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“My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” is Kanye at his best ““ conceited, imaginative, weird, self-indulgent and infectious.

It’s like the electronic, auto-tuned failure of “808s & Heartbreak” never happened. West is back in full force, producing what is likely to be his most impactful album yet.

To start off, the sampling is superb. “Hell of a Life” samples Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man,” “Devil in a New Dress” samples Smokey Robinson’s “Will You Still Love me Tomorrow.” There are few artists who take as many risks as Yeezy, and with this record it more than paid off.

The album features everyone from Rihanna and Rick Ross (“All of the Lights”) to John Legend (“Blame Game”). Kid Cudi, Raekwon, Pusha T and Bon Iver all make an appearance. Yeezy clearly took the time to think this one through and find the best in the music world to complete his fantasy.

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Thanksgiving is this Thursday, so many of us will need to take the weekend to recover, either from waistline explosion or familial overload. Presumably with that in mind, the New Beverly Cinema is offering three showings of “Some Like It Hot,” once on Friday, Nov. 26 (at 9:30 p.m.), and twice on Saturday (at 5:10 and 9:30 p.m.).

Because of the shortened school week, and thus smaller variety of food trucks on campus, I unfortunately do not have any new food truck reviews. When contemplating what to write about, someone jokingly suggested re-reviewing another truck. While this was definitely not an option, it did get me thinking about the dilemma of whether to revisit familiar trucks or try new ones.

photo courtesy of Warner Brothers Pictures

It’s finally happened. After nine years and six movies, the penultimate Potter movie delivers a grown-up cast, a dark wizarding world and the most captivating storytelling thus far. The beginning of the end has come and “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1″ has made me believe in magic once again.

The film opens sans the customary trumpeting of the Harry Potter theme, but rather with silence and a tarnished Warner Brothers logo. Harry stands by while his aunt and uncle load everything they own and abandon their home at Number 4 Privet Drive. Hermione wipes all knowledge of her existence from her parents’ minds and her image disappears from the frames throughout her muggle, or non-magic, home. Four deaths in the first half hour, and at least one shrill scream on my part, drive home the point that Harry Potter isn’t all charms and transfiguration anymore.

After hearing the latest news from Lawrence, Kan., you can be sure that Ben Howland and the UCLA men’s basketball team breathed a huge sigh of relief.

SEATTLE “”mdash; UCLA learned its lesson the hard way: Never go against a group of Huskies in a dogfight.

Things are extremely even here in Seattle, where each team has one touchdown for a halftime score of 7-7. Field goals are being missed, interceptions are being thrown and three-and-outs are common on both sides.