Elementary my dear Watson…
March 11, 2011 • Vinay Viswanathan, Opinions Editor
Filed under Entertainment
On the days of February 15-17, Jeopardy! filmed from an IBM research facility in Yorktown Heights, NY to broadcast a highly contested match between legendary contestants Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter as well as the IBM supercomputer Watson. This match, which Watson won by an astounding margin, represents... Read more »
Guitar Hero breaks up the band
February 24, 2011 • Garrett Cimina, Humor and Leisure Editor
Filed under Entertainment, News
Ever since its first iteration hit store shelves back in 2005, the Guitar Hero series has helped thousands of nerds fulfill their rock and roll fantasies. The jump from original developer Harmonix to former Tony Hawk design studio Neversoft merely increased the momentum of the crazy train, with Guitar... Read more »
Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is a beatiful dark twisted masterpiece
January 24, 2011 • Vinay Viswanathan, Opinions Editor
Filed under Entertainment
RATING: 9.7/10 Kanye West’s new album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, his first album since 808’s & Heartbreak, his least commercially popular album, and a string of controversies after 808’s, is an avant-garde, experimental masterpiece. With indie folk loops, eloquent lyrics, and... Read more »
Ke$ha is what is right with America
January 7, 2011 • Garrett Cimina, Humor and Leisure Editor
Filed under Entertainment
Past painful chart-toppers, such as Justin Bieber’s “Baby” and summer siren Katy Perry’s “California Gurls,” one song reigns supreme as the number-one single of the 2010 decade (thus far): “Tik Tok.” Sung by the music industry’s newest superstar, Ke$ha, “Tik Tok” topped the charts... Read more »
Fuel fails to burn evenly, but doesn’t flame out
January 6, 2011 • Garrett Cimina, Humor and Leisure Editor
Filed under Entertainment, Top Stories
8/10 A post-apocalyptic wasteland can be a pretty fun place, at least according to video games. The shooter game Borderlands and the classic Role-Playing Game series Fallout have already demonstrated that. But what about racing? After all, survivors of nuclear war/plague/alien invasion would obviously... Read more »
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit leaves hearts racing
January 6, 2011 • Garrett Cimina, Humor and Leisure Editor
Filed under Entertainment, Top Stories
9.25/10 A $200,000 Lamborghini tears down a mountain pass, the pavement beneath its tires barely wider than a goat path (www.lamborghini.com). Its brakes screeching as it rounds a corner, the Lamborghini overtakes its nemesis, a similarly-priced Porsche Panamera Turbo, and rockets down the mountainside... Read more »
Fall in love with Fallout…again
December 16, 2010 • Garrett Cimina, Humor and Leisure Editor
Filed under Entertainment, Top Stories
Score: 9.5/10 You awoke in a house to the sound of an old man’s voice. Your vision is blurred. Your head aches. Stumbling forth from the white cottage amid a flurry of questions from the old man, a doctor, you find yourself in a small town, with nothing more than a general store and bar to separate... Read more »
The Apprentice enthralls business-minded audiences
November 18, 2010 • Vijay Viswanathan, News Editor
Filed under Entertainment
First aired in 2004, Donald Trump’s business-reality television show, The Apprentice, has always raised eyebrows. At the same time, its edginess and its hardcore competition have attracted many viewers and made Trump into a household name. Despite some cheesy shortcomings, the show has managed to stay... Read more »
Rock Band 3 delivers more rock than ever before
November 18, 2010 • Garrett Cimina, Humor & Leisure Editor
Filed under Entertainment
And so it begins, the original player of plastic instruments, Guitar Hero, begins to fade quietly into the night, as the reigning king of rhythm games has squashed it flat. The Rock Band franchise has consistently outscored the older Guitar Hero franchise in critical reviews from leading game magazines... Read more »
Outsourced: a bold but risky new television show gaining popularity
November 18, 2010 • Vinay Viswanathan, Opinions Editor
Filed under Entertainment
Rating: 7.169315231776542800015238871886752341999999999911111000000000313333333 Outsourced, the new addition to NBC’s stacked Thursday comedy repertoire developed a major stir with American viewers because it has caused NBC to cut the highly-acclaimed hit Parks and Recreations’ season in half just... Read more »
