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USC Senior Salutes the Brave by elisa hernandez USC has the slogan of ‘fighting on,’ and one USC Trojan is the prime example of just that. Ryan Morris, 21, is a senior at USC majoring in business with a concentration on entrepreneurship. Morris had his time at USC planned out being a walk-on recruit on the USC baseball team. He wanted to see where it would take him, and hopefully enter the draft.

But things do not always go as planned; after two years Morris was let go by the team and was left wondering what’s next?

“Everyone stops playing at some time, and mine was just earlier than I intended it to be,” says Morris.

After being cut, it led him to want to try new things and develop a clothing line. “I grew up in a retail family … my grandfather founded the Mervyns Co.” Morris realized he wanted to give back to his community and figured that he would begin his own company, Salute the Brave. The original name was “Here’s to You,” but it was copyrighted.

So while hanging out with his fellow Lambda Chi fraternity brothers one threw out salute the brave, and “everyone said, ‘Yes, that’s it.’” Not far after establishing a name, the slogan came soon after: Be a hero for a hero.

Morris launched the company on May 6 as well as his Web site salutethebrave.com. He’s sold hundreds of hats and shirts that portray America’s red, white and blue stripes with

a saluting soldier.

“Realize what these soldiers are sacrificing,” Morris says. “[People] can support by purchasing a hat or shirt … [With each purchase] you can send a care package overseas.”

The care package contains a gift containing a hat and shirt as well.

“I have people who find me on Facebook, and I get thank you notes. [The care package] is kind of a pick me up for the troops, thanking them for their service,” Morris says. “It [covers] all areas of the armed forces.”

The company sells shirts, hats and bracelets, and has a lot of ideas for winter products such as sweaters, visors and sunglass holders. People should take a moment and see what this company is all about.

“A lot of companies will do their sales, and some percent goes to soldiers who have been wounded … but with this company, you know that with your purchase you’re saying thank you to the troops,” Morris says. “All Americans are so thankful for them fighting overseas, [they’re fighting so we can] have the freedom that we have here. When you wear one [of our products] people will know you have helped out the troops.”

This company has not only opened doors for Morris, but has brought him closer to his grandfather. Morris says he has been almost like a silent partner guiding him through this process in order to become a successful businessman.

“Our conversations are based around the clothing industry, and he has been my mentor,” says Morris. “He wasn’t able to go to college, he worked in his father’s store, and so he built Mervin’s Co. from the ground up. I’ve been learning from his past experiences, so I can build up my own brand.”

After graduation, Morris hopes to continue to take Salute the Brave as far as it can go, and make it a big brand.

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THE NONEXISTENT FIX-It-ALL EXERCISE MOVE by victoria gu

My friend was eager to show me an article about one exercise move that can tone up the entire body.

Although slightly skeptical, I read the article anyway, and it turns out that this magical move was the good ole plank pose. I don’t remember how many articles I have read about the amazing things plank can do for your body. Whether it’s the buttocks, abs, shoulders or overall posture, writers always find new and different benefits to describe the plank pose for new fitness articles. This time, the writer happened to take a holistic approach on the benefits of the plank pose, and frames it as the panacea for out-of-shape physiques. The article in the end just gave me an overall summary of the benefits of the plank that I already knew from reading other fitness columns.

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Ryan Morris in one of his Salute the Brave hats.

“I honestly want to keep building this brand and get some employees working for me to get it even bigger … I want to see people wear it; I want it to be a brand that self-explains its support for the troops. I want Salute the Brave Co. to be my career.”

This is a company based on helping others, thanking the troops overseas who have put their lives on the line for the good of their country. Although Morris doesn’t have any family in the armed forces, he says this company is his way of giving back to the war efforts.

Being the sole creator of the company it’s been hard to make decisions, but he knows he has the support from his family and friends. One thing is clear: This is his passion.

“I’m going to dedicate 100 percent of my time to this and see where it can take me.”

Campus Circle > Blogs > Ex Couch Potato the checkout aisle because some feature article looked good?

Maybe the “5 Days to Lose 5 lbs” or “One Superfood to Lose 10 lbs” article seem like a great idea to you. After all, who doesn’t like a quick fix to everything? In fact, the more convenient and expedite the solution is, the more enticing it appears.

We often end up buying those magazines, hoping to achieve a drastic image renovation in a short period of time.

But after the initial surge of excitement and feeling of novelty, we would leave the magazine lying somewhere and forget completely about the seemingly revelational article we dug up a couple days go. And after a while of buying fitness magazines whenever we please, these “quick-fix” articles begin to appear repetitive. Fitness publications seem to chew on similar contents and recycle them in articles, while framing them slightly differently each time. This includes and is not limited to an overall exercise move that supposedly reduces body fat, or one superfood that allegedly combats fat gain.

Knowing that people are drawn to shortcuts, fitness magazines sometimes don’t offer concrete advice that guarantees results but takes longer time to achieve. However, advice that offers concrete results is what people really seek.

Especially for an exercise enthusiast like me, or someone who recently began shaping up, fitness magazines appear to be an ultimate go-to guide for exercise advice. But after reading articles in Shape, Women’s Health or other magazines for a while, some articles just appear repetitive, leaving us feeling that we had already read that somewhere else.

The truth is, that in order to shape up, there are no secret and quick fixes. In fact, the essential guidelines for nutrition and fitness have long been established. It’s extremely rare for the experts in the nutrition or the fitness field to discover a revolutionary find that defies our prior knowledge (In fact, I can’t think of anything new since I began to research avidly

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There is no one quick fix to sustainable body transformation. on this matter a long time ago.). This might explain why people are drawn to quick fixes but are never able to retain that routine for a long time simply because these quick fixes are hard to maintain and don’t provide sustainable results, and by that I mean, keeping the results for an extended period of time without any practical changes to your life.

Even the highly reputable rapid 28-day fat-loss regime devised by Tim Ferriss in his famous book, The 4-Hour Body, requires extreme vigilance and rule-compliance in your exercise, dietary and medial regime. And after the 28-day period, you have to incorporate a part of the regime into your life in order to maintain the results.

There is no good shortcut to sustainable body trans– formation out there. Yes, there might be ways to cut weight and shape up in a short time, but whether the results can be sustainable, that is another question. It’s better to just get your grunt on and work slowly to achieve your dream results, rather than trying different “quick-fixes,” hoping they would bring you a dramatic appearance overhaul overnight.

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franchise shift by alexandre johnson The No More Heroes franchise is coming to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 gaming systems. “No More Heroes: Heroes’ Paradise” is a remake of the original 2007 game. For those without a Wii gaming system, the original “No More Heroes” and its sequel (“No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle”) definitely made them consider getting one.

The flamboyant main character of Travis Touchdown, pegged as the everyman turned into action hero, and his colorful journey to become the No. 1 ranked assassin made for an intriguing game character that became almost as iconic as “God of War’”s Kratos has become.

Unfortunately by now the title may have lost some of its pizzazz since the gaming world moves so fast. However with a unique and well-liked formula, it is quite possible that the game will receive an even larger following. To sweeten the pot, the new version contains bonuses the original did not.

As well as being in high-definition, “Heroes’ Paradise” has several things that make the game more enjoyable, such as the ability to retry assassination jobs, side missions and free fights as well as new side jobs. Making the game more controllable is the ability to store Dark Mode up to three charges instead of activating them automatically. Part of the “No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle” story is featured with five extra bosses who appeared in the sequel.

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She is the eldest sister among four daughters; she studies art history at UCLA; she will be the first college graduate in her family this spring. With the support of her family, the guidance of her teachers and the knowledge that she has acquired, Wendy Figueroa embarked on an intensive research program designed for perspective graduate students and has just survived its six-week summer institute. This program is called the UCLA McNair Research Scholars Program and is a product of the legacy of Ronald E. McNair who committed himself to higher education despite his underrepresented background.

During the period of applying for this program, Wendy began to see that McNair’s vision of success in higher education parallels her drive to succeed in her major. She believes in his desire to utilize knowledge to empower those in the future, strengthening her confidence in herself and her knowledge and skills in research.

UCLA McNair Research Scholars Program is a two-year commitment (over junior and senior year). Wendy officially became one of the 14 in her group of cohorts in January and will finish in Spring 2012. The program is designed to give highachieving and highly motivated undergraduates a view into the world and studies of a graduate student. The program promotes the opportunity to do research on a social science or humanity subject of the undergraduate’s choice. Most significantly, the program enables those who come from underprivileged backgrounds to attain all the resources to pursue and succeed in graduate school.

Wendy believes that the McNair program is suitable for her for two reasons. Firstly, she has been considering whether graduate school is the right path for her future. As an individual who has witnessed her family’s hardships to create opportunities for her to accomplish her goals, the value of education and responsibility have been instilled in her since her childhood. At family gatherings, she is proud to know that her family is content because she drives to educate herself. As a role model for her three younger sisters, Wendy understands that giving up is not an option. Even once her career at UCLA ends, she knows she will continue her education in a graduate program either soon or somewhere along the future, and so, the McNair program educates her on how to apply to graduate school and study once she is admitted.

Through the McNair program, Wendy studies and researches about a topic that is very important to her. She has always been interested and inquisitive about her Mexican background, but few resources to learn about Mexican culture were in her reach when she was younger. However, in her first year at UCLA, she was exposed to Pre-Columbian art and became involved in research of Pre-Columbian, specifically Aztec, art through a program called AAP Junior Research Scholars Program. After finishing her research in the program, she indulged in more Aztec art during her second year. By her third year, she had redefined her research interest: an Aztec sun god named Tonatiuh.

A Pre-Columbian image on a mural in East Los Angeles (where she is from) caught her initial interest. In this mural, the sun god Tonatiuh primarily shines. In Aztec culture, the sun is such an important celestial body that the people conceptualize it as a diety. Chiefly, Tonatiuh appears as the central face of the stone that functioned as a calendar for the Aztecs.

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Gradually, Wendy studied many works that portray Tonatiuh’s image and molded her research, titled Tonatiuh the Sun: His Role in Aztec Art and Ritual. Through researching Aztec art, Wendy reclaims her heritage. She notices how much she learns about her background through studying art history.

She desires to continue the history of her heritage and further preserve her culture and traditions. Moreover, Wendy is open to any Aztec subject such as the role of female deities in Aztec culture and art.

This summer, as part of the McNair program, Wendy participated in the Summer Research Institute at UCLA’s Campbell Hall. She attended a graduate preparation class where two mentors advised the students on what graduate school will be like. She learned how write a statement of purpose, acquire funding for classes and request letters of recommendations.

Another class she took was a writing class in which her peers reviewed her research writing. The summer institute even offered a GRE preparation class that she considers greatly advantageous towards applying to graduate school. Aside from classes, Wendy spent around 15 hours each week independently researching her subject and has completed a 20-page research proposal.

Wendy’s experience in this unique program has been valuable for her development in academics as well as personally.

Though there were moments where she suffered because of its intensity, she knew these struggles would empower her if she could push through. She finds herself progressing so much as she spends time with her fellow scholars, learning the ways in which they use logic and critique. Also, she gained more perspectives while visiting the USC and UCSB campuses.

At the end of the summer institute, Wendy sees a change in herself. Right at this moment, she is a student who is at the point of experiencing her final year at UCLA and yet, the mystery of her future remains unsolved. But she is not anxious; in fact, she is excited. This feeling of excitement rushes through her mind as she ponders what route to take next, and the McNair program continually helps her dig deeper for a solid future goal.

In all her experiences, she feels as if she can accomplish any goal she sets her mind to and furthermore achieve any change she desires. Even though she does not know exactly where she will be in a year or two, she believes in herself and her skills to be able to apply her knowledge. Surely there is a career that fulfills both her requirements of creativity and art research. Wendy claims that after a couple of years of studying her major, now she realizes that she is really approaching some expertise in her field.

Finally, as a self-proclaimed art historian, Wendy strives to disprove the misconception of the Art History major as an impractical and bogus major. Art history is as valuable and enriching a major (assuming that one has a thirst for knowledge) as any other. It is a complex discipline. There are a lot of ways of thinking within the field (e.g. Buddhism and even modern art).

Studying art history resembles traveling in a sense because one gets to learn how a culture thinks and behaves.

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MTV CELEBRATES ITS 30TH BIRTHDAY But Stays Forever Young by robert lloyd

LOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT) MTV, which used to stand for Music Television but now stands for whatever combination of youth-oriented programming the network is airing at the time, turned 30 on Aug. 1. There are grown people who will not remember a world without it, who will not recall Madonna and Bowie and Boy George exhorting them to demand “I want my MTV,” a line that Dire Straits’ Mark Knopfler later put into a song about hating rock stars.

Thirty, according to an aphorism from a youth-oriented decade even older than MTV, was the age beyond which someone was not to be trusted. But the network decided never to grow up; it remakes itself to reflect the changing times, which means that it is continually liable to alienate one audience as it courts the next. As early generations of viewers rumble into middle age, it has become possible to use the phrase, “This is not your father’s MTV” without irony.

When MTV was all music, all the time – even when it was mostly music, most of the time – change was built into the system: as music went, so went the network. If it was a little tone-deaf to start, with its Up With People “veejays” and rejection of black and harderedged music, this improved with specialty shows like “120 Minutes,” “Headbangers’ Ball” and “Yo! MTV Raps,” and more so as the specialties became the mainstream.

The network could look revolutionary or like a corporate co-opting of revolution, depending on where you stood, musically, and what videos they were playing that day.

