Channeling the bygone days of abrasive music and heat prostration—days which are dusted over with glinted glory in our culture’s eyes—Leesville sophomore Trevor Simpson came up with the idea for Paulfest with his band, Animal Empathy. Paulfest will function as a music festival on a smaller, garage or back-yard scale. “We were just goofing around [...]

As the 2009-2010 school year comes to a close—and high school comes to an end for senior students—many students spend these few remaining days as a period of reflection, to look back with nostalgia on fun times and to consider the future’s possibility. And in keeping with this reflective sentiment, the school band hosts an [...]

The Banana Republic Summer Charity Fashion Show is an annual event that benefits the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The event was held at the Renaissance Hotel at North Hills on Sunday, May 16. Kendra Leonard, manager at Banana Republic and local philanthropist, hosted the fashion show this year as part of her 2010 campaign for [...]

 Ever since Kirstie Alley gained lots of weight after quitting smoking and cleansing her palate of cocaine, we have seen, in gossip magazines and on TV, Alley’s struggle to slim down to her formerly slender figure of yore. But Alley’s endless progression of diets has served to little avail. So while waiting on a miracle, [...]

When they formed the Blue Man Group and started performing in small venues around Manhattan in 1987, Phil Stanton, Chris Wink, and Matt Goldman sought meaningful connection during a decade of decadence and decline through their act, which was, at the time, in its very early stage. What served as a primary motivator for the [...]

Election officials have confirmed that California’s Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010 will appear on the November mid-term election ballot. If approved, the act will allow individuals over 21 to legally purchase, possess, transport, and cultivate marijuana. It is estimated that taxing cannabis will provide the state with billions of dollars to fund [...]

As someone who is forever reaching for his cell phone—someone who is, in fact, so attached to the device that he might as well have it surgically adhered to his forearm for added convenience—I have often questioned the formalities of sending and receiving text messages. Is texting so vital to communication that the activity warrants [...]

Need some advice? In need an unsolicited opinion? Look to the internet, the television, any magazine of your choosing. It seems as though everybody has his opinions in regards to any given topic—and he is eager and willing to share them with you. With the advent of the internet, we have, in recent years, witnessed [...]

While the vast majority of Generation Y spends its time anesthetized under an unyielding blanket of high-technology, a smaller portion of precocious teenagers are already establishing their own tiny businesses. The prevalence of these teenage entrepreneurs has increased in recent years, lowering the standard age at which it is possible for one to be his [...]

According to an apocryphal story, Ponce de Leon trekked to Florida from Spain in the early 1500s with intentions of discovering the Fountain of Youth, a legendary spring that is said to mystically restore the youth of anyone who drinks from it. Leon was ultimately unsuccessful, but the trend toward youth restoration never lost its [...]

Christopher Owens, the crooning, brooding, and delightfully disheveled and drug-addled frontman of Girls—a band whose four members are all men, naturally and ironically (naturally ironic?)—is possibly the most fantastically tragic yet unbelievably lucky person to have risen to  the fringes of musical almost-fame in the last few years—save, of course, for Amy Winehouse, whose erratic [...]

Before making a televised public apology for all of his indiscriminate extramarital debauchery on February 19, and following months of public perturbation, Tiger Woods was discharged from inpatient services at the Pine Grove treatment center in Hattiesburg, Mississippi where he had been treated for an alleged sex addiction. The word “addiction” seems to be tossed [...]

In the movie The Polar Express—in which Tom Hanks lends his voice to every major role—a group of children become friends while touring the North Pole on Christmas Eve while all the other kids sleep restlessly in their beds and dream of sugar-plum fairies. They discover that Santa does exist and even get to meet [...]

At a November book signing at Borders bookstore in Columbus, Ohio for Sarah Palin’s first memoir, Going Rogue, liberal media bloggers Chase Whitestead and Erick Stroll interviewed eager Palin supporters to find out what it is about the governor-turned-author—whose book was ghostwritten, despite a degree in journalism—that people find so mesmerizing. Many of Palin’s fans [...]

Before I begin I must first make it known that I have always been a fan of Family Guy—I don’t believe my sense of camp or situational humor would have developed in quite the same way without it. What many people always thought was stupid—was slovenly, was uncouth, was a really pathetic and tasteless excuse [...]