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How Progressive insurance lost what made it progressive
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Joe Cimperman hopes to tear down his former hero, Dennis Kucinich
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Everybody Hates Mike
The peril of coaching an icon.
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At Indie-Rock Singles Night in Cleveland, an event for hipsters lacks one key ingredient: Hipsters (22)
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Copley-Fairlawn finds a way to keep the impostors out.
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Dennis Kucinich’s brave talk about working and fighting — from the safety of the officer’s tent (10)
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Beat Down (4)
Cleveland teachers swap stories of school violence.
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Years after he gave up on rock music, Bob Mould plugs back in
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Beer, BBQ, industry schmoozing: Rounding up SXSW 2008’s local delegates
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Crazy Talk
Miranda Lambert is a lot like any other girl with a soft spot for guns and setting exes on fire.
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Boozing through St. Patrick’s Day with Bono, Van, and the Pogues
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Summery pop bands brave Cleveland’s harsh weather and reputation
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SXSW: Attacking, releasing with the Black Keys
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If nü metal kicked the bucket, word never reached Akron's Prism Theory. The quartet matches its chunky riffs with enough clean vocals and gorilla grunts to make a serious run at active rock radio. The band has shared stages with WMMS faves Three Days Grace and prog titans Planet X, and on its second disc, Unity for Insanity, Prism Theory mixes the styles of those headliners. While competent in crafting lowest-common-denominator hard rock, the band lacks the technique and creativity to fully realize its progressive ambitions.
Its attempts at technical bliss backfire, hamstrung by the fact that almost all the 15 tracks languish at mid-tempo. "Storm Shower" is composed of Meshuggah-type jazz, sans the velocity. Occasionally, singer Chris Imlay will interpolate a serviceable chorus before excessive wankery negates any momentum (see "Secret Identity"). For a band with schizoid vocals and keyboards, and a dearth of effects pedals, Prism Theory sounds surprisingly tame. The only color passing through this prism is gray.
