An interview with Wells Tower.

Apparently, Wells Tower is famous. Before reading his debut collection of short stories, bearing the weighty title, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, I had never heard his (unique) name. He divides his time between journalism and short stories and has written for The New Yorker, The Washington Post and Harper’s Magazine.

When I first saw the trailer for Alice in Wonderland, I knew that it was going to be a dark, twisted and wonderful ride. Director Tim Burton has once again teamed up with Johnny Depp, who plays the Mad Hatter. I was a bit surprised that Disney was behind it, as this is the studio’s second expedition into Lewis Carroll’s novel, and this is definitely not the 1951 animated adaptation.

It was with much anticipation and excitement that I bought The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown, with the expectation that it would be just as fast-paced and info-packed as its predecessors, Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code. I wasn’t disappointed: the novel starts off with symbologist Robert Langdon being summoned to Washington D.C. [...]

Gregory Maguire has a gift. He has a talent for taking stories as we know them, and twisting them into deep, multi-layered and intellectual novels, sprinkled with his own innovations. He has quite the laundry list of recycled fairy tales, and that list is only getting longer: Cinderella told from a step-sister’s viewpoint-check.

I first heard “Ignorance”, one of the tracks from Paramore’s third album “brand new eyes” on the radio back in July. Cruising on the 210 freeway home from a friend’s house, I didn’t recognize the song as anything distinctly Paramore. There was the head-banging rock-angst emotion that stems from every rock band, surely, but this song seemed to hold more anger and frustration.

Tired of being single? Ever wonder why you can’t seem to find “The One?” Rev. Marcy Ann Cheek aims to help you find your perfect man with her new book, Seventeen Things to Do While Waiting for Mr. Right. The reverend and wedding officiant from Laguna Hills, CA, created her guide after being inspired by Susan and Stephen Schultz, two of her former coworkers, whose relationship, based on mutual respect, continued to survive after more than 30 years.

“Every problem I have comes from believing something to be true that is not true,” Caroline says.
Caroline and her father live on the other side of reality, away from the city, in the wilderness. Once a week or so, they venture to the city for food and supplies, easily blending in with the busy crowds.

By 4 p.m. on a brisk Monday afternoon, Hooker Auditorium was filled with about 60 students, who were eagerly awaiting the start of “Harry Potter and the Hallows of Critical Thinking,” the seventh lecture of the First Year Seminar Lecture Series.