Amusement

Shwayze lacks Cali gold

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT

The newest thing to hit California's gold coast comes from none other than the area's most pretentious area code, 310 - aka Malibu, home to Cali's richest and snobbiest. However, self-proclaimed "rapper, lover, and Renaissance man" Shwayze is no rich beach brat.

Things I wish I'd known as a first-year

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT

7. High school popularity doesn't carry over

6. Western campus is not in Ohio

5. Wal-Mart sells guns

4. Nobody cares about you

3. Where to find my virginity

2. Swoop is a registered sex offender

1. Even RAs

Classic movies from hell

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT

You've browsed through all of the American Film Institute lists, Best Picture winners and Sight & Sound polls, molding your soul and skin to become the quintessential cookie-cutter movie buff. You love Citizen Kane even though you've no idea what it's about; you found a way to justify the blackface in The Jazz Singer; you even use mysterious words like "Antonioni" and "Bergman" in everyday conversation.

I kissed a girl and I liked it: 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona'

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Woody Allen has managed to churn out about a movie a year for what seems like decades, but has not scored a real classic for a long, long time. Vicky Cristina Barcelona doesn't exactly upset this trend, but is intermittently funny and buoyed by some excellent performances.

New restaurants on the horizon

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Move-in weekend is always a time to look forward to during the last dog days of summer - after the actual "moving in part," that is. Forget about schlepping dressers upstairs with no air conditioning. Never mind taking cold showers before the hot water comes on.

Fact or Fiction: the Class of 2012

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT

If you're reading this article in hopes of gleaning some sort of new, groundbreaking insight on college transitions and the class of 2012, you should probably go find something better to do (might I suggest shucking corn or peeling layers of paint off of old shutters?).

Intellect and eeevil lizards

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT

With the nonfiction landscape saturated by rhetoric-laden sermons from politicians or one-sided rants from pundits, it's refreshing to read words by Matt Taibbi, a Rolling Stone journalist even willing to call out himself. In his latest book, The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, & Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire, Taibbi goes undercover to investigate the extreme fringes of the right and left, which include Illuminati-fearing conspiracy theorists and followers of controversial preacher John Hagee.

Dream Jobs: mail sorter

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT

This fourth entry of "Dream Jobs" finds Amusement sitting down with Steven Hoffman, a mail sorter at Miami University's post office.

Amusement: In your mail sorting, have you ever come across any ticking packages or any suspicious packages that make really weird sounds?

Steven: No ticking packages, no buzzing packages -- but some pretty interesting ones.