Australia If the outback is this boring, I don’t want to vacation there anymore Romantic films are pornography for women; they bring an unreal fantasy that reality just doesn’t offer. And for that reason, men will hate Australia while the women who dragged them to it will love it.
Cha-cha is a phone service that will answer any question for you at any time of day. Kind of makes you wonder why you’re spending all that cash on tuition, doesn’t it? The UVU Review will ask Cha-cha important questions every week, starting with what is possibly the most important question of all: What came first, the chicken or the egg? “It’s generally accepted that the egg came first (at breakfast), followed by the chicken (around lunchtime).
Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God has been said to deserve a place in the American literary canon alongside the best of Faulkner, Fitzgerald and Hemingway. It is the tale of Janie Crawford, a beautiful, independent black woman living in Florida a few short generations after the abolition of slavery.
If socially active UVU students are any representation of general opinion, brunettes are officially more attractive than blondes. At the dating auction held at Centre Stage on Nov. 5, four boys and four girls were auctioned off. Dates with brunette women sold for an average of three times more than blondes.
Just like most people my age, I watched lots of James Bond flicks with my parents. While I always considered them fun movies, I never thought anything more of them – that was, until the franchise was rebooted in 2006 with Casino Royale. Seeing the beginnings of Bond and following him through his first double-o-seven mission brought a new Bond for a new generation.
The lights are dim, vibrant colors all around, while drumbeats fill the air. The hum of chatter and laughter can be heard throughout the room. “Things like this, having powwows, helps people to go back to their roots, to want to discover where they came from,” Billie Atsitty, vice president of the Native Sun Club, said.
Travis Barker, the former drummer for Blink-182, is recovering nicely after sustaining third degree burns to his body when his private jet crashed immediately after take-off on Sept. 18. DJ AM, Travis’ bandmate, is the only other survivor of the crash, which claimed the lives of the two pilots?as well as?two of Barker’s friends, Chris Baker and Charles Still.
The survival/horror genre of gaming has certainly seen better days. Of course, for the sake of clarity, when I say “better” I mean “more nightmarishly horrific.” The golden days revolve around the first few Resident Evil’s, Silent Hill’s and Fatal Flames before the respective series petered off into light gun centric shooters and lackluster, dumbed down sequels that cater to the crowd a little too thick to enjoy 7even or Silence of the Lambs, you know, those people that keep buying tickets to the latest version of Saw.
Despite the fact that a Shakespearean plot can be hard enough to understand even with a script, Ballet West began their 2008-09 season with Michael Smuin’s “The Tempest” on Nov. 7 at the Capitol Theatre. Student rush tickets are available to UVU students one hour prior to curtain.
Fox Television has announced that King of the Hill, now in its thirteenth season, will air its final episodes next year. The network says that the two-time Emmy award-winning program’s demise has been a long time coming. “It’s probably time (for Fox to make a decision),” Gary Newman, co-chairman of 20th Century Fox TV, said in an interview with TVWEEK earlier this month.