Rating: 7/10 Not many rock 'n' roll icons take time off from their regular schedules to revisit their days of pre-fame. Not many take time off to play with rag-tag musicians in an average band with a following no bigger than a thousand or so people in...

Directed by: Jim Henson and Frank Oz Starring: Muppets voiced by Jim Henson, Kathryn Mullen, Frank Oz This fantasy story from the "Muppet man" himself, Jim Henson, is one of the more serious Muppet movies. Viewers follow the orphan Jen, who goes on a...

Grade: B- The Beer: Originally introduced as a seasonal brew in February 2006, Shock Top joined the year-round Anheuser-Busch specialty blends in November 2007. Shock Top won the 2006 Gold Medal and the 2007 Bronze Medal at the North American Beer Awards...

Jen Hance Staff Writer Look, we need to talk. I have been noticing a few things around "The Office" lately that I am not too pleased about. I just don't think that this relationship is going to work out for us. Look at what relationships like this have...

Some classes test students with excruciating tests, where they crunch numbers and answer endless multiple choice questions by filling out bubbles on a Scantron. For the seniors in the Time Arts program, the testing is a little different. The number crunching...

"Hard Candy" - Madonna Rating: 5/10 "Who is the master, who is the slave?" is one of the lyrics in the final track of the new Madonna album, and it leaves listeners with a question that resonates throughout the entire album: Who is really running the...

‘Stand By Your Man' - The Blues Brothers Many vocalists have sung ‘Stand By Your Man,' from Tammy Wynette to Carrie Underwood, often with considerably more "oomph" than Jake and Elwood did. But the Bros connect with this country standard in...

Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Director: Irvin Kershner Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and the voice of James Earl Jones Synopsis: George Lucas' second installment of the Star Wars saga brings harsh and surprising...

"Third" - Portishead Rating: 9 / 10 After 11 years, Portishead, the best band to have never written a James Bond theme song, returns with its third album, appropriately titled "Third." You'd think with the simple title and artwork that the band is trying...

I have my summer vacation already planned. Yep, call me a nerd. Perhaps "overzealous" or "excited" are better words, but either way, summer vacation calls for a plan. The perfect summer adventure is a delicate situation. As portrayed in horror movies...

Once upon a time, I rolled my eyes at the very thought of anime. While slaving away at the Suncoast video store that I worked at years ago in Yorktown Mall, I'd fantasize about anime films and shows not existing, ensuring my release from the ill-fated...

Rating: 8 / 10 When one first encounters The Patience, the all-female rock trio from DeKalb, there could be some low expectations. The three have rambunctious, sugar-high kind of personalities that, by all logic, should produce music of the same caliber....