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‘Smokin’ Aces’ violent, witty

In “Smokin’ Aces,” Las Vegas magician and lounge act Buddy “Aces” Israel (Jeremy Piven) has evolved from a wannabe into a serious gangster who has split the Las Vegas mob in two. When he decides to bring down the entire Cosa Nostra, gangster chief and rival Primo Sparazza (Joseph Ruskin) puts a million-dollar bounty on his head.

Art show remembers Cortona

Over the summer, 12 undergraduate landscape architecture students set off to spend the summer in Cortona, Italy. Now that they’re back in Athens, they’ve decided to put on an exhibition of what they did abroad. Corona Studies Abroad David Spooner, an associate professor at the College of Environment and Design, who accompanied the students to [...]

X-Men: The Last Stand

In “X-Men: The Last Stand,” the US pharmaceutical company Worthington Industries creates a vaccine that suppresses the X-factor that gives mutants their unusual powers. The X-Men, a group of mutants led by the telepathic Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart), do not mind. After all, it’s just a choice that some, including Rogue (Anna Paquin), whose uncontrollable [...]

Eat bread, watch puppets

Many University students went to puppet shows when they were little but eventually grew out of them. However, one theatrical troupe has concluded that puppet shows can be interesting to college students if they includes political commentary and lots of spectacle, not to mention free, fresh-baked bread. That troupe is the Bread and Puppet Theatre. [...]

Yes, you ‘can’ have a free party

Attending a formal dance can be expensive, but on Thursday night, all students can afford to attend the Tate Society’s semi-formal – the cost is only five cans of food. The Canned Food Cocktail, which will be held on Herty Field, is the brainchild of Lindsay Lamphere, a sophomore from Marietta. Lamphere said she came [...]

Guitarist ‘exploits’ his friends

The Melting Point music venue is making improvements to more live up to its name iwth a different variety of customers. The patio has been upgraded to add more room with new stepping stones and surround sound speakers. To commemorate, there will be a series of jazz and bluegrass concerts on the patio Thursday nights [...]

Map questers

On a Tuesday afternoon, students are packed into a room, their eyes on an academic director for the University who is discussing photogrammetry and remote sensing. It sounds like a class, but it isn’t. It’s a meeting of the University’s Geography Club, better known as the GeogDawgs. The club began in February 2005 under the [...]

Movies model success of ‘Saw’

A man is impaled on a meat hook. An evil genius gives a man the choice between self-mutilation or having his face crushed by a death mask. A maniac crucifies a backpacker to a wall. A tractor-trailer truck crushes a fleeing victim. Torturers repeatedly apply a power drill to a bound man. Scenes from one [...]

Graduates start podcast company

With Classic City venues holding live music concerts nearly every night, it’s impossible for music fans to see every band that comes to town. Thanks to two recent University graduates, students no longer have to choose between attending their favorite band’s concert and studying for the next morning’s exam. Brinkley Warren and Mike Ewing’s new [...]

Exhibit links homeless, art

Most people do not associate the terms “homeless” and “art.” The Athens Institute for Contemporary Art , or ATHICA, is changing that. The exhibit “Neither Here Nor There: Perspectives on Homelessness,” which opened Jan. 21, seeks to dispel the image of homeless people as “down and out” middle-aged men and reveal other sides of homelessness, [...]

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