Sundancing with Painted Ladies

By Ariane M. Balizet

Romantic comedies rule in the year 2000! If this year’s Sundance film festival is any indication of the months to come, we rabid moviegoers will be awash with quirky couples falling for each other in upbeat music montages and tearfully admitting their true love or irreconcilable differences in the closing scene. Have no fear; not every selection at the festival this year is so cute; the Park City Utah "Hollywood-on-ice" event included its share of controversial farce and misguided contemporary Shakespeare. [con't]

American Cinema, American Sin: Ah, Ma

By Daniel May

1999 was, simply, the weirdest year in the history of American cinema. As fall turned to winter, the most talked-about films seemed to grow progressively stranger. American Beauty closed with a shot of the central character’s bleeding head and told us it was pretty (and it was). Brad Pitt told us that we were never going to become movie stars. In The Insider even our most powerful weren’t exempt from powerlessness. And then there was our wunderkid Matt Damon off in Italy lusting after young men in a bizarre, slow psychological thriller about the pursuit of the self, of all things. Not to mention falling frogs. [con't]

Seniors Shift Paradigms

By Chris Bissell

The Senior Acting Recitals were the perfect theatre for the postmodern world! Each participant (six seniors from Pitzer, Pomona, and Scripps) picked four or five scenes from plays, performance pieces and poems to present thematically. This format allowed monolithic monuments of Western culture, such as the not unknown Euripedes and the slightly less unknown William Shakespeare, to be presented next to feminist works by Claire Chafee or Henrik Ibsen. Reappropriation at its best. For me, this created a space in which one could look at the monuments (Shakespeare) in a new light (imagine, for example along with Caroline Reck, that Romeo is a woman). [con't]

Get Some Booty from a Cutie

By Jonathan Vanasco

I was shocked, nay, dismayed to find out this last semester just how pitiful the booty situation is on this campus. Imagine how humiliating it must be for young virile members of our community to spend their precious time drinking malt liquor and watching Bosom Buddies while they themselves could be out and about in this wilderness we call college, frolicking with members of the opposite sex and quite possibly enjoying the sweet sensations of what television commentators have dubbed "humping." [con't]

The current revitalization of interest in the tattoo has penetrated spheres as traditionally disparate as Rock n’ Roll Suburbia, critical cultural criticism, and Pomona College. As the two-sided mirror of Pomona College (shall we even say Pomona Culture), TSL will be devoting a portion of its body each week to the tattoo, and resacralizing the Sagehen form.

We spoke this week to Senior Class President Gabriel London ’00 about tattoo culture, his tattoo, and life in the driver’s chair.

Campus Hosts Grand Slam (Not Denny’s And Not Baseball Either)

By Brian Rothman

Friday night Pomona welcomes poet-preacher-actor-rapper-singer-musician Saul Williams, who will be performing live at the Rose Hills theater. Hailed as a "dreadlocked dervish of words" (Esquire), Williams has collaborated with Erykah Badu, the Fugees, De La Soul, and Allen Ginsberg, and has been a featured performer at "Rock Against Racism," among other benefits. He has recently signed with American/Columbia records, and is coproducing his first major release with Rick Rubin (the Bearded, Sunglass-Rockin’ Svengali behind the Beastie Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, LL Cool J, Public Enemy). [con't]

These Are Also Good Movies

By Greg Johnson

By this late date every media outlet in the country has produced its own list of the top ten movies of the ’90s, overlooking some of the decade’s finest films in the process. Where was Miller’s Crossing? What about Hoop Dreams? A few of my favorites are Top Ten mainstays, but most of them were nowhere to be seen in the Los Angeles Times or TSL. [con't]

Dining Around Town with Epicurious

Located in a shopping center on the corner of Central Avenue and Arrow Route in Montclair, between a hair salon and an Indian Restaurant sits an unassuming Chinese restaurant. It is easy to miss, but worth looking for. Golden China is a traditional family-run restaurant featuring both Cantonese and Mandarin styles of food. The atmosphere is typical: lots of Chinese decorations and imagery in a warm comfortable setting. What sets it apart from its counterparts was its prompt service and reasonable prices which accompanied the good quality food. [con't]