January 29 Movie review: 'Zero Dark Thirty' emphasis on 'dark'

By Ellen Pham, Chamberlain High

If you’re looking for a movie about rainbow-colored unicorns so sweet they belch cotton candy and lollipops, stop reading. Rightly so, the film controversially ...

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January 23 Review: 'Django Unchained' is a violent romp, devoted quest

BY BRIAN SMITH, Jesuit High

Django Unchained has been hailed as Quentin Tarantino’s followup to Inglourious Basterds, another epic installment in the director’s canon, and a potential Oscar ...

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January 16 Album review: Twenty One Pilots, 'Vessel'

By MAX ASAYESH-BROWN, St. Petersburg High

All it took was seeing Twenty One Pilots’ breakout performance at 97X Next Big Thing to know that they had a big year ahead ...

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January 16 Album review: The Lumineers, 'The Lumineers'

By HANNAH ELLIOT, Robinson High

This album definitely doesn’t classify as “new” in the literal sense, because it was released in April, but lately the Lumineers are a new ...

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January 16 Review: Gangster Squad

By SEAN DALY, Times Staff Writer

Gangster Squad is a big lug of a movie, a hard-boiled actioner as guiltily pleasurable for its macho strengths as its cops-and-robbers cliches. It ...

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January 16 Megastars top 2013 concert lineup

By SEAN DALY   |   Times Pop Music Critic

The 2013 concert schedule is already silly with megastars — Taylor, Rihanna, Pink, — and there are still swaths of calendar yet to be filled ...

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January 16 Cheat sheet: Media opportunities, inauguration, Fey and Poehler

Review: Winter Jam

When the 19,000 or so seats inside the Tampa Bay Times Forum filled up Saturday night at Winter Jam, the artists went outside after their time ...

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January 10 Review: 'Les Misérables' is a rich union of song and film

By Ellen Pham, Chamberlain High

I used to believe musical and film didn’t belong in the same sentence. But then I watched Les Misérables.

Based on Victor Hugo ...

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January 10 Album review: Les Miserables: Highlights from the Motion Picture Soundtrack

By HANNAH ELLIOTT, Robinson High

Grade: ***, 3/5 asterisks

Every year there is the crop of winter-break movies that draw huge crowds, and people who almost never go to movies ...

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January 10 Hold your nose, film fans

BY KATE FUEYO    |   Tampa Preparatory

The Hobbit has found the ring and the French Revolution is over. New year, new movies, which is not always a good thing. With studios ...

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January 10 Winter Jam 2013: An evening of fun, faith

BY ANGELINA DEVINCENZO   |  East Lake High

Here’s one easy answer to that nagging “what are we going to do this weekend” question. Winter Jam 2013 at the Tampa Bay ...

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January 10 From the garage: A Friendly Reminder

BY LILLIAN SKYE NOBLE  |   St. Petersburg Collegiate High

This band wants to be on your mind, like, well, a friendly reminder. They say their goal is to inspire listeners with ...

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December 21 Review: 'The Hobbit' a masterfully beautiful journey by Peter Jackson

By Ellen Pham, Chamberlain High

Grade: ****, 4/5 asterisks

Fans stricken over the end of the Lord of the Rings trilogy can take heart. Peter Jackson, the Golden Globe and ...

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December 21 Album review: Green Day, '¡Tre!'

By MAX ASAYESH-BROWN, St. Petersburg High

Grade: ****, 4/5 asterisks

Being a religious Green Day fan as far back as my elementary school years, it’s disheartening enough to hear ...

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December 21 Pop the question: Sadie Hawkins advice

BY DIANNE LEE, Berkeley Prep
Many Tampa Bay area schools hold their Sadie Hawkins dances, where traditionally the girls invite the guys, near Valentine’s Day. But this year Berkeley ...

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