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HOROSCOPES
10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 5
Love is the key ingredient with everything you do now. Manage group stress by making requirements clear and sticking to them.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Today is an 5
GEMINI (May 21-June 21)
Today is a 5
today is a 5 - Career issues respond to home spun technique. Use imagination to convince others that traditional methods will work. Write it down.
If you want others to understand your agenda, you'll have to work at it today. Find at least two ways to explain your position.
CANCER (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 7
CANCER GUNE June 22-July 22
Today is a 7
You want to share a recent success with distant friends or relatives. You may not connect immediately, but keep trying.
Make them smile.
LEO (July 23-Aug.22)
Today is a 7
Your favorite people become distant and vague about their desires. To clarify your role, repeat what you heard and ask if that's what they meant.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is a 7
A co-worker suddenly decides to take off, leaving you holding the bag. Extra effort gets the job done. Take steps later to relieve any stress.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Todav is an 8
Put all your emotions into a group activity. Anything less reflects badly on you. Today let them see you sweat and put everything into it.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 5
Make every effort to handle family problems in private. No one else needs to know the details. Any problems blow over in a day or two.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is an 5
Everyone in the group is focused on the same topic. An outsider would never believe this, listening to the tangents of the discussion.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 6
You didn't realize how simple it could be for others to resolve your worries. All you need is to tell people how you feel. They respond positively.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Today is a 6
You don't have a clue about how a vacation plan will turn out. Someone else made the reservations and kept them secret. Go with the flow.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 7
Be sure to fill in your partner as details develop. There's no reason to keep anyone in the dark. Replace any burned out bulbs, and let light shine.
Conceptis Sudoku
By Dave Green
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8/19
5 8 3 9 4 2 7 6 1
1 7 6 5 8 3 9 4 2
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6 9 1 3 2 8 4 7 5
2 4 7 6 1 5 3 8 9
4 3 9 1 5 6 8 2 7
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Answer to previous puzzle
Difficulty Level ★★★
Level ★★★
LITTLE SCOTTIE
MONKEYZILLA
Todd Michael Pickrell
MONKEZIZILA A. B Y: KEVIN COOKE
Kevin Cook
COOLTHING
Blaise Marcoux
ACROSS
1 Un-opened roses
5 "Oh, woe"
9 Hair goop
12 Persisting
13 Crooked
14 Past
15 Identifier of a sort
17 Swab
18 Spanish wine
19 Actress Wither-spoon
21 "Forget it!"
22 Dr. Salk
24 Martial art
27 Long March leader
28 Hoodlum
31 Loser to Ghana in the 2010 World Cup
32 Mischievous tyke
33 Raw rock
34 Office part-timer
36 "Miserables"
37 Do laps in the pool
38 Icicles' locations
40 Exist
41 Where the action is
43 Celebration
47 Started
48 Fool
51 Stiller or Stein
52 String instrument
53 — out (supplemented)
54 Alias abbr.
55 Tend texts
56 "— hear you correctly?"
Solution time: 25 mins.
DOWN
1 Prohibits
2 Hexagonal state
1 One thin —
4 Buffet table fuel
5 With skill
7 Meadow
7 Picnic intruder
8 Unyielding
9 "Jeopardy!", e.g.
10 Hollywood clashers
11 Bound along
16 Expert
20 Dine
22 New Testament book
23 "My bad"
24 Protrude
25 Work with
26 Barry Humphries portrayal
27 Marathon fraction
29 Spoon-bender Geller
30 Idaho, the — State
35 Zero-star review
39 Trumpet feature
40 Chest protector
41 Actress Jessica
42 Stench
43 Fedora material
44 Munro pseudonym
45 Even
46 "The King —"
47 Help
50 Miss Piggy's pronoun
37 Do laps in the pool
Yesterday's answer 8-19
8-19
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Today's Cryptoquip Clue: O equals L
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MUSIC
Brandon Flowers music gives pop feel to radio
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
LOS ANGELES — Will Brandon Flowers be the last great rock songwriter to make it in pop music?
On its face, that's a silly question — as long as there are disaffected teenagers and cheap guitars, at least a few of them will become stars. But the list of mainstream rock bands that emerged in the 2000s and can fill arenas is witheringly small, and Muse and Kings of Leon seem more interested in prog wonky or over-earnest sex jams than the kind of witty, hook-
nimble arena pop that Flowers and his colleagues in the Killers have honed since 2004's "Hot Fuss" and took to Coachella's headlining slot in 2009.
Flowers is kind of an Omega Man for the idea that guys in bands can still get pop radio play. By and large they can't anymore, and the kind of songwriting mind that tosses off perfect, playful choruses now takes to Dr. Luke's gum-snapping technopop instead.
So it's all the more interesting that the Roxy Music pomp and skewed Bowie balladry of his debut solo album "Flamingo" feels both lost to its time and decademly stuffed with potential hits. At a small warm-up show at the Troubadour in West Hollywood on Tuesday, Flowers made the case
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an appealing kind of alpha-male-wedding-DJ charisma. He introduced songs from "Flamingo" with a wry self-aware fath
"Flowers deploys such weapons-grade catchiness at every turn so that the song stands on its own."
Though he's dabbled in guylin and the winking gilt splendor of his Las Vegas hometown, Flowers by and large played it straight and droll in his first LA. solo outing. Dressed in a shimmery red shirt and black vest, Flowers had
for that very old kind of rock star's place in today's added firmament.
to command the tunes, and though his voice doesn't have the widest range or most lacerating expressiveness, it's the perfect vehicle for his kind of songwriting. He savors the bleak yet sympathetic humor in a line like "I got a job at the Nugget, and saved a grand for a brand new start," but his tenor can easily command a wide-lens. Springsteen
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Flowers has suggested that many of these songs were intended for a future Killers album (the band is on hiatus for
angst tune like "Magdalena."
solo-turn exercise — "I've been told this is one of the standout singles," he said, introducing the post-punk stomper "Jilted Lovers & Broken Hearts," whose quality he had accurately assessed.
So maybe Flowers isn't so much the last surviving rocker on the Top 40 charts, as he is an even rarer kind of writer. To paraphrase maybe his best song, "Somebody Told Me": Somebody told him he was a pop guy who looks like a rock guy.
A song like the synthetically plucky "Was It Something I Said" doesn't have the arrangement meat of the similarly inclined Killers hit "Spaceman," but Flowers deploys such weapons-grade catchiness at every turn so that the song stands on its own. And he knows it too: Introducing that one, he told a story of how the band made him rearrange it to be more upbeat, and now "this is the fun one, I guess."
A small backing band and two harmony singers gave him room
nod to his day job. "Flamingo" feels like a songwriter's record, not a band's. The Killers would make room for a snazzy guitar lick or acrobatic bass run up front, but his solo turn is almost technocratically designed to make Flowers' melodies the main attraction.
a year), and it's easy to imagine the airy, Genesis-worthy synths of "Only The Young" and the doomed gospel of "Playing With Fire" finding room in that catalog. The set was purposefully light on actual Killers songs, with a faithful take on "Losing Touch" being the rare