Traditional news outlets lose to the web


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While relaxing in my dorm Sunday, my roommates and I were surprised when the building suddenly began to sway back and forth. One of my roommates turned on the T.V. to get news on the earthquake, but it was at least 10 minutes before even local news networks had any coverage of it. Two of […]

Learning a lot from cooking T.V. shows


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No matter what your mom might say, television can be educational. Anyone who grew up on a rigid diet of Rugrats, Doug and Scooby Doo has all the tools for social interactions, school life and dodging vigilante laws. In at least one respect, things haven’t changed much since ’90s-era Nickelodeon programming. If everything in your […]

Runaways exposes inequality in rock


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In last week’s The New York Times review of Dum Dum Girls’ I Will Be, which debuted March 31, the critic could not get through even the first clause of his opening sentence without labeling the shoegaze-y pop-rock outfit an “all-female” band. Yes, the group’s name does invoke a specific gender and, yes, frontwoman Dee […]

Museum’s after-hours event a hit with Brits


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If you’ve ever seen Night at the Museum, then you might have an idea of what goes on the last Friday of every month at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London during their “Friday Late” event. Wild-eyed and overcome with excitement, participants in the adults-only event scramble from one exhibit to another like children […]

Baumbach brings out the worst in his actors


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Why don’t you sit on my d-ck,” is all Roger Greenberg has to say to his best friend Ivan after several waiters surround their table and present Greenberg with a piece of cake and sing happy birthday to him in writer-director Noah Baumbach’s most recent film, Greenberg. The character Greenberg (Ben Stiller) is just the […]

Online postings can botch potential jobs


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Everyone has heard the warning: Don’t put images or statements online that you wouldn’t want potential employers to see. Now more than ever, companies are checking the public online profiles of prospective new hires. So if you upload that incriminating photo from your friend’s 21st birthday party or Tweet a nasty comment about a former […]

Science behind organic is underripe


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You’ve probably seen them at Ralphs: those cool cats who slink up to the register and don’t bat an eye when their bill costs three times as much as it should. And when they slide past, they give you a superior smirk — you and your bag of conventional oranges. Like Scottish accents, everything’s sexier […]

Tourists helped by Ireland’s friendliest


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How do you spot a tourist in a city full of strangers? Look for the person with furrowed eyebrows stopped in the middle of the street, pouring over a tattered city map with all the major landmarks drawn as cartoon icons. In most places around the world, these confused visitors would be looked upon with […]

French film shows how far we have to go


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“The idea is to learn something in here for when you get out,” Reyeb tells Malik, the main character in A Prophet — a film about a young thug who learns how to develop his own criminal network while incarcerated in a maximum security prison. Not only was the French film nominated for best foreign […]

Can government stop Internet freedom?


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While earthquakes, health care reform and Tiger Woods have dominated mainstream news in the last months, there’s another story that has been steadily making waves in the international and online world — Google vs. China. In January, Google claimed to be the victim of a hacking attack that originated from computers in China. In response, […]