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Your Highness combines stoner comedy, fantasy

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In case the pun in the name wasn’t immediately clear, Your Highness is the rare combination of stoner comedy and fantasy movie. The movie is directed by David Green of Pineapple Express fame, and was written by and stars Danny McBride, who is most memorable for his co-starring roles in Pineapple Express and Eastbound & Down.

Amos Lee lulls audience to sleep

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Singer/songwriter Amos Lee lulled the crowd into a gentle stupor this past Saturday, April 9 at the Variety Playhouse. Lee, a Philadelphia native, is a relatively new guitarist on the music scene. His first album debuted in 2005. The self-titled album topped Billboard Top Heatseekers chart at No. 2 in March of that year.

4/15/11: Eating Atlanta

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Too often, Tech students limit their food options to standard on-campus fare without realizing there are dozens of restaurants on the Tech perimeter. The lunchtime hamburger should be a sufficient reason to jump just off campus to grab some good grub during those solid eight-hour class days.

Blues tackles gender, racial stereotypes

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Spoon Lake Blues made its world premiere at the Alliance Theatre’s Hertz Stage on April 1, and in doing so, left nothing to be desired. The daring new play, written by a Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition finalist Josh Tobiessen, boldly challenges traditional gender and race stereotypes and very blatantly offers up a non-traditional solution: tolerance.

Fighters break no new ground

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When all else fails, you can rely on The Foo Fighters. Though not always perfect, since their inception, they have consistently delivered solid, musically tight performances with songs that always demand a second or third listen.

Confessional engages audience at the Masquerade

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In 2000, while being the lead singer for the band Further Seems Forever, a young Chris Carrabba began writing songs on the side as a way of channeling his thoughts and emotions. This collection of acoustic songs was recorded and released as The Swiss Army Romance.

Wrestlemania smacks down on Georgia Dome

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The greatest spectacle in professional wrestling made its way to Atlanta for the first time as WrestleMania XXVII, the latest rendition of the wildly successful annual event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), took place at the Georgia Dome on Sunday, April 3.

Yelle suffers from sophomore slump

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Yelle is a French band currently touring with Katy Perry. Safari Disco Club is their second fantastic album after four long years. While many fans will be disappointed by the more mature sound the band found, their music reaches many more people now because it is less flamboyantly youthful. Safari Disco Club is a very fun album, and it is entirely cheerful and infectious.

Fatale falls short on depth, originality

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Britney Spears’ seventh studio album was released this past week, marking the beginning of another year of Britney’s roboticized vocals controlling the pop music charts. Get ready to be tired of this album. Her album, though praised for being highly revolutionary, is in short and nothing more than synthesized sex.

Starz’s Camelot underwhelms

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Camelot, which premiered April 1, represents Starz’s second foray into the world of premium cable television, following on the heels of their Spartacus series. Starz, late to the party so to speak, is the last of the big three premium channel packages to start producing its own TV series, after HBO and Showtime.

Insidious, incident of clutter

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One can tell director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannel love supernatural horror films. They love creepy kids, haunted houses, spirit mediums, ghosts, demons and exorcisms. They love them all so very much that they could not bear to choose between them. Instead, they decided to make Insidious, a movie that incorporates all of the above.

Cosplayers take over MomoCon

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Geeks abound at this year’s iteration of MomoCon, Tech’s own convention for Japanese, comics and gaming cultures. Tech Square’s buildings, sidewalks, open spaces and restaurants were packed with attendees and costumed aficionados. Over 10,000 attended the event, including several hundreds of dedicated volunteer staff, artists and panelists provided a slew of events over the March 12–13 weekend.

Sucker Punch misses mark with poor plot

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Zack Snyder has developed a reputation known for his film adaptations of comic books that are as visually striking and unsubtle as neon pink jackhammers. Sucker Punch is the most “Snyderian” film to date, having been directed, produced and co-written by the 45-year old comic auteur. So grab some popcorn, turn up your eyeballs and check your brain at the door.

Battle: L.A. flops as realistic disaster film

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The past two decades in Hollywood have borne witness to the shameless display of world elimination enough times to consider them acts of sheer exploitation. This trend might have begun in the mid-nineties with Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day, a spectacular B-movie blockbuster whose box office earnings topped $800 million worldwide.

F.A.M.E. lets down R&B Genre

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F. A. M. E. (“Forgiving All My Enemies” or alternatively “Fans Are My Everything”) is Chris Brown’s latest album. Perhaps famous for the wrong reasons, Brown does not change this perception by proving he should be famous for talent. He shrewdly relinquishes creative control to those who know better than him.
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