This is the archive for 14 May 2010
By Michelle Danai, Courier Staff Courier
Over the weekend I made my first trip to Yogurtland, located just across the UC Berkeley Campus and simply fell in love with the wide variety of flavors and toppings. I got the red velvet and chocolate twilight along, with chewy mochi balls, (like brownie bites) and it was absolutely delicious — a bit sweet, but surely delicious.
Yogurtland offers both tart and sweet flavors and is a self serving place. Although it is not a spacious location and could really use some tables and chairs during rush hours and sunny afternoons, the service was great and at 30 cents a topping I would go back any day. The frozen yogurt at Yogurtland is creamier, than icy which is very tasty. What is even better is the fact that the serving size is up to the customer and the toppings are unlimited.
Posted by courier at 10:19 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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By Michelle Danai, Courier Staff Writer
"I can'€™t read your mind. But I can kick your ass."
The movie quoted above,
Kick-Ass has been in theaters for a while and earned many positive reviews. You should go see it while it's still on the big screen.
Kick-Ass is a superhero movie unlike any other. This movie is an action-filled comedy based on an outcast high school student, Dave Lizewski whose obsession with comic books and his boring everyday life leads him to become Kick-Ass. Kick-Ass is a superhero with no special powers or training, but a lot of courage and attitude.
Posted by courier at 10:01 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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By Michelle Danai, Courier Staff Writer
A tedious Saturday night at home led me to scroll down on demand’s free movies list; in hope of killing time, I played the 1986 hit
Stand By Me. Besides
Pretty in Pink and
The Breakfast Club, I don’t necessarily find movies from the ‘80’s captivating. However,
Stand By Me is now one of my all-time favorite movies. The three-time Oscar winning film is truly a masterpiece.
Stand By Me is based on Stephen King's Short story "The Body” and it emphasizes the significance of friendship through Geordie, Chris, Teddy and Vern – four young boys who embark on an unforgettable journey in search of a missing and presuming body that they convince themselves could gain them a great deal of both fame and fortune. However, they aren’t the only kids in town who seek for this missing body; the movie soon becomes a race to see who will reach the dead body first.
Posted by courier at 09:55 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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By Julie Mendoza, Courier Staff Writer
What Dreams May Come is my mother's favorite movie. It brings together the possibility of heaven and hell existing side by side. Robin Williams plays Chris Nielsen a man whose love for his wife defies the laws of the afterlife. After his death, his wife, Annie, played by Annabella Sciorra, is left distraught and broken. She is haunted by his presence and hurt by his abandonment.
Posted by courier at 09:43 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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By Allen Chan, Courier Staff Writer
The long waited film, Iron man 2, was released in theaters on May 7th. Being the second of a great film, it had a lot of expectations. For instance, the first
Iron Man brought a sense of imaginable realism, meaning that all the new technology in the movie was within modern times reach. That aspect, made the film blow the human mind away.
In the second movie, a lot of things were questionable. The villain Whiplash’s ability to withstand a car collision was very unrealistic given that he had no armor. Normally, a crash like that would tear his abdomen in half. Also, the droid in the movie were very weak and fell apart to easily. It takes a dozen droid to target and hit Iron Man, yet it only takes him one hand blast to kill them all.
Posted by courier at 09:33 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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By Shamal Asnani, Courier Film Critic
Anyone who is looking to enjoy a great comedy with a good story behind it should definitely check out the 2005 film,
Wedding Crashers. The film stars Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn as John and Jeremy, two divorce mediators who frequently crash weddings in order to party and meet women. Whenever they crash weddings, the two constantly have a set of rules to follow, and are always sure to device some sort of back story, in case anyone ever questions the reasoning behind their presence. One day the duo decides to crash the wedding of William Cleary, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (Christopher Walken).
Posted by courier at 09:27 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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By Michele Munz
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT)
ST. LOUIS — Rick Delashmit had two volunteers hand out large, white napkins to their fellow third-graders sitting on the gym floor. He told the students, "This is your landing pad for the fruits and vegetables you will be eating today."
The kids looked at each other with apprehension. Delashmit — a short, stocky man with a commanding voice — stood in front of stacks of ice cube trays holding 10 different fruits and vegetables he cut that morning and explained the rules of the game.
Posted by courier at 05:00 AM. Filed under: Features
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Sidney Bechet (May 14, 1897 – May 14, 1959) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer.
He was one of the first important soloists in jazz (beating cornetist/trumpeter Louis Armstrong to the recording studio by several months and later playing duets with Armstrong), and was perhaps the first notable jazz saxophonist of any sort. Forceful delivery, well-constructed improvisations, and a distinctive wide vibrato characterized Bechet's playing.
However, Bechet's mercurial temperament hampered his career, and not until the late 1940s did he earn wide acclaim.
Listen to Sidney Bechet's performance in The Sheik, free from redhotjazz.com.
Posted by courier at 12:13 AM. Filed under: In Quotes
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