Zenmaster Visits, Inspires Higher Being

By Samantha Brenner

I consider myself to be a pretty typical Jewish girl from New York, and I had always considered my parents to be pretty typical, if liberal, New York-Jew parents. Or I did up until about two years ago. Then they went Buddhist on me.

Not that this was a bad thing; in fact, I think it’s pretty cool that on those weekends during my senior year in high school when I got the apartment to myself, my parents were often out in the forests of upstate New York meditating at the Omega Institute (a place where affluent city folk get in touch with their inner Buddhas). So, the point is that Zen Buddhism has been a part of my life for some time now, via my tofu-loving parents. [con't]

Director Marshall Brings Schtick

By Gabriel London

Garry Marshall is a voice and face you might recognize from any number of films that I can barely remember him being in, such as A League of Their Own, directed by his sister director/actor Penny Marshall (Laverne from Laverne and Shirley). He’s got this great Bronx accent that just makes you want to laugh, since it’s reminiscent of so many New York comedians. Which brings me to the fact that the entire talk was, more or less, a comedic journey through Marshall’s full and interesting life. [con't]

There are many difficult things about doing our column for the The Student Life. One, Drew is a lousy drunkard. Two, there just aren’t that many interesting places in the Inland Empire (hey, we went to a darned swap meet last week). So, this week we were talking about where to go and decided that we needed to fulfill our duties to ease Pomona students’ transitions to the real world. Now, we know that all you kids are just looking for spouses at college so’s you can get married and have families. So, where else to go than the Family Fun Center? That’s right, it’s time for you, Pomona Student, to start learning about places where you can take your kids for birthday parties while you drink a 40 oz. inside of the rocket ship obstacle on the miniature golf course! [con't]

Curators Cultivate Culture, Art

By Nora Lawrence

On Thursday, September 30, as part of the Scripps-based conference, "Women in Cultural Production," three female curators came to the Humanities Auditorium to talk about their work and participate in a roundtable discussion. Because of the women’s very different fields, the panel succeeded in presenting a wide range of possibilities for future curators. [con't]

Chilean Artists Tell of Struggle, Triumphs

By Aidan Doherty

A large crowd of Pomona students came down to Seaver lecture hall this past Monday afternoon to hear two speakers from La Academia Imaginaria. La Academia is a group of dramatists that addresses Chile’s problematic social history through theatre. Students filled every available seat in the classroom where the lecture was held, and still more students stood to hear the speakers. [con't]

Three Kings Greg Johnson Contributing Writer Writer-Director David O. Russell (Flirting With Disaster and Spanking the Monkey), has proven in his third and most ambitious movie that he is among the most talented new filmmakers of the late 90s. Starring George Clooney, Ice Cube, Mark Wahlberg, and Spike Jonze, Three Kings examines America’s role in the Gulf War through a diverse foursome of American soldiers who, upon finding a map of Saddam’s hidden bunkers in an Iraqi POW’s ass, set out to steal a monstrous stash of gold bullion. Although not as outrageously funny as Flirting with Disaster or as profoundly disturbing as Spanking the Monkey, 3 Kings is both unsettling and humorous, often in the same scene. [con't] Nine Inch Nails, The Fragile Michael Lieberman Insert Editor Like any halfway-respectable punk-turned-goth kid growing up in the early Nineties, I thrived on the likes of My Bloody Valentine, The Cure, Ministry, Bauhaus, Skinny Puppy...it was that I would get caught up listening to Trent Reznor’s janitorial-nightshift-turned-industrial-pop-project, Nine Inch Nails. I don’t remember when I started listening, but I remember falling in love: in a post-party recovery room, after videotaping a marathon Corvallis S/M party, on the arm of a velour couch, dressed in black, smoking clove cigarettes and watching a bootlegged second-generation copy of the Broken movie (confiscated upon release by FBI agents convinced they’d gotten their hands on a snuff film), on the kind of tv that needs a good smack to its left side every few minutes. [con't]

Elvis Rocks Beautifully

By Elise Nussbaum

The lights were still off in L.A.’s Wiltern Theater when Elvis Costello’s unmistakable voice rasped out, "Alibi! Alibi!" He launched into his show with a brand-new song that contained the distinctly Costello-ian sentiment, "I love you just as much as I hate your guts." The lights stayed off through the whole song, as Elvis proved without a doubt that collaborating with Burt Bacharach has not made him lose his "edge." The second song, "Man out of Time," highlighted what makes Elvis the legend that he is: the brilliantly complex, sometimes incomprehensible lyrics. [con't]

Dining Around Town With Epi-Curious

Buca di Beppo prides itself on being a friendly neighborhood restaurant, serving food family style. Located on the corner of Indian Hill and Foothill Boulevards, Buca di Beppo is the quintessential Italian restaurant. The campy atmosphere is reminiscent of New York’s Mama Leone’s Restaurant, with Frank Sinatra songs in the background and walls covered with posters, pictures, statues, trophies, and other memorabilia. The restaurant is large, with interconnecting rooms and a back room (which tends to get loud) that will accommodate large groups. There is even seating in the kitchen. Buca di Beppo also features a full bar with limited wine and beer offerings. [con't]

Jonathan Vanasco Instead of spending their time making clever jokes in the Coop Store, why didn’t the architects just try and build a useful campus center in the first place?