2008 Woodie Awards
The winter of our discontentThink this winter's weather has been intolerable? According to climate experts, global warming could make the snow, slush and sleet even worse in the future.
So it's about 15 degrees out, you slipped on the permafrost coating Foster Street on the way to class and the ice-chunks on Lake Michigan are about wide enough to picnic on. Illinois might be heading for one of its five snowiest years in a century, and last week the city of Evanston admitted it didn't have enough salt to clear the sidewalks.…
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My month on match.com (Part 2)
When I first put up my Match.com profile, I told myself that it painted a fairly accurate portrait of me. It seems like I was right. At a downtown bar a couple of weekends into my online dating foray, a man approached me and asked if he knew me. "It's Megan, right?" he said.…
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IDEAS IN CINEMA: Not the proudest
Quick show of hands - how many of you have actually seen all five Oscar nominees for Best Picture?
One or two, sure. I bet a lot of you have seen Juno, that now-beloved and, crowd-pleasing teen pregnancy comedy (the most successful Best Picture nominee at the box office with $118 million).…
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Confirmed and Denied
SAVE A HORSE, RIDE A PRIUS
If you thought you were hallucinating when you stepped into a SafeRide Prius last weekend and heard it was "Theme Night," you weren't. It started when two female drivers decided to spice up some drunken passengers' nights. So they put up sign that said "Tonight's theme is Country Western night," dressed in flannel and braids, rocked out to country music (yes, all seven hours) and offered beef jerky to their passengers - though rumor has it that boys gobbled all that up within the first 45 minutes of the tour.…
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Clitoris festival
CLITfest is coming to a venue near you, and its women will be performing to be heard. Now in its fourth year, the DIY festival will celebrate the women of Chicago's punk scene in an event custom-fit for outsider voices. The "CLIT" in the fest, which stands for Combatting Latent Inequality Together, does much more than attract attention.…
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Radar: Mall Madness
No surprise, Internet shopping is booming. Nearly every real-life store has an equally attractive perusable Web site. For some retailers, Web sites are doing as well as, if not better than, their in-store sales, and now they offer online-exclusive merchandise or eliminate their physical stores all together.…
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Music by the numbers: make believe, chatty cathy and elephant gun
Friday Feb. 22 @ Subterranean
Make Believe, Singer, De Triomphe $8 adv / $10 door
Once in a long while, a band forms that is perfect for their time. The trouble is: their time is rarely perfect for the band. They're usually ignored, misunderstood and underappreciated.…
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What it's like: To grow up O.C.
Allie's "Pretty in Pink" party was meant to be the event of the season - Season I on MTV's newest OC reality show "Newport Harbor," that is. From the fuchsia dress code to the feminine décor, the party would have made Barbie proud. But Chase wasn't into Allie.…
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Social Diary: A week out with a self-indulgent senior
Tuesday
Computer dies! Wonder if this is punishment for sleeping with the ex. Bored to no end, so call up a friend about coke hookup - options are random friend 1, 2 or 3, who all live in the city; annoyed by this sketchy process. A crazy woman overhears conversation with my friend and tells me to have a high-tech funeral for my computer. That night, get a text from a Potential-turned-Creep (PTC) which I ignore.…
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What if...Your Computer Croaked
I'm a chronic spiller. So when I splashed some cabernet blanc all over my Macbook while uncorking a bottle last Friday night, causing the laptop to go black immediately, I wasn't too worried. I knew the first lesson: back up your files. Luckily, I'd already learned that one the hard way - a couple of times.…
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Question and Answer: art without borders
i3 hypermedia, is a production/post-production studio and art house in Chicago founded by two artists with different backgrounds but a common belief about art. Film director Arturo Cubacub and performance artist Sarah Weis successful collaboration on the short film B-17 led to the creation of i3.…
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Music Reviews
Simple Plan "Simple Plan" (Atlantic)
This is the section of the review where I am supposed to either apologize for what I am about to say or make some obscure musical reference to sustain indie-cred for the post-review backlash. But let's get real: I don't have a lot of cred in the indie scene. So I suppose this is the part of the review where I should make fun of the indie scene, putting myself above the scene. But let's be honest: The indie scene essentially makes fun of itself. The clothes, the music, the hair; it's all so ridiculously comical. I guess what I am trying to dance around is that, oddly enough, the new Simple Plan album is pretty great. There, I said it. That wasn't so hard now, was it? …
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Survey at Starbucks: Dean Says
In a Feb. 11 column in The Daily, Medill senior David Spett raised concerns about the Medill dean's use of anonymous quotes in a letter in the Medill alumni magazine. John Lavine said the student quotes praising a marketing class were from "real people," but couldn't remember how he'd gotten them.…
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