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Surfing the Nevada Desert with Del Mar

February 11, 2008

By BEATRIZ E. VALENZUELA
Staff Writer
When you think of surf music you don’t immediately think Reno, NV, but Del Mar may make you rethink your position.
Made up of Mike Martinez, Matt Bode, Nicole Hutcheson and original Sublime drummer, Bud Gaugh, Del Mar has been playing local Reno gigs and will be hitting the House of Blues […]

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Are You a Badfish, Too?

By BEATRIZ E. VALENZUELA
Staff Writer
Joel Hanks and his bandmates, Pat Downes and Scott Begin, are not superstitious and that’s a good thing because their first gig went down on April 13, 2001 — Friday the 13th.
That night was the official birth of Badfish — A Tribute to Sublime.
“We had always played around with the idea […]

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A Game of Unfamiliar ‘Calibur’

By JIMMY METCALFE
Special to fresh!nk
The Soulcalibur series is pretty popular. It’s always been known as an arcade-stlye fighting game with a few exceptions and a few additions.
For example, most arcade-style fighting games don’t give you the option of selecting your weapons. Also, the series has been inviting external characters into the Soulcalibur party.
In “Soulcalibur […]

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Fresh!nk interrogates Crackpot Entertainment on their first release, Insecticide!

February 4, 2008

By TRAVIS MURPHY
Gamer Guy
Hello fresh!nk readers, today I went through a tangled web to get an interview with a new developer, Crackpot Entertainment. You may not recognize them by their name, but you might know them from their first release, Insecticide, coming out for the PC and Nintendo DS. I personally found this game […]

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A Night of Music and Awards

February 3, 2008

By KYM SNYDER
Staff Writer
We believe in local music. This seemed to be the words that everyone went by Thursday night at the 4th annual Inland Empire Music Awards In Riverside.
Producer and founder, as well as host for the evening, Martin Brown, put a lot of hard work and energy into this project, the most thus […]

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