Weekend Picks


thursday, january 28 Sundance Film Festival USA: Teenage Paparazzo 8 p.m. > Downtown Independent > $15 For those of us suffering from Entourage withdrawals, a theater in Los Angeles (one of the eight showing the film nationwide) can provide relief. Directed by Adrian Grenier, who plays doe-eyed Vince on Entourage, this documentary delves into the […]

How to lifehack your way through college


Most people will tell you that a computer is nothing more than a time waster, and that doing something productive usually requires that you log off. In this case, however, the popular knowledge doesn’t hold. Computers and the Internet are some of the most important tools college students have to make their lives easier, more […]

USC at Sundance


Every year, members of the Trojan Family descend on Park City, Utah for the movie industry’s biggest independent film festival.

The secret world of nut butters: it’s more than peanuts


When exams are bearing down and the munchies kick in at 3 a.m., if it’s between ice cream and peanut butter, I’m going for the peanut butter. Creamy, crunchy and tinged with kindergarten nostalgia, peanut butter is a great food for traveling and snacking. But just as your world was rocked when you discovered cheese […]

All-ages venue thrives in Downtown’s gritty underground


When the news broke in early 2003 that the Birch Hill Night Club, which sat on the border of Marlboro and Old Bridge, N.J., was sold to housing developers looking to construct an active adult community estate, teenagers in both townships, as well as the surrounding areas, swelled with hormone-driven anger. If you were classified […]