Issue
Volume 58, Issue 9
Coen brothers fat on laughs, thin on plot
By: VANESSA FIRTH
Burn After Reading, the newest film from the fraternal directing duo of Joel and Ethan Coen, centers around a pseudo-spy theme sans the spies and any relative intelligence. Based around six interconnected yet clueless characters, this movie is stretched along a plot formed by chance and happenstance, taking an improbable solution to its absurd, if not amusing, ending. [read more]
Creeping Death Magnetic
By: MATTHEW ZAJAC
As "The End of the Line" rings out, eardrums decode riffs that cannot be new Metallica and drums that drive cars. Accelerator/brake pedal double bass without the overambitious sloppy snare, just guitar lines that move like the pulse beam to some fire-breathing beast - a Tool "Vicarious" riff but in rock time. James Hetfield roars "The slave becomes the master" and Death Magnetic builds to a feel-good legitimacy - a fan piece that plays as a "Now say something" demand to years of soft calls. [read more]
Let it thunder
By: NICOLE SANTACESARIA
Cheering fans are not the only ones making noise at sporting events. The Thunder of the East, UB's marching band, has been bringing school spirit to campus since the 1920s and has never been as large as it is today. [read more]
Tech Beat Wednesdays
Peril of the Pod
By: BOUTY CHANTHAVISINH
Many students use music to occupy themselves between classes, to increase energy while exercising and to blur outside noise while studying. This useful and seeming harmless habit may actually cause hearing loss later in life. [read more]
To the Editor: A poor use of freedom of the press
Subject: Response to the Editorial Opinion, September 15
By: None
UB Gallery honors distinguished career
By: SHANE FALLON
The UB Anderson Art Gallery was host to the unveiling of a new exhibit honoring 20th century painter Michael Goldberg. Ode to Michael Goldberg: Selective Thievery and the Practice of Looking, which was made possible through a slew of artistic donations and loans, including pieces from Goldberg's personal estate, opened on Sept. 13. [read more]