But at its best it offered a catholic mix of styles and stances, from the purest factory pop to the almost avant-garde – the spandex and the flannel, the puffy pants and the big gold chains, the mullets, fades, shaved heads and hippie hair, high fashion and anti-fashion.

It is largely out of the music business now – videos have been herded into the hours many channels reserve for infomercials – and the music business isn’t what it was when MTV was born. The decentralization of production and distribution of pop, to which the Internet responds impeccably, would have made the network less necessary in any case.

But it retains, if only as background, its music-based cachet, and remains a complicated of mix of art and commerce, exploitation and public service, a tension that will remain as long as it stays in the business – even partially – of selling adult imagery to kids. (The network estimates its viewership runs from 12 to 34.)

There are unresolvable arguments to be had about early-period Britney jail bait videos or “The Hard Times of RJ Berger,” the big-penis comedy that spearheaded the network’s current move toward scripted fare, arguments that may do no more than make you show your age. But the network also does well by its younger viewers. Just as animated “Daria” provided a heroine for the young and disaffected back around the turn of this century, teenage documentary series like “Made,” “True Life” and “I Used to Be Fat” – even “16 and Pregnant” and “Teen Mom,” for all their Jerry Springer potential – respect their subjects. (Viacom’s nastier reality shows mostly roost at VH1, MTV’s older-skewing sister station.) Measured and unhurried, they’re a model of what reality programming should be, prompting you to think twice about people you might easily dismiss, the rich and privileged as much as the poor and floundering.

Even the easily maligned “Jersey Shore,” which began as a sort of parody of the network’s “The Real World,” featuring people who would never be cast on “The Real World” in a place “The Real World” would never send them, has something of this quality.

To be sure, there’s something slightly off in the way the show packages blind drunkenness and impaired judgment as entertainment. Yet it doesn’t quite demean its cast; they do grapple continually with the meaning and consequence of their actions. (They don’t necessarily learn, but they grapple.) And they love life.

To a great extent, the network that created the branded network has de-branded itself; there was a time when you could be sure in an instant that you were watching MTV. Now it is harder to tell.

At the height of its cultural domination, it provided an integrated experience – from the videos, to the often brilliant promotional spots, to the dance parties and news bulletins. It was not just a network, but a place – a place you could actually go to, if you got yourself onto “Club MTV” or down to Times Square when “Total Request Live” was in session or down to Florida for spring break. That community, and the real joyousness that attended it, is no longer a service the network provides, and that’s a shame. Snooki may be pulling in the numbers, but will you remember her fondly when you’re old? © 2011, Los Angeles Times. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.

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Bringing the Best-Selling Novel to the Screen by candice winters There is hardly a novel that amasses literary success without being taken by the predatory hand of Hollywood and forcedly adapted into a film. It happens every year, whether the novel in question works well on the screen or not. However, such is not the case of the summer’s most highly anticipated film adaption, The Help, which took author Kathryn Stockett over five years to write.

Tate Taylor, who wrote and directed the film adaptation, has been friends with Stockett (whom he lovingly calls “Kitty”) since they were children growing up in Jackson, Miss. As “Kitty” recalls, Taylor convinced her that if she gave the project to anyone but him, the film would go where many good scripts die, in terrible “development hell.” What Taylor creates for his audience is a longer film (It’s nearly two and a half hours.) that does justice to his friend’s original work.

The Help centers around three women whose differences bring them together in an uncommon, but extraordinary way. Aibileen (Viola Davis) and Minnie (Octavia Spencer) are African-American maids in Jackson, in the early 1960s.

They raise the children of their white employers, cook the food and clean the house. And yet, they are not allowed to use the inside toilet that the family uses, but are forced to use the separate and wholly unequal one outside.

Campus Circle > Film > Interviews “It’s the big white elephant in the room in our culture,” says Davis of the lack of education about America’s historically suppressed race relations. “It’s probably a part of our hypocrisy, that we’ve had a brutal history of race, a 346year history. If anything, I hope the book and the movie will bring that life.”

Skeeter (Emma Stone) is a white woman and recent college grad who returns to Jackson with the new eyes and outlook that she has gained from getting out of her hometown. She is still friendly with childhood chum Hilly (Bryce Dallas Howard) who got married and had babies, but the new ways in which black maids are being oppressed doesn’t sit well with Skeeter. To maintain authenticity, the cast and crew shot on location in Greenwood, Miss.

“Mississippi is another character in the movie, and they love their fried foods,” says Davis about what she says caused her to gain so much weight while filming. “Everything is fried. They fry the butter before they put it on the bread.

Then they fry the bread once they’ve put the fried butter on the bread. And it tastes so good.”

Actress Jessica Chastain plays Celia Foote, the new girl on the block who isn’t accepted by the other white housewives because of where and how she was raised. As a vegan, Chastain was expecting all that fried meat to be an issue, particularly in one scene where she is supposed to chow down on a fried chicken leg.

“That’s actually vegan fried chicken!” explains Chastain.

“They made like a popsicle stick with a tofu dog and tofu turkey, and then battered it and fried it. It really looks like chicken. It’s amazing what props can do.”

Though the cast and crew giggle and joke as if they’ve been good friends for years, their demeanor turns serious when discussing the grave context in which the film is set.

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THE THING ABOUT ‘SYTYCD’ by hiko mitsuzuka

Why, after eight seasons, Fox’s ‘So You Think You Can Dance” continues to take a backseat to ABC’s increasingly ingratiating “Dancing With the Stars” remains a mystery to me. Is it because it’s a summer show? Is it because the general perception is that it’s mainly “for kids?”

“SYTYCD”’s ratings are frustratingly measly compared to those of the below-cruise-ship-variety-show standards seen on “Stars.” Whereas “DWTS” seems to revel in sensationalistic cheese, “SYTYCD” celebrates true artistry.

While I do acknowledge how much blood, sweat and tears all of those reality stars, football players and Tinseltown burnouts go through, I can’t help but scoff at their efforts ... because there seems to underlie a narcissism that fuels them to go on, stumble across the stage to non-pro choreography and soak up a spotlight they hope will shine long after they’re voted off. And here’s a little-known fact: They get paid handsome salaries per episode, none of it going to charity.

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Emma Stone, Octavia Spencer and Viola Davis in The Help Skeeter, who is a struggling journalist, convinces Aibileen to be interviewed, telling anecdotes and answering questions about what it’s like to be a black maid to white families.

Eventually with Aibileen and Minnie on her side, Skeeter interviews enough maids to publish a radical book that reveals things in Jackson aren’t as peachy as they seem.

The Help was loosely based on Stockett’s own experiences growing up in Jackson around this time, though she is hesitant to point fingers at people she used as a basis for the not-so-nice characters. What is so amazing about the book and film is they are based in history; that once upon a time, these things actually happened.

“I don’t know if it’s my generation or if it’s just me, but I didn’t know the levels, the depths, the intricacies,” says Stone about why it is important for younger viewers to see the film as well. “I didn’t know on a day-to-day basis what life was like. I learned a lot about it through this story. I really hope for my generation they will go see this movie.”

The Help releases in theaters Aug. 12.

Campus Circle > Film > The Channel Surfer by the League of Extraordinary Dancers two weeks ago on the Fox dance competition, featuring Christopher Scott and Galen Hooks. (Check it out on YouTube, now!)

At “SYTYCD,” we have young artists who are simply chasing a dream and unabashedly exposing themselves on the dance floor through refreshingly diverse numbers that range from Bollywood flamboyancy and elegant ballroom to emotional contemporary and bumpin’ hip-hop (The weekly theme-driven costuming and make-up is an extraordinary achievement as well.).

And just because it doesn’t have any “Stars” in its title, it doesn’t mean they don’t have any famous faces grace the studio every week. This season the show welcomed celeb guest judges who, for the most part, offered very helpful feedback. Audiences were treated to delicious soundbites from Kristin Chenoweth, Debbie Reynolds, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Neil Patrick Harris, Rob Marshall and Mother Monster herself, Lady Gaga. Most surprising was the way their special appearances didn’t feel stunty or forced. I’m sure each had something to promote (The Smurfs, a new single, their relevancy), but they were also sitting there because they wanted to be there. They too are genuine fans of the competition and, like us, are constantly wowed by the physics-defying movements made by these fiercely talented individuals week after week.

Case in point – the jaw-dropping July 27 performance from one of my personal favorites, contestant Melanie Moore, who was partnered with All-Star Neil Haskell for a contemporary routine to Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart.” It was one of those rare moments that transcended the stage and had all of the judges on their feet by the end.

And who would’ve thought that Annie Lennox’s “Little Bird” would prove to be an effective tune to place in a Top 20

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What I also love about this show is its dynamic use of music and its way of turning its “cast” of choreographers into celebrities. I’ve been introduced to a number of amazing songs I wouldn’t have known about had it not been for the wise selections made by Tabitha and Napoleon (Nappy Tabs) and the fabulously freaky Sonya Tayeh (Thanks, girl, for letting me know about “Game On” by District 78.).

And don’t even get me started on how I nearly lost my shit when I spotted Mia Michaels and Tyce Diorio lunching together at the mall. Whew.

Tune in, people.

The two-part season finale of “So You Think You Can Dance” airs Aug. 10 and 11 on Fox. For more pop cultural ramblings, visit thefirstecho.com and hotterinhollywood.com.

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Amoeba Monday Movies Now-Aug. 29 @ Space15Twenty Do rainy days and Mondays always get you down? While living in Southern California resolves the first Amoeba screenings make Mondays better. one, Amoeba on the other hand will sure cheer you up every Monday this month. The popular record store has curated a line-up of music-related films to be screened for free every Monday in August at Space15Twenty’s courtyard. Browse Amoeba’s vast collection of records and marvel at its music poster covered walls, then head across the street for more visual and aural pleasure.

This week, on Aug. 15, Space15Twenty is holding a Beastie Boys Film Night. They will be screening the Beastie Boys’ long-form video for “Make Some Noise” and the L.A. debut of the music video for “Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win,” directed by Spike Jonze (Where the Wild Things Are).

On Aug. 22, you can see Lemmy: 49% Motherf**ker, 51% Son Of A Bitch, a documentary about Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister, and on Aug. 29 you can watch Back & Forth, a chronicle of the entire history of the Foo Fighters.

Space15Twenty is located at 1520 N. Cahuenga Blvd., Hollywood. For more information, visit amoeba.com.

Bill Cunningham New York Aug. 10-11 @ New Beverly Cinema “He’s been documenting me since I was a kid, and it’s one snap, two snaps, or he ignores you, which is death,” says an animated Anna Wintour (or as animated as the Vogue editorin-chief can get) in the trailer of Bill Cunningham New York, a documentary about the The New York Times fashion street photographer.

With nothing but his bike and his camera, Cunningham has been snapping shots of fashionable New Yorkers since 1978, preceding the Sartorialist and the countless of fashion paparazzi now growing by the minute. Everyone knows how weird and crazy people in fashion can get (and I’m not only talking about Lady Gaga), so even if you’re not into that whole fashion-is-my-life thing, you would be rest assured that the film will nonetheless amuse you to no end.

The New Beverly Cinema will screen the film on Wednesday and Thursday at 7:30 p.m. followed by The Cruise, a 1998 documentary about New York City tour guide Timothy “Speed” Levitch.

New Beverly Cinema is located at 7165 West Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles. For more information, visit newbevcinema.com.

HollyShorts 2011 Film Festival Aug. 11-18 @ Various Locations in Hollywood Good things come in small packages, or so they say. Although the expression may not always ring true, it is the case for the lineup of short films that will be showcased in the Annual HollyShorts Film Festival. In its seventh year, the festival chose the best of the best from the record 1,000 submissions it received from 36 countries.

There will be an opening night celebration at ArcLight Hollywood on Aug. 11, Thursday where Jamie Linden’s The Envelope in the Glovebox and Jacob Chase’s AfterSchool Special will be screened. Opening night also includes the world premiere of exclusive footage of the political documentary Sweet Micky for President, which explores the Haitian election following the earthquake that devastated the Caribbean nation. The film includes interviews with and appearances by Wyclef Jean, Sean Penn, Ben Stiller, Danny Glover and Nigel Barker.

Director Ben Patterson and Grammy Award winner Pras Michel who produced the film will be in attendance for a Q&A session. The festival will also showcase other genres such as animation, horror, thriller, romance, sci-fi, experimental and comedy among others.

For more information, visit hollyshorts.com

The Feel Good Film Festival Aug. 12-14 @ Raleigh Studios Tragic stories and profound, life-changing movies are nice, but sometimes, you want to walk out of the theater not feeling miserable about the sad realities of the world. In comes the Feel Good Film Festival, a festival which purpose is to show you movies that well, will make you feel good.

The event promises to feature films that “highlight positive themes, happy endings, laughter, and capture the beauty of the world.” Opening night will feature “yellow” carpet entrances as well the premiere of The Italian Key (Rosa Karo), a fairy tale romance about an orphan who receives an antique key that unlocks an old villa in Italy as her only inheritance. Bring Me Sunshine (Rachael Hastings) and The Girl and the Fox (Tyler Kupferer) will also screen on opening night.

Raleigh Studios is located at 5300 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles. For more info, visit fgff.org.

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Grade: C—Sean Oliver Autoerotic screens at the Nuart Theatre Aug. 12.

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(Columbia) I tend to like my comedies black – like my coffee. With Jesse Eisenberg (recent Oscar nominee for The Social Network) reteaming with Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer for 30 Minutes or Less, I had high hopes. After throwing in producer Ben Stiller, who also tends to veer towards the darker side of funny, I was really hoping for a comedic treat. I was expecting to be let down, and I’m happy to report that I wasn’t.

