September 8, 2008

If you want some delicious pizza reminiscent of Italy, you don’t need to travel across the Atlantic. In fact, you need only take a drive down University Parkway in Provo.

In celebration of its 75th anniversary and recent remodel, the Scera Center for the Arts held a ribbon cutting on Sept. 4. The event included a dance performance and short speeches by Xango higher-ups, long-time fans of the Scera, and Orem City mayor pro tem Carl Hernandez.

Seven years ago, a fledgling of a television show crash-landed onto our television sets. This TV newcomer set out to tell how one of the world’s greatest heroes came to be, intriguing Superman fans everywhere. The early years As the young show began to mature in the first seasons, so did its protagonist, Clark Kent.

Ask any gamer worth his salt to name 15 games he’s excited for in the next 3 months and without a doubt Capcom’s hotly anticipated Mega Man 9 will be somewhere on that list. Having been featured in over 100 different games spanning every conceivable genre, the titular Mega Man is one of the most widely recognized and versatile mascots of gaming — second, perhaps, only to Mario.

By now, you have probably heard of Watchmen. You might even know that there is a movie adaptation coming out next year, and if you’re lucky, you saw the trailer for it in front of The Dark Knight. What you might not know is that most critics consider Watchmen one of, if not the, most important superhero graphic novels ever written.

Growing up, I listened to my father play Bob Dylan on his guitar; it became my lullaby, the soundtrack of my time with my ultimate hero: dad. The opportunity to see the legend himself fell into my lap, and I felt obliged to take it.

The makers of the new indie flick Take, starring Minnie Driver (Grosse Pointe Blank, Good Will Hunting) and Jeremy Renner (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, 28 Weeks Later), will be speaking in the new library from 3-5 PM this Wednesday on how to write, cast, shoot, finance and distribute a film. They will not only be talking about the technical aspect, but the creative as well.