Disney’s “Meet The Robinsons” is the same story told many times by the filmmakers, yet this story still seems fresh and new. Based on the book A Day with Wilbur Robinson by William Joyce, the story starts as most Disney adventures do with an orphan. It then quickly goes into […]

Chicago’s “Window to the World,” PBS station WTTW launched a Spanish language channel March 5, 2007. According to a press release dated February 7, 2007, WTTW joined eighteen other PBS stations across the country in presenting V-Me. V-Me (pronounced veh-meh) is a fresh Spanish language network that provides quality broadcasting […]

A sad and unlikely friendship between two lost men and their very different struggles with themselves is the main theme of Columbia Pictures’ Reign Over Me. Charlie Fineman (Adam Sandler) and Alan Johnson (Don Cheadle) were college roommates in dental school over a decade ago. Since then, Alan has gone […]

Every other Friday night, at a nice little pub called the Green Door Tavern, you can catch a great improvisational group called Liquid. Liquid is a group of several improvers who do political and social satire. Improv is basically like watching a play that is made up on the spot, […]

With Summer just more than a month away, the internet is being overrun with advertisements for last-minute packages on hotel and airfare to resorts such as Cancun, Jamaica and Bermuda. Although many of these web sites are reminding students of changes to air travel document requirements, not all of them […]

Bike riders love to ride their bikes, even through the icy Chicago winter. “My bike is my main source of transportation,” said Paul Harris, Treasurer of the Bike Club. Riding has numerous perks, he says. “I pass two or three buses and a line of cars in traffic (on my […]

The house lights stayed up as the orchestra opened its performance with the familiar music of “Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4.” Russell Vinick, conductor for the Chicago Businessmen’s Orchestra (CBO), opened their concert Bruch and Beethoven with this piece. The CBO was founded in 1921 by State Street businessman George Lytton […]

Phil Labonte is the vocalist of All That Remains. Labonte was asked, what was his inspiration was to go into music. He simply said that it was bands like Iron Maiden and Metallica that drew him into music. Labonte also said “I got my first guitar when I was 14.” […]

The British comedy, Starter for 10, is about a young man named Brian Jackson (James McAvoy) who has a great love for trivia, and learning. He has been accepted to Bristol University, a school he always wanted to go to, and quickly finds out that they are holding auditions for […]

Jump Ultimate Stars is a massive fighting game which follows the same game play style as the successful Smash Brothers series found on the Gamecube (and soon the Wii). Instead of popular Nintendo franchise characters fighting, Ultimate Stars features over 300 characters from 41 popular Japanese comic and cartoon series. […]