Todd Vanderwerff
Things Blow Up: It Must Be Summer!
What flicks will rock you this summer? Here’s an educated guess. 1.) Spider-man 2 (June 30): Everybody loves the Spider-man. First of all, he does whatever a spider can. Second of all, he makes the only comic book flicks that double as date movies. Finally, the guy’s trailer makes this look like some sort of epic.
How to… Play Chopsticks
Nothing to do this summer? Why don’t you start a band? Don’t know how to play an instrument? No problem. After this handy-dandy lesson, you’ll be the best pianist ever! 1. Take a look at a piano keyboard. You’ll notice that it’s made up of a constantly repeating group of keys.
And now, in Review…
13 Going on 30 … is notable for exactly one reason: Jennifer Garner takes flight as a star in this movie. She’s not quite to the heights of Roberts or Witherspoon, but she’s a reliable back-up player nonetheless. Those who enjoy Garner on TV’s Alias won’t be surprised by her acting ability, but they might be surprised by her goofiness.
U.S. intelligence whistle blower, Pledge critic deserve to be heard
I don’t know if Richard Clarke or any of the other recent intelligence community whistle blowers know what they’re talking about or if they just want to draw attention to themselves. Since Clarke has a book to sell touting the inefficiencies of the federal governement’s counter-terrorism efforts, one would assume that he would be an all-out PR machine right about now, aggressively pushing his point of view, the facts be damned.
Brookings welcomes home members of 727th
Smiling faces beamed from the backs of pickup trucks, broadcasting the joy of soldiers thrilled to be back home after 15 months spent in a foreign land. The 727th Transportation Company (Palletized Load System) returned to the communities it is based out of Friday with a parade and ceremony in Brookings befitting those who had given of their time and interrupted their lives to serve their country.
Ladykillers, Not the Coen’s Best
The Ladykillers is a curious little trifle from America’s favorite weird stylists of the cinema, the Coen brothers. That the film works at all is a tribute to the Coens (and their wildly wonderful cast). That the film doesn’t quite work completely is also a tribute to the Coens.
SDSU sees very few drug problems
After a large meth bust in Mitchell and warnings that drugs are entering our rural state, some students might wonder if SDSU and Brookings are at any risk for drug infiltration. However, while the danger is real, most students and some officials say things in Brookings are fairly quiet in the area of drugs.
March Media Madness
Dawn of the Dead Adam Simon’s documentary The American Nightmare suggests that in the Vietnam and Watergate era, cheaply made independent horror films that broke the rules of the cinema (as it were) expressed a country’s anguish. Perhaps it is fitting then, that in a time which seems like a remake of those times (political division and paranoia), we get remakes of the horror classics.
Crowning Glory
That SDSU can host a preliminary pageant for the Miss America scholarship pageant at all should be a testament to the people who make the show tick. In a time when the ratings for the televised Miss America pageant continue to crumble and the Miss USD pageant had to be cancelled due to a lack of contestants, SDSU continues to put on a show that features some of the campus’s finest young women showing off their talent and poise.
Reflection over the passion for “The Passion”
I had expected to receive some letters after I reviewed “The Passion of the Christ” and was less than enthusiastic about it. Newspapers around the nation that ran negative reviews found themselves bombarded by letter after letter from those who liked the film, saying the reviewer either didn’t “get” the film (if the letter was nice) or the reviewer was not a good enough Christian (if a Christian at all) who would be going to Hell.
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