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Arts & Entertainment

Catch Me If you can

A man who thinks he can get away with fabricating the autobiography of the most famous man alive deserves everything he gets.

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Neil Young

Neil Young follows up last year's release of Live at the Fillmore East with Live at Massey Hall 1971, and the two records could not be any less alike.

by ADAM DRICI

YouTube clip of the week

When asked to write about an up-and-coming or a classic jazz performance for this week's column I attempted to find something niche, but when it comes to jazz on YouTube, nothing beats the 1959 CBS performance by the Miles Davis Quintet of "So What." So what?

by ALEX ULLMAN

Lil' Flip

Houston was a necessary step in the evolution of the southern hip hop aesthetic. It allowed the mainstream to digest the truly southern sound - previously only found on "BET Uncut" - rather than the sleeker major label-driven version with little compromise.

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Jonny Lives!

Jonny Lives! sounds so much like Weezer, a friend passing by who heard this record playing stopped and asked where this new Weezer single could be found.

by RAFAEL GARCIA

YouTube Clip of the week

Any conversation about the changing nature of music in the face of Myspace, YouTube et al.

by RUBEN BROSBE

Rock Academy

A raucous sound will fill the air at the corner of 22nd and Chestnut St. tonight as scores of people line up to see Tokyo Police Club open a sold out show for the Cold War Kids.

by ALEX KWAN

Panda bear

Animal Collective band member Noah Lennox's (aka Panda Bear) cheery third solo album, Person Pitch, is a far cry from his previous album, Young Prayer.

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Hollywood hotshots

These guys and gals may be all over Hollywood - big screen, small screen, behind the camera, in front of it, possibly on the side of it - but they all come from the same place: the University of Pennsylvania.

by EMILY LASKY

Craven family values

In writing the sequel to last year's The Hills Have Eyes, Wes Craven, director of the Scream trilogy, had a little help from someone who possesses a mind as sick and disturbing as his own: his son.

by ASHLEY BELTON

Happy G, We hardly Knew Ye

The problem with being funny in Hollywood is that once you've established your rep as a comedian, you're rarely allowed the chance to do anything except be funny.

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Bringing 'pride' To philly

With his Best Actor Oscar nomination for Hustle and Flow, Terrence Howard became a hot commodity in Hollywood.

by LEAH FEDER

All hustle, no flow

Pride is so faithful to the sports underdog movie formula that a plot summary seems unnecessary. Let's instead imagine a montage sequence, much like the ones interspersed throughout the movie: begin with the run-down Philadelphia Department of Recreation on the brink of closure.

by PHIL MALACZEWSKI

Youtube Clip of the week

Yoshimi and crew throw away the childish eager-to-please vibe of lead single "UMA," from their latest album, Taiga, with this track, the second single off the album.

by LEO C. REILLY

A frosty thriller

First Snow Four stars Directed by: Mark Fergus Starring: Guy Pearce, Piper Perabo PG-13, 121 min. First Snow follows a man named Jimmy (Guy Pearce) who's waiting for his death after a fisherman/cowboy/fortune-teller predicts that he will die after the first snow.

by CAROLINE HENLEY

shot through the heart

Early in Antoine Fuqua's Shooter, Marine Corps sniper John Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg) decides to retire, retreating to a remote mountain hideaway.

by JESS PURCELL

Short Music Reviews

rich boy Rich Boy On his new album, Maurice Richards (under the moniker Rich Boy) attempts to establish his hometown of Mobile, Alabama as the new epicenter of Southern Rap hotness.

by 34TH STREET

Podcasts killed the radio star

In the beginning there was Napster. And it was good. But one day the Recording Industry Association of America decided it didn't really appreciate people getting their product for, you know, free.

by RUBEN BROSBE

the boys from sudan

Darfur. We learn about the terrible situation every day. But how often do we hear the stories of individuals who have escaped the carnage of the Sudan? Narrated by Nicole Kidman, God Grew Tired Of Us reveals the plight of young Sudanese men growing up in a Kenyan refugee camp and then traveling more than a thousand miles to the U.S.

by STEPHEN MORSE

directing '300'

In the wake of such epics as Troy and Kingdom of Heaven, one imagines director Zack Snyder's 300, about the Roman Battle of Thermopylae, would have had little trouble getting picked up in Hollywood.

by JEFF LEVIN

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