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As all movies about the Middle East do, “Body of Lies” really opens your eyes to a world that truly exists. You’ll be reminding yourself plenty of times that this type of stuff goes on all the time over there. But when it comes down to it, without DiCaprio and Crowe, “Body of Lies” is your average espionage thriller.
Some fans dismiss their favorite musicians performing covers because they already know the original song too well or because the artist covering the song sways too far from their already-established sound. But instead of going the Bruce Springsteen route and simply putting his own stamp on a genre, fans of Taylor succeeds in making each song a “James Taylor song.”
Take the pace of “The Fugitive,” combine that with the plots of “Enemy of the State” and “2001: A Space Odyssey” and throw in the newest “It” actor, and you get “Eagle Eye.” “Eagle Eye” is not as good as the movies that inspired it, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t work.
It would be redundant to go through and describe each track because, in short, they’re all brilliant. Any Fleetwood Mac fan will be thrilled to hear this album not just because of the powerful tracks but because it’s so exciting to hear an artist plug so perfectly into the sound of his former band.
After a movie like “No Country,” which had such a subtle and important message, it’s interesting to see the directors do a complete 180 by crafting a movie whose only apparent message is that everyone is amazingly dim-witted. But luckily for the audience, sometimes dim-witted can be very funny.
Sex & Gasoline contains his usual blend of country, folk, and blues, which should interest a nice array of fans. Although his painfully obvious impression of Bob Dylan is at first almost laughable, the aptitude he shows at crafting catchy and even thought-provoking songs demands the respect of the listener.
Somewhere will most definitely keep long-time Cassidy fans interested and attract newcomers to a great talent who left us way too early.
\nHe’s older, he’s wiser, but luckily for fans, he’s still a blast. It’s been nineteen years since he’s been on the big screen, but Dr. Jones (Harrison Ford) still packs the same punch as in the now inappropriately-titled "The Last Crusade." \nWhen we last left Indiana, it was 1938 and he was busy fighting off Nazis for ownership of the Holy Grail. In a smart move by the makers, "Crystal Skull" acknowledges this passage of time by taking place in 1957. Now, it’s the communists Indiana has to deal with. \nAfter being fired from his job as a university professor, Indiana’s now quiet life is disrupted when a young greaser named Mutt comes along with a proposition: help Mutt rescue his mother, and Indy could have a chance to discover the Crystal Skull of Akator. Like all of the "Indiana Jones" sequels, this plot is merely an excuse for extended chase scenes and things that go "boom," but it provides a lot of fun along the way. \nShia LaBeouf, who portrays Indy’s new sidekick, Mutt, continually holds his own with Ford and creates a unique stamp for a clichéd character. However, while Ford and LaBeouf show some great chemistry, fans who are hoping for the same magical chemistry as was between Ford and Sean Connery in "Last Crusade" will be disappointed. That being said, when Karen Allen (reprising her role as Marion Ravenwood from "Raiders of the Lost Ark") shows up halfway through, the movie picks up significantly in both pace and spirit. I had a smirk on my face listening to Indiana, Marion and Mutt bicker in the midst of fantastic jungle chases and escapes from Mayan tribes. \nBesides a very fresh take on the star’s age, the film doesn’t really give fans anything new, and that’s just fine. With a series as beloved as this, it would be silly to follow any motto besides, "Don’t fix what ain’t broken."\nI can’t really see any fan of the previous movies not enjoying this one, as long as you don’t expect it to be as revolutionary as "Raiders" was. Similar to the other Indy films, it has its faults but is also undeniably fun to watch. While its star has gotten older, watching an Indiana Jones movie hasn’t.
Coming seemingly out of nowhere, Lady Antebellum has recently taken the country-music world by storm.
Ike Reilly, respected in indie rock circles and unknown elsewhere, has released an album of unreleased material. His Dylanesque lyrics buttress a sound that spans the gamut from garage rock to folk blues, and despite its wide smattering of his work, Hit Parade provides another access point into a great career.
