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While We Were Away: 5 Albums of Summer

by Colin Lecher Reviews
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While State Press Magazine was away over the summer, Lady GaGa and Katy Perry continued to rule the airwaves while some of the finest albums of the year surfaced from below the radio’s radar. That’s  not to say SPM’s five favorite summer albums didn’t make the charts or strike a chord with fans. From hip-hop veterans [...]

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Review: MGMT’s ‘Congratulations’

by Colin Lecher Reviews
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Maybe “Congratulations” isn’t the MGMT album everyone wanted. The band’s first release, “Oracular Spectacular,” was a trippy, independent opus. It filled concert venues, found critical acclaim and scored the band opening slots for acts like Radiohead and Beck.
But maybe that wasn’t MGMT. During the band’s humble beginnings, its members were dorm-room miscreants, playing shows consisting [...]

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Let’s Get Out of Cape Cod Tonight: Vampire Weekend Concert Review

by Kerry LePain Reviews
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In a sold-out show Tuesday night at the Marquee, Vampire Weekend showed Tempe what they’re all about ­– the music.
The lights dimmed for a moment until suddenly a rainbow of colors exploded as band members Ezra Koenig, Rostam Batmanglij, Chris Tomson and Chris Baio took the stage. An enormous picture of Contra’s album cover, a [...]

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Review: Fiverr.com

by Peter Lazaravich Reviews
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These days it’s often difficult to find a postcard from Turin, Italy, a genuine rock from a garden in Ireland, or even someone willing to burn a paper effigy of your enemy, especially all in one place.  However, all of these things and more can be had at fiverr.com, for the price of $5 each.

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Review: She & Him, Volume II

by Kerry LePain Reviews
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First things first … Zooey Deschanel has a great voice. She’s got something jazzy going on, something fresh. It hearkens back to an age when singers could actually, well, sing. She’s surprisingly versatile — occasionally sounding as if she’d fit in perfectly with the likes of Judy Garland. On the piano pounding “Over It Over [...]

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Review: Hands by Little Boots

by Kerry LePain Reviews
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Little Boots is not Lady Gaga.
Despite past comparisons, her bright blonde hair and electro-poppy sound, she has more in common with artists such as Goldfrapp, focusing less on impressive vocals and more on a jumpy electronic sound. Her initial singles, “New In Town,” “Stuck On Repeat,” “Meddle,” and “Remedy,” were misleading in relation to her [...]

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“ENTRE EL CIELO Y LA TIERRA,” by Gennaro Garcia

by Elijah Grasser Reviews
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For his first public exhibition, “ENTRE EL CIELO Y LA TIERRA,” Gennaro Garcia wanted to show he has become a more dynamic artist.
“I wanted to exhibit different styles and different motifs in the same exhibit,” Garcia says.  He calls his earlier work “mostly religious,” but lately he’s been trying to expand his motifs beyond religion.
Professionally, [...]

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Goose Bumps: The Science of Fear Exhibit

by Colin Lecher Reviews
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Eight tiny eyes are intently staring me down through a spotless pane of glass. Sitting below the aquarium is a pitch-black box casually promising to deliver the spider to me if I’d only be kind enough to reach my hand inside and say hello. It sounds silly. It’s just the arachnid equivalent of putting spaghetti [...]

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Review: The Oatmeal (.com)

by Lauren Gambino Reviews
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TheOatmeal.com is quite an amusing alternative to note taking.
The site showcases snarky, in-your-face comics, quizzes and how-to articles. Each article is accompanied by an original graphic or drawing. The site also sells merchandise with the graphics and illustrations featured on the site.
“The Oatmeal,” as he refers to himself, is 27-year-old Matthew Inman, a web designer, [...]

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Review: Mary Poppins

by Samantha Lloyd Reviews
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She sings, dances, flies and yes, she’s a nanny. The Disney magic has been brought to the stage of ASU Gammage for the national tour of “Mary Poppins.”
Presented by Disney and Cameron Mackintosh, this musical is based on the stories by P.L. Travers and the classic Oscar-winning Disney film. It follows a small London family that [...]

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