In the action-comedy, Nick (Eisenberg) is a small-town pizza delivery guy whose mundane life collides with the big plans of two wannabe criminal masterminds (Danny McBride and Nick Swardson). The volatile duo kidnaps Nick, straps a bomb to his chest and forces him to rob a bank.

With mere hours to pull off the impossible task, Nick enlists the help of his ex-best friend, Chet (Aziz Ansari of “Parks and Recreation”). As the clock literally ticks, the two must deal with the police, hired assassins, flamethrowers and their own tumultuous relationship. At a sleek 83 minutes, the laughs and action come at you fast and furious with nary a dull moment.

Though Eisenberg has the sometimes thankless role as the straight man surrounded by a cast who gets all the good one-liners, it’s because of him that we care what happens to these people.

Ansari is someone who’s on the rise in the industry, and his talents are on full display here. He can make even the most mundane line hilarious – there’s a reason he was asked to host last year’s MTV Movie Awards. In fact, the bank robbing song he sings that’s featured in the trailer was all improvised.

McBride plays one of the most articulate slackers I remember seeing on screen, while Swardson plays a version of his commonly used comedic alter ego that was used to great effect in a recurring role on “Reno 911!” In another pleasant surprise, Michael Peña plays against type as the hired assassin who is really a big softie inside. Though he’s best known for dramatic roles in films like Battle: Los Angeles, World Trade Center and Crash, he manages to steal scenes in a movie filled with scene-stealers.

I would bet that 2011 will end up being a recordbreaking year for R-rated hit comedies (after The Hangover Part II, Bridesmaids, Bad Teacher, Horrible Bosses and Friends with Benefits), and I’m guessing that 30 Minutes or Less will extend the trend. So grab a coffee – sugar, no cream – and prepare to laugh for 83 minutes or more.

Grade: A—Frederick Mintchell 30 Minutes or Less releases in theaters Aug. 12.

(IFC Midnight) Following in the line of Sex, Lies, and Videotape and The Girlfriend Experience comes Autoerotic directed by Adam Wingard and Joe Swanberg. The duo attempts to emulate the dark, erotic noir films of Steven Soderbergh, but awkwardly stumble.

Wingard and Swanberg intend to shed light on the unusual sexual practices and complications of today’s young people, but Autoerotic just seems like a lost film from the very beginning. I could not tell if I was watching a comedy, or just a dark story about the up and downs of sex, and it felt like the latter. I truly don’t think Autoerotic is supposed to be a comedy. I just think the film team lost track of the point of the story.

Autoerotic starts with vignettes about four couples with no religious, cultural or racial differences. They felt too similar from the start, and it became somewhat tiring and boring trying to find the differences or even the conflict in a very dry story.

From the first vignette, we learn of a guy who whines about his less-than-adequate penis size and chases away a girl that is way too hot for him. Then, all of a sudden he has a chemically altered penis and is finally happy. The next vignette is about a girl obsessed with masturbation who engages in erotic asphyxiation. Her boyfriend learns and accepts her fetish, and they live happily ever after.

The overwhelming context of this film seemed to be: Men do not fight back, and girls do what they want. The end.

I saw this overwhelmingly in the most entertaining vignette about a pregnant couple.

The couple looks just like the first two, the only difference was that they are expecting a baby. Problems occur when the wife cannot be stimulated sexually, so she has no other option but to seek her best girlfriend to help her reach climax. This comes as no problem for her spineless boyfriend who thinks he is going to be apart of threesome, but much to his dismay can’t even be in the house to watch. He has to sneak in like a burglar watching his prey. His girlfriend gets what she wants, and they both live happily ever after.

The problem with this film was its lack of authenticity in portraying the ethnically diverse society of today with its changing economics and sexual orientations. The couples were all the same, boring and stale.

Autoerotic wasn’t completely bad, it had some highlights, but only a few with too much downtime. It’s a shame because the foundation was there but not enough was built to accomplish the tough task of making a film with such a

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(Magnolia) If the name Ken Kesey sounds familiar it’s because he authored a notorious book called One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest which was later turned into both a play that starred Kirk Douglas and a movie that starred Jack Nicholson. Magic Trip takes place between 1963 and 1965 when the United States was going through a tumultuous period due to the civil rights movement that was happening as well as the assassination of beloved President John F. Kennedy.

There were also experiments taking place during that time with a drug called LSD, which was discovered by a Swiss doctor who was developing a cure for migraine headaches.

The drug, concocted from mold, could also be used to create a sense of insanity. Ken Kesey participated in a Stanford University study for the drug and never actually walked away from LSD until later on in his life.

Kesey decided to take the Magic Trip because of the desire to see the World’s Fair in NYC and as a result of witnessing what was occurring in America after the assassination of President Kennedy. Kesey had already authored numerous books and wanted to see if people thought as the characters in his novels did by filming various events that took place on his bus with 16-millimeter cameras in color.

Magic Trip is edited in such a way that it clearly points out the chronological timeline in which Kesey’s whole trip took place, but that was not the case at first. The film, directed by Alison Ellwood and Alex Gibney (the Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side), faced dire challenges due to the monumental amount of chaotic footage that was archived by UCLA. The result, though, is a brilliantly edited film that is narrated by Stanley Tucci and clearly shows the audience the behavior of the people who were on the bus.

Fourteen people initially were on the bus after it was retrofitted with psychedelic art and a rooftop stage, but the number dwindled as the film flowed along. The audience gets a sense of the process of elimination taking place, but the characters who were documented are entertaining nevertheless.

The audience witnesses the raw effects of the drug throughout, which gives the film a sense of boldness but not a sense of rebellion. The Magic Trip group is not rebels but are ‘Pranksters,’ as they called themselves the Merry Band of Pranksters. Flutes and guitars would be played throughout the film while others simply danced and clapped during the road trip.

One of the pivotal moments in the film is when the group, which was down to about seven people, decided to go to the ranch of Timothy Leary after Kesey’s disappointment at the World’s Fair.

Another pivotal point was the appearance of Jerry Garcia’s band before it became the Grateful Dead, and the audience witnesses the birth of a rave-type movement taking place among people who were under the influence of LSD. Magic Trip also points out that the CIA was behind the LSD research studies that took place across the country a few years prior.

The documentary ends on a bittersweet note and also serves as a memorial to Kesey. One of the late authors sons, Zane Kesey, played an important role in the release of the film but what is not mentioned in the documentary is the fact that the actual bus, called Further, is currently being refurbished to perhaps take another trip across the country.

Magic Trip follows a trend of films depicting the liberation of people or a congregation of people with the desire to liberate themselves with music or art.

Grade: A —Ricardo Quinones Magic Trip releases in select theaters Aug. 12.

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Dr. Sebagh’s Luminous Glow lives up to claims, improving skin within days. Using a sesame seed derivative, this multitasking moisturizer leaves the skin feeling refreshed and downright radiant.

Genius in a jar, Le Mieux’s Vita-C Clear Skin Pads sweep away any detritus left after cleansing. More convenient than a toner, these cotton discs multi-task to even out skin tone and combat acne.

If you like a smooth visage without the cake-iness of too much make up, Miracle Skin Transformer will flip your lid.

Light and absorbent, the tinted hydrating skin enhancer, combined with SPF 20, turns your face camera ready in an instant.

Being a “Real Housewives of New York” enthusiast, of ex-housewife Bethenny Frankel in particular, I will try any product she endorses, including skincare. When I read that she uses Suki, I immediately wanted it. I fell in love immediately with the Moisture-Rich Cleansing Lotion, which leaves my face feeling squeaky clean without feeling tight.

A mask that simply transforms your skin, Votre Vu’s Nouveau Glow Bilberry Bergamot Peel works like a miracle.

Technically a fruit acid peel, this product, after one use, seems to slough off the muck of the week leaving behind a glowing visage.

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Diana B.’s products give you the glow without the UV rays.

PRODUCTS FOR THE END OF SUMMER by angela matano Clean Gentle enough to use post sunburn, Babo Botanicals’ Oatmilk Calendula Moisturizing Baby Shampoo & Wash promises not to sting or dry out sunburned skin. The care that goes into children’s products serves the Peter Pan in us all.

For a soothing evening bath with an eye toward unwinding, BabyGanics Lavender scented Bubble Bath will ease you right into sleep. And, you’ll sleep like a baby.

Turning your daily shower into an art form just got easier with Weleda’s Pomegranate Creamy Body Wash. The cleanser’s fruity smell and luscious texture beat a bar of soap any day of the week.

Decorate Sometimes you just want something sparkly and Armour Beauty’s Dreaming Lip Gloss will keep you sparkling all night long. It’s the perfect pink-y gold to compliment an end-of-summer tan.

All everyone wants for summer and beyond is a hint of healthy color to make it look like you just returned from a fabulous vacation. Colorescience’s Mineral Powder provides the tan along with a 30 SPF sun protection built in to keep you glowing all year long without damaging your skin.

And speaking of the perfect summer tan, Diana B. presents a duo of products to give the glow without the UV rays. Her good-enough-to-eat maple sugar scrub preps

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the skin for the glory that is her 60 Second Instant Miracle Tan. The end result? Luminous, healthy-looking skin with a glorious brown color that smells faintly of chocolate truffle.

Everyone loves the look of a winged black eye, but few can master the stroke. Hourglass solves this dilemma with an easy to use applicator for their Precision Liquid Eyeliner in Jett – it promises to bring out your inner seductress.

RMS organic cosmetic line dazzles with unique formulations and ideas for products. My current favorite, Lip2Cheek in modest, provides a glorious flush for romantic summer evenings.

Ingeniously formulated, Sula’s Paint & Peel nail polish goes on easily and literally peels off, eliminating the need for toxic polish remover. Environmentally friendly and cool, the classic and trendy colors, like azure and sky, will take you right into fall.

Give More than a slice of heaven, Aromatherapy Associates’ Relax Deep Bath and Shower Oil, feels like an entire corner of heaven. The elegant bottle makes this a perfect gift for just about anyone.

As good as a massage, EO’s Bubble Bath works at the day’s accumulated knots and stresses until they dissipate into the steam. The mood-targeted fragrances, like Renew, Serenity and Nighty Nite use essential oils, such as blue chamomile and lavender to relax the mind along with the body.

So luscious you will want to keep it for yourself but so scrumptious you will want to give it to everyone you know: Glowology’s Heavenly Honey Wash is to die for. With a light fragrance and bubbly lather, this creamy body cleanser transforms the shower into an otherworldly experience.

Formulated with CoffeeBerry, RevaléSkin’s Day Cream is one of those products that changes the texture of your skin in days. As a result, you end up wanting to proselytize about it to everyone you know. They will thank you.

There is something nifty about solid perfumes – you can throw them in your purse without incident, and you don’t have to worry about getting overly drenched in scent. The Soap and Paper Factory make irresistible ones in fragrances like Green Tea and Balsam Fig set in beautifully decorated

Freya’s Restorative Night Cream with Arctic Antioxidant Recovery intrigued me immediately with its Scandinavian sensibility. With a strong sun in the summer and a long, snowy winter, I imagined this region would have a thing or two to say about skincare, and this moisturizer did not disappoint. Immensely creamy without being greasy, my skin drank it up like a parched desert after a drought.

Molton Brown’s Seamoss Stress-Relieving Hydrosoak feels as good as it sounds, and the unisex metal canister packaging makes it a perfect gift for just about anyone. Bliss.

One of the gentlest lines on the market, Mustela’s products are great for skin and hair that have been beaten up by sand, sea and chlorine. I especially love the 2-in-1 Hair & Body Wash, which can be used once or even twice a day without residual dryness.

Repair Like a jack-of-all-trades, Bio-Oil works overtime to fix nearly anything your skin might need fixed. Containing the amazing PurCellin Oil, this product will not only moisturize skin but even better, improve texture on scars, stretch marks and normal wear and tear.

Tresses Having searched high and low for a shampoo/conditioner combo that actually accomplished both jobs, imagine my surprise to discover Cutler Specialist Cleansing + Conditioner with Olive Oil. Not only does this amazing product clean and smooth, it works equally well as a leave-in tamer of unruly flyaways! A true miracle.

Celebrity stylist extraordinaire, David Evangelista brings his panache to hair care with his eponymous line.

Sleek packaging and up-to-the-minute products like Hush…

Volumizing Dry Shampoo and HD Hold Brushable Hold Hairspray make these must haves for anyone fashionably inclined.

Vibrant and invigorating, shampooing your head with Hamadi’s Lemon Mint Hair Wash is the perfect way to start your day. Gentle enough for color-treated and blonde hair, this yummy product can be used everyday without drying out your hair.

Chock full of Amazonian rainforest ingredients, Rahua’s shampoo and conditioner not only clean beautifully, they all leave hair unbelievably shiny.

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Try carrying a pelt at Fort William Historical Park’s “fur stores.”

good times, Great lake Having a Blast North of Superior by kevin wierzbicki Have you ever fired a cannon? I’m not talking about the armament our modern military uses; I’m talking about the big old-fashioned artillery piece capable of launching a solid iron cannonball at an enemy hundreds of yards away.

Probably the thought has never even crossed your mind. But if the opportunity arose to fire one of these bad boys, would you be interested? There’s a place in Ontario, Canada where you can do just that, and it’s just one of many things that’ll make your visit to the area a “superior” trip.

