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Snobby ‘Sideways’ is a good vintage on DVD

Robert Taylor April 13, 2005

Sideways is a snobby movie made by snobs, written about snobs and aimed at snobs. Since most, if not all, of America’s critics are snobs they therefore praised the movie as a masterpiece and called it...

New Garbage is pretty disposable

Jon Dieringer April 13, 2005

Credit: Beth RankinGarbage formed 12 years ago, throwing themselves at the mercy of unfavorable critics’ uninspired puns by naming themselves to comment on the disposable nature of popular music.Conceptually,...

New Mariah not on fi-ah

Andrew Hampp April 13, 2005

Credit: Andrew HamppFirst it was Anne Heche and “Celestia.” Next it was Beyonce and “Sasha.”Now Mariah Carey has become the latest Hollywood diva to unleash her alter ego onto the world, and hers...

Kent State alumna becomes new dean of Trumbull campus

Erin Hopkins April 13, 2005

June 1, Wanda Thomas will start her fifth year at Kent State. But this time, she isn’t a student — she’s an administrator.Thomas, who earned her bachelor’s and master’s degree at Kent State,...

Our View

Editorial Board April 13, 2005

'Kent State experience' not enoughFacing a projected $5 million budget deficit over the next two years, Kent State’s top officials met Monday to decide how to counter the pending budget crunch.They proposed...

Confessions of a Kelly Clarkson fan

Andrew Hampp April 13, 2005

Kelly Clarkson performed Saturday night at the Palace Theater in Cleveland. The Graham Colton Band opened the evening.Credit: Andrew HamppSaturday, April 9:6:30 p.m.: Having rooted for Kelly Clarkson ever...

McKee peddles lovely music on ‘Dreams’

Jason LeRoy April 13, 2005

Credit: Jason LeRoyMaria McKee is perhaps the only element of Pulp Fiction that can be described as “pretty.” Uma Thurman comes close, but then she snorts heroin and starts spitting up unpleasant fluids.McKee...

IMF, World Bank, must be stopped

Greg Schwartz's view April 13, 2005

The International Monetary Fund and World Bank hold their spring meetings in Washington, D.C. this weekend. As in 2000 — when protesters converged in D.C. for the same meetings in a follow-up to the...

Decision on city manager unclear

Michelle Park April 13, 2005

Kent City Council may or may not have decided its first choice for the new city manager last night.After an hour-long meeting, the Council went into executive session, something Council-at-Large Rick Hawksley...

All suspense and some Boo! makes ‘Amityville’ worthwhile

Seth Roy April 13, 2005

"Hold me, I think I've finally got a grip on my career after crap like Van Wilder, The In-Laws and Blade: Trinity!" Ryan Reynolds and Melissa George face their fears in the remake of The Amityville Horror.Credit:...

Carell shoots, scores with NBC’s American ‘Office’

Steve Schirra April 13, 2005

It’s your typical American workplace: paperclips, fax machines, Post-it notes, file cabinets, manila envelopes and staplers covered in Jell-O. So, it’s not exactly typical, but the Dunder Mifflin paper...

County dog warden has many tails to tell

Sarah Baldwin April 12, 2005

Deputy Cheryl Heckman and Chief Beverly Kirkhart of Portage County Dog Warden are shown with two of the many dogs at the pound. One of the youngest is the 2-month-old dog on the right. The dogs that are...

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