Reading Time: 2 minutes n the 1989 action-adventure movie, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Professor Jones tells his archeology students, "We do not follow maps to buried treasure, and ‘X’ never, ever marks the spot." Professor Jones would have been an excellent geocacher.
Reading Time: 2 minutes UVSC student Nate Drew is well on his way to fulfilling his dreams. The 27-year-old music major has been chasing his love of music since the age of two, when he began mimicking his mother on the piano.He has studied at UCLA and the University of Utah, and his impressive credentials landed him a weeklong internship with the great James Newton Howard, a composer who has written scores for dozens of huge blockbuster films including The Fugitive, The Sixth Sense and Blood Diamond.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Several years back, only a small number of self-proclaimed elitists knew writer/director Wes Anderson (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatiic with Steve Zissou). Now that networks have been producing mainstream shows (like Arrested Development) that introduce audiences to the same type of "punchline-less," intelligent humor that Anderson has perfected, his audience […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute 10. Drive-thru windows9. Remote controls8. Global warming7. We Own the Night6. SLCC5. More fast-food joints4. Extreme Home Makeover3. Home Shopping Network2. Britney Spears1. Fat people
Reading Time: 2 minutes With so many cheesy shows making their way to primetime (ie., K-Ville, Cavemen, Bionic Woman), and considering NBC’s Thursday lineup holds the only new shows I watch (My Name Is Earl, The Office), I’m opting for TV on DVD over the most running shows. My nights aren’t being spent watching primetime soap operas like Desperate […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes By now Halo has become a household name. The first game opened our collective minds up to the idea of playing first-person shooters on a console gaming system, and the second game improved greatly upon that concept (even though the story itself was lacking in quality). The third and final installment of the series is […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes If you really want to get into the Halloween spirit, then watching a frightening movie is a must. Every Halloween aficionado will tell you this. There really is nothing better than getting those chills up your spine and having a girl (or guy) you fancy cling to you for dear life as you pretend you’re […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The underground urban hip-hop group Atmosphere stopped in Salt Lake City on October 11 and rocked the nightclub In The Venue. They pleased a receptive crowd until the late hours of the night after a handful of opening acts warmed the up the stage for the Minnesota natives. It’s not very often a hip hop […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Now playing the Student Center’s Ragan Theater is professor John Graham’s simply entertaining rendition of Eugene O’Neill’s classic comedy Ah, Wilderness.Ah, Wilderness is the projection of experiences O’Neill wished would’ve taken place in the earlier years of his life-his first love, family conflicts and experiments with rebellion-through the eyes of the lead character, Richard Miller.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Lately, there has been a noticeable inclination in the minds of fresh young college students when concerning literature: they are sticking to what’s familiar. It seems that most students can fit into one of three categories: there are those who read only religious compositions, those who read so-called "intellectual" or classical literature, and those who […]