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...sagging pitifully in a way that strikes too close to home. The crowd at the Avalon came as no surprise, then, and tossle-headed twenty-somethings rubbed sweaty elbows with drunken father figures.The opening act, The Black Angels, took some warming up to. But their peculiar brand of metal-tinged psychedelia, reminiscent of Brit-poppers The Music, got better the longer they played. A different sound than the headliners, to be sure, and, while the crowd responded politely, lead singer Alex Maas’ reminder to “stick around for the Black Keys” was met with...

Author: By Henry M. Cowles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Southern Blues-Rock Duo Pounds the Avalon | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

...pregnant sows more comfortable would have less effect on the price of meat than would reforms of chicken- and beef-raising practices. According to Michael Markarian of the Washington-based Humane Society of the United States, the common farm practice of confining sows in 2-ft. by 7-ft. metal pens where they cannot turn around for most of their four to five year breeding life is "especially egregious." Arizona's major newspapers have endorsed Prop 204. And the message was reinforced in a television commercial featuring Maricopa County Sheriff Joseph Arpaio cooking a pork chop while declaring that, nonetheless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '06: Treating Pigs Better in Arizona | 11/6/2006 | See Source »

...force-molting of hens through two-week starvation-a practice which increases egg production. Meanwhile, more than 100 college cafeterias nationwide, under pressure from students, have switched to so-called "cage-free" eggs from chickens that are allowed to roam in sheds, rather than lay in crowded metal cages. And more consumers across the country are buying meat labeled as coming from humanely raised animals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '06: Treating Pigs Better in Arizona | 11/6/2006 | See Source »

...with a typically cryptic chorus. “The monster’s loose/this game is win or lose/sometimes you gotta do it/and show the world you want it all,” belts out the ’Loaf, backed by the sound of nü-metal heavy guitars...

Author: By Kimberly E. Gittleson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CD of the Week: Meat Loaf | 11/2/2006 | See Source »

...hold on, because once again the trance is shattered by the Deftones trying to cling to their played-out metal roots, screaming incessantly in “Ratsiratsirats!” There is little to say about this song besides their need to either send it to Slipknot or graphically kill it in a trap...

Author: By Andrew Nunnelly, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: CD Review: Deftones | 11/2/2006 | See Source »

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