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BY JORDAN MICHAEL		    
HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS
If Only You Were Lonely
If only more Emo could rock like this. Borrowing a page from Incubus’ song book sans brilliant lyrics provides a stable base of un-radio friendly art metal. Though successfully avoiding the pop filler most of their peers adopt for TRL, the Hawthorne boys are catching up to providing memorable hooks and some heavy riffs worth rocking out to.
   
BALLY SAGOO
Gunjan
Producer/DJ Bally Sagoo turns to the vocal prowess of Gunjan to lead this eclectic electronica mix. Fusing styles of trance and hip-hop with a melodic voice and Asian percussion leads to a Sade-worthy contender for best date CD. I can’t say you’ll be in the mood for this album that often…but when you are, it’s absolutely perfect.


THE DEVIL’S TEETH:
A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America’s Great White Sharks
By Susan Casey
(Henry Holt and Company, LLC, $25.00, ISBN: 0-8050-7581-X)

Former editor for Sports Illustrated Women, author Susan Casey’s passion for Great White sharks led to a slight deviation from the norm as she set off to write a book about her experiences on the Farallones. Known as the Devil’s Teeth, the Farallone Islands form a jagged, haunting archipelago 30 miles off the coast of San Francisco. It’s here that enormous populations of elephant seals draw Great Whites every fall to feed before they head out into the Pacific. Though packed tight with history and scientific factoids, there’s nothing monotonous about Casey’s narrative. She provides an outsiders view to a somet imes terrifying situation, and engages you with humor and wit. The Devil’s Teeth offers a spectacular true diary of life in a region almost impossible to reach, and the scientists that make their home there to study a mysterious apex predator in a f r ighteningly inhospitable environment.

Ziba Beauty opened it’s doors twenty years ago…so we’ll take a look at two of the best must-see films from 1986.
 
STAND BY ME (Rated R / 89 min.)
STARRING Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O’Connell, Kiefer Sutherland; DIRECTED BY Rob Reiner / Based on The Body, a novella by Stephen King, Stand By Me reigns supreme in a market saturated with ‘coming of age’ films. Following four twelve-year-old boys in 1959, director Rob Reiner gives us a glimpse into our own memories of adolescence. There’s a heartbreaking reality presented to us by an amazing ensemble cast including the late, great River Phoenix. A proven classic, Stand By Me is a poetic reminder of the complexities we all faced back in simpler times.
   
LABYRINTH (Rated PG / 101 min.)
STARRING David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, Toby Froud, Shelley Thompson, Christopher Malcolm (II); DIRECTED BY Jim Henson / From the brilliant minds of Jim Henson and George Lucas comes Labyrinth, a dark fairy tale reminiscent of the Grimm brothers. The story follows a young girl (Jennifer Connelly) as she tries to rescue her baby brother from the Goblin King (David Bowie). Labyrinth’s appeal is in the stunning visuals and unforgettable characters created by Henson’s genius puppeteers. Remember puppets? They were those cool characters we used to have before computer generated muppets ruined Star Wars.

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