A Warped History


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In movies, music, art and television, there are no such things as good ideas. Well, there are, but a good idea is one you hardly remember. Great ideas, however, are the ones you’ll never forget. For Vans Warped Tour creator Kevin Lyman, his great idea has been able to clutch the single-best luxury that most […]

Family drama delivers multifaceted performances


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“This is exactly like my family!” one woman exclaimed during the first of two intermissions. Hopefully, she didn’t mean “exactly.” If she did, she should not — under any circumstances whatsoever — be smiling, and should instead be safely at therapy. Such is the dysfunctional family at the heart of Tracy Letts’ Tony Award–winning drama […]

Childish antics follow through to adulthood


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Sunday night, I was happily procrastinating in front of my computer. An oral presentation due Monday, hundreds of pages of reading and a new episode of Glee all sat in my lap, chaotic and demanding — but my eyes were right on an open, even more commanding presence: Facebook. There I was, buried in the […]

Repetition keeps memes afloat


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Remember when it was all about Pig Latin? In eighth grade, speaking the language made you opular-pay. You could eat unch-lay with the ool-cay kids, and no one would tell you to am-scray. You may have thought you were participating in a secret club, but you were really just participating in culture. And you were […]

In your headphones


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Muse, The Resistance Warner Bros. Length: 54 min. Now available Anyone looking for Muse’s signature soaring vocals and epic dynamic swells will not be disappointed by its newest release, The Resistance. That being said, after the album leads with “Uprising,” a bustling call to arms against the proverbial “they,” it follows with track after track […]