One of the most popular road trips in the upper Midwest is the circumnavigation of Lake Superior, a trip that takes you through parts of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Ontario. And while there’s plenty to do on the American portion of the trip, some very unique and fun things await in Ontario on the north side of the Great Lake. If you enter Canada from Minnesota then you’re driving around the lake clockwise, heading from Thunder Bay in the west to Sault Ste. Marie in the east, a distance of about 450 miles without side trips.

One of Canada’s Top 10 attractions, Fort William Historical Park (fwhp.ca), is located in Thunder Bay. Plan on spending the better part of a day at this rustic recreation of life in the 1800’s when Fort William was at the center of the burgeoning fur trade. Like at a Renaissance Faire, the inhabitants of the fort stay in character and you can visit with the doctor and see the humble tools of his trade such as primitive surgical instruments and dozens of jars full of potions, medicines and cure-alls used at the time. Watch the blacksmith get arrested (you’ll find out why…), dance with the inhabitants to traditional music or stop at Boucher’s Tavern to play a simple game of chance. See authentic birch bark canoes being made and then later take a ride in one on the Kaministiquia River, explore the First People’s (native Canadians) village and sample the food they’re preparing, try your hand at axe throwing and of course learn all about the fur trade. The fur warehouse, or “fur stores,” has hundreds of pelts hanging and you can touch them all; this may be your only opportunity ever to feel what the fur of the rare wolverine feels like.

If you’re feeling bold and strong, try hefting one of the parcels of furs onto your back, to carry it as the furriers of old did. After you struggle with one, you’ll find out that you’re supposed to carry three at once! Fort William is also the place to satisfy your hankering to fire a cannon. The noisy guns are fired everyday at 2 p.m. as part of the reenactment of the welcoming ceremony for a newly arrived brigade, and if you just want to hear the boom and see the smoke then make sure to be at the riverside wharf at 2 p.m. But if you want to fire one (without a cannonball) then you can take a two-hour class and learn all about cannons and flintlock rifles. When you tell your friends you had a blast at the fort you’ll be speaking literally!

Other Thunder Bay-area attractions include Kakabeka Falls (Ontario’s second highest waterfall) and numerous amethyst mines where you can see huge chunks of the purple crystals and “rockhound” on your own if you want. As you head out towards Sault Ste. Marie, Lake Superior will be to your right, sometimes at a distance and sometimes just off the highway and you’ll have hundreds of miles of shoreline along the way, so pick your spot to enjoy the cool water. Back on the highway, watch for deer and bear and smaller critters as you drive through a beautiful and seemingly endless wilderness. Attractions in Sault Ste. Marie include the Bush Plane Museum – you’ve heard of Ice Road Truckers, right? Well here at the museum you can see the planes that go where the trucks can’t.

And by all means, if you have time, take the scenic Algoma Central Railway train ride to Agawa Canyon. The round-trip excursion is a full 10 hours and takes you through part of Ontario that is not accessible by car.

For more information, visit visitthunderbay.com and sault-canada.com.

Workout gear seems like an easy buy for some, but just like purchasing the right running shoe, you should put as much thought in your clothing. For ladies, if your sports bra is ill fitting, you run the risk of ripping breast tissue. It may not show up now, but as you age, how you treated your body will show, inside and out.

Up-and-coming fitness designers ALO (Air.Land.Ocean) have taken the reins with functional and environmentally conscious gear for the workout guru within us. Based out of Los Angeles, the young team of designers’ mission is to instill “green” from the inside out. One of their signature fabrics, Bamboo Jersey, is naturally antibacterial and lifts moisture away from your body during your exercise session.

The Fall 2011 collection has something for everyone’s activities. The Men’s division features practice pants, perfect for basketball and tennis training, in warm fall colors, Olympic Blue and Obsidian. The relaxed fit is along the same lines of track pants, replacing the trademark jersey for your standard polyester. Pair that with the Speed Halt Zip and you’ve got an outfit that can take you from the courts to a casual meet-up with your friends.

For ladies, the Running Tech bra hugs your body in all the right places and makes sure that you’re not damaging your skin. It’s breathable and sturdy, and holds up in the wash quite well.

Most of ALO’s women’s line focuses on the yoga lifestyle, like the capris and hoodies, but the sports bras are extremely versatile. I have used them for boot camp training and running with no problems!

For more information, visit alosport.com.

GRAPHICNOVELS Infinite Kung Fu (Top Shelf) Begun in 2000 as a self-published comic, the entirety of Kagan McLeod’s epic kung fu/zombie mash-up is now available in one massive collection.

The story takes place sometime in the future, where a cataclysmic event has rendered the world as it was in medieval times. To make matters worse, there isn’t enough life to go around, so reincarnated souls are coming back in corpses and attacking the living.

To top it off, an evil emperor is out to rule the world. Humanity’s only hope is a group of kung fu masters.

An award-winning illustrator, Mc– Leod makes his comic book debut here.

The art is quite stunning, with a cartoony style that works well for the over-the-top action. Limbs fly and heads roll in Evil Dead-style gore humor.

Less polished is McLeod’s writing, which at times hampers the story with a somewhat disjointed narrative flow and large chunks of exposition dumped into dialogue. Some of the interesting elements McLeod plays with, such as the setting, aren’t fully developed.

Aside from the inclusion of some Blaxploitation characters, the story could take place completely within China’s mythical past. There is no sense of any apocalyptic event, no remnants of a past civilization.

Still, Infinite Kung Fu shows real love of the genres to which it pays homage, and it’s a diverting read.

Grade: B —Mike Sebastian Infinite Kung Fu is currently available.

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by lauren redding and michaelle bond, mct Illustrations by Chris Ware/Lexington Herald-Leader/MCT Welcome to the next chapter of your life: College. The wait is finally over and you’re most likely leaving your parents and hometown behind, ready for your fresh start on a new campus. Your first challenge in college won’t be in a classroom or at a party – it will be the moment you meet your roommate for the first time.

Get ready, because this person could make some of your greatest or worst memories of college. Read on for tips to make sure you and your roommate get off on the right foot – and keep it that way for the rest of the year.

LIVING WITH A FRIEND Rooming with a friend from home is a delicate balance.

While you’re no doubt excited to have a familiar face to come home to, it’s important to remember you are separate individuals who deserve to experience college independently.

Because you and your roommate live together, you’ll often spend time together without even trying to, by watching movies, doing homework or listening to music in your room. But don’t feel pressured to include him or her in everything.

Set aside time to meet new people or join new clubs on your own. You’ll thank yourself for it later when you have a large group of friends, including your roommate.

GETTING A RANDOM ROOMMATE Whether plans to room with a friend fell through or your school is far from home, the thought of living with a stranger can make you anxious. But don’t take that out on the person you’ll be living with for the next year.

Go in with a positive attitude. Think of it as an opportunity to gain another friend.

But don’t worry if the school completely ignored your wishes on your rooming questionnaire. No one says you have to love the person you’re sharing a room with. You will find other friends.

DECODING YOUR ROOMMATE When living with a new roommate, it’s often helpful to understand their background and where they come from to get a sense of who they are. Ask your roommate their birth order – which often defines character and personality traits – and use that to navigate your relationship.

According to an article in Woman’s Day, if you’re roommate is the: Oldest or only child: He or she probably relates well to older people and is very independent and responsible. This kind of roommate will likely enjoy spending time on their own and establishing a sense of self early on.

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Middle child: He or she most likely grew up feeling lost in the mix of older and younger siblings, so relationships with friends are very important. Middle children are often independent peacemakers who can see all sides of an argument. Don’t be afraid to come to this roommate for advice.

Youngest child: Babies of the family are usually the most extroverted and irresponsible. Because they’ve likely gotten away with more as children, they’re used to pushing the limits and may do so in college more than others.

Because youngest children often love the limelight, this kind of roommate is sure to be a fun going-out partner at any time.

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BEFORE YOU MEET Your school gives you your roommate’s contact information for a reason, so be sure to reach out before move-in day. And not just because you don’t want to end up with two TVs or three refrigerators.

Contacting your new rooming partner will give you a preview of your roommate’s personality and can help to alleviate anxiety about meeting in person. Try to find your roomie’s Facebook page to get to know them a little before you talk.

And when you do contact your roommate, this is the time to ask questions. You can find out your roommate’s likes and dislikes and share yours. Fill in the gaps that the roommate questionnaire may have missed.

This is also the time to clarify your answers.

For example, while you may strive to be a neat person, like you told the questionnaire, you may have to clarify that it’s a work in progress. This can smooth the transition into living together.

You also can bond over decorating plans and your shared anxieties and excitement about starting your freshman year. And remember that calling your future roommate can give you an even better sense of who that person is and how well you two will get along.

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SHARING SPACE Set clear boundaries in the beginning of your rooming relationship. If you don’t, your roommate could claim to have no idea that letting a friend sleep on the floor for a few weeks isn’t OK, or that you should be notified if a group of friends is coming to party in your room.

The room is equally yours, so make sure your roommate’s things don’t start creeping onto your side of the room, unless you agreed to an arrangement beforehand.

Also, make clear which items you feel comfortable sharing. Cereal may be OK, but your shampoo may not be. To avoid later fighting, let your roommate know.

You may be a bit cautious when it comes to confronting your roommate about problems if you two only just met. Be polite, but firm. Any sharing problems will only get worse if you allow the behavior to continue.

If talking it out isn’t working, you can still find ways to keep your belongings safe. Dorm Co (dormco.com) even sells a fridge lock to keep hungry roommates from eating your food.

This obvious lack of confidence in your roommate may make your living situation awkward, however, so this should be a last resort.

DEALING WITH CONFLICTS It’s inevitable – whether you disagree over whose turn it is to vacuum or acceptable study times, conflicts are sure to arise when living with a new roommate. The key is to set expectations as soon as you meet.

When will you each be studying and sleeping, when can friends come over, and who will be responsible for taking out the trash are just some of the topics you should discuss.

When an unrelated conflict arises, it’s best to get some space. Hit the library or visit another friend’s room.

If you can’t calmly discuss the issue after you’ve cooled off, consult your resident adviser – they’re trained to help mediate conflicts.

CARING FOR YOUR ROOMMATE No matter if your classmate is a party animal or more of a homebody, you may have to

take care of a sick roommate from time to time.

Not only is this courteous, but it’s also what you’d want your roomie to do for you if you weren’t feeling so hot.

Your duties may range from picking up food from the dining hall for a feverish, bedridden roommate to helping clean up after a roommate who partied a little too hard the night before.

And if your roommate is really sick (think swine flu), know that you may even get a call from a hysterical parent.

But while you are somewhat responsible for your roommate, don’t think you have to be their mother or personal nurse, especially if getting sick after partying turns into a weekly routine.

Your relationship will determine how much you do.

But at the very least, you should make an effort to ensure your roommate’s sickness is not serious or an immediate danger.

You can do something as simple as speaking up and letting your resident assistant handle potentially worrying situations, especially if you think you’re not qualified to help your roommate.

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FREQUENCY by brien overly Vans Warped Tour Aug. 10 @ Cal State Dominguez Hills C’mon y’all. I shouldn’t need to do any more convincing for this. It’s going to be fun, I promise. Just start your day in the beer garden with a few rounds of Stellas and remind yourself that you’ve always got the The Summer Set: no longer just a guilty pleasure best seat in the house when the rest of the audience hasn’t grown past five-feet tall yet.

The Summer Set Aug. 13 @ House of Blues Anaheim There was a time I would’ve felt incredibly guilty over including this band in Frequency.

And by “would’ve,” I mean “did.” Because it most definitely happened, and I most definitely did. But no longer!

No more shall I feel any trepidation when writing up Summer Set shows. Why, you may ask? The pop-punk fivesome’s new album is ... actually kind of good – in a very unguilty way. The Arizona act has very quickly gone from bordering on children’s pop to reaching a crossover level of maturity that makes its members contenders for something much bigger. Though their demographic is still decidedly on the younger and more female side, at least now the rest of us who are of legal drinking age don’t have to be so secretive about the fact we still jam to it anyway.

Thrice Aug. 13 @ The Yost Not only is this one of the best bands in the history of, y’know, ever, they happen to also be playing at the newest theater venue that Orange County has to offer. Granted, there are a ton of reasons to not want to drive down to the OC, assuming you don’t already reside there, but new venue openings are special occasions. And who better to break in said new venue than one of the hardest working and hardest rocking bands to have sprung from the rich soils of OC’s own music scene?

The Irvine-bred foursome never fails to put on one of the most physically and emotionally intense shows in all of rock, and the new music from their forthcoming album just may be among their best work yet. Given that the band has never released a record that was anything short of thrash-y artistic genius, that is indeed saying a lot. Every member of this band is a master of his respective instrument, having practically written the best-selling, Oprah-book-club-picked novel on emotive musicianship.

The Damned Things Aug. 14 @ House of Blues Anaheim Intense in a very different way, the pop-punk-hardcore conglomeration of Anthrax, Every Time I Die and Fall Out Boy members pulls in influences as varied as its members’ source bands. Frontman Keith Buckley maintains his signature southern rock-inspired vocal twang and bravado, while exploring the more melodic side of his vocals, turning the boozy charm all the way to 11. Likewise, the guitar work of Joe Trohman, Scott Ian and Rob Caggiano is true to form, being both catchy and dark, while being distinctively more gritty and whiskey-soaked than anything they’ve worked on previously. It’s like a really weird game of musical chairs … but with genres instead of chairs.

A lot of dudes in bands join up with other dudes in bands and make decent to good side-project bands together. The Damned Things are one of very few whose members actually bring out unexpected sides of each other, potentially to even greater effect than their more well-known projects.

