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05-09-2008

October 25, 2007 Issue

music | performing arts | style | film/tv | food | visual arts | books | opinion


Updated Thursday, Oct 25, 2007 12:00 AM

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Halloween scares up spooky style

Never is the expression "dress to impress" more literally meant than on Halloween.

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Truckers mix jokey style with ghastly country-rock

With a jesting name and equally pun-filled album titles like Pizza Deliverance and The Dirty South, Drive-By Truckers might not seem like a band that should be taken seriously.

Deadstring Brothers to play Theatre with local bands

Recipe for Deadstring Brothers: a spoonful of blues, a pinch of country and a dash of Detroit attitude all stirred in with rock 'n' roll.

Zombies take over Asylum concert

Halloween isn't until the middle of next week, but if you can't wait that long (who can?), Friday night's Zombiefest! should help hold you over.

performing arts

Celtic music quintet to play BJC theater

The prominent past of Celtic culturem, which sparked the All Hallows' Eve tradition, will be celebrated through music this weekend, just in time for Halloween.

Hit musical takes Eisenhower

Students can enter into the world of vaudeville and burlesque striptease when the classic American musical, Gypsy, comes to the Eisenhower Auditorium tonight.

Macbeth set for Halloween show

The notoriously haunted Schwab Auditorium will be plagued by another ghost this Halloween -- the ghost of Duncan.

style | read the BLOG

I AM FASHION

Coco Chanel once said: "I don't do fashion; I AM fashion." Every week, our style reporters will find a person who exemplifies that tenet.

Unconventional Costumes

Tired of the annual standards? Here are a few ideas that are as easy to put together as they are original.

Downtown shop gives retro style fresh look

Stepping into the Rag and Bone is like stepping into a time machine.

film / tv

SFO to present debut holiday doubleheader

Students can celebrate the upcoming holiday early when the Student Film Organization screens the original Halloween and Planet Terror for its first Halloween double feature.

Paranormal researchers investigate PSU haunts

Maybe it isn't your imagination. Maybe that sense you weren't alone when you actually were, or that human-like shadow you saw when no one was there wasn't just your mind playing tricks on you.

food

Commons food gets scary -- in a new way

Eerie music, dim lighting, fog and cob webs. This isn't the set of a scary movie, it's just some of the decorations that will make up the haunted house dinner in the various dining commons across campus on Halloween evening.

visual arts

Palmer starts art dialogue with gallery talks

Visiting an art museum doesn't have to be a quiet, solitary experience.

books

Alumna focused on empowering women

Author. Activist. International media personality. Motivational speaker. Spokeswoman. All are respectable professions on their own, but what happens when all of them can be found in one woman?

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Letter From the Editor

Maybe it's be-cause I was raised Catholic, and therefore, trained to hate pagan rituals for reasons both spiritual and practical.

Halloween makes fall worth weight in candy

Halloween is the only holiday that makes any sense to me.

Would you rather...

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