Arts & Entertainment
Dowry Diary
Teen Behenein (Three Sisters), a low-budget Indian film, is a fascinating glimpse into a modern society plagued by anachronistic customs.
Science Experiments
In my ninth grade English class, we spent an entire week examining what ingredients made text "rich." Dense pages, meticulous diction, vivid description, a healthy sprinkling of rhetorical devices and unapologetically engaging arguments were the watchwords of the day.
Scotland's For Me
Glasgow's post-rock powerhouse Mogwai loves you and is going to blow up your school. They had nothing to prove with this release - 2006's Mr. Beast showed that they were pretty great, even when on autopilot.
Duking It Out
It's a timeless story. Boy meets girl. Boy marries girl to produce a male heir. When things don't work out in the Y-chromosome department, boy plays hide-the-mutton with various scullery maids.
Eagle Eye Is Watching
Leave it up to producer Steven Spielberg and director D.J. Caruso to concoct a science fiction tale set in the gray hallways of the National Security Agency (NSA). First, this isn't a date movie; it would be more appropriate for fans of shoot-em-ups and Discovery Military.
The Defibrillator
Prince and the Revolution Purple Rain 1984 Even accounting for that awkward period in which he was only "The Artist Formerly Known As," Prince has the most incredible staying power of any artist of his generation.
Roadtrippin'
The Lucky Ones is only the latest example of Hollywood's love affair with the road trip genre. Here are our picks for the top ten. 1.
Hi, My Name Is Victor and I'm a Sexaholic
As Spike Joneze's 2002 film Adaptation. taught us, adaptation is not an easy task. Unless, of course, you're adapting a book about assholes with incurable sex addictions - then the raw material is a dream come true for Hollywood screenwriters.
Give Me LIBERTY Or Give Me Death (CAB)
The 2008 version of MTV's 2004 "Vote or Die" campaign - the "Ultimate College Bowl" - was unveiled to the masses for the first time on TRL.
Storming the Desert
Consider the assaultive title just the tip of the big screwed-up iceberg that is Towelhead, Alan Ball's disturbing portrait of a 13-year-old Lebanese-American girl's coming-of-age in a Texas suburb during the Gulf War.
I Want Jew To Rock
The "smallest letter in the Hebrew alphabet" is coming to one of the biggest venues on Penn's campus.
Dejá Vu Dejá Vu
Just in case someone forgot that he's a bad motherfucka, Samuel L. Jackson's New Years' resolution in 1998 was to "continue to kick ass." In the decade since, he's appeared in the quintessential badass role in basically every movie he could fit into: a fast-action FBI agent in Snakes on a Plane, a no-bullshit man of God in Black Snake Moan.
The Defibrillator
Neil Young On The Beach 1974 After the critical and commercial successes of After The Gold Rush and Harvest, Young released a tense series of albums now referred to as the "Ditch Trilogy." On The Beach was the first of these albums and Rolling Stone branded it "despairing." The album was rawer than anything Young had released in the '70s.
Guilty Pleasures
Sugar & Spice 2001 I have a confession. I often find myself sucked into ABC Family's weekend movie marathons while channel surfing, and this weekend was no different.
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Ghost Town follows Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais), the quintessential snide, cynical jerk who, after a glitch during a routine colonoscopy, dies for seven minutes.
We're Not in Tuscany Anymore
Weepy, timeless love stories are what Nicholas Sparks does best, and the screen adaptation of his novel Nights in Rodanthe lives up to the writer's literary stylings.
Goodbye Kitty
The other day, I was sitting in my freshman seminar on the origins of music. I listened in awe as my professor explained the incredible complexity of the human brain's ability to process sound, the sensitivity of the tiny hairs within our ears and the countless combinations of neuron connections that take place and cause us to perceive waves of compressed air as sound.
Dim Lighting
Amidst the sometimes sweeping ambitions of the indie-dance scene, Fujiya & Miyagi seem content sticking with what they do best: creating extremely cool, understated electro-pop unabashedly influenced by a wide range of styles, from the Krautrock of Neu!
Oh, the places you'll go
First Unitarian Church 2125 Chestnut St., All ages In between songs this summer, a sweaty and shirtless Justin Vernon (of Bon Iver) kept asking the crowd if they were okay.