Adele Aug. 15 @ The Greek Please, like you don’t roll up the windows in your car a belt out the “Rolling in the Deep” lyrics when your iPod decides it’s that time of the day during your work commute. Don’t even try to judge.

Little Dragon Aug. 15 @ The Roxy Since everything else this week is all big stages, bright lights and dramatic moments, we need to finish the week with something a little more decisively low key. Holding down the indie fort for the week, the Little Dragon foursome bring some of the mellowest stylings that will forever embed themselves into your subconscious song retention files. A master of subtle vocal nuance, frontwoman Yukimi Nagano’s delicate crooning can effortlessly go from fun and flighty to dark and haunting, while staying completely even-tempered throughout. Likewise, her band mates are just as skilled at creating mood and atmosphere instrumentally, so even though it’s not at like, the Echo or anything, the band will still boost your cred significantly.

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Finding Its Groove With Murphy Back by josh herwitt For over a decade, Sound Tribe Sector 9 has made a habit of embracing change with open arms.

Whether it’s been the decision to migrate from its hometown of Atlanta to Santa Cruz, Calif., or the choice to operate under its own record label, 1320 Records, the jamtronica giant hasn’t let anything stand in the way of attaining its creative aspirations. Yet when bassist David Murphy was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in his sinus cavity less than seven months ago, it quickly put things into perspective for his four other band mates. So much so, that they didn’t talk about music while Murphy spent over a week in the hospital.

“We really were just worried about our brother, our bass player and our best friend,” drummer Zach Velmer recalls.

“Nothing else mattered. The world kind of stopped.”

STS9 quickly cancelled its shows scheduled in February and March not knowing when it might be able to tour again.

Back in the studio, the band – composed of Murphy, Velmer, guitarist Hunter Brown, keyboardist David Phipps and percussionist Jeffree Lerner – had been working on a new album since the fall with its eyes set on a release this summer.

Campus Circle > Music > Interviews All of those plans, though, were put on the backburner when the news broke about Murphy’s condition in January.

Instead, STS9’s primary focus became helping Murphy heal – whatever it would take and for however long.

“None of this exists without him and without us,” Velmer admits. “If anybody goes through that, I think that you have a new take on existing on planet earth in three dimensions … and how quickly it can be taken from you.”

But Murphy wouldn’t let himself become detached from STS9 for very long. With the surgery a success, he needed the band’s music more than ever to nurse his wounds as he underwent chemotherapy and radiation treatment.

“David was in a very fragile position, but he wanted to play music,” Velmer says.

By the end of March, just 10 weeks after Murphy went under the knife, the band was back on the road. Making a triumphant return at Ultra Music Festival in Miami, STS9 went back to its Georgia roots the following month, playing two nights in Athens to gear up for a summer run that has included stops at Wakarusa, Bonnaroo and All Good on the festival circuit. “We did that not because we had to, but because it helped David heal,” Velmer explains. “It was all about getting David better.”

Southern California, nevertheless, will have a chance to see STS9 playing in the clubs again, as Los Angeles welcomes the quintet for an Aug. 11 date at the House of Blues Sunset Strip. “It’s always a pleasure to come to L.A.,” Velmer says.

“L.A. has some of the best people doing cool shit. It’s a very progressive, hip place to be.”

Although it will be the first time in over a year that STS9 will have played in the City of Angels, fans can expect to hear some of the band’s latest material from When The Dust Settles.

The five-song EP features the single, “Scheme,” a grooving

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SPECIAL FEATURES by mike sebastian The Majors David Schwimmer proves he has hidden depths in his latest directorial effort, Trust. Clive Owen and Catherine Keener star as two suburban parents whose world comes crashing down around them when their teenage daughter falls prey to an online predator.

Cheech Marin stars in The Perfect Game, an underdog sports story about a ragtag Mexican baseball team who went on to play in the Little League World Series.

The Idiotbox Joe Flanigan (“Ferocious Planet”) leads a new team of scientists and military through a recently discovered Stargate and into a whole new galaxy in Stargate Atlantis: The Complete Series Gift Set, now available in a 20-disc Blu-Ray set. The team arrives in the legendary sunken city, only to encounter a whole new enemy, the Wraith. A spin-off series that equals the original, it comes loaded with commentaries, set tours, deleted scenes and more.

Gear up for some animated nostalgia with M.A.S.K.: The Complete Series. Part “G.I. Joe,” part “Transformers,” this ’80s classic follows the Mobile Armored Strike Command as they battle the evil forces of V.E.N.O.M. Also included are retrospective interviews.

track that blends big, bouncy hip-hop beats with carefully played synthesizers to get your head bobbing up and down over the course of five minutes.

“We wanted to write something that felt good and something you would rock driving on a road trip,” Velmer says about the new album that was released in June. “With that intention, that’s what came out.”

Meanwhile, for Murphy, who is still on the road to recovery, playing in front of packed crowds across the country has offered him a chance to escape some of the pain he’s endured lately. “He kind of charged it,” Velmer says of his fellow band member’s return to the stage. “He wanted to get back out there and do what he loved to do. To everybody, it made a lot of sense.”

With another album in the works, a new recording studio opening, a fall U.S. tour through November and four sold-out nights in Mexico at the beginning of 2012, STS9 hasn’t felt the urge to take it easy with Murphy back in the fold.

“We haven’t slowed down,” Velmer says. “We’ve got the foot on the pedal, and we’re really excited for what’s to come.”

STS9 performs Aug. 11 at the House of Blues Sunset Strip. For more information, visit STS9.com.

Campus Circle > Film > DVD Dish Stranger than Fiction Exporting Raymond follows Phil Rosenthal, creator of “Everybody Loves Raymond,” as he attempts to steer a Russian remake of his hit series and is in for a bit of a culture shock. It’s a hilarious fish out of water documentary.

Foreign Fare Nominated for Oscar’s Best Foreign Film award, Outside the Law is a rip-roaring drama set in post-war France’s Algerian independence movement. The director of Days of Glory continues the story of three brothers whose scattered lives take them in different directions, but who come together in a common cause.

Funny Business Greg Mottola (Superbad) directs the comedy duo of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in the close encounter road trip Paul.

Pegg and Frost are a pair of comic book nerds on a pilgrimage to Area 51 who get in over their heads when a real life alien (voiced by Seth Rogen) hitches a ride. An all-star cast includes Kristen Wiig and Jason Bateman.

Director David Gordon Green reassembles his Pineapple Express stars James Franco and Danny McBride for the stoner fantasy parody Your Highness. Franco stars as a medieval prince who sets out on a quest with his slacker brother and a warrior (Natalie Portman) to save his kidnapped fiancé.

Zooey Deschanel co-stars.

A bride and groom’s marriage gets complicated when their very different backgrounds (Martha’s Vineyard and Brooklyn) collide in Jumping the Broom. Angela Bassett leads a terrific ensemble cast in this romantic comedy.

Rainn Wilson (“The Office”) is an average joe who dons a homemade costume and becomes a superhero in order

to rescue his wife (Liv Tyler) from the clutches of a drug dealer (Kevin Bacon) in the action-comedy Super. Ellen Page co-stars as his nutty sidekick. James Gunn (Slither) directs.

Also available: stand-up specials John Pinette: Still Hungry, Lavell Craw– ford: Can a Brother Get Some Love

Blu Notes Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen lead a band of gunfighters in one of the great western adventures, The Magnificent Seven. Based on Akira Kurosawa’s The Seven Samurai, John Sturges’ action-packed film spawned three sequels. All four films and tons of extras are available in The Magnificent Seven Collection.

Two great high school films come to hi-def: Sean Penn became an overnight sensation with his portrayal of the laid back surfer Spicoli in the Cameron Crowe-penned dramedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High, also starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold and Phoebe Cates.

An American Graffiti set in the ’70s, Richard Linklater’s cult classic Dazed and Confused follows several high-school cliques over the course of a summer night.

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MUSICREPORT Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Brother Liam beat him to the post-Oasis punch with the release of the Beady Eye record earlier this year, but not to be outdone Noel Gallagher says he has two albums ready to go. The first album just uses the band’s name as its title; Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds is scheduled to drop on Nov. 8 on Noel’s own Sour Mash label. No dates have been announced yet, but Gallagher plans to take the Birds on the road after the release of the eponymous album and then put the second (as yet untitled) album out in 2012. The album, featuring London’s in-demand Crouch End Festival Chorus, represents the first new music from Noel Gallagher in three years.

Glasses Malone: Beach Cruiser The latest single from L.A.-based rapper Glasses Malone is called “Rich N Thuggin’,” and Malone, while getting to the rich part, surely already knows about the thuggin’. Malone grew up between the crime-ridden neighborhoods of Watts and Compton where his family was involved in the drug trade and his mom went away for a 20-year stretch in the joint.

Ultimately Glasses turned away from his life as a member of the 7th Street Watts Crips to pursue a music career, and over the past five years or so he’s sold tens of thousands of “street” albums. Now Cash Money Records is releasing his official debut album, Beach Cruiser.

“It represents the West Coast; slow, steady classic-ness,” says Glasses, referring to beach cruiser bicycles. “That’s how I want my music to be: just as timeless as a beach cruiser.”

Ya Boy, Akon, Lil Wayne, Birdman, Lupe Fiasco, Snoop Dogg, T-Pain and Rick Ross all guest on Beach Cruiser which drops on Aug. 30.

The Stripminers The Stripminers will be releasing a collector’s seven-inch featuring the songs “Movies,” “Poison in the Paint” and “You Make Dyin’ Fun” on the Suckerpunch label on Aug. 30. The L.A. alt-punk band came about when Brett Anderson of the Donnas and Paul Stinson of the Radishes began collaborating just for fun on what they thought was just a one-off project.

The pair soon recruited DJ Bonebrake of X, Holland Greco, Brett Simons and producer/performer Scrote, and then they had a full-blown band on their hands.

To celebrate the release of the wax the Stripminers will play a set of fan favorites at the Sunset Junction Music Festival & Street Fair in Silver Lake on Aug. 27. A special limited (only 100 copies) Sunset Junction version of the record will be available at the show.

The Horrible Crowes The Horrible Crowes, fronted by the Gaslight Anthem’s Brian Fallon and longtime friend Ian Perkins, will perform their first live shows in September, including the unveiling of their debut album Elsie in its entirety at a show at the Troubadour on the 14th.

“With the Horrible Crowes it’s more of a theater vibe,” Fallon explains of the difference between his new band and the Gaslight Anthem. “It’s something to be digested, not something to shock you into excitement like a big rock and roll show. I would almost look at it more as if you were going to the theater to see a show for the evening.”

Gaslight Anthem guitarist Alex Rosamilia will sit in on keyboards for the night.

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THE 27 CLUB Why They Matter by eva recinos My car radio broke down for months, and when I finally punched the code back in, I was not surprised to hear Nirvana was still playing on KROQ. After more than a decade, this band is somehow still in the music world’s consciousness. Spin magazine’s latest cover even bore the title “Nevermind: Why it matters now.” Dave Grohl might have gone on to form another, longer-lasting band, but come every death anniversary of Kurt Cobain, we remember the very influential trio they were both a part of 10-plus years ago.

Cobain’s untimely death made him a part of the 27 Club, a group of legendary artists whose lives ended at the young age of 27 but who gained immortality in the music world.

And, now, with the death of Amy Winehouse, the list is even longer. What she and Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and many other artists contributed to the music world is immeasurable.

With her death, the debate about her impact and, to a larger extent, the importance of all the artists in the 27 Club is put up to debate. To some, the fact that the artists died so young proves nothing about their talent. To some, the death of Winehouse was no surprise, and her impact seems short-lived.

To others, she represents an artist with unrealized potential who could have gone even further had she conquered her demons.

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Noel Gallagher releases his first new music in three years.

Angeles, the band is made up of Zac, Elvis, Brandon, Ryan and Max. They started playing together in 2009 and after a year of leaking their demos with “found footage” music videos that glorified teenage breasts, shaking asses, smoking meth, shooting guns and the entire opening credits of Top Secret, FIDLAR have finally released their first seven-inch EP, fittingly titled DIYDUI. There are four songs totaling about nine minutes of music on the collectible vinyl that comes to you via White Iris Records. You can watch the video for “Max Can’t Surf,” one of the EP’s songs, on YouTube. And yes, FIDLAR is in all caps for a reason – it’s an acronym. Fuck It Dog, Life’s A Risk! Now you know.

Campus Circle > Music > Music Notes But the reason why this 27 Club is so important and captivates the minds of so many music lovers is because we never did get to understand them better. Neither we nor the musicians themselves ever manage to solve the demons plaguing these geniuses, and that in itself is enough to garner them immortality. Their deaths, in fact, cemented their fame in a way that perhaps nothing else could have done if they continued to live.

In each artist’s life there was also the mystery of what else they could do that they already hadn’t. They somehow chose the right time and sound to create an impact on the music world that rippled out of control. But with so much success, what else could they have done?

Yet music is a fascinating art because when it is done successfully, the fan feels an inexplicably strong connection to the musician. The 27 Club proves this better than any other group of artists. In the gritty voice and screeching guitar sounds of Cobain, we hear melancholy and angst clearly and loudly. In the soulful and lyrically honest songs of Winehouse, we hear complex emotions and a completely apathy towards what anyone else thinks. And in the genius sounds coming from Hendrix we are able to better understand some things that couldn’t be put into words.

