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By Jennifer Merrill

Growing Pains

I'm 18 years old. I recently graduated high school in the top 10 percent of my class with a 97 percent GPA. I was Student Council co-president and co-editor of the school newspaper, as well as a memb...

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Posted Feb. 18, 2009 | Comments: 63

SCREEN

By Matt Prigge

Six Films About the Oscars

A Star Is Born (1937): Hollywood has never been coy about revealing its lurid methods. That's why William Wellman's behind-the-scenes sudster has been remade twice now, and is due for another adaptat...

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Posted Feb. 18, 2009 | Comments: 0

MUSIC

By Katherine Silkaitis

Umm ... Drop

Click here to listen to Papertrigger on our Umm...Drop podcast. It begins with a myth of sorts. On their first full-length album Papertrigger is channeling images of Greek gods and Ursula from The Li...

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Posted Feb. 18, 2009 | Comments: 0

MUSIC

By Michael Alan Goldberg

Jr. Senior

The notoriously shy J. Mascis doesn't wear his glasses when he's at the lip of the stage singing and hammering on his guitar while fronting Dinosaur Jr. He'd prefer you, along with the rest of the cr...

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Posted Feb. 18, 2009 | Comments: 0

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