Shangri-La, Iram of the Pillars, and Atlantis are famous utopias that people have yearned to find. Some have succeeded in discovering these perfect societies by turning to videogames.
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Raw from the Saw: The Roots, ‘Undun’
by Ken Robertson March 24, 2012Review of ‘Undun’ by The Roots, Released December 2011
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With the Academy Award season just behind us, it is clear which picture has swept the hearts of America. To the dismay of many teen super fans, I’m not referring to the final installment of the Harry Potter franchise. Rather, the film that has all the critics, including this one, talking is Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist, starring French actor, Jean Dujardin and Argentinian-French actress Berenice Bejo.
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Poverty, alcoholism, and parental negligence; sounds more like the plot of a depressing lifetime movie than of Showtime’s latest breakout dramedy. On TV’s Shameless, the Gallagher family accepts these issues as simply the way things are. And they do so with good humor.
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Ever since Saltillo’s debut album released in 2006, fans have craved more of his unique music. The mind behind Saltillo, (Menton J. Matthews III), weaves together urban beats, sound bytes, and classic orchestra to create a distinctive form of trip-hop. This unusual style made him renown among fans of the genre. As the years flew by, it was beginning to look like Matthews might not make more music. Fans began to accept Ganglion as Saltillo’s first and last album.
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It’s nearly impossible to objectively listen to Lana Del Rey’s music without being somewhat influenced by the massive hype machine she’s created. The name change,…
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Moral Fibers takes on a new form of giving to those in need, something they like to call ‘‘charitable employment’’ and ‘‘supporting human capital.’’ As the old saying goes, if you give a man a fish, he will eat for a day. Teach him to fish, he will eat for a lifetime. Moral Fibers teaches poverty-stricken Haitians the craft of making unique clothing.
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Charity comes from the heart — as should sex. In business, philanthropy means a tax credit, a reputation of goodwill, an intangible asset. But what happens when we give into sex but don’t receive the same credit to our account? Now if only being good in bed helped me get a tax credit, but for now I guess I’d settle for just the same amount of consideration in between the sheets.
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They solemnly swear they are up to nothing but good. With the end of the books and movie franchise, a little magic and a couple passionate fans at Ithaca College hope to keep the Potter spirit alive.
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We have all seen the updates on Facebook and Twitter. Long threads of copied and pasted statuses that always have the same format: the setup, the sob story and then the request, something to the effect of “If 1 million people repost this, Little Sally will get a new kidney.” If you are one of the people who incessantly repost these, I am here to say that the only way this helps is if someone saw the status and decided to give up their kidney.