It’s this connection that makes these artists important after so many years. Their unabashed emotion, unapologetic honesty and singular personalities have made them not only huge personalities in the music world but fascinating figures in popular culture in general. It’s difficult to find a person who doesn’t recognize the name of any of these given artists.

These artists gave us themselves, not packaged, not altered, but honest. And that is what any great musician must risk doing. Even in their deaths, we saw them as they were, flaws and all. And the fact that we couldn’t exactly understand

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Amy Winehouse is the latest member of the 27 Club. them only made us fall more musically in love.

The raw talent, musical adventurousness and unabashed sincerity of these artists are what will live on. It is what any musician will want to reach. In looking at the 27 Club, a musician can only hope to remain in the music world’s consciousness as long and make such a great impact.

Any teenager 10 years from now blasting Nirvana in his/ her room will still sing the lyrics as if they were written for him/her, will still feel the passion behind the notes of that guitar.

It is a pity that these musicians will not continue to make music, but it is lucky for us to have known them at all. We’ve got their voices recorded, their struggles written down and their legends imprinted on the notes that float from our ears to our very souls.

Become a CAMPUS CIRCLE Fan on Facebook http://bit.ly/dhFhEE CDREVIEWS The Aviation Orange East of Here (Self-released) You may remember the Aviation Orange’s previous brush with fame; the video for their song “Radio” got lots of love from MTV in 2009. East of Here is a six-song EP featuring more airy indie pop that reflects influence from groups like the Killers (“Sunrise Sunset”) or across-the-pond acts like the Cure (“East of Here.”)

“Etch a Postcard” is instantly recognizable as being informed by the Smiths, even though the vocals are initially handled by keys player Cherie Hannouche before lead singer Michael Nesci takes his verses with a distinct Morrissey-esque tone. Nothing here has such an overt hook as “Radio,” but fans of that song should get along quite nicely with the upbeat, brightly lit music on East of Here.

Grade: B —Kevin Wierzbicki East of Here is currently available.

The Horrors Skying (XL) The last album from the Horrors, 2009’s Primary Colours, was critically praised and nominated for the vaunted Mercury Prize that celebrates the best of U.K. music. This album starts with the Bowie-esque “Changing the Rain” and the shoe-gazing of “You Said,” but the band shifts through a few gears to get to “I Can See Through You,” a fastpaced number that looks in the opposite direction – all the way to the psychedelic heavens.

Singer Farris Badwan takes the first part of “Endless Blue” off, but just when you think the song is going to fully-form as a mellow psych instrumental there’s a false ending and the song restarts in a flurry of anxious drums and shocking guitar. “Dive In” makes a psych splash that would make the Verve proud while the loping rhythm, and keyboard flourishes of “Still Life” give the song a distinct Psychedelic Furs bent.

Skying seems to get more interesting as it goes along, perhaps because it gets a little more “out there” with each successive song, finishing strong with the inward-looking “Moving Further Away,” the effects-laden trippy-ness of “Monica Gems” and the Pink Floyd-like dreamscape of “Oceans Burning.”

Grade: B —Kevin Wierzbicki Skying is currently available.

Indestructible Noise Command Heaven Sent, Hellbound (Candlelight) Indestructible Noise Command is back and stronger than ever after being absent for two decades. Heaven Sent, Hellbound begins with a chilling orchestral piece which features slamming cymbals leading into violent musical chaos. Adrenaline instantly reaches full force when Denis Gergely explodes on the microphone. His commanding vocals spread like wildfire over 12 brutal tracks. Double petal bass drums viciously crash while mimicking machine guns during war. “God Loves Violence” recaptures the thrash essence of the early ’90s revealing metal is far from dead.Guitarist Erik Barath and Anthony Fabrizi excel during “Swallowed” as they deliver a breathtaking solo that highlights intense axe shredding for three minutes.

The album includes fist-clenching melodies that desperately scream circle pits and drip of extreme sweat. Heaven Sent, Hellbound becomes an instant classic after the first listen. The album comes embedded with raw and malicious elements that other metal bands today fail to include.

Grade: A —Jacob Gaitan Heaven Sent, Hellbound is currently available.

Little Dragon Ritual Union (Peacefrog/EMI) Little Dragon’s Yukimi Nagano has put in vocals for Gorillaz, Raphael Saadiq and David Sitek, and she knows just how to curl around the hooky, laptop-lite environments here without breathing too heavily. The best of the tracks (like the stretch of “Shuffle a Dream,” “Please Turn” and “Crystalfilm”) will have you rooting for more uncool.

Grade: B+ —Dan Weiss, The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) Ritual Union is currently available. © The Philadelphia Inquirer. Distributed by McClatchyTribune Information Services.

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Search for songs from any era and share them with your friends using Spotify.

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Delivers the Future of Music Now by randall roberts los angeles times (MCT)

On a recent afternoon while driving down Beverly Boulevard, I had 15 million songs sitting in the little tray between the driver and passenger seat.

If they were on LP or compact disc, the entire assortment – available via the Spotify application I’d installed on my phone earlier in the day – would fill dozens of tractor trailers and weigh thousands of tons.

Sitting next to my morning coffee, the collection jiggled as I hit a bump, but the music coming out of my stereo didn’t skip a beat.

Assuming an average of four minutes per song, I figure that’s roughly 114 years of continuous music at my fingertips.

It includes music as diverse as Baroque composer H.I. Biber, pop star Justin Bieber, Emmett Miller, Ma Rainey, Eminem, Sun Ra and Tyler, the Creator.

It’s more than anyone could possibly want or need to listen to, but that’s not the point. It’s that it’s all there, a millisecond away.

This year might not be remembered for a revolution in pop music – so far the most sonically surprising thing on the charts has been Chris Brown’s “Look at Me Now.” But we’re currently in the middle of something big, a fundamental shift in the ways in which we experience and interact with

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recorded music. A notion barely fathomable a decade ago – unlimited access to a huge chunk of the world’s recorded music library – has become reality.

With this innovation, not only is the entire experience of hearing and learning about music changing, but the ways in which we share our passion is, as well. And if history is any indication, the way in which artists make music will evolve along with it.

With the arrival of Swedish-born, London-based cloud service Spotify on American shores July 14, along with the progress of Google Music and the impending launch of Apple’s iCloud music service, this year will be remembered as the year in which keeping our own copies of music, be it physically on CDs and LPs, or digitally as MP3s on our hard drives, became a decision, not a necessity, for both casual fans and music obsessives.

No longer do we need to worry about where to store it, nor try to recover it from a fried hard drive nor even keep it separate from the collections of our friends. We have been nearing this milestone for a while; with a little work, you can listen to virtually any song for free by cobbling together the search results of YouTube, Rhapsody, Mediashare links and Google search results.

But Spotify is on everyone’s lips, and for good reason.

What, exactly, is Spotify? It’s an application that offers users access to high-quality streams of music from throughout history, one whose catalog includes the holdings of the world’s four largest record companies and an equally monolithic consortium of independent labels.

It’s currently available by invitation as an application you can download to your computer, smartphone, or Webconnected home audio system. Once installed, any of these 15 million songs are available for free with a double-click.

Don’t feel like enduring advertisements? Pay $4.99 a month and they’re gone, or pay $9.99 a month for premium, which also offers better sound quality.

It works and looks like an alterna-world version of iTunes, albeit with different font and color scheme. Launch the app and on the left side of the screen is a list of folders, a combination of libraries and playlists. Click on any of them to access lists of music.

For example, a folder called “Local files” contains all of the mp3s on your hard drive – basically, your iTunes music.

Another folder is your “inbox,” where any one of your followers can send you songs to hear, and vice versa.

The search engine is where the epiphanies arrive; it’s the portal into the 15 million songs. Search on the song “My Favorite Things” and up pops for your immediate gratification the movie soundtrack recording by Julie Andrews, John Coltrane’s post-bop workout, Barbra Streisand’s 2008 version from Christmas Collection and Brad Mehldau’s pensive solo piano interpretation, among others.

Hit shuffle and time vanishes, all these melodic, interpretive and sonic ideas delivered from the past into the present.

Like a particular song in the database? Click on a star and it places the song, album or artist into an unlimited storage folder called “Favorites.”

This genre/chronological equanimity changes the way we digest music, opens up the gates on finding music not through radio, MTV, print, blogs or iTunes charts, but through curious wandering and searching through the vast, seemingly endless bounty like spelunkers looking for cave paintings.

Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek says that his plan is to expand the company’s library to contain not just western music, but everything.

“Our goal is to have all the world’s music – all the African music, all the South American music, all the Asian music,” he says.

He’s certainly not there yet; there are still gaping holes – the Beatles being the most obvious – and some songs in the library don’t always load on the first try, early launch quirks that will no doubt be remedied.

“It certainly has changed things for me,” musicianproducer Brian Eno says regarding cloud services, “because one of the things I notice that often happens now in the studio when I’m working with other people, is that we’ll mention something – ‘Do you remember that song by so-and-so? No, you haven’t heard it? Oh, well, listen.’ We suddenly refer to music a lot in a way that never used to happen.”

It used to take work to track down old recordings, he adds.

“But now it’s all there, it’s all equally present, equally current, in a sense, so I think that really changes the way people think about the music that they’re doing. They don’t so much think now of certain styles being unacceptably old-fashioned, and certain other styles being wonderfully, interestingly new. You make your own patchwork quilt.”

Spotify, too, features a glorious sharing tool, in the form of personalized playlists that are as easy to swap with all Facebook friends as double clicking. Within seconds you can be listening to a playlist of 100 songs that your boyfriend just made while stationed in Afghanistan.

You can also subscribe to any public playlist’s feed. I’m on one called “Radiohead Office Charts,” which is just what it says: an ever-evolving selection of songs currently in rotation in Radiohead’s London offices. The list comprises 185 songs and lasts 14 hours.

If someone there drops a new track into the folder, I’ll see it and be able to hear it immediately.

But the coolest thing about Spotify and the promise of access and sharing is also the simplest: This morning when I woke up, I had no inkling that I’d be educating myself for the rest of the day on the music of early electronic composer Pierre Schaeffer.

I’m in deep, and can’t wait to see what’s around the next corner. © 2011, Los Angeles Times. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.

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Prophets & Kings Self-titled (Self-released) Self-proclaimed “hellions performing a balancing act between danceable pop and experimental electro,” the Chattanooga, Tenn. band has concocted an album that sure isn’t the quiet type who meekly sits at the dark corner of the room waiting to be noticed. In fact, what the self-titled record seems to be striving for is to be the life of the party.

Its peculiar mash-up of genres will have the listener questioning, “Do I want to violently dance or close my eyes and calmly sway to the music?” Although many bands have already done and are still doing genre mash-ups to create uniquely beautiful music – the supergroup the Sound of Animals Fighting, for instance – what Prophets & Kings has to offer still manages to sound somewhat new and fresh.

Listening to the album is like taking a journey into a galactic, enchanted forest. To start with, the six minute first track “Bear Milk” seduces the listener with its hypnotic rhythm and beats with a punch of screaming vocals at the very end. Around the middle of the journey is “First Taste,” a danceable track worthy of the kind of sweat-inducing moves that liberate one from acceptable social etiquettes of normality. A few minutes more of this and the trip ends with “Die to Rest,” a fittingly more subdued but nonetheless melodic coda that concludes the experimental album.

Although the band’s latest effort isn’t perfect (the song “A Freshiest” for instance isn’t particularly exceptional with its repetitive chanting), Prophets & Kings will surely find its way into the hearts of indie music lovers who are always on the lookout for the next potential best thing.

Grade: B+ —Kristina Bravo Prophets & Kings is currently available.

Rahsaan Patterson Bleuphoria (Artistry) After the shaken cocktail that was Wine & Spirits (2007), smoky R&B singer-songwriter Rahsaan Patterson returns to the game with a bigger, bolder mess of holy-rolling, synthetically silken, ’80s-ish soul and frank, loving funk. Patterson has shown great depth and talent in the pop eco-culture. Check out the hits he’s written for Brandy and Tevin Campbell, or past Patterson efforts such as Love in Stereo and After Hours. He’s an undervalued lover man on par with Maxwell, and he’s a music-maker/arranger on the level of a Raphael Saadiq.

Bleuphoria is his best effort yet. With guests as wide-ranging as gospel guidance counselor Andrae Crouch and lady singers Lalah Hathaway, Faith Evans and Jody Watley, Patterson investigates funk (and a solid, up-tempo cover of “I Only Have Eyes for You”) before hitting his dramatic, romantic stride with the falsetto-filled “Miss You” and the liquid, Loose Ends-like “6 AM.” The ballads are sensuous (“Goodbye”), and, with AutoTune used only sparingly, the sound is marvelously human.

Grade: B+ —A.D. Amarosi, The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) Bleuphoria is currently available. © The Philadelphia Inquirer. Distributed by McClatchyTribune Information Services.

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Ursula 1000 Mondo Beyondo (ESL) If you know how to frug, dance the watusi or do the jerk then you’ll love Mondo Beyondo, Ursula 1000’s update of the sounds that ruled the go-go era. Ursula 1000 is the stage name of NYC-based DJ and musician Alex Gimeno, and he has an incredible knack for creating catchy instrumental themes, some of which you’ve probably heard emanating from the TV set as they hip-up commercials for everything from Grand Marnier and Adidas to sitcoms “How I Met Your Mother” and “Modern Family.”

The album’s title cut, placed at the beginning of the set, is an irresistible surf/spy number that conjures images of girls dancing in thigh-high boots and DayGlo miniskirts, while “Graveyard Stomp,” complete with ghoulish laughter, sounds like something the B-52s might have done if they were rocking the garage in 1965.

