Digital Underground Brings Treats for Tricks

By Gil Nye & Dan May

Digital Underground brings its rowdy, funky, not-so-sweet-and-fluffy routine to Harwood Halloween this Saturday, and no one knows what exactly is about to go down. Which is the way that D.U. likes it. Famous, or, if you’d prefer, notorious, for their wild style and unique approach towards modern hip-hop, the D.U. has a history that sets them among the biggest, most influential, and most outlandish names in the rap industry. They’ve got a reputation for all things besides predictability. [con't]

I hope y’all are enjoying Alcohol Awareness Week. We certainly are! We went to Chino! Hey, wanna hear about it?

Well, to begin with, Drew has set a new record for the Emperors by cracking open the ol’ Olde English before the cock crowed. Yep, 4:30 AM, on his way out to milk the cows. But, Chino don’t come to you, you gotta go to it! The early bird gets the Chino! You can take the boy outta the Chino, but you can’t take the Chino outta the boy! But, you, Pomona Student, may be asking, "Why Chino?" We’ll tell you why! Because Richard thinks it smells like home (Drew can’t smell it, seeing as how he lost his nose in the war). [con't]

Celebrity Death Match Politics: Biographer Brings Insight

By Gabe London

Donald Trump might run for President. Warren Beatty too. Oprah might even swing her formidable presence into the campaign. Patty "Bring on the Fourth Reich" Buchanan is leading the charge to the White House (again) with his peasants-and-pitchforks army rallying behind him.

This election is going to be fun, even if the actual career politicians who are in the race inspire fits of narcolepsy. Those rich people and movie stars just get bored, and when that happens, what better place is there to flaunt their formidable egos than in politics? So out of the boredom of having too much fame and fortune comes this great humanitarian interest to have your name join the ranks of people like Lincoln, Nixon and Reagan (this list non-specific to greatness). [con't]

Theater Department’s Antigone Keeps it Fresh Across the Centuries

By David Roth

Take a kid like you. You know how to read, right (if not, check the ill photograph that accompanies this article)? Probably at least at an eighth grade level. But there’s more to it than that, of course. When we read something, we generally find what we look for in it; the meaning we find in the texts we read makes the process of reading more than sounding words out or knowing what they mean.

Greek drama pushes us to project meaning onto or extract meaning from it more than almost anything else performed on a stage. [con't]

Loeb and Sheik Rock Gently, Look Pretty

By Liz Rodriguez

Lisa Loeb walked out onto the dim stage of Big Bridges last Thursday night, alone with her guitar. She was dressed a little too warmly for the stuffy auditorium: she wore a turtleneck, long skirt, and snow boots, joking about how in Texas (her home state) she always expects a building to be freezing cold inside if the weather is anything close to warm. The announcement of that random fact segued into the song "Snow Day" from her first album Tails. Between all of her songs, she would chat comfortably with the audience, and even responded to people yelling out requests, as she did when she played the second single from Tails, "Do You Sleep?" [con't]

Tori Amos: To Venus and Back Brent Beane Staff Writer When From the Choirgirl Hotel came out the spring of 1998 and Tori Amos embarked upon her "Plugged" tour, she surprised a lot of people. She had previously been known for songs which relied almost solely on her voice and piano; the songs on 1992’s Little Earthquakes featured a very stripped-down style, and they had an enormously personal feeling to them. From the Choirgirl Hotel’s loud vocals and distorted guitars seemed to come out of nowhere, yet there were, in fact, glimpses of her rocking-out buried on previous albums. Songs like "God" from Under the Pink and "Caught a Light Sneeze" from Boys For Pele hinted at Tori’s aspiration to add more noise to her songs. Amos has always been willing to take chances, and through continued exploration of new musical possibilities, she has kept the great albums coming. [con't] Fight Club Dan May A&F Editor When Arthur Miller began Death of a Salesman , his working title was "The Inside of His Head"–the precise locale in which Fight Club, the new film from David Fincher (Alien 3, Seven, The Game) begins. As the credits appear over the Dust Brothers’ techno score, the camera careens through the protagonist’s cerebellum at break-neck speed, twisting through his cranium at break neck speed, along his tongue, and down the barrel of the gun in his mouth. This is a different lens than the one Miller chose, but the territory is the same. Fincher aims to shoot the inside of our collective (male) consciousness: a dark, chaotic, contorted place. Like Miller, Fincher wants to hold up a mirror to our lives, and shatter it. [con't]

Fear, Loathing, Fakes: Fall Break in Vegas

By Sara Sherrod

What the hell are three clearly under-aged freshmen girls with no car and no money going to do for fall break? My friends and I thought about this last Thursday night, and we came up with an obvious solution: Las Vegas. None of us had ever been to Vegas before, and everyone said that we wouldn’t have any problems–the casinos would accept any form of I.D., we were told, and we were assured that there would be plenty of cheap hotels with vacancies even if we didn’t make reservations. That’s all we needed to hear. [con't]

All Advantages: Free Money On-line?

By Aiden Doherty

Keith Kwan ’03 became one of many Pomona students signed on to AllAdvantage.com this year. AllAdvantage.com is an internet marketing company which pays subscribers for surfing the net, and the free money is pouring in. "I signed up in September. I was just surfing the Net, and my friend had told me about it, so I signed up. I guess some random person on the Net is making money off me now," said Kwan.

Based in San Francisco, the site was founded in February of this year on venture capital. A box, double the height of Window’s "Start" bar and stretching across the length of the screen, appears on the screen when the program is engaged, and displays the AllAdvantage logo and a series of ads. The ads also serve as links to company sites, where impulse surfers can buy displayed products. [con't]

Dining Around Town With Epi-Curious

2975 Foothill Boulevard

La Verne, CA

909-593-7209

La Paloma is a family-run Mexican restaurant located on Foothill Boulevard on the border of Pomona and La Verne. It has been in the same location for over 25 years, serving quality food in large portions. For those who like naugahyde, La Paloma is the place. Sometimes called a naugahyde hacienda, it is clear that many naugas gave their all for this décor. The menu is standard Mexican fare with several specials, including Spinach and Mushroom Enchiladas, Pollo Cilantro, and Carnitas. Entrées are priced between $6.50 and $11.50 with soups, salads and desserts available. [con't]