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Article: Blade Runner
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- The Stranger
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- May 15, 2008
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Blade Runner
El-P and the Afterfuture of Hiphop
El-P w/ Dizzee Rascal
Mon May 19, Neumo's, 8 pm, $17 adv, all ages.
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