And speaking of the B-52s, that band’s male lead vocalist Fred Schneider guests on “Hey You!” where he pauses long enough while reciting nonsensical lyrics in his typically weirdo fashion to shout “ecstasy!” Take the meaning of the word any way you want to; Mondo Beyondo is wild good fun that’ll have you dancing all night and grinning like a fool the whole time.

Grade: A —Kevin Wierzbicki Mondo Beyondo is currently available.

Destined to be one of the biggest blockbusters of the summer, SUPER 8 is written and directed by J.J. Abrams (“Lost,” Star Trek, Mission Impossible III) and produced by Steven Spielberg.

Composer Michael Giacchino – an Academy Award winner for his score for Up – reunites with director J.J. Abrams for an extraordinary adventure that musically returns to the wonders of childhood in what may be Giacchino’s best score yet.

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LATE-SUMMER Books by angela matano

With autumn and all of its obligations beckoning, why not read something just for you before it’s too late?

Armchair Traveler Another one of those books that lets you live vicariously on a farm (an ever-expanding genre), The Bucolic Plague centers on two New Yorkers who leave their buttoned up existences for the wilds of upstate. The fish-out-of-water stories abound in ways both funny and entertaining.

The scene of many a destination wedding, Sonoma County, with its wine, agriculture and bucolic landscape captures the imagination of the romantic. Jonah Raskin’s Field Days explores the origins of the infatuation and explains why this region gets so much glory.

Travel writer Mark Adams’ new book, Turn Right at Machu Picchu, explores the territory (literally and figuratively) walked by the infamous Hiram Bingham III. Entertaining and informative, this read is nearly as good as going on your own exotic vacation.

Campus Circle > Culture > Books Great Gifts One of the summer’s best films, Beginners, featured director Mike Mills’ terrific drawings. Now collected in book form, the aptly titled Drawings From the Film Beginners by Mike Mills will easily win you the girl/boy of your dreams.

Not only a great cookbook but also a terrific guide on sustainable fish, Barton Seaver’s For Cod and Country informs on two levels. It doesn’t hurt that mouthwatering dishes, such as Roasted Trout with Lime-Dill Butter and Roasted Potatoes, take the sting out of harsh truths, like no more Chilean sea bass allowed.

With the phenomenon of Farmers’ Markets growing exponentially, it should come as no surprise that cookbooks preaching the glory of fresh produce are on the rise as well.

One of the best, Laurent Tourondel’s Fresh From the Market, inspires and encourages would-be chefs with recipes as simple as Red Apple and Bourbon Fizz and as complex as Aromatic Stuffed Suckling Pig. Yum. A huge proponent of “less-meat-atarianism,” Mark Bittman proposes we all eat what we like, but just a little more responsibly. His cookbook, How to Cook Everything Vegetarian, provides just the tools to eat your vegetables and like it.

History Combining the best of great storytelling with a historical context, Bobbie Ann Mason’s The Girl in the Blue Beret, weaves a tale of love and mystery. Set in both World War II France and then the ’80s, an American soldier finds his memory and nostalgia running smack into reality.

When one of The New Yorker’s editors pens a book, I’m the first to take notice, and Dorothy Wickenden’s Nothing Daunted exceeds my expectations. Based on the author’s grandmother’s letters, this true story recounts the journey of two city girls, inspired and brave enough to travel out west to become teachers in a time where nothing much was expected of them.

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Fiction Kevin Wilson, author of the fantastic, slightly surreal story collection Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, makes his assured novel debut with The Family Fang, a tragicomic familial saga.

Combining contemporary New Orleans with a waning marriage proves a recipe for success in Robert Olen Butler’s A Small Hotel. Spanning 20 years, this novel goes back and forth in time to examine the intricacies and singularities of Michael and Kelly Hays’ unique relationship.

A tilt-a-whirl ride through modern celebrity culture, Jessica Hagedorn’s Toxicology mirrors America’s best and worst impulses surrounding fame, entitlement and so-called art.

In What Alice Forgot, Liane Moriarty ingeniously uses amnesia as a way to explore memory, expectations and life passages. When the eponymous Alice has an accident and forgets 10 years of her life, she is forced to take stock of the woman she has become.

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For those enthralled by the likes of naturalist Jane Goodall, comes Among African Apes. Full of true stories from the field and beautiful photos, this book, edited by Martha M. Robbins and Christophe Boesch, provides a front row seat to the jungle.

Luke Rhinehart’s The Dice Man is a comic and almost disturbing tale of a disaffected family man who decides to put his life in the hands of a pair of dice. Pleased with the results, Rhinehart (the author and main character share a name) proselytizes like a true believer.

New to paperback, Stephen McCauley’s Jane Austen-y Insignificant Others charms from start to finish. I don’t know how he does it, but after time spent reading McCauley, I feel spoiled for anyone else.

Perfect for a day at the beach, J. Courtney Sullivan’s Maine, keeps the pages turning. Exploring three generations of women, together on an ostensible vacation, the secrets and dysfunction get unpeeled like an onion. Riveting.

Reminiscent of Sex and the City, One Flight Up follows four friends romancing their way through Manhattan. Susan Fales-Hill’s witty dialog and irresistible eye for detail hold your attention.

For all the newly minted royal watchers out there (thank you, Kate and William) try dipping into Jerramy Sage Fine’s Someday My Prince Will Come. These “true adventures of a wannabe princess” take the author all the way to London in search of her destiny.

Last-Chance Adventure At a loss for a family outing idea? Fun and Educational Places to go with Kids and Adults offers 2,500 fantastic journeys in Southern California. No more excuses for staying home!

Last-Chance Education Before school starts and steals all your concentration thunder,

why not read Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino’s Chasing Aphrodite? This fascinating look at the Getty Museum’s questionable antiquities acquisitions reads like an art-world thriller.

Originally published as 12 volumes, James George Frazer’s The Golden Bough got considerably shorter after an abridgement by the author in 1922. Oxford University Press’ new edition reintegrates some integral parts regarding Christianity without making you read through a dozen texts.

An issue since the 1700s in America, immigration has been an especially hot button as of late. Rallying for Immigrant Rights, edited by Kim Voss and Irene Bloem–raad, collects essays about this sensitive and divisive topic.

Nancy L. Se–gal’s fascinating Someone Else’s Twin delves into the unbelievable but true tales of babies switched at birth.

Questions of identity and self that plague us all get explored like never before in this well-researched and thoughtful book.

Spooky Chills The levitating child on the cover of novelist Ransom Riggs’ Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children practically dares you to defy its charms. Like the films Pan’s Labyrinth or The Others, this ghost story of a mysterious orphanage full of magical beings will keep you reading into the night.

Up Close and Personal Tolstoy’s famous quote, “All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” holds true in Kate Christensen’s The Astral. This novel explores a crumbling family torn asunder by religion, sexuality, infidelity and ennui with terrific flair and insight.

In spite of a lifetime of hard knocks and spectacular screw-ups, Tatum O’Neal remains uniquely endearing. Her latest memoir, Found, focuses on her long road to recovery and hopefully at long last, inner contentment.

Some writers seem to effortlessly tell stories, and Jim Beaver fits neatly into that category. Life’s That Way, his memoir of struggling with not one but two of life’s heartbreaks makes the unimaginable imaginable with true grace and deft insight.

For memoir-aholics like me, Making Toast offers up all the truth, wit, tears and insight I crave. In the heartbreaking story by Roger Rosenblatt, a grandfather is forced to step into the nurturing role of parent when his daughter dies, leaving behind three young children.

Not a memoir but inspired by the lives of his grandparents, Stefan Merrill Block’s The Storm at the Door both disturbs and entrances. With a Sisyphean love story as the backdrop to a family’s struggles, this story inspires from start to finish.

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CHIPS AND LICORICE 2011 SUZUKI KIZASHI by sean oliver Exterior The Kizashi commands the road first with its rugged but sporty body and continues to instill greatness with top-notch part styling, sporty reference and an ergonomically safe cabin.

The jellied chassis and dulcet sit are surprises, and overall this car is an intelligent choice for impassioned drivers who have the necessity for a midsize sedan with personality. The 2011 Suzuki Kizashi sports package is a brilliant touch to an already stellar performance car.

With its lightweight 18-inch sport wheels and sporty aero body kit, Kizashi is ready to take on the road.

Interior The 2011 Suzuki Kizashi has a sport-designed wheel that gives the car ultimate control when you take on the winding roads and a tilt telescoping wheel which provides amazing convenience for the driver.

It features a 10-way PWR driver seat and memory, Bluetooth hands-free calling and a blasting 425 watt Rockford Fosgate 10-speaker sound system with easy access iPOD, CD audio, mp3 USB plug-in port in the dash. So you can just plug in and hit the road.

Though it has a sporty feel, the vehicle seats five comfortably.

Performance As well as having a great kick, the Kizashi can handle with the best of them. Thanks to a 2.4L DOHC 16-valve 1-4 engine, 180 horses with a six-speed manual or automatic transmission, 170 lbs-ft torque, advanced all-wheel drive, four-wheel suspension and a rear-multilink four-wheel disc braking system, the Kizashi has one of the best one-two punches on the road.

Safety and Security Suzuki swung for the fences on the Kizashi, and not only does it provide quickness but its safety has just been voted first in the all-wheel-drive sport sedan segment and has earned the highest possible ratings in the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) crash tests. The Kizashi was awarded a five-star rating in both the frontal and side-impact crash tests for all seating positions.

The all-new automobile is leading the list of standard safety equipment, including class-exclusive standard eight airbags and a tire pressure monitoring system.

Lastly the Kizashi already meets some of the crash standards put in place for the year 2014, including rigorous side pole crash, side barrier crash and ultra rigid structure.

All of this makes the Kizashi a car to be reckoned with on the road, and Suzuki has more automobiles that run in line with the Kizashi that may be what the young urban audience will talk about in the future.

By the way, if you decide to check out the Kizashi, I recommend the Cherry Red. It’s a definite eye turner.

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I find that the summer season is usually the time when I stick to healthy eating. The sun does a number on my appetite, and I’m not really in the mood to eat heavier meals or snacks for that matter. That’s when the time comes for me to eat all the fresh fruits and vegetables that are abundant like squash, tomatoes, mangos and strawberries.

I also find myself trying new organic and vegan snacks. It’s almost like a part of my personality emerges during the summer, sampling things I don’t normally like – vegan chips conjure up the taste of cardboard, and organic means mega bucks. But I need to sustain my energy in the heat and stay fit while doing it. Such a boring cycle I tell you.

While I’ve been shopping in the produce section, I’ve noticed that beans have been abundant and inexpensive lately. Yes, they’re the magical fruit, but they’re also a vegetable!

Extremely satisfying, beans are great for the heart and contain antioxidants that protect from cancer, and it goes without saying they help your digestive system. But they can be a bit tedious and boring to incorporate into the diet, but I found a snack that takes all the work away.

In the form of chips, Beanfield’s Corn Free Bean & Rice Tortilla Chips (beanfieldssnacks.com) are pretty tasty. They’re gluten free, high in fiber and have the equivalent of protein found in a four-ounce glass of milk. Besides being healthy, you can’t really tell the difference between potato and these. Although, the smell of the black beans is pretty pungent, it won’t deter you from devouring a bag.

The flavors include Sea Salt and Pepper, Pico de Gallo, plain Sea Salt and Naturally Unsalted. I think the standouts are the Sea Salt varieties as you can dip them in guacamole or salsa and not alter the flavor. The Pico de Gallo is a bit overpowering, but works well with a nice sour cream.

The “Crispylicious” written on the bag holds true to its claim. Beanfield’s is also free from the eight common allergens like peanuts, soy, eggs and wheat. They are just received the non-genetically modified organism award by the Non-GMO Project.

For those of you who practice the raw diet, Brad’s Raw Chips (bradsrawchips.com) produce ‘the healthiest chips in the world’ by dehydrating buckwheat, flax seeds and leafy kale. Brad, a raw food devotee since 2006, longed for the familiar crunchy texture found in his favorite snacks, so he started making his own chips and found that he was onto something and decided to share his gift with others.

Flavors include red pepper, beets, sweet potato and my two favorites: Indian and Cheddar. These being vegan chips, there is no dairy to be found, but the combination of carrots, olive oil and scallion are blended just right to mimic the flavor.

Towards the end of summer, another legume in bloom is the licorice plant. A lot of us associate it with fennel which shares a similar taste but is not in the same family.

I love licorice. You can find it in soft drinks, herbal teas and Chinese food. When I was younger, licorice was the first thing I wanted at the movie theater. I was happy with my box, of the red variety of course. I could eat these all day long and be none the wiser, but I was actually exposing myself to the risk of hypertension with high fructose corn syrup and the sodium content.

So throughout the years, American Licorice (the creator of the original Red Vines) has been continually striving to improve their favorite product, this time in the form of health conscious Natural Vines (naturalvineslicorice.com). Eight ounces of strawberryor black-flavored twists made with brown rice syrup, wheat flour and licorice extract fill the stay fresh sealable bag. Natural Vines are kosher, vegan and do share a manufacturing facility where nuts are present. I kept a bag of these in my purse for a quick pick me up, and I’m glad I did.

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by marvin vasquez Despite all the woes the Los Angeles Dodgers have experienced throughout this season, they have managed to compete hard while focusing on getting better each game. Of late, the Dodgers have made ground on the Arizona Diamondbacks and San Francisco Giants in the National League West division. However, Los Angeles has gone through other prominent issues and highlights. Let us have a look.

