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Super Pumped and Strung Out

After ten years in the biz and four full-length albums (including one mixed by Ozzy Osbourne), So-Cal punk band Strung Out will thrash its way into the Cat's Cradle on June 2.


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Blossoming Brits

About a Boy is really about two boys: Hugh Grant's Will--38 and a waste of space--and Nicholas Hoult's Marcus--12, with a suicidal mother and a terrible, crooked, bowl-shaped haircut.


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Vanilla Coked Out

Coca-Cola stopped adding cocaine to its drink in the 1890s, but they hope to give drinkers an addictive fix with a new infusion.


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Brock: No Go Solo

Isaac Brock has issues. Big, throbbing drug-addled demons--that much is clear from the tortured music of his indie-legend band Modest Mouse.


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Wilco Scores a Direct Hit with YHF

You don't have to be skilled in the military phonetic alphabet to read the writing on the wall: Wilco's fourth album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is the most pleasant surprise to hit the record store...


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Is 18 Too Old?

Eminem may say that Moby is "too old," but actually the veteran musician just turned 36 on September 11.


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When Good Spiders Go Bad

You've seen it, your cousin has seen it and that sci-fi freak in your cell bio class with thick-rimmed glasses, a pocket protector and an aversion to proper hygiene has definitely seen it.


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Editor's Note: Goodbye

After two dozen issues and a year of late nights, you'd think I'd have something profound to say about entertainment. But that's just it--I don't.


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And the Barna Goes to...

My happy one-year stint as film editor has come to its natural end, and I stuck it out the whole year (despite the crop of lousy films) observing two trends in American cinema.


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It's Not Easy Being Mean

Recess writers aren't known for mincing words, and the bad attitudes bubbling beneath the surface reveal just how many of us were beaten in kindergarten.


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Gimme a Kiss

Hoof On' Horn's spring mounting of Kiss Me, Kate is a more-than-adequate fit for Duke's fickle romance environment.


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Jumpy Kids

David Walters, the model of Southern gentility and future music editor of Recess, reflected upon 12 months of music, and this is the best he could come up with:.


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Oh, You're Too Kind!

Here at Recess, we're tough critics, but when we like 'em, we love 'em. Disregard the nasty quips and biting sarcasm and feel the lovage, baby. After all, this is Duke--A's are easy to come by.


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The 2002 Playground Awards

Each year, Recess staff writers see countless theatrical productions, art exhibits and the like, and whether they're good or bad, we pass our reviews on to you.