http://reportermag.com/ Leisure from Reporter Online. en-us http://reportermag.com/article/198 You wouldn't think it, but there's life here. In the depths of a pitch-black cavern, where the atmosphere is ridden with hellish toxic fumes at a feverish 165 degrees Fahrenheit, you're shocked to see it rocks covered in green plants and no light source in sight. Moving in closer, you notice that the rock is teeming with insects and spiders, adapted to toxins and shadows. So what is the purpose of these strange life-forms? How have they even come to be? For answers, you'd simply... Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://reportermag.com/article/198 http://reportermag.com/article/167 My journey towards a refreshing and rewarding concert experience after a very long, stressful week started at approximately 257 p.m. in the afternoon when I sat down to wait in line for Jimmy Eat World and Paramore, the College Activities Board's major spring concert. In the three hours it took for the doors to open, I witnessed the assassination of a bug named Herbert, the delivery of a total of four pizzas, a long detailed conversation on how RIT's Gordon Field House bathrooms... Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://reportermag.com/article/167 http://reportermag.com/article/102 No money, check. Skates, check. Funky disco music, check. Friends, check. That was all you needed for CAB's second Annual Ice Disco Skate on Friday, March 28th. When you think of disco music, you think of a combination of Saturday Night Fever, the 70s, and roller skates. Since it's a bit difficult to set up a roller rink on campus, however, CAB came up with the idea to bring "funky town" to the Frank Ritter Ice Arena instead. Lots of students came out for the disco skate. The... Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://reportermag.com/article/102 http://reportermag.com/article/75 A Celebration of Women? Late at night, usually on cable, the marimbas ring out and the overjoyed announcer makes his pitch. An inebriated blonde in a white tank top looks far off away from camera with a drunken smile, lifting the bottom of her shirt to her chin to reveal the floating bubble letters that read Girls Gone Wild'. "The fates have decreed that I'll always be around naked women," Leland Zaitz tells me over the phone. A man of many talents, Zaitz is a former... Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://reportermag.com/article/75 http://reportermag.com/article/25 Graffiti is all over our campus. It may be cute and clever, or it may be vile, uncomfortable, and crude. It could inform you that "The cake is a lie," or it could cause you to chuckle ("Anime satiating potential pedophiles for over 30 years!"). But every so often, a layer of paint hides it all, and what you see is a plain wall once again. It seems as though not everyone loves or appreciates graffiti. This is the case in the Booth (Building 7A) elevator. So why is the paint job being... Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://reportermag.com/article/25 http://reportermag.com/article/190 It's hard to feel out of place dressed as Rukia from Bleach while standing in a line of people ranging from Inuyasha to Kingdom Hearts characters- especially considering most cosplayers were cross-dressers. It was a little after 7 a.m. and I was waiting in the pre-registered l ine to enter Tora-Con, the annual convention held by the RIT Anime Club. Cosplay was, of course, a huge part of Tora-Con, part of the incentive being a Cosplay Competition. For instance, Sara Jackson,... Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://reportermag.com/article/190 http://reportermag.com/article/203 Russian Circles Station With the release of their previous EP, Enter, Russian Circles generated about a metric ton of buzz. The short offering showcased their blend of post hardcore song structure, intricate guitar, driving bass, and their signature epic flair, and left many, including myself, wanting more. Sadly, Station, the band's debut full length, just falls short. Sure, the musicianship is stellar, and yes, the songs seem more developed. However, the intensity that made their... Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://reportermag.com/article/203 http://reportermag.com/article/199 Would you get sprayed in the face by pepper spray? Doesn't sound too appealing, right? Wayne Perry apparently begs to differ. As a self-defense instructor who travels the country and demonstrates police pepper spray, he discovered the healing power of peppers. Later, he went on to create Sinus Buster, the company that bases all their products around capsaicin, a pepper extract. Sinus Buster 's world-famous product is the original Sinus Buster Nasal Spray, but they've branched out... Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://reportermag.com/article/199 http://reportermag.com/article/204 Stream of Facts Skittles are rumored to have been invented by a man named Rick Walden, a worker for Mars who became bored during a business meeting and started to punch holes in Starburst candies. His boss saw the circular results scattered all over the table, and the idea for Skittles was born. This occurrence is neither endorsed nor denied by the Mars candy company. Originally conceived as a club designed to alleviate boredom, the Ku Klux Klan began as a society club for former... Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://reportermag.com/article/204 http://reportermag.com/article/166 Tina Fey must be one of the busiest people in the world. From producing, writing and starring in her new hit television show, 30 Rock, to making an appearance in an American Express commercial, she's been spread all over the media. Now, Fey teams up with her former Saturday Night Live co-star Amy Poehler to front the new feature comedy, Baby Mama. Michael McCullers, writer of the Austin Powers trilogy and past SNL episodes, wrote and directed Baby Mama, a film about motherhood... Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://reportermag.com/article/166 http://reportermag.com/article/168 The Ghost you Left Behind When people think about the musical output of Sweden, two things usually come to mind death metal, and ABBA. You can clearly imagine my surprise when I learned that Hearts of Black Science were from Sweden. The band plays a wellexecuted style of electronic indie-pop. A heavy current of downtempo electronica can be heard throughout The Ghost You Left Behind, and a lot of the glitchy drum patterns sound similar to Telefon Tel Aviv. The only two acoustic... Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://reportermag.com/article/168 http://reportermag.com/article/170 What do you do if you love both apples and grapes? You could always try Gr&257;pples. They're Washington Extra Fancy or Fuji apples, depending on which apples are ready for harvesting, infused with a blast of Concord grape flavor. The concentrated grape flavor and pure water are made into a bath that the apples are soaked in to give them their new flavor. Sold in the United States and recently in Canada, they come with bilingual labels and are continuously gaining... Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://reportermag.com/article/170 http://reportermag.com/article/169 Noyes Noyes is the brainchild of guitarist Victor Villarreal, former axe-man of a number of legendary Chicago indie bands like Cap'n Jazz, Ghosts and Vodka, and OWLS. Villarreal has pioneered his own unique approach to guitar. His finger-picked riffs are beautifully melodic, and at times, almost hypnotizing. This album is a joy to listen to. The guitar work is complex in execution, but when layered and repeated, as Villarreal does on this disc, it can't be described any other way... Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://reportermag.com/article/169 http://reportermag.com/article/180 Stream of Facts Until the 1800s, tomatoes were thought to be poisonous. Their acceptance as a nutritional food source in the United States was due to Colonel Robert Johnson, who ate an entire basket of them in front of a Salem Courthouse just to prove they were not poisonous. Ketchupgate, as it is endearingly called, occurred when the USDA and President Ronald Reagan categorized ketchup as a vegetable. This decision allowed public schools to cut out a serving of cooked or fresh... Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://reportermag.com/article/180 http://reportermag.com/article/145 Stewart Lane has been married to the theatre ever since his first experience with it a production starring the father of his best friend. It was love at first sight. Since then, Lane has worked as an actor and producer on Broadway, in addition to receiving a Tony Award for his work in Jay Johnson The Two And Only. Recently, Lane came out with a very approachable and encouraging book titled Let's Put On a Show that offers a step-by-step process for the theatre rookie-from raising... Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:30:00 -0400 http://reportermag.com/article/145 http://reportermag.com/article/147 Mysterious Mysteries' self-titled EP is perhaps one of the most cohesively written pieces of music I have ever had the pleasure of hearing. Even though lyrics are scarce and there are no repeated musical or lyrical themes, there seems to be a strong plot that strings each song together without morphing them into one composition. This EP plays like a novel that, while short, is extremely interesting from start to finish. The opening track, "Chapter One," serves as an introduction to... Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:30:00 -0400 http://reportermag.com/article/147 http://reportermag.com/article/146 Why Bother Working for a Living? Have you finally unlocked all the new characters in Smash Bros. Brawl? Then maybe it's time to take a step away from your electronics. It's warming up outside, so why not gather a few friends and play Public Assistance? Game Play You begin the game as an able-bodied welfare recipient. Your general goal is to spend as little time as possible in the "working person's rut" with a real job. Instead, you want to commit as much welfare fraud as... Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:30:00 -0400 http://reportermag.com/article/146 http://reportermag.com/article/156 Stream of Facts Forty six years ago, a group of researchers decided to administer LSD to an elephant. The dose was 297 milligrams, about 3000 times the level of a typical human dose. To this day, it remains the largest dose of LSD ever given to a living creature. After firing the cartridge-syringe, Tusko the elephant shifted around in his pen for a few minutes and eventually keeled over on his side. The researchers concluded "It appears that the elephant is highly sensitive to the... Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://reportermag.com/article/