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Kevin Cook
- July 16, 2009
Sotomayor’s wisdom raises questions
Sonia Sotomayor, Latina, Princeton and Yale-educated wunderkind from the Bronx, will be the U.S. Supreme Court's 111th Justice. With Democrats holding a 12-7 lead in the judiciary committee and a probable 60-40 lead on...
- July 2, 2009
Enemies’ ally with critics
Public Enemies, Michael Mann's treatment of the Depression-era, is an aesthetic masterpiece that refuses to follow the rules of gangster filmmaking. Mann, revered for directing Heat, The Last of the Mohicans and the biopic...
- June 30, 2009
Parade shows prideful colors
The word gay, according to Dictionary.com, means having or showing a merry, lively mood; bright or showy; or given to or abounding in social or other pleasures. It is no coincidence that the word...
- June 29, 2009
Porn doesn’t educate, only titillate
EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is a response to 'Porn should not be condemned', published in The Daily Cougar on Feb. 11, 2009. Pornography gets a bad rap. Feminists have railed the explicit misogyny and...
- June 23, 2009
Karaoke, good times at Molly’s Pub
Friday night bar visits are a risky proposition. A venue picked at random can be crowded, boring or possess an uncomfortable or undesirable ambience. After all, drinks can be purchased virtually anywhere, but it's...
- June 23, 2009
‘One’ that does not deliver
Year One is not a movie about history or even set in a historical context. In Harold Ramis' screenplay, the Biblical brothers Cain and Abel are contemporaneous with Abraham and Isaac, as well as...
- June 23, 2009
Big Brother now living on the Internet
Books that look forward, like George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four or Aldous Huxley's Brave New World are often judged by their accuracy in predicting trends and other social and technological elements. After all, the...
- June 18, 2009
Musicians get classical at TMF
In 1990, Immanuel and Helen Olshan set out to craft a program that would ease the transition from high school and college music to the field of professional composition and performance. With support from...
- June 16, 2009
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Wild-card takes home gold in air guitar competition
There exists, in out-of-the-way bars and small stages scattered throughout major cities in the United States, a competition more supremely demanding and technically rigorous than perhaps any other in existence. The athletes are as...
- June 11, 2009
Movie theaters for summertime
Summer in America means movies, and summer movies typically mean big names, big explosions, product placement and sequels. The summer is a sort of artistic doldrums for Hollywood as it panders to the multitude...