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Hot Town! Summer in the city
This summer I, like many of my peers, interned in New York. I learned many things, but most importantly I learned what others neglected to mention: ALERT!
From the editor
The first time I heard of Gabe Oppenheim's story on Stephen Glass - this week's cover story - was in a writing course we took together.
A Taste of Everything
Just over a year ago, Kevin Lyman, the creator of the successful summer festival Warped Tour, dreamed up something new: the Taste of Chaos tour-- a smaller tour based more upon metal than its summer counterpart.
Ego of the week
Senior English Major Moira Moody is taking the road less traveled and is foregoing Cancun to lead a community service spring break trip to Arizona.
Poking: Not just a facebook phenomenon
Aside from a few loose puns here and there, there is nothing funny about anal sex. Actually, those puns might not be loose.
Word on the street: Izah raps with Rza
Wu-Tang is an environment. It is a conceptual space, a raw, unmediated surge of many sentiments. Hundreds of people, maybe more, driven to the edge of adrenal elation, reigned in by the weight of beats that coalesce into music, smoke and one single swell of W's.
Everyone Likes Ike
While making his first feature documentary, The Trials of Henry Kissinger, Eugene Jarecki stumbled upon footage of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address the night before he left the Oval Office. The speech is a warning to the American public of the growing power of the military-industrial complex, a system that Eisenhower feared would cause the country to enter wars for the wrong reasons.
Schneider's Chili Rainbow
Rob Schneider takes a lot of crap. He's the butt of endless jokes, and has been since his career on Saturday Night Live. His acting career, in such films as Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo and The Animal, has drawn some of the harshest criticism from critics.
Cannonized
Most people know Nick Cannon as the "guy from Drumline." Though the 24-year-old looks like he's still in high school -- which is fitting because of his portrayal of a cop who goes undercover at a prep school in his new movie, Underclassman -- Cannon is now leaving his mark all over the entertainment industry.
Laguna Beach, Again?
This morning I watched, with the aid of TiVo, the season premiere of Laguna Beach. For those of you who don't know, and are obviously missing out, Laguna Beach is MTV's reality show version of Fox's popular show The O.C. Like its fictional model, Laguna chronicles the lives of incredibly beautiful and lavishly rich high school students in "the real" Orange County, California.
The Rest of The Year in Music
Just as with movies, the end of any given year generally sees the most anticipated releases in music, and for the rest of 2005 a plethora of fervently awaited albums will be released on a fairly consistent schedule.
What's a Job?
Things were never supposed to be this way. Or maybe, rather, I never expected them to be this way. See, in the second grade, when most kids were dreaming about becoming astronauts, or firemen, or doctors, I was dreaming of becoming nothing.
I want to go to 'The Island'
Michael Bay's The Island can be summed up in three phrases: escaping from authorities, things blowing up and attractive people in tight white suits.
The Half-Blood Prince Is...
The Harry Potter phenomenon is against the writing of this review. Ardent fans of J.K. Rowling's enterprise cannot bear to hear a word of what goes on in the novel without having read it themselves.
Whoop That Trick!
Terrence Howard has big, baby-blue eyes. The kind of eyes that make female interviewers fumble around aimlessly for interesting and provocative questions only to receive Howard's curious glances.
Heated to 150 Degrees
This summer I've been working at a certain ubiquitous coffee chain. I never thought it would come to this, but because the universe turned a blind eye to my ideal summer plans, I have found myself dropped in the world of lattes and crumb cake.
Wonka: A Character Study
While riding a glass elevator through a flurry of fireworks, a cocky Mike Teavee asks Willy Wonka, "Why is everything in this factory pointless?" A pointed question, one Gene Wilder fans might be itching to ask after sitting through Tim Burton's adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Why revisit what is considered by many the perfect family film?
