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Starr shi sound MARCUS AMAKER Features Editor TIDY Kinnie Starr (out of four stars) When an artist sites Black Sabb De La Soul, Stevie Wonder, Elvis Costello and PJ Harvey P"j as influences, it's no surprise mk the music is nearly impossible | to put into one category. This is the case with Tidy, I the excellent debut CD from I Canada's outspoken female I singer-songwriter Kinnie Starr. I Kinnie Starr's music is, in I equal parts, complicated, I melodic, brilliant and crazy. I One minute she sounds like 4 I Track Demo -era PJ Harvey I ("Ophelia," "Stiff Sour Lemon I Rind") or an aggressive punk 1 rocker ("Woven"). On other I songs she toys with fuzzy hip- I hop ("Spring Again") or funk | ("Rime Gone Rong"). And just when it seems | she's done it all, she throws in spoken word poetry and a bilingual song about appreciating life ("Praise!"). And surprisingly, it works brilliar It would be easy to dismiss Kir ? l 4.U otaix aa auutiicx piayci in me changing angst-ridden world of fen rockers if you don't pay attenti THISYEARAL SENIORS WILL INK |1| ||V. ^ ; ^i: up to a $65,000 limit. The offer applies to P and certain other federall} in default And debt relief is just you'll earn from the Army. 803-71 ARMY RE AL www.g ines on deb Beneath the surface, she's as passiona about visual art, knowledge and trul as she is about her music. Proof of this lies in the linear nob ? on the back of the CD warning again tampons, the self-made shirts promotii ath, masturbation, the messages of TV i WL I Wis - NTa nnie Starr itly. "crack for the masses" and the varioi mie drawings in the CD jacket, rer- Proof also lies in the lyrics whic lale speak of love and inner-peace. Ft l on* n n n i on. example, in rame uone nong snesm^ ,OT OF COLLEGE BE GRADUATING >DEBT. TTnHprtVip Armu'c ? 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I African tribal I music, and a lot I of the other songs are interrupted by W< strange phone FI messages from is people saying things like "butter yellow...it's my favorite color." h Although the album is uneven at >r times, Tidy is a solid release from a ?s strikingly original artist. I_ II The Nation's ^course I B JUST GOT EVE Classes begin Ji Columbia for the Au For more informatio call 1-800-KAF BBH( "MCXTkirag Quilts show j QUILTS continued from page 3 Mazloomi's work has a wide range 3he says that her aim is to allow ot Her "Walking on the Wild Side" sho\ patterns and textures, but a wildnes! runs through her work. Marline OUryant Seabrook's T xjgether a quilt storybook. Quilts fix significant moments in African-Ame juilt to Philip Simmons, an African \nd her Torgy and Bess Revisited 1 Among the contemporary pieces ?llection of quilts, photographs and century. A red and blue quilt, Couri in with the spirit of the show. An olc for example. Close by, a photograpl using the sewing machine in 1937. The effect is an authentic conned )f different voices and styles and tech mlture runs throughout the show. The exhibit runs from May 4 th VIcKissick Museum. P TfOBIt $ VSW REDBACK __Jg? i I HSHj jne 19 in igust MCAT!! n or to enroll > TEST ;l J? 800-KAP-TEST www.kaplan.com istered trademark o( the Association of American Medical Colleges oiece of past i of emotion, color and subject matter, hers to feel "the spirit of the cloth." vs her work is steeped in traditional 3 dying to break free of tradition also he Gallery" uses small scenes to put jm her Gullah Series piece together irican history and culture. A tribute American blacksmith, is a must see. looks like an enormous movie poster. , the museum has added its private I paintings from the early part of the house Steps made in 1945, blends 1 sewing machine is now on exhibit, i shows a woman and her children don to the past. 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