By Amelia Blevins
Before you say anything, Repo Men is not a knock-off of 2008’s Repo! The Genetic Opera. There’s no singing here and no fodder for Hot Topic’s usual patrons. What it is, is an action satire on the dark, sci-fi and—yes, I’ll admit—overdone topic of organ repossession. Welcome to the world of science fiction—if [...]

By Ally Cunningham
Having just watched the violent exhibition that is Passion of the Christ, I didn’t think things could get any worse. That is, until, I saw Lars von Trier’s Antichrist; the antithesis of all things holy, as the title suggests. If you are a member of Satan’s church, Antichrist is the film for you. [...]

By Jocelyn Codner
Brooklyn-based MiniBoone headed into the studio last year and, in two days, produced an EP of six tracks called Big Changes. For their first studio recording as a group, the guys chose a chunk of their favorite tunes to include. Nothing compares to the random and wild energy MiniBoone brings to the stage [...]

The appeal and personal importance of collecting
By Carly Sitzer
Walking into my room, the first thing most people notice is my dresser. While my mom might notice the drawers that aren’t fully shut, what attracts most people is what’s on top. More than a hundred miniatures of places around the world are presented in my [...]

By Bryan Cipolla
Minneapolis MCs Dessa and P.O.S. have been injecting the music scene with their own brand of innovative hip-hop for the past several years. Dessa’s newly released album A Badly Broken Code, has been eagerly awaited by fans, capturing her dynamic sound as a rapper, singer and poet. P.O.S.’s latest release Never Better [...]

Music streaming’s effect on purchasing
By Jocelyn Codner
As a young teen, there was nothing more important to me than my unnecessarily large CD collection. Even after iTunes came out, I still used a portable CD player for a long time. I strongly protested my dad’s notion of getting me an iPod for Christmas. I didn’t like [...]

Owner’s manuals… the perfect initiative booster
By Catherine Fisher
The owner’s manual, your basic guide to all the functions and troubleshooting that come with the latest gadgets to hit the consumer market. You would think this packet, advertised to aid the everyday customer, would be a walk in the park. Unfortunately, that is not the case, [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]