Kershaw Loses in Sweep Attempt After winning the first two games in Arizona against the Diamondbacks, the Dodgers placed their ace left hander Clayton Kershaw on the mound Sunday in their attempt to capture a sweet three-game sweep. Kershaw pitched well, but a couple of mistakes cost him and the Dodgers their chance in the 4-3 defeat. With the loss, Kershaw’s record moved to 13-5 for the season with a 2.79 ERA. Additionally, Kershaw, who is 23 years of age, sports 184 strikeouts, 1.04 WHIP and four complete games along with two shutouts.

For the game, Kershaw tossed six and one-third innings after allowing four runs on five hits. His five-game winning streak against the Diamondbacks came to an end. Arizona

Campus Circle > Sports > Baseball earned its four runs on a pair of two-run homers by Kelly Johnson and Cody Ransom.

“No one to blame but me on this one,” Kershaw says afterward, citing his pitching performance.

Quite deservingly, Kershaw is the NL strikeouts leader. He had a superb first half of the season to get an invite to the All-Star game in Phoenix while proving dominant since the Midsummer Classic, allowing four earned runs in 30 innings en route to winning his four starts from the mound.

Arizona saw starting pitcher Ian Kennedy throw well in seven innings for his sixth straight victory. Kennedy is now 14-3.

The Dodgers scored their runs on a James Loney solo homer in the fifth to cut the hosts’ lead to 2-1, an Andre Ethier double that scored Aaron Miles to tie up the game at two all and a Juan Rivera single to center that gave them a 3-2 lead before the seventh inning.

Los Angeles, who has made up ground in the standings with five and a half games in the last few weeks, is now 52-61 and fourth in the NL West. The Dodgers remain 10 games behind San Francisco.

“You have a chance to have a great trip, and you end up having a good trip,” Dodgers manager Don Mattingly remarks. “At this point I don’t think we are at the point where we can look at trips. We are trying to win every day.”

Next for L.A. Arguably the best team and organization in all of Major League Baseball, the Philadelphia Phillies pay a visit to Dodger Stadium for a three-affair series. After the Wednesday-noon meeting, the Dodgers will take Thursday off before engaging against the Houston Astros over the weekend. Los Angeles will then have a pivotal 10-game road trip with stops in Milwaukee

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STREAK ENDS, BUT ANOTHER BEGINS by marvin vasquez

After a very disappointing 3-0 loss in TO the Portland Timbers, the Los Angeles Galaxy bounced back in impressive fashion for a 3-1 victory over visiting FC Dallas at the Home Depot Center in Carson before 21,546 fans.

“We beat a good team tonight. I think both teams were fatigued from not only a long week but a pretty busy schedule to date,” Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena says. “It wasn’t going to be easy, and I thought perhaps the difference in the game is that our team showed a lot of determination.”

The defeat to Portland on Wednesday night ended the Galaxy’s unbeaten streak that reached 14 games, but a new streak began on Saturday night. With the win, Los Angeles improved to 13-3-9 with a total of 48 points for the year. The Galaxy continue to have the best team record in MLS, while remaining atop of the Western Conference. They are six points ahead of FC Dallas and seven ahead of Seattle Sounders FC. “They fought real hard over 90 minutes, but it was something we had to do to neutralize Dallas,” Arena adds. “I thought Dallas came out and played real well and gave us a lot of trouble in the opening 20 minutes of the game.”

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against the Brewers, Colorado against the Rockies and St. Louis against the Cardinals.

Not Thinking Blue Multiple reports are indicating that the Dodgers’ problems of too few fans attending games at home this season Clayton Kershaw of the Dodgers have been rough on their finances thus far. Los Angeles is averaging nearly 8,000 less fans per game this year.

Consequently, that will cost the Dodgers at least $27 million in reduced ticket sales, concession and parking revenue for the 2011 season. Announced paid attendance has been bad, the biggest per-game drop this season among the 30 Major League teams, after the Opening Day incident involving the beating of a San Francisco Giants fan at the parking lot.

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Team, MLB Agree on Plan On Friday, both the Dodgers and Major League Baseball agreed to a bankruptcy financing plan for the organization, who has suffered enormously throughout the season because of the ownership legal battle and other mishaps. A court filing in Delaware details a plan for the league to provide unsecured financing of up to $150 million for the Dodgers, who requested protection in June after commissioner Bud Selig did not approve a multibillion-dollar TV deal.

Campus Circle > Sports > Soccer Honduran midfielder Marvin Chávez netted a score at the ninth minute mark for his fifth goal of the season. Both Maicon Santos and Zach Lloyd received credit for an assist.

Los Angeles did not remain silent for long, equalizing the score in the 32nd minute when defender Omar Gonzalez sealed a header into the back of the net past FC Dallas goalkeeper Kevin Hartman. Gonzalez, who was wearing a face shield to protect his fractured nose, connected on the ball off a big hop for his second goal.

After halftime, Los Angeles came out striking and ready to capture the win. Brazilian upcoming star Juninho, who is 21 years old, collected his fourth goal this campaign. English midfielder David Beckham sent a pass from the flank, which eventually found a ready and steady Juninho. He then fired a low shot that went in after hitting the side post in the 62nd minute.

“It’s definitely a very big goal,” Juninho humbly states. “I feel very happy right now. It’s the fourth one this season. I’m just very happy to have helped out our team.”

Arena acknowledges the strong play of his South American recruit.

“He played well. He’s logged a lot of minutes this year.

He’s been a little bit fatigued. I’ve been concerned, but I think tonight he stepped up. And certainly, the goal he scored was a great one,” Arena says of Juninho. “You know, when we get Juninho in or around the box, it’s good for our team because he strikes the ball quite well. I was pleased with him.”

Arena also indicates that Juninho’s wife arrived last week from Brazil. Both had been married for a while, but she did not confirm her stay here until early this month.

Beckham continued with his second assist, and 10th of the season, nine minutes before the affair ended when forward Mike Magee earned his second score. Magee penetrated the

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Galaxy defender Omar Gonzalez scored twice against Dallas. net off a Beckham corner kick. On the night, Beckham became involved in all three Galaxy scores.

“That’s him. It wasn’t just today,” Juninho says of Beckham’s set pieces. “That’s the way he has always been. It was good.”

Beckham likes assisting. ‘“It’s nice to set up goals, but it’s more important that we are six points clear to be honest,” he says. “That’s something we aimed to do, and it was a good performance to night. We started off slow in the first 15 minutes.”

Los Angeles returns to MLS action on Aug. 20, hosting the San Jose Earthquakes after entertaining CD Motagua of Honduras in CONCACAF Champions League play on Aug. 16.

“We have a little bit of time off now before the Champions League game,” Arena states. “We need it. We’re a team that needs a couple of days of, get a little bit of rest, get our legs back, and get ready for what’s going to be a real difficult August, September and October for us.”

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Angels & Airwaves Present LOVE Live fathomevents.com This one-night event in select theaters, will be broadcast live from Boston and begins with a live introduction from Angels & Airwaves frontman and executive producer, Tom DeLonge, joined by writer and director William Eubank. Concluding the debut of LOVE, Angels & Airwaves will perform three songs, followed by a Q&A session with Eubank, actor Gunner Wright and DeLonge.

9 p.m. PST (tape delay).

WEDNESDAYAUG. 10 An Evening with “The Closer” Paley Center for Media, 465 N. Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills; paleycenter.org There will be a preview screening of an episode, followed by a discussion with the cast and creative team including Kyra Sedgwick, Jon Tenney, J.K. Simmons, Mary McDonnell and more. 7 p.m. $20.

THURSDAYAUG. 11 Sandra Bernhard REDCAT, 631 W. 2nd St., Downtown; sandrabernhard.com Since she first stepped on stage at the Comedy Store in the ’70s, Sandra Bernhard has been challenging fans and critics with unforgettable stage shows, including “Without You I’m Nothing” (also released as a feature film), “Excuses for Bad Behavior,” “Giving ’Til It Hurts,” “Hero Worship, “The Love Machine” and “Everything Bad and Beautiful.” Runs through Sunday and also Aug. 18-21.

THURSDAYAUG. 11 Style LA Swim & Resort Runway Fashion Show Drai’s Hollywood, 6250 Hollywood Blvd.; operationofhope.org The annual poolside fashion show will feature Vitamin A Swimwear, Nina Ricci, Valery, Raffaella D’Angelo, Rosapais Mare, Naven, Hollywood Million Denim and more. Benefits Operation of Hope which provides medical care to underprivileged children around the world. RSVP required at rsvp@tmginternational.com 7 p.m. $35.

FRIDAYAUG. 12 Comedians of “Chelsea Lately” The Grove of Anaheim, 2200 E. Katella Ave.; citynationalgroveofanaheim.com Featuring four regulars from the show: Heather McDonald, Brad Wollack, Jen Kirkman and Fortune Feimster. 8:30 p.m.

SATURDAYAUG. 13 “All About Walken: The Impersonators of Christopher Walken” The Dragonfly, 6510 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood; allaboutwalken.com From his Oscar winning performance in The Deer Hunter to his classic “More Cowbell” sketch on “Saturday Night Live”

to his memorable scene in Pulp Fiction, he has always managed to be a part of the cultural zeitgeist and this comedic homage celebrates his ouevre. 8 p.m. $15.

SATURDAYAUG. 13 Venice Beach Unveiled Scavenger Hunt outoftheboxevents.com Charge up the batteries in your camera and come capture those moments that are uniquely Venice. This Venice hunt has clues and photo challenges like no other. Up to six people per team. Bring one digital camera per team. Prizes to the winning team.

Starting point revealed upon registration.

2 p.m.-4 p.m. $25 per person.

SUNDAYAUG. 14 WWE Summer Slam Staples Center, 1111 S. Figueroa, Downtown; wwe.com/shows/ summerslam After two days of festivities, the WWE’s best will compete, including the Miz, Edge, John Cena, Randy Orton, CM Punk, Alberto Del Rio, Rey Mysterio, John Morrison, Kofi Kingston, the New Nexus, the Corre, Kane, R Truth, Dolph Ziggler, King Sheamus, the Big Show, Eve, Melina, Michelle McCool and many more. 4:45 p.m. Tix start @ $25.

MONDAYAUG. 15 Tyler Bates Grammy Museum, 800 W. Olympic Blvd., Downtown; grammymuseum.org The prolific composer has created scores from everything from 300 to “Californication” and Dawn of the Dead.

Along with a discussion, he will take questions from the audience and instruct a live composing demonstration. 8 p.m. $15.

TUESDAYAUG. 16 2-For-1 Tuesday Sunset Ranch, 3400 Beachwood Drive, Hollywood Hills Get two one-hour horseback rides for the price of one during the day.

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To submit an event for consideration, e-mail calendar@campuscircle.net.

by dana jeong

Fashion and celebrities have always gone hand in hand. With the advancement of technology which enabled us to track our favorite celeb’s, well, everything, what they wear every day has become much more relevant than before. While some faces are simply frequenters of “best dressed” and “worst dressed” pages of gossip blogs, some celebs have brought fashion to the next level by actively taking part in the industry. By designing their own lines or, in some cases, running the entire business, our favorite fashionistas are offering us a chance to wear clothes made in their own taste.

Without further rambling, here are the celebrity lines that have been receiving all the buzz in the fashion world.

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen After disappearing from movie screens, the Olsen sisters have been steadily building their niche in the fashion industry. The Row is much pricier than their previous collection, Elizabeth and James, but still emulates their avant-garde style that always shocks and amazes the fashion world. Composed of simple-cut, tailored pieces in neutral colors, the Row collection embraces the minimalist concept all designers seem to be obsessed with since the rise of Phoebe Philo.

It has been repeatedly reported that the twins were very involved in the design process since beginning to end, so even though we’re mere college students who can’t pay $255 for a tank top, we can at least appreciate their ridiculously awesome style by cruising through their Web site.

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Gwen Stefani I once heard that a true designer should never design what she herself wouldn’t wear. Well, I could pretty much picture Gwen Stefani in every single L.A.M.B. piece that was presented at her fashion shows, so much so that it wouldn’t surprise me a bit to see her walking down the runway herself. At L.A.M.B., Gwen has been actively taking part in the designing process with her eccentric style. With menswearinspired blazers, funky-patterned chiffon pants and avant-garde plaid coats, her fall collection was an epitome of Gwen Stefani and her iconic fashion. Although we haven’t seen her on stage with her crazy costumes in a while, she is now a huge figure in the fashion industry, so it’s our turn to try on her style.

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Lauren Conrad It’s about time we all confess to our secret obsession with “The Hills.” It used to make my day when the girls in the show would eat/tan/ shop/party at a place I’ve been to (one of the perks of living in Los Angeles, no?). That may sound a little crazy, so here’s something more normal: I used to use the girls as my fashion reference. Lauren Conrad, Whitney Port, Heidi Montag – they are all perfect representations of SoCal fashion with their relaxed yet extremely stylish outfits, and now, it’s easier to copy them thanks to LC’s new line, Paper Crown. In contrast to her previous line at Kohl’s, Paper Crown is a little more upscale, a little more pricy, and a lot more like Lauren. I’m currently obsessing over their tiered maxi dress that Lauren herself wore to the Dinosaur Ball, and I’m sure other “Hills” junkies will find plenty more to satisfy their fashion cravings.

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You should have seen the crowd.

The people were going nuts, and so did we. My best friend was sooo excited – she nearly fainted. LOL. Saturday night was “GIRLS” night. We were looking fine and feeling good. Where were you? XOXO

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