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"Baby Mama" has great laughs but predictable moments
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"Baby Mama" was the number one movie at the box office last weekend, and with good reason -- it's a broad, mainstream comedy that stars Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and was written and directed by Michael McCullers, who is probably best known for co-writing "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" with Mike Myers.
'Culture jamming' cool enough for mainstream, thanks to 'Adbusters'
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Purpose: Adbusters advocates numerous social, political and environmental causes, simultaneously dissenting from just as many other pressures faced by citizens in a capitalist society. This publication illuminates what meek "truth" still survives in the resistant underground; it campaigns for "clean mental environment" in the developed world essentially run by corporate bullies.
Atmosphere's new album features effortless flow and unconventional hip-hop
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Intro: Where does hip-hop thrive? New York, L.A. and … Minneapolis? Believe it or not, Minnesota-based Rhymesayers Entertainment is quietly garnering attention with atypical rappers like Brother Ali. Veteran hip-hop duo Atmosphere is made up of two of the label's co-founders, MC Slug and Producer/DJ Ant.
Get sauced at Campus West Shell's Smoking BBQ
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I've never spent so much time at a gas station convenience store in my life, but it was smoke that drew me to the Campus West Shell on Shields Street near Elizabeth. And now I'm hooked. The eyes get it first - that glimpse of smoke billowing from the big black cylindrical machine on wheels.
Livin' Large with Marge: A whole lotto gelato
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Most Americans prefer things big. If you're paying the better part of five dollars for a scoop of ice cream, it better be half the size of your head and make you sick if you eat the whole thing. Which you will. There's nothing wrong with it. We just want more bang for our buck.
Local slam poetry performances full of personality, persona
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Larry Holgerson is a writer, a caregiver and a "this, that and the other." Most days he adorns himself in jeans and t-shirts as he goes about the various tasks of his day. Some people, however, don't know the everyday Holgerson. In fact, some people may not even know him by his real name.
