Archive for October, 2009

EVENTS: Weekend Party Preview: Halloween Edition

Oct 30, 2009 No Comments by

You can take your nieces and nephews trick-or-treating, you can veg and watch Hocus Pocus, or you can party it up like it’s the last Halloween you’ll ever spend in Provo. (Oh, wait! It is my last Halloween in Provo! Woot!) There are too many options for activities and parties. I still haven’t made up [...]

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FILM: Old Movies are Scarier! Five Classic Films for Halloween

Oct 29, 2009 No Comments by

Today’s horror movies will make you jump. They’ll startle and even disgust you. But this Halloween, if you’re tired of watching movies that are more “horrific” than genuinely frightening, you might take a look at some of Hollywood’s classic scare-fests. Though old movies might lack the jarring edits and industrial sound effects of more modern [...]

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READING LIST: October 28th

Oct 28, 2009 No Comments by

A rather light day in the news today, so we’ll start with the good stuff… Popular Culture Friday Night Lights is back! Hallelujah! This criminally under-watched show about life in a small, economically recessed Texas town is one of the best shows on television, hands down — and it’s finally back from a break that [...]

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SPORTS: Go Forth and Learn

Oct 28, 2009 No Comments

If I’ve learned one thing about football this season, it’s that Peyton Manning is even better than anyone thought. If I’ve learned two things, the second is that life and football are significantly more enjoyable when you pledge allegiance to no team. I grew up in a home where, because my dad went to BYU, [...]

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SPORTS: Rhombus Reports from College GameDay

Oct 28, 2009 No Comments

This past week, ESPN’s wildly popular Saturday morning pre-game show, College GameDay, made its first ever trip to Provo as BYU took on the Horned Frogs of TCU. While the game may not have lived up to the hype, many people camped out Friday night in order to get into the show’s live taping at [...]

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READING LIST: October 27th

Oct 27, 2009 No Comments

In the immortal words of that guy from the Monday Night Football intro: “Are you ready for some Rhombus Reading List for October 27th?” (I don’t think that’s necessarily accurate, but it’s close enough.) Politics Ol’ Joe Lieberman is at it again! He’s being all mavericky and such, saying he’ll filibuster a health care bill [...]

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POLITICS: The Malt-O-Meal of Health Insurance

Oct 27, 2009 No Comments

The Great Health Care Debate has produced enough bantering material over the last few months that it seems pretty trite to write yet another piece on the subject. As health care reform rounds more corners in Congress, though, here is yet another opinion on the matter, specifically the hope that somehow, some way, the public [...]

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MUNCHMOBILE: The Thai Kitchen

Oct 27, 2009 No Comments

WEEK 9 — THE THAI KITCHEN After a week in which our Munchers snacked on the burgers of the giant fast food chains, they decided to go back to their roots and hit the streets of Provo in search of some good grub. Instead of going for the usual burger and fries on a Saturday [...]

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READING LIST: October 26th

Oct 26, 2009 No Comments

I read. A lot. In fact, I spend most of my day on the Internet, reading various things about a myriad of subjects. It takes a lot of work. I’ve often wished I didn’t have to spend so much time scouring the Internet for pertinent tidbits. Why couldn’t someone just show me all the good [...]

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TECH: The Decline and Fall of the Facebook Empire

Oct 26, 2009 No Comments

Friday morning I thought my Internet connection had been disrupted. My Facebook home page looked all wrong and surely, I thought, Facebook wouldn’t have tried yet another unwelcome “update.” After expectantly refreshing the page a dozen times, however, I discovered I was wrong; America’s favorite social networking site had been ransacked once again by it’s [...]

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