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': Best of Ann Arbor Table of Contents Chris Farah's Weekend, etc. Column .................................................3 Best of Restaurants..................................4-6 Best of Entertainment.................................7 Best of Dating.............................................8 Best of Business.....................................9-11 State of the Arts.......................................12 Best of the University............................13-15 Photostory: Best of Daily Photo.....16-17 Best of the Rest........................................18 Best of Film..........................................20-21 Best of Theater.....................................22-23 Best of Books.......................................24-25 Best of Music.......................................26-27 Best of TV/New Media...........28-29 Best of Daily Arts.................................30-31 Tastes of Ann Arbor Dining Guide Best of Daily Arts - Continued * CRISP Lady: Please enter a four- digit personal security number of your choice. Joshua Pederson: Hold on, CRISP Lady. I totally trust you. There's no need for personal security numbers between friends. Especially friends as close as we are. Wow, CRISP Lady, you sound really sexy today. Remember, we're talking about this girl I like. CL: For registration transactions, press one now. JP: Registration transactions? What's that supposed to mean? Is that some kind of joke? I don't think you understand, CRISP Lady ... CL: For fall term, press one now. JP: Fall term! Fall term? I mean, two years together and all you can talk about is fall term? Live in the now, CRISP Lady! We're talking about us here! I don't think I even know you any more ... CL: To add a class, press one. To drop a class, press two. To swap class- es ... JP: Stop it, CRISP Lady! Don't you realize what you're doing to me? After all we've shared, all we've been through! ..."To swap classes." Oh, I think I understand now. There's someone else, isn't there. And all these years I thought I was the only one. I was just your little toy, wasn't I? It was all just a game to you ... CL: I have not received your response. JP: Response, shmesponse! What about my feelings? ... I'll press nine! Don't think I won't do it! I'll press nine and exit the system, you little ... CL: I have not received your response. JP: You're making me do this, CRISP Lady! When you're whining in your little room thinking to yourself, "He was so good to me. He pressed my buttons just right," don't you come crying back to me. One of these days, I'm gone. I mean, I won't always be here for you ... - From "CRISP personality proves stable in a student's time of woe," by Joshua Pederson, April 9, 1998. * So in the spirit of nostalgia for the show that has created more "isms" than anything ... Remember the one with the Soup Nazi? If someone did not order soup in the way he liked, he yelled "No soup for you," and threw the person out. Remember the contest between Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer over who could go without (ahem) pleasuring themselves the longest? Remember when Jerry dated a masseuse but got upset because she wouldn't give him a massage? He compared it to going to Idaho and not having a potato. Remember the show about "shrink- age?" George and Jerry asked Elaine if she knew about the effect of cold water on men's bodies. "It shrinks?" she asked, and Jerry replied, "Like a frightened turtle." The list could go on for pages. But there's time for everything to end. To the cast and crew of "Seinfeld": thanks for nothing! And for showing us how funny it could be. - From "Bidding farewell to a 'Sein' of the times," by Michael Galloway, Jan. 14, 1998. * One doesn't necessarily have to sell his soul to the dark prince in order to listen to Mephiskapheles' music. "All of the Satan stuff is to draw you in and get you curious. We used to do some weird Satan stuff on stage, now you just come to the show and get this musical experience. It's up to you to decide what it means to you," said trombone player Greg Robinson. "We don't kill small ani- mals and stuff like that. It's more like a concept." This idea of devilish undertones has existed since the band's inception in 1990. "The whole thing started off as a Satan band, but not a death metal band. 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