according to Lane Kiffin and the Trojans. Kiffin dismissed any thought of […]

Stone shines in her breakout role


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Well, I guess we now know what would happen if Diablo Cody took a Tony Montana-sized bump of coke, went on a weeklong VH1’s I Love The …s bender and then sat down and wrote a screenplay. Yup, she’d write Easy A. For sure, Easy A is Juno 2.0 — a smart, gimmicky high school […]

Fear a common thread for students


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Fear is a primal instinct we experience every day — from the stress of asking someone out to the anxiety of graduating and having to survive on our own. I recently tried to make a list of the things I fear most. I swallowed my stereotypical self-conceptions about laughing in the face of danger and […]

In theaters today – Week of Sept. 17


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Easy A [Rated PG-13] Superbad’s Emma Stone stars in this hip update of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic American novel, The Scarlet Letter. The once-spotless reputation of a high school student is tarnished when she pretends to lose her virginity to her gay friend, resulting in a slew of hopelessly horny classmates asking for the same service. […]