Community of Harry Potter-themed musicians acts as surrogate family and support structure
By McKenzie Wall
 
Lena Weinstein was nearing desperation. As her last resort, a final plea for sanctuary, she posted a video blog on YouTube, expecting one or two comments of support from her closest friends. Within seconds of her post, hundreds of comments appeared, offering [...]

By Liz Kloczkowsk
The birds were chirping, the sun was shining, and children’s playful laughter could be heard over the breeze. Freshly cut grass wafted over the air. This was the weather that launched a thousand grills.
The Collins family was world famous for their annual family cookout at the end of every summer. According to Bill [...]

New Website Translates Students’ Emails to Parents
By Colleen Cunha
This past Tuesday, a freshman here at Ithaca College, who prefers to remain anonymous, uncovered an alarming website while browsing the Internet. The student was searching for instructions on how to send a letter in the mail, but came upon a page that seemed to have instructions [...]

By Amy Obarski
Carol Blanche, mother of 14 year-old Justin, was shocked upon the discovery of her son’s extensive collection of Playboy, Penthouse and Skanky Stan’s porn paraphernalia.  “I’ve really never seen this much of it, I mean, there were piles of it that just kept coming out of his closet when I went to his [...]

By Jackie Keating
“It was one of those things where you felt like you were watching from the outside, like it wasn’t really happening to you.” These are the words of Stevie Marshall upon discussing his traumatizing experience at the Ithaca Mall last week. Stevie was unfortunate enough to be confronted by every teen’s worst nightmare: [...]

Paper Heart, Anchor Bay Entertainment, 2009
By Celia David
Written by and starring Charlyne Yi, a young Hollywood actress and stand-up comic, Paper Heart is a documentary/mocumentary about that all too elusive word: Love. Yi, who plays a caricature of herself in the film, doesn’t believe in love and is making a documentary about the subject in [...]

The Tundra Toes, In It To Win It, 2009
By Bryan Cipolla
The Tundra Toes have been a staple, better yet, a jagged piece of rusting metal lodged within the local Ithaca music scene for the past year. Upon their recent extraction from the town, due to the inevitable graduation of several of their members, a [...]

Imogen Heap, Ellipse, Anti Records, 2009
By Dana McCall
Imogen Heap’s new album evokes such a variety of emotions in her listeners that pushing the pause button seems impossible. This multitalented musician from London has certainly created a place for herself around the world. From her name to her look to her music, this 31-year-old songstress is [...]

9, Focus Features, 2009
By  Amelia Blevins
Set in an unnamed dystopia, 9 is made up of all the usual suspects found in post-apocalypse thrillers, except for one unique addition: animate rag dolls known as “stitchpunks.” The film opens with the awakening of 9 (Elijah Wood), the last in a series of nine stitchpunks created by a [...]

Moon, Liberty Films UK, 2009
By Bryant Francis
This summer saw plenty of big-budget sci-fi extravaganzas. Lots of giant robots, explosions, more giant robots (it was a pretty big theme). So in all the noise and grinding of metallic limbs, it’s fairly easy to let a small, quiet film like Moon slip under the radar.

Moon, directed by [...]