Oprah, Sir Paul to receive honor at Kennedy Center
• Date: Sep 9th, 2010 • By: Stephanie Turner • 69 views • Comment This holiday season, a grand gift waits for a few select individuals.
Tune in to CBS on December 28th to watch as five tremendously successful individuals are honored as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts throws their 33rd Kennedy Center Honors gala.
The honorees are talk show host extraordinaire Oprah Winfrey, country star Merle [...]
2010: Year of Music Videos, Comebacks
• Date: Sep 9th, 2010 • By: Desiree Thompson • 31 views • Comment When you listen to music on the iPod or radio, your ears are pleased with the sounds of your favorite artists; specifically artists you haven’t heard in years.
2010 has proved to be the year of The Comeback. But what actually defines a comeback? Is it when an artist has a powerful single? (We saw this [...]
Faux trailer comes to life as comic thriller ‘Machete’
• Date: Sep 9th, 2010 • By: Sam Raffield • 85 views • Comment How does he do it? How does Robert Rodriguez present an audience with such absurd stories and cartoonish situations and make such fantastic films? I have no clue, but he continues his unblemished record with the release of “Machete.”
Based on the popular fake trailer from the Rodriguez/Tarantino collaborative gore fest “Grindhouse,” “Machete” is the story [...]
Stallone, pals bring macho back to screen
• Date: Sep 2nd, 2010 • By: James Silvernale • 237 views • Comment In an age where men wear pink and apply lotion to their skin, there is still one walking, breathing, line-slurring collection of macho muscle out there among the Hollywood Elite.
That man is Sylvester Stallone.
‘The Expendables’ is a movie that he has yearned to do for a long time and finally has delivered it to the [...]
Recasting the castaways
• Date: Sep 2nd, 2010 • By: Mikayla Beyer • 75 views • Comment Soon there will be a feature film remake of the classic television series “Gilligan’s Island”, with the approval of original series creator Sherwood Schwartz.
Schwartz has already said that he would prefer Michael Cera to play Gilligan and Beyoncé Knowles to play movie star Ginger.
Who do you think would best fill the sand-filled shoes of the [...]
‘Takers’: All-star and all-action
• Date: Sep 2nd, 2010 • By: Samuel Logan • 161 views • 1 Comment Gun fire, armored trucks and an all star cast. If you love these things, then “Takers” is the movie for you.
Directed by John Luessenhop, “Takers” is fast-paced and action-packed. However, for all its action and jumping in the plot, the story flows cohesively through the whole film.
“Takers” is about a group of career criminals who [...]
Dance the night away
• Date: Sep 2nd, 2010 • By: Noah Adler • 39 views • CommentThe VSU Ballroom dance club is ready to welcome new members to the dance floor this semester. Students will learn how to ballroom dance both recreationally and competitively.
The idea for the club started in Professor Eric Nielsen’s dance class last semester, when three of his students wanted to create an environment for students to learn [...]
Christian singer slated to perform free concert
• Date: Sep 1st, 2010 • By: Lauren Oliva • 47 views • Comment Rising Christian singer/songwriter, Dave Barnes, is scheduled to play a free concert for all ages on campus in the Student Union Ballroom at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 7.
According to a recent press release issued by Razor & Tie, Barnes’s record label and media publicist, the artist is currently touring for his new [...]
Let geekdom ring
• Date: Aug 26th, 2010 • By: Sam Raffield • 0 views • CommentATTENTION ALL FELLOW GEEKS AND NERDS, THE DAY OF OUR PUBLIC GEEKDOM HAS ARRIVED AT LAST!
The brainchild of Sarah Morean and Brian Heater, Read Comics in Public Day, will be a day of release for many comic lovers worldwide.
Although many people deny needing a special day to allow their comics to see the light of [...]
Cyclemeisters attack
• Date: Aug 26th, 2010 • By: Sam Raffield • 3 views • CommentWARNING: The following is a work of sarcasm. Any resemblance to any persons living, dead, undead, or Super Saiyan is purely coincidental, so seriously, get off your ass and go and support these people!
Beware the Cyclemeisters, dear readers!
This Friday, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., at the Bleu Pub Parking Lot on 116 N Lee [...]
See what Downtown has to offer
• Date: Aug 26th, 2010 • By: Jessica Henschen • 12 views • Comment Valdosta State University faculty members are not the only ones thrilled to see the new and returning college students for the fall 2010 semester.
Downtown Valdosta’s young professionals and business owners are overjoyed, as well. Downtown welcomes you into their hometown and wants you to value it as much as they do. In fact, these business [...]
