BY DEBBY CHANG Watching the Oscars is like riding a roller coaster with celebrities. The excitement, anticipation, fear and laughter all happens during a three-hour award show. All the ups and downs can happen in the second before a winner is announced. From the red carpet to the actual show, we sit at the edge [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Album Review: M. Ward Stirs Americana
When I turned 15, my mom gave me a record player. To a surprisingly large number of people (parents, grandparents, a Boy Scout leader and my ex-girlfriend’s uncle) this news apparently also implied an automatic invitation to dump on me the equivalent of a musical garage sale. I ended up with four dusty crates of [...]
Coldplaygiarism: Satriani Sues Coldplay Over ‘Viva la Vida’ Riff
BY LANDON JAMES Coldplay is facing pending lawsuit and hearing could potentially cripple sales of their most recent album “Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends.” Virtuoso guitarist Joe Satriani filed suit on Dec. 4, 2008, suing Coldplay for stealing “substantial original portions” from “If I Could Fly” and used those portions in [...]
Midwests Invades DC
BY NICK NELSON With crisp winter air blowing outside and Pabst Blue-Ribbon flowing freely at the bar, Minneapolis-based rappers P.O.S., Sims and Hand Over Fist felt right at home performing for a packed room eager to throw up the “wings and teeth” hand signals trademarked by the rappers they came to see. Last Friday, Minneapolis [...]
Top 5 Ghost Stories in Fredericksburg
BY JOHN SHERIDAN I love ghosts. I don’t necessarily believe that ghosts as we think of them exist, but I really wish they did. I find hauntings, especially the really terrifying ones, to be absolutely awesome in a morbidly satisfying way. So when I found the paranormal section in Simpson Library, I had to check [...]
Sexclamations: Sex in Public OK if the Coast is Clear
BY KJ ADLER What do Ball Circle, the Monroe and Jepson computer labs, the library tree houses, various locations in Trinkle, the old radio station, the elevators of Jefferson, Seacobeck, the gym lower basketball court, the Amphitheatre, the Kline theatre, DuPont hall, Chandler psych room, the roof of Combs, and the seminar rooms of Combs [...]
Susannigans: Boy Bands Must Not Say Bye-Bye-Bye Yet
BY SUSANNAH CLARK A robbery took place in Great Hall on Saturday night. At PRISM’s annual Drag Show, Diktation, a group of five girls in spot-on Boy Band drag, were robbed of the first place prize. With bandanas, faux dreadlocks, Sharpied facial hair and taped down breasts, Dikation brought the cross-dressed crowd back to the [...]
In Tough Economic Times, the FRED Gives Students Options
BY TRICIA CALLAHAN During August’s orientation, freshman and transfer students alike were inquiring about the FRED bus station. The upperclassmen answering our orientation questions collectively described the system as unreliable and only used by unusual people. So when I found out that I was going to have to take the bus to get to Caroline [...]
Recent Incidents Beg the Question of the Legality of Marijuana
BY BREEANNA SVEUM Marijuana has made its way into headlines more than once in recent weeks: New Jersey’s legislature has introduced a bill potentially legalizing medicinal marijuana (becoming the 14th state with a medical marijuana law), a member of the California Assembly proposed legislation making the purchase of marijuana legal (with a hefty fine) for [...]
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