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Arts & Entertainment

Stoner flick is a hilarious hit
Although director Danny Leiner missed the target with Dude, Where's My Car?, his second attempt at comedy on the big screen, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, more than makes up for it.
 

'Monster' reveals pain behind 'Anger'
The movie is not the band, and their music is not the movie. Like a mantra, the words slowly spill themselves onto the page in a struggle to identify, categorize, and quantify Some Kind of Monster. With each rendition, the words get darker, forcing permanence, but then ebb lighter between the resurgence of the edict.
 

Meal bars offer tasty dietary fill
Last week, ABC's 20/20 aired an episode on supplemental drinks and nutrition bars that portrayed them unfavorably, without giving kudos to the exceptional ones. Nutritional supplement bars and drinks cover a wide variety of nutrition and flavor choices, a lot of which, unfortunately, taste horrible. But there's hope, I promise. 
 

Laziness will kill local music scene
While writing a story on a local musician, I interviewed others from Houston about how this individuals' leaving reflected the Houston music scene. The following is hands-down the best explanation I have ever heard for the poor state of our local scene from a person who has been around long enough to offer a justified opinion -- Jay Brooks from one of Houston's oldest bands, Middlefinger.