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Men From When “About Time” CD

Elana Perilstein (‘10) October 15, 2008
Who, what, where, when and why. These words, commonly known as the five W’s, have been around for a long time-even longer than the not-so-new band, Men From When, who finally released their first CD, cleverly named About Time. The band and album have been 11 years in the making.

Gossip Girl “New Haven Can Wait”

It’s the time of year for college visits, interviews, and applications. Blair Waldorf’s dream school is Yale, while Serena’s is Brown. Until recently, the girls’ distant friendship caused miscommunication and petty fights. After the most recent catfight, Serena decided to ditch Brown and accept the Dean of Yale’s invitation to tour the school.

My Own Worst Enemy “Breakdown”

Synopsis: Movie star Christian Slater tries to make the transition to the small screen in NBC’s latest new series, “My Own Worst Enemy”. Slater stars as Henry Spivey, an “average Joe” with a wife, kids and a decent job. Edward Albright is a secret agent killing machine. What do Edward and Spivey have in common? They are one in the same.

Grey’s Anatomy: “Here Comes the Flood”

Danielle Burkhart (’09) October 12, 2008
With the hospital already in trouble from its low rating as a teaching hospital, Seattle Grace literally crumbled right before all of the doctors and patients. A pipe burst, causing the hospital surgical floors to flood, and all the patients need to be evacuated to nearby hospitals. One patient who thought he had no luck on his side was crushed during the leak when the roof exploded right on top of his surgery table, but luckily for him it saved his life by detecting stage one cancer.

Equus

Although Daniel Radcliffe is often associated with Harry Potter, Radcliffe deserves to be free of the Harry Potter persona for at least another twenty weeks. His recent role as the star of Peter Schaffer’s masterpiece play, “Equus” has proven Radcliffe’s acting skills to be genuine, and will help him to step out of his previous roles. The story depicts Alan Strang (Radcliffe), a deranged boy under the care of psychiatrist Dr. Martin Dysart, played by Richard Griffiths. Strang becomes one of Dysart’s patients after committing a crime the authorities cannot understand: he blinded six horses in the barn he worked at. Schaffer wrote the play based on this incident; however, all the details surrounding the crime are fictional. The only truth is that a troubled boy did in fact commit the crime.

Bones “The He in the She”

Gina Ascola (’09)/Eastside Staff October 12, 2008
In this week’s episode, Booth and Brennan find themselves in the Chesapeake Bay area, where the remains of a body have been found in Bay. Upon arrival the team realizes that this will be one of their more difficult cases. The body has been severed at the spine and only the upper half is present. As a result, gender cannot be properly determined until the other half of the body is found. This also means that a facial reconstruction will be postponed, making it harder to identify the victim. However a break in the case comes when Cam finds a breast implant with a serial number. Booth uses the serial number to trace it back to its owner, enabling them the find out the identity of their victim. They discover that their victim is Pastor Patricia Ludmuller from Mayor Island, Maryland. With this information Booth and Brennan now feel more confident in their ability to tackle this case, until they discover that Patricia cannot be traced back any further than five years.

Prison Break “Five the Hard Way”

Parth Desai (’09) October 8, 2008
This week on Prison Break, members of Agent Self’s handpicked group went to Las Vegas in pursuit of the fifth Scylla card. Sucre, Sara, Roland and Lincoln all went to Vegas while Michael, Bellick and Mahone went searching for T-Bag. T-Bag, who was threatened and tortured by Gretchen, is also trying to get Scylla. He managed to trick Bellick and took Michael, Mahone and Bellick hostage before Mahone escaped. Michael had to help him decode Whistler’s Bird Book. Mahone immediately found Self and told him what happened, and they rescued the group while trapping T-Bag underground. But Michael later found out that T-Bag was working for Gretchen, the woman who held Sara hostage, and he was threatened to get T-Bag out of the place he was trapped.

Heroes “I Am Become Death”

Volume III, “Villains,” continued this week, dividing airtime between present-day and four years in the future. The future is a very different place, where Claire, Daphne and Knox (Level 5 detainee) are all evil. Claire even shoots Uncle Peter point blank, leaving present-day Peter left running for his life in the future, as she is after him as well. In this future world, abilities are for sale to the highest bidder, making it easier than ever to be a world-class criminal.

Dexter “Finding Freebo”

Dillon Rosenblatt (’12) October 7, 2008
Synopsis: Dexter is going through a crisis, dealing with many tough dilemmas. His sister, Deb, is trying to find the drug-dealing killer Freebo, so Dexter needs to find him first. Also, Dexter has to deal with the shocking news that he may be a father. Dexter keeps having these random “dreams” that his future child will turn out just like him, a killer. Meanwhile, Miguel and Dexter find themselves tracking down the same killer, Freebo. Deb, on the other hand, has found a very useful lead, an informant named Anton (David Ramsey), hoping to find Freebo so she can receive her “shield” (a.k.a her promotion).

GWAR keeps shock rock alive

There are many types of genres in the world of music, but none may be as interesting as shock rock. Shock rock is a subgenre to rock, where musicians combine their music with theatric shock value in their performances, pushing the modern limits of decency with their use of sex, violence and horror. Many modern artists use these shock values to enhance their performances, but the concept has been incorporated for around fifty years. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, arguably the first shock rocker, used to pull himself out of a coffin and sing into a skull once his song “I Put a Spell on You” hit it big in 1957. He also used macabre stage props, adding to his notoriety. In 1967 Jimi Hendrix performed a then-offensive and mortifying act of lighting his guitar on fire. At that time nobody had thought of doing that to instruments and the masses thought of it as insane.

Country singer Chuck Wicks

Chuck Wicks: the next Tim McGraw or Jonny Cash? Probably not. Chuck Wicks is the newest addition to country music. Of course he discovered his talent in Nashville, TN after college- possibly a little too late in his life. He grew up in Smyrna, Delaware, where there are two or three radio stations that play country music without static as a backup singer. His hit song “Stealing Cinderella” is a beautiful song about a guy asking to marry the girl from her father. I think it is sung very well, but I’m having trouble getting over the fact that he is very unoriginal.

Eagle Eye

Andrew Huff (’10) October 6, 2008
Technology has become the focal point of debate as surveillance and security have crossed the boundaries of privacy. The eye in the sky is watching you, so be careful what you say. Jerry Shaw, a downer accustomed to working at Copy Cabana and hustling his friends at poker, has been “activated”, or, in other words, chosen. Following the death of his twin brother, Ethan, a military hero, Jerry’s mundane life halts with the discovery of terroristic weaponry scattered about his apartment.

Saturday Night Live “Anne Hathaway/The Killers”

Chris Smith (’12)/For Eastside October 6, 2008
In this week's episode of “Saturday Night Live” there was a guest appearance by Queen Latifah. Anne Hathaway was the host and The Killers performed some of their songs. The show starts off with Queen Latifah in a parody of the recent Vice Presidential debate. Tina Fey does an outstanding job as she reprises her role as Governor Sarah Pallin. There is only one word to describe this opening skit: “Maverick.” The show progresses to Anne Hathaway’s introduction, and a few more skits which include four singing sisters, a C-Span press conference with impressions of George Bush and Nancy Pelosi, a skit with four single men at a night club and a SNL digital short. These acts all led up to The Killers' first performance. They performed their new single “Human” which was released in September. This song should be listened to by anyone who enjoys The Killers. They are back with this fun, semi techno and slow paced hit. It should definitely be considered in your next trip to the iTunes store.