When he released his debut album, Not Of This Earth in 1986, Joe Satriani somewhat hinted at the extraterrestrial weirdness of his work.
The always likable Dennis Quaid headlines all the advertising for “Vantage Point,” but the movie has so many different and parallel story lines that he’s only the focus for about 20 minutes of the movie.
Looking at the $20 billion video game industry, creating a center where people can play some of the most popular games seemed like a pretty good idea to video game center founder Zack Johnson.\n“I remember thinking, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool if we could put all these systems in one building and people could come and everything would already be hooked up and ready to play?” said Johnson, a 1998 graduate of the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.\nSoon after, Ebash Video Game Center was born. Johnson started the first Ebash in an old warehouse in Terre Haute in 2004. The newest Ebash center, located in Bloomington, opened Feb. 9. Its grand opening was a huge success, almost matching the revenue of the Terre Haute store on the same night, Johnson said.\nCommonly mistaken for a store that simply sells video games, Ebash instead allows people to pay a fee to play their favorite games on a variety of popular systems.\nJohnson, manager of Ebash in Terre Haute, hopes his center can help video games be portrayed in a more positive light.\n“It’s a social environment for gamers,” he said. “It gets them out of their rooms and into a public place where they can share their love for video games with each other.”\nThe Bloomington center, located at 3478 W. Third St. next to Subway, contains 45 Xbox 360s, 20 gaming computers and a handful of Wii and Playstation 3 consoles, in addition to high-definition televisions and state-of-the-art sound systems.\nDanny Taladay, the Bloomington store manager, said that, unlike the personal computers most students own, Ebash builds its own computers to ensure the highest quality gaming experience available.\n“People get to actually see games like ‘World of Warcraft’ at its highest potential with no lagging. You can play your favorite games, like ‘Guitar Hero III,’ on a 52-inch high-definition television,” Taladay said.\nEbash gives customers multiple options for their gaming experience. The cost is $4 for one hour of playing time, $10 for three hours and $15 for five hours. Night passes (7 to 11 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 10 p.m. to 2 a.m on Fridays and Saturdays) are also available for $8. Day passes cost $15 except on Fridays when they are $20. Each Monday is “college day,” when IU students can play all day for only $5.\nJeff Knudson, a sophomore at Edgewood High School, said Ebash is a cool place to work, too.\n“It’s great. I love it. And plus, for every hour I work, I get an hour of free play,” Knudson said.\nAshley Reed, an IU senior and assistant manager at Ebash, said word-of-mouth has undoubtedly played a key role in the solid business the store has experienced so far.\n“We have about 10 to 15 regulars who come in every day, and business has definitely picked up,” she said.\nJohnson said the center gives gamers an opportunity to have fun with people they normally wouldn’t meet.\n“About two years ago, we had an Indiana State University lineman come in and sit down next to a small, quiet 15-year-old kid who played in the band at a local high school,” he said. “They were so unlike each other, but they teamed up and had fun going against people across the Internet. I wish I would have gotten a picture of it.”
