Living It Up On The Day Of The Dead
By
COTY MEIBEYER
A & F Editor
When I was nine, my now-deceased dog ate my sugar cube mission model the night before it was due. Since then, my exposure to Mexican culture has mainly come in the form of late-night High Tech Burrito runs (think Taco Bell, but they’re a million billion times better and classier) and one disasterous quinceñera I attended where I knocked the punch bowl over and fled soon after.
Waking Philosophy
By
NANCY HANNA
Staff Writer
I saw a movie about Pomona. Or at least about the exhausting, confusing conversations of questionable relevance and applicability in which I always find myself involved. Waking Life is Richard Linklater’s most recent film; his eclectic past credits include The Newton Boys (1998), Beavis and Butt-head Do America (1996), as well as Dazed and Confused (1993).
Come To Papa!!!
By
BENNY KRAINES
Staff Writer
Apparently, some of my readers feel that, in writing this column, I have lost all what little self-respect and dignity remaining in my shallow and trite existence. "Have a little pride," they say. "You’re not that disappointing in bed," others remark. Ergo, I have decided to present a little known side of myself in honor of this special A&F issue.
Rekindling The American Dream, Industrial Style
By
JI H. CHONG
A&F Associate
On November 6, at the "un-American" time of 7:45 a.m., I joined roughly forty Science, Technology and Society and PPA majors for a boat tour of the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, hosted by the Harry Bridges Institute (HBI), a think tank affiliated with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU).
Feminist Poet Slams Perspectives to Audience
By
AIDAN DOHERTY
Managing Editor
Alix Olson, the radical, feminist, lesbian, pro-choice, anti-war, New York spoken word artist performed this Tuesday at Scripps’ Balch auditorium. More than this assortment of labels however, it was Olson’s impassioned delivery, and her deeply personal and yet deeply political lyrics that stirred a standing room only crowd of both women and men to a standing ovation at the end of the night.
Good Things DO Come From North Carolina
By
MARISSA CRETER
Contributing Writer
I admit I have somewhat eclectic taste in music. With that caveat out of the way, like to share the experience of seeing Superchunk, with the full confidence that anyone–regardless of what bands they like–will convert to the cult of this seminal band.
Ears, Lips, Navels and Noses, Let’s Go a’ Piercin’
By
EMILY FIELD
A&F Associate
My parents never saw it coming. I’m sure they thought they were sending off an innocent New England schoolgirl to the West Coast solely for purpose of higher education and meaningful life experiences.
Ha.
Little did they know that their first-born daughter, their pride and joy, would discover the illicit pleasures of alcohol, drugs, and, horror of horrors, body piercing.
Metal, Mastication and a Man in Nebraska
By
CHRIS MEYER
A & F Associate
Somewhere in Nebraska there is a man eating a Boeing 747. Eating a Boeing 747! That’s an entire freaking airplane! And it’s not some new Lemon-Flavored Micro-747 either; this poor, poor man is taking EVERY PART of a steel construct that weighs at least as much as the entire population of Sierra Leone and putting it all into his body. That’s the engines, the windows, the seats, probably even (gasp) the airline food left on board.
Letters from Home
I hope you got home over break to fix the computer, but if you didn’t because you were working on your studies, I understand. Dad developed foot problems and is returning home Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. I sent an e-mail to Geoff, but I’d like you to check with him to make sure he received it.
FIVE DOLLAR Review
Jackie-O Motherfucker
Tomahawk
The Velvet Underground
Z’ev
Various Artists
Katie the Pest
