Blues way
For the Trampled Under Foot, the blues have always been a family affair. “The core of the band consisted of me and my brothers Nick and Kris,” explained bassist/vocalist Danielle [...]
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Posted March 12, 2014in The Sound
Posted March 12, 2014in Sore Thumbs
‘SOUTH PARK: THE STICK OF TRUTH’ (M) ****1/2 Ubisoft Xbox 360 Here’s just another turn-based, side-scrolling fantasy RPG that casts you in the familiar classes of the fighter, the thief, [...]
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Posted March 12, 2014in On The Tube
The apocalypse, with acne
An icy CEO (Gillian Anderson), a troubled ex-CIA analyst (Dermot Mulroney) and other D.C. parents drop off their kids at an elite high school for a field trip. Before long, [...]
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Posted March 12, 2014in Food Dude
Panchero’s and the Burrito Wars
Remember when Chipotle was the good guy? The Colorado chain had just 16 stores in 1998 when McDonald’s bought a majority share in the company. It quickly grew to 500 [...]
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Posted March 12, 2014in Belly Up To...
If the cliché fits: ‘The Real McCoy’ is a Grimes Bar and Grill
Anyone who knows the city streets only as far as they’ve had to navigate from the interstate to their job is probably unaware that a decade ago the McCoy family [...]
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Posted March 12, 2014in News of the Weird
Teach a Man to Fish … The Drug Users Resource Center in Vancouver, British Columbia (heralded previously in News of the Weird for a vending machine dispensing 25-cent crack-cocaine pipes [...]
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Posted March 12, 2014in Political Mercury
Can Tea Party Teacuppers handle the truth?
There’s this terrifically descriptive term college administrators use these days. Helicopter parenting (hovering protectively over one’s kids) is creating a new breed of college freshmen university deans call “Teacups” — [...]
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Posted March 12, 2014in Rap Sheet
On the clock
Play the “Name that Crime” Quiz! WHO HAS THE ENERGY FOR THIS? Police were called to MidAmerican on Court Avenue on March 3 at 3 p.m. on a report of [...]
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Posted March 12, 2014in Locker Room
Do you have the eye of the tiger?
It was just three decades ago that Lanny Potts introduced to the world a machine that many would come to love and even more would come to mock: All the [...]
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Posted March 12, 2014in Film Review
Second honeymoon in the city of light
“Le Week-End” 3 stars Rated R 93 minutes Comedy Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan Audiences familiar with screenwriter Hanif Kureishi’s work — reference “My Beautiful Laundrette” and “Sammy [...]
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