Late-night releases allow fans first crack at favorite music
When the clock strikes midnight and it's officially Tuesday morning, do you know where you favorite new releases are?
They are probably already at the music store waiting for you to get your hands on before anyone else does.
40 ways to lose your balance: 40 oz. beers more prevalent on campus than 4.0s
There are entire subcultures in America today earmarked by the type of liquor they consume. Like rarefied drinkers of malted scotch, the people who drink beer in 40 oz. bottles have a method and charisma all their own.
Championed by rap artists who celebrated their friends' untimely passing with hoisted bottles and moistened eyes, the 40 is now as much a part of the suburban and collegiate experience as Britney Spears albums and football games.
Controversies over the Rock puts city, 'U' in a hard place
On the corner of Hill Street and Washtenaw Avenue sits the Rock, one of Ann Arbor's most famous and most frequently used landmarks. Everyday, it is covered and re-covered with a fresh coat of paint, displaying Greek letters, graffiti, social commentary and other various messages.
Stanley Kubrick goes down final path of glory
One of the more vivid memories I have from my early childhood is sitting on the couch with my father one Saturday afternoon watching a movie on television. He had called me in, sat me down and informed me that I wasn't getting up for the next two hours.
Independent video stores give big chains a run for their money
It's late on a Sunday night, and you've got a major paper due in your eight a.m. lecture the next day. You're seated at your desk, books and papers scattered before you, a pen resting thoughtfully between your lips. The document on your computer is bare - save for your name, date, course name, section number and whatever else you could think of to take up as much space as possible.
Renovations prepare A
2's grand old theater for the next century
The Michigan Theater, which was founded in Ann Arbor only a little more than a generation after the University, has joined the long list of Ann Arbor theaters playing the renovation game.
Although the expansions don't include stadium seating or cup-holders, as seen in other area construction projects, the Michigan Theater has shelled out a total of $4.4 million during a three-phase series of renovations.
Graceland tacky, but not as decadent as you've heard
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The included-in-the-entry-fee audio-tour starts visitors to Graceland off with an introduction seemingly more appropriate for the life of John F. Kennedy than the story of a hick from nowhere and how he struck it rich.
Circular Reasoning
closure," she said, eliciting in me a wave of anxiety that grew steadily stronger in the following silence, building up by slow tides of dread to terrible crest; what if she was right? There's really no way to prove or disprove that kind of accusation; once made, the statement lingers and ferments in the mind, a sort of mental halitosis that continually offends the psyche, invading and disrupting thought processes, paralyzing the individual.
The Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4: lots of T&A - turbos and acceleration
It's good to know there are cars like the Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4 still around. Like the Lotus Esprit V8, these unrefined beasts are as close as the modern sports-coupe driver can get to recreating the feeling that man first got when he jumped on a horse, grabbed its mane, and wet his pants because of the fast and immediate speeds.
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hing as "grody," a word that should be in integral part of every good bad girl's vocabulary.
'Yentl' showcases solid talent in music, filmmaking
Barbra Streisand's first directorial effort came in the form of "Yentl," an endearing film about a 19th Century girl who decides to cross dress her way to scholastic success. Based upon Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story, "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy," Streisand's version goes beyond the two-dimensional aesthetics that keep Singer's story from breathing, and creates a brilliant film adaptation of an already moving story.
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