Spring Break
Since the birth of the next generation consoles, there has been a huge decline in the number of fighting games that are available to play on home systems. This is probably due to the fact that the controllers make playing two or three-dimensional fighting games challenging.
Free food and lots of fun: a college student's dream. That's exactly what Campus Activities Board's Spring Jam turned out to be on May 14. The cloudless sky, with a light breeze helped to set up a block party atmosphere for an excellent afternoon. Inside the Daskalakis Athletic Center, Unwritten Law, Straylight Run, and Battle of the Bands winners To The Moon and Kef all performed.
The word that came to mind as I sat in on the final dress rehearsal for West Side Story at the Walnut Street Theatre was fascination. The story line is not complex, being nothing more than Romeo and Juliet with music. A gang war over a small ghetto of New York tear the star-crossed lovers apart.
The anticipation I feel before seeing a depressing movie isn't really apprehension. It's more of a "Jesus, this is going to suck." Not that I hate the idea of seeing a specific movie. It's just that I don't feel like running out to the local Eckerd and buying razor blades.
For the past five and a half years, no artists have been more prolific than one Sam Brown. Once every few weeks, he checks his e-mail and whips up a new batch of pictures that capture the very essence of popular or random English phrases. Armed with just e-mail subjects and a Wacom drawing tablet, he toils away to make landscapes come alive with stick figures, monsters and the occasional bird or cloud.
During the Irish rock band's recent induction to the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame, music legend Bruce Springsteen praised the spiritually enriched compositions of U2 as "some of the most beautiful sonic architecture in the rock-and-roll world." U2 arrived in Philadelphia to perform at the Wachovia Center on May 14 continuing their 2005 Vertigo Tour in promotion of their newest album "How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb" released in late 2004.
Once again, for this week's game of the week, I look back to my neighborhood days and recall another game I never played all that much until recently. Regardless, any city kid should recognize the simple and endlessly fun middle-of-the-street game Stickball.
