Finals week gives everyone a good excuse to lose it. So while you may be running into walls with a helmet and a straight jacket, here are some songs that let you do it in style.
I've bought a lot of crap over the years - used furniture that I planned on painting but never did, a crate of potpourri tarts for a potpourri burner that I never bought, a large collection of rubber insects, and many, many storage containers that now only house each other like nesting dolls.Consumerism isn't entirely evil - it creates jobs and a reason to work.
Heading into the weekend, the softball team was caught in the cellar of the Mid-American Conference and hoped to find a way out.
The last thing 40-year-old men and women need is a drama-comedy flick to tell them how bad life can be at that age.
When it comes to food, college students are cheap, and rightfully so. There's tuition to pay, the cost of car insurance, the monthly rent and the price of books, so the last thing we want to do is spend more than we have to on a slice of pizza.On campus, though, where it can often feel like our wallets are being pinched by the cost of mozzarella sticks, there are few options for the hungry other than dining halls, food courts, and caf?
If you've ever wondered why horror movies often feature carnivals, it's because there is something intrinsically cryptic about them.
Lewis Black may not be able to shake his spastic angry finger at you through the speakers, but his characteristic wit and in-your-face attitude on his new CD "The Carnegie Hall Performance" is just like watching a performance of the irate comedian live."Lewis Black: The Carnegie Hall Performance" is a simply titled double-album chock full of all the expected maniacal, political and diabolical ideas from the comedian and playwright who is perhaps most famous for his Back in Black segment on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart."The first track may give listeners the wrong impression, as Black goes on for a while about how Carnegie is an inappropriate venue for a puissant like himself because respectable composers like Leonard Bernstein have performed there.
In one of his family's home videos, 8-year-old Colin Murphy, wearing an orange striped shirt and a big grin, dances around the room singing Bob Dylan's "When I Paint My Masterpiece" while his dad Christopher pretends to play the guitar.Colin knows every word to the song as well as the instrumental middle he hums perfectly.What makes this scene heartbreaking is the fact that since early in his young life, Colin has suffered from autism, a disorder that strikes the brain causing significant developmental problems and difficulty communicating and interacting socially.Still, Colin has the ability to remember the words to hundreds of songs, as well as a plethora of other information, which is a characteristic of his specific disorder, regressive autism.
I'm writing about your thoughtful editorial "Giambra's deep thought" (April 21).I'd like to add that there is only one country in the world that is actually winning the drug war: the Czech Republic.
Move over Fall Out Boy, because the pop-punk genre has just added another up-and-coming band to its roster.
In an effort to study how methamphetamine disrupts the immune system, UB researchers have received a $1.7 million grant from the National Institute of Drug Abuse.Madhavan P.N.
Spring practices came to an end on Saturday for Buffalo football as the team held its annual Blue & White Game at UB Stadium.
A week after shining at the Harvey Cup against Eastern Michigan, women's crew could not manage the same luster against Ivy League opponents Bucknell and Colgate Saturday.Of the five races, the Bulls mustered a second-place finish over Bucknell in the Varsity Eight race, but Bucknell powered through the day, winning four of the five events.
Immigration and crime are quickly converging in the public and media's eyes, with recent protests against new immigration bills and new police-deportation policy arriving before Congress.
"Akeelah and the Bee" is a heartwarming tale that follows a young girl in her struggle to succeed despite an economically disadvantaged upbringing.
"You'll never come back," they say. I'm moving to Boulder, Colorado in the fall for grad school. Four people, including two family members, have told me that my return to upstate New York is unlikely.The sun shines 300 days a year in Boulder.
Forgive me, baseball gods, for I have sinned. It's even worse than that, really, because I committed a cardinal sin.I switched teams.I used to be a San Francisco Giants fan.
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