By Amelia Blevins

Every kid has dreamed of dressing up as their favorite super-hero to kick some ass and take some names. But no one was ever dumb enough to try it, because—let’s face it—it just wouldn’t work. Right?
Wrong. Comic-book junkie and all-around high school nerd, Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), has spent one too many evenings [...]

By Colleen Cunha
For a $10 cover charge, a dozen lucky night-crawlers witnessed a marvelous spectacle on April 27.
My Dear Disco, a “dance-think” group out of Ann Arbor, Mich., took the stage. They drew the crowd in quickly and had most of the patrons moving for a sold 90-minute set. The set was extremely well put [...]

By Emily C. Pfeffer
Anticipation has the habit to set you up for failure, particularly when standards are set high. After Oracular Spectacular (2007), fans of the electro-rock band, MGMT, expected big things from their new album, Congratulations.
Their last album featured band members Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser, who together created hypnotic synthpop melodies with [...]

By Bryan Cipolla
Caution Children—a refreshing burst of hot air that has been relentlessly blowing through Ithaca’s harsh winters over the past three years—has grown from a loosely formed open mic act to a solidified mainstay within the local music scene. Led by founder Steve Burton, the group is composed of five other members, all of [...]

By Bryan Cipolla
For the past three years, Ithaca’s own Caution Children have proven to be a refreshing edition to the local music scene. A six-piece band including a saxophone and keyboardist, the band delivers fun, sincere rock ‘n roll to the masses. On the verge of the release of their debut album, I sat down [...]

Sometimes they like it. Sometimes they don’t.
By Samantha Schles
For years, characters using medication on TV shows was like a hot stove. The networks would touch it, but jump back in time to not scar characters. It hasn’t been until the past 15 years that channels began to air programs with characters actually self-medicating. Of [...]

Choosing to eat organic instead
By Carly Sitzer
Much like going green, eating organic seems like one of those trends that recently emerged to become popular and mainstream in society. However, organic food is more than just a fad or a recent addition to our diets: Organic food, as we know it today, first rose to popularity [...]

Life Unexpected creator, Liz Tigelaar, comes back to IC
By Jocelyn Codner
In an industry where men outnumber women at least 2:1, Ithaca College alumna Liz Tigelaar has certainly accomplished much to inspire young women in the field of television writing.
But Tigelaar’s life has taken many lucky and unexpected turns (life… unexpected, I think I’m clever). [...]

How antidepressant ads manipulate
By Catherine Fisher
With our country in an economic crisis along with the sporadic increase of natural disasters, it isn’t surprising that depression rates among the American population have risen. Luckily for us, antidepressants are only a doctors note away. But are we really that lucky?
Antidepressant ads give the impression that happiness is [...]

 
 
By Emily Miles
This month, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum continued its yearlong 50th anniversary celebration with a rather unusual exhibit. On Thursday, March 4, Animal Collective collaborated with artist Danny Perez on a unique performance piece specifically designed for the museum.
Transverse Temporal Gyrus featured original recorded music composed for the event. Costumes, props, lighting, visual [...]