For one IU club, practice and meets are optional. The coach doesn’t even care if his athletes are terrible. This IU club hopes everyone enjoys themselves and has fun.\nYes, maybe the IU swim club is a bit different from the \naverage team.\n“It’s not unstructured, but you get to choose how involved you would like to be,” IU swim club coach Bill Ramos. In addition to heading the club, Ramos also oversees aquatic program development for the Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Students.\nJust eight years ago, Ramos, who swam all his life, found that he was suddenly lacking the motivation to get in the pool. Refusing to give it up, he instead got a group together and approached the Student Recreational Sports Center’s front office to see if it was possible to form an official swim club. Soon enough the club was up and running. What Ramos quickly understood was that whether students swam in high school, college or ever at all, they wanted a new swimming experience.\n“I like to tell students that ‘this is your next phase of swimming,’” he said. “We want it to be worthwhile, but no coach (is) screaming at you.”\nThe club currently has about 100 members, but the club said membership is increasing every year. Most members swam in high school, but a fair amount of club swimmers are now participating in their first meets. \nMary Beth Bray, president of the swim club and vice president of IU Club Sports, didn’t exactly see herself in the position she is now when she first came to college.\n“I actually didn’t swim competitively in high school but I became interested in it when I came to IU,” Bray said.\nLike all IU club sports, the swim team doesn’t cut anyone who wants to join. In fact, swimmers can choose from three different divisions of competition based on which suits them best.\nSecretary and treasurer Trevor Shirley, who oversees finances and maintains communication with the team and the RecSports, said the members of the swim club have quickly become friends with one another. He said the optional practices (6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Sunday through Thursday) can also serve as an escape from the demanding life of the average IU student.\n“It’s really nice to know when you’re stressed you can go to the pool, relax and be with people you enjoy,” he said.\nAlthough it was formed only eight years ago, the club is already one of the top teams in its sport, Shirley said. \n“I would say that we’re definitely a force to be reckoned with,” Shirley said.\nEarlier this year, IU hosted its second club swim meet and with six teams competing, the team had what Bray said was a “fantastic turnout.” On March 28, many club members will travel to Atlanta for the weekend to compete in the club championship that ends their season. The women won the contest last year, so the club hopes to have a repeat victory. Part of the reason Shirley thinks the swim club performs well on the road is because of the amount of members who travel to away meets.\nHe expects about 30 people to go to Atlanta, which is about 10 more than last year.\nTo join, students have the option of paying $30 a semester or $50 a year. But for those who are interested but unsure, coming to a week’s worth of practices for free is allowed and encouraged. Shirley also stresses there’s no deadline to join the club.\n“We’re always looking for new members,” he said. “It’s never, ever too late to join. We love getting new people.”
After more than four years of appeals, graduate student academic appointees will receive dental insurance for the 2008-09 school year.\nUniversity Graduate School Dean James Wimbush said he has made it a priority to get the coverage for these students – usually teaching or research assistants – since he became dean in 2006. He said the plan provides for student academic appointees to receive full dental coverage. The University will cover the cost of preventative care, with a maximum benefit of $500 a year. Students will pay deductibles for restorative and major dental work, Wimbush said.\n“We wanted to make sure that the quality of graduate student life was as good as we could make it,” Wimbush said.\nIU employs 3,800 student academic appointees at the Bloomington campus and 650 at IU Purdue University at Indianapolis, according to an IU press release.\nGenerally, student academic appointees are paid to teach or help teach classes as well as carry out other academic duties. \nIn addition, these students’ spouses and children can reap the benefits, Wimbush said.\nPaul Rohwer, moderator of the Graduate and Professional Student Organization, said he is extremely grateful for the coverage.\n“Until now, we’ve been the only Big Ten school to not have this benefit,” Rohwer said.\nAbout half of the Big Ten universities provide full coverage, while the other half give specific graduate students the option of signing up for a plan, Wimbush said. \nMore than $1 million has been added to the base budget to pay for the program, which Rohwer admits is a lot of money for a university to grant. Wimbush said the program will be hard to fund, but the graduate school has “recognized the importance of doing this and showing our commitment to the graduate students.”\nIn years past, and even recently, students such as Ursula McTaggart have shown their desire for coverage in some subtle and not-so-subtle ways.\n“We started our campaign for dental care around 2003, holding rallies and even leaving dental items on administrators’ desks to remind them that we’ve worked hard and this was a benefit we wanted,” said McTaggart, who headed the Graduate Employee Organization petition in 2006.\nAfter hearing the news of the coverage, student academic appointees were ecstatic, Rohwer said. In fact, talks of a dental coverage party began to surface immediately. Rohwer said the student academic appointees at IU are grateful for those who made the coverage happen.\n“Dean Wimbush, Dean (Bennett) Bertenthal and the school deans deserve credit,” Rohwer said. “They listened, then made our life a little sweeter.”
