By Mike Pingree
(KRT)

TWO POINT SEVEN! WE HAVE A WINNER!

Breathalyzers, which have been installed in bars to help patrons determine whether they are OK to drive, are being misused by young men staging drinking contests. They use the devices to keep score.

AASU promotes unity for all

By Ann Pahlic
Contributing Writer

“Unity is our strength.” That is the motto of the African American Student Union, one that seems to encompass everything AASU is about.

“AASU is an agency of Student Government that’s purpose is to teach people about the history and culture of African Americans,” said Rachael Tutwiler, the co-director of AASU. “It’s not just for African Americans, but for everybody.”

Cambria’s ‘Good Apollo’ no gift to the gods

By Matt Coleman
Contributing Writer

Considering that prog rock is a derivative of the word progressive, one would assume that a band which performs that style of music would pride itself on providing fresh material for every subsequent release.

However, while delving into new territory on occasion, the vast majority of time spent on Coheed and Cambria’s newest release, Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness is spent re-hashing sound-alike b-sides from their last album’s sessions.

Small-town life fails to excite

"Cameron Crowe’s ‘Elizabethtown’ aims for viewers’ hearts but movie misses the mark"

By Chris Hewitt
(KRT)

A partial list of the klutzy things in Elizabethtown: Susan Sarandon’s role, Orlando Bloom’s charm-free performance, most of Kirsten Dunst’s dialogue, the absence of African-Americans in a Kentucky town where the population is 10 percent black and the movie’s multiple endings.

I want to be specific here because Elizabethtown is clearly intended as a serious work of art, and it is seriously disappointing. Cameron Crowe, who wrote and directed it, is a talented man out of touch with his gifts.

He wrote a script that goes on and on without saying anything and nudged his actors into performances that have no connection with the way people behave.

Meanwhile, in another part of town...

By Donald Postway
Managing Editor

Dave and Buster’s is an adults-only entertainment establishment, and what an establishment it is. Dave and Buster’s provides everything needed to bring out the inner child in the 21-and-older crowd.

It is located at 7025 Salisbury Rd., nestled near the junction of I-95 and Butler Boulevard.

Dave and Buster’s is a restaurant, a bar and an arcade rolled into one. The beauty is that each element of the establishment is extravagant and diverse.