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Twilight how-to’s

1. Take it from a ginger: sunscreen will be second to water in sustaining you this Twilight Criterium weekend. Though forecasts predict partly cloudy weather, the Georgia sun won’t relent. Sunscreen avoidance atop heavy drinking will make for a sore Sunday in more ways than one. 2. Wear weather- and time-appropriate clothing. Save the fancy pants for post-race shindigs [...]

OUR TAKE: Finding the worth

Average isn’t exactly the most settling sentiment. But that, it seems, is what the University will become with upcoming tuition hikes. Even Tom Jackson, vice president of public affairs at the University, said the University would become average in terms of its tuition costs compared to its institutional value, though it used to be one [...]

THE BUCK(MAN) STOPS HERE: Balancing momentum with retrospection

I am not a cog in a retrospective generation. I operate in one fraught with futurism, one mechanically — and, in a literal sense, virtually — interwoven. But for all its knowledge (and the ability to instantly acquire it), my generation holds a disparate void in history — both understanding of and desire to know [...]

OUR TAKE: Governing forward

It’s all done. The T-shirts, stickers, Facebook statuses and — well, that couch — can be packed up after weeks of campaigning for the next Student Government Association executive board. The Ignite party has taken the cake in this year’s contentious — in comparison to last year, at least — election. And we congratulate them. [...]

OUR TAKE: Financial limbo

The sun is setting on a fee whose glaring rise many students know well. Approved in the midst of difficult budget cuts in 2009, the institutional fee was given a sunset provision for June 30, 2012. And though the fee initially merely peeked over tuition’s horizon at $100, it has since grown effervescent, responsible for [...]

Now Showing! — ‘Friends with Kids’

What do a pair of thirty-something, neo-liberal Manhattanites lack most when it seems they have it all? Love, of course. And “Friends with Kids,” the Jennifer Westfeldt (writer, director, star) brainchild, explores a twisted path of finding it — one in which a baby between platonic buds comes first. Vulgar lothario Jason (Adam Scott) and [...]

OUR TAKE: The great debate

This year, the race for the Student Government Association executive branch has gotten heated. And with the help of The Red & Black and Grady NewSource, everything’s about to grow even more intense. On April 9, we will co-host the SGA debate, featuring head-to-head conversational contests between each SGA executive ticket. Ben Williamson, a NewSource [...]

THE BUCK(MAN) STOPS HERE: Losing the game to the employer’s market

Rejection ain’t easy. Especially when it’s redundant, relentless and, more or less, a requirement. But that’s what you get when you commit to the job search. And for me, as well as countless other seniors who face a frighteningly impending graduation date with (at this moment) no stability to follow, that’s a daunting fact. What’s [...]

Now Showing! — “A Separation”

It’s a rare feat for a film to arouse a sinking deadweight of emotions while plummeting the mind into disarray. But Asghar Farhadi’s “A Separation” does just that — both well and with profound understatement. The Iranian production, winner of this year’s Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film (a first-time accomplishment for Iran), is as [...]

OUR TAKE: Southern Hollywood

It’s not often a frenzy envelops downtown Athens on a Monday night in March. But I guess Justin Timberlake will do that to a normally dormant population. On Monday, a shoot of the film “Trouble with the Curve” brought Timberlake and his co-stars Clint Eastwood and Amy Adams back to town. Trailers, cranes, lights and [...]

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