By Amelia Blevins
Opening with the lyrics “it’s been a good year, a good new beginning” on the first track “Worker Bee,” indie pop-punk band Motion City Soundtrack’s 4th studio album, My Dinosaur Life, harkens back to its rougher earnest roots of debut album I Am the Movie, with lead singer Justin Pierre’s melodic vocals taking [...]

by Malti Jones

Ithaca College Didn’t Adequately Consider Off-Campus Students During Snowtorious B.I.G.
It was what I had been waiting for: an Intercom Alert e-mail with the subject line “Notice to Campus Community Concerning Severe Weather.” It had been snowing hard for over 24 hours and I just knew that classes would be forced to cancel. But I guess [...]

 
By Marc Phillips
Loretta Jackson is not like most NJ Turnpike tollbooth operators. This 52-year-old woman’s genuine, perky attitude is contagious. Visit lane No. 3 at the Raritan Toll Plaza, and you will be greeted with her pearly whites. Many passers-by feel the immediate burst of happiness. But what is Jackson’s secret?
“I could be unemployed!” Jackson [...]

NASA Officials Bummed, Say It Would Have Been “Sick Nasty To See Shit on Mars” in Person
By Liz Kloczkowski
NASA officials announced yesterday the cancellation of their plans to send a shuttle to Mars following the U.S. government’s refusal to offer funding for the project. The government simply said NASA isn’t quite ready to make the leap.
NASA [...]

By Lauren Mateer
There’s a reason Stephen King is known as the “King of Horror,” and it isn’t because his surname makes the moniker a half-decent pun. Nor is it because of his supernatural-themed novels. Sure, the vampires in Salem’s Lot are scary, but far more disturbing is the realistically deranged antagonist of Misery, Annie Wilkes.
King [...]

Why the illusion of safety may be more important

By Sam McCann
The Department of Homeland Security’s latest creation sounds like it was ripped straight from an Orwellian novel: After a failed plane bombing Christmas Day, the government debuted a device that virtually strip-searches citizens when they arrive at the airport. Civil liberty advocates are up in arms about the invasion of privacy. Critics claim the scanners don’t even do their job properly. But here’s the secret no one’s talking about: None of it matters. In the world of aviation security, perception trumps all. As long as we feel safer, it doesn’t matter if the scanners actually slow down terrorists at all.

By Samantha Schles
Martin Scorsese is becoming a genre director, and Shutter Island is no exception. The movie, based on Dennis Lehane’s novel, operates as a tribute to Hitchock’s film noir of the 1950s and early 1960s.
Set in 1954, U.S. Marshals Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) are dispatched to Shutter Island’s Ashecliffe [...]

By Mariana Garces
In 2012, some people believe the world will come to an end as the Mayans predicted ages ago in their elaborate calendars. In the time we have left, we need to reflect and see where we went wrong as a civilization: Namely, why aren’t we flying around in jetpacks?
Trends like hybrid cars and [...]

By Chris Giblin

The Tompkins County chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, which has recently decided to go green and support government lobbyist groups in favor of combating global warming, pooled their funds to buy a brand-new Smartcar Thursday.
Boasting 55 miles per gallon, the tiny, two-person vehicle is a sleek black color and sports several white [...]