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The Lying Game

Shhh! Don't tell, but for weeks now "The Lying Game" has been climbing the charts of the hit channel ABC Family. After taking the time slot of the show "The Secret Life of an American Teenager," it gained a lot more followers. The new time slot allows for them to play the previous episode before so ...

America Next Top Model: All-Star

In this episode of "Americas Next Top Model," the girls do a photo shoot for Pinks, a famous hot dog stand in L.A. that has been around since the 1930s... In addition to the photo shoot, the girls also receive a makeover. Bre's huge mane is cut off  and she wants to go home after the fact.. She ...

Lion King in 3-D review: Lion King Enthralls Another Generation of Movie Goers

As the next wave of seventeen and eighteen-year-olds say goodbye to life at home and say hello to a little thing called college, there's one thing that's different from years prior. The Lion King has been re-released into theaters, and it makes one wonder if it has really been seventeen years since ...

'Dolphin Tale': An Inspiring True Story

The notion that "behind every setback in life lies a potential rainbow" is laid on a bit thick in "Dolphin Tale," an appealing family film that doesn't know when to quit inspiring. In telling the true story of a dolphin whose damaged tail is eventually replaced by a prosthetic one, the actual dolphin ...

My Day at The National Book Festival

On a highly overcast Saturday morning, I got in my car, drove up to the Springfield-Franconia Metro Station and rode the Metro up to Washington D.C. for what many of my peers regard as an excessively nerdy thing to do early on a Saturday morning; I was headed to Washington D.C. for the National Book ...

New Television Season and the Reappearance of Charlie Sheen

Another September is upon us, and with that comes the beginning of the fall television season. After a summer of cable reality shows like "Jersey Shore," the major networks will debut their season premieres over the next two months. There haven't been too many new shows that have really caught my interest ...

PSA to the USA

Senseless violence, tyranny and envy. We are simply fulfilling our own self-satisfaction. Positive actions we all should take for the sake of our forsaken nation. To be ever so blatant, we are in a state of urgency. We all certainly are not so blind to the obvious. We live in a bottomless pit of self-righteous ...

'Moneyball': Conventionality in Unconventionality

Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, and Philip Seymour Hoffman team up in "Moneyball," a true story about how statistics can tie into a game of skill and heart, directed by Bennett Miller ("The Cruise," "Capote").  Despite the mountains of baseball and underdog films, "Moneyball" manages to stand above ...

Oktoberfest Preview: A Great Line-Up for A Great Tradition

The first month of school is over and done with and Oktoberfest is just around the corner! Not only will there be food, games and booths all around, there will also be a great musical line-up. Lancer Productions and Mortar Board collaborated to decide on the line-up. At 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 1, ...

New Television Season and the Reappearance of Charlie Sheen

Another September is upon us, and with that comes the beginning of the fall television season. After a summer of cable reality shows like "Jersey Shore," the major networks will debut their season premieres over the next two months. There haven't been too many new shows that have really caught my interest ...

Folk Art Society of America Tour at LCVA

Opening the exhibit Three Ring Circus in the Longwood Center for Visual Arts (LCVA) and inviting the Folk Art Society of America for Saturday, Sept. 17 sounds like a big deal and it fills the room with expectations. Filling the beloved LCVA with color of a different and perhaps less organized kind than ...

New Television Season and the Reappearance of Charlie Sheen

Another September is upon us, and with that comes the beginning of the fall television season. After a summer of cable reality shows like "Jersey Shore," the major networks will debut their season premieres over the next two months. There haven't been too many new shows that have really caught my interest ...

Column 9/18 The Image Vs. Individuality

Image, these days, is everything. From runway, to billboards, to magazine ads, to beauty commercials—there is this idea of what beauty should be, an ideal image of what a makes a handsome man and a beautiful woman. The Old Spice commercials are the newest idea of what a man should be. It portrays ...

Juno and the Paycock Preview

The Longwood Theatre department plans on opening their 2011-2012 play season with Sean O'Casey's family drama, "Juno and the Paycock." The play will premiere on September 29 and run through October 2, and again on the weekend of October 6 to 9. The play is set in Ireland in the early 1920s and focuses ...

Jihad Takes a Stab at Newest Album: "Knife Man"

Folk-Punk duo Andrew Jackson Jihad's new release, "Knife Man," is their 4th LP which sticks faithfully to what the group is known for, dark lyrics and meta-humor mixed with folk-punk energy.  Andrew Jackson Jihad is an Arizona-based group that was formed after its original drummer, Justin ...

Regret

  Such a pain in my heart, since we've forever been apart So alone in the world, I should have seen it from the start That we were never meant to be, saddening but it's true What am I to do now that you're not with me? My despair turns to envy as I see you with another; Your truly new lover… This ...

Incubus Performs

Friday, September 16th was Rock the Block for most of you Lancers. But for this Lancer, I was rocking out in Charlotte, North Carolina at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater. Incubus managed to stop there on their "If Not Now, When?" tour. I was escorted to my seat by my boyfriend at approximately 7:50 ...

Straw Dogs: Violence Begets Violence

"Straw Dogs" is a remake of the 1971 movie of the same name and is directed, produced and written by Rod Lurie ("Deterrence,""Nothing but the Truth"), and is a relatively faithful adaptation with a scenery change, while keeping all the plot devices intact.  What we get is a competent, visceral ...

America's Next Top Model: All-Stars

On Wednesday, September 14, America's Next Top Model did something that they haven't done yet. They brought back people from previous cycles to make it an All-Star cycle on CW.  Angele (cycle 14), Laura (cycle 13),Bianca (Cycle 9), Lisa (Cycle 5), Bre (Cycle 5), Brittany (Cycle 4), Dominique (Cycle ...