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The iPad: A Commentary

What do people say about the new iPad? What are some shortcomings and benefits to this new gadget from Apple? 

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Music Man Review

Starstruck Theatre’s production of the popular musical “The Music Man” will render you speechless with delight! Enter River City, Iowa, a town of gossiping ladies, quarrelling school board members, and a few unlikely romances. Although the citizens of this charming, naïve little town can “never see eye to eye,” they are all fiercely proud of their ideals and the reputation of their city. 

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Leap Year Movie Review

  Sure, it’s a chick flick, and yes, you’ll know exactly how the movie will end before the first five minutes are over, but don’t be too hasty to discount this year’s first romantic comedy- Leap Year.  Directed by Anand Tucker, this movie truly exemplifies why romantic comedies fail to lose their ever-rising popularity amongst moviegoers. 

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Artist Feature: Abhishek Chowdhury

The Smoke Signal recently did an Artist Feature on rapper Abhishek Chowdhury. This video is a much more on depth version of our interview with him. Chowdhuy will be releasing an album called Formative Years, on January 9th. 


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Sherlock Holmes Movie Review
Critics may call it a franchise full of excess and extravagance, but that obviously hasn’t hindered adventure seeking fans from making Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes number two at the box office. 
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Avatar Review
 
As of late, some big budget, CGI-heavy films seem to be of the opinion that overwhelming the audience with innovative, high-tech visuals is good enough compensation for a dismal, shoddy plotline (yes, I’m talking about Transformers 2). Yet, renowned director James Cameron manages to combine the best of both worlds in Avatar, a 15-year production dream finally realized thanks to the computer graphics and animation technology of this age.  
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Madfish Restaurant Review

Madfish is the new opened Japanese restaurant located next to Sweet Tomatoes at Gateway Plaza. Furnished with a stainless steel bar, and three plasma screen TV's, the restaurant manages to make its decor neither unattractive nor unique. 
 
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2010 Year in Preview Satire

 

Disclaimer: This article, including its disclaimer, should not ever once be taken seriously, under penalty of paradox. 

These days, the Mayans are infamous for predicting the end of the world. But before that happens, they predicted a bunch of other, oddly specific events as well. And since the world will most certainly end in 2012, who are we to doubt the accuracy of these predictions? We already know what happened last year, now let’s find out what will happen in 2010! The year starts off (as it often does) with... 

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Invictus

 

When watching Clint Eastwood’s latest masterpiece, the first thing that you notice is the ordinary great-man tale that is so common in Hollywood’s storylines; the next thing you see is the amazingly intricate context of the story.

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The Princess and the Frog

 

Sometimes it’s easy to forget what true love is. Likewise, it’s also easy to forget how much we’ve missed traditional animation in today’s world of CGI-ed films and cheesy family flicks. Thankfully, though, Disney’s newest princess brings us back to simpler times and reminds us once again of the great storytelling of Disney that many had feared had disappeared into once upon a time.  

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New Moon Movie Review

Lines of Twilight fans outside of Century 25 and other theaters around the Bay Area on Nov. 20 were comparable to those you see on Black Friday.  

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