Winter break and the evacuation of my friends from the Ithaca area have left me with virtually nothing to do. This has resulted in my going to the movies almost every day after work. I thought it may be nice to start posting quick little reviews of what I’ve seen–not because I’m self-important and feel [...]

Timbaland just released his Shock Value II, featuring return guest artists Justin Timberlake, Nelly Furtado, OneRepublic and Keri Hilson, and new guests that include Miley Cirus, Daughtry and Chad Kroeger. Shock Value was an incredible album, showcasing Timaland’s talent as a producer. He seems to magically know who to enlist for his all-star team and [...]

Black Friday, 2008, started the holiday season off with more casualties than cheer. A stampede at a Long Island Walmart killed an employee, and two men shot each other to death in a Toys R Us after a dispute. With long waits, hostile attitudes, and meager discounts, one can’t help but wonder if this traditional [...]

As a young teen, there was nothing more important to me than my unnecessarily large CD collection. It wasn’t uncommon for me to purchase up to eight CDs a week. Many times they were artists I’d never heard of before.
When iTunes came out, I loved studiously converting each CD into digital mp3 format for my [...]

Hollywood has risen the bar in the last 30 to 40 years, creating value in high budgets, big names, and even bigger special effects. But every once in a while, an indie film will remind those of us in the film program here at IC that we have a chance at greatness!
In the past decade, [...]

Chipping Away at the Family Therapy Stigma
By Jocelyn Codner
 
Jesse Grossman, a 17-year-old Ithaca High School student, has been to personal therapy, family therapy and even spent a little over a week institutionalized in a mental hospital. And yet, he has no qualms with talking about his or his family’s experiences.
“I’m pretty open about everything,” says [...]

The state of the female rapper
By Jocelyn Codner
It’s hard to deny that the rap industry is a “men only” club: made, managed, and dominated by men. Female rappers… wait. What happened to them? Exactly. They used to exist, and they even held their own with the boys back in the days of MC Lyte and [...]

By Jocelyn Codner
There is one album that I can trace throughout my entire life. I danced to it when I was seven, made music videos for the songs when I was 13 and fell asleep to it at 17. My mom can likewise trace the same album throughout her life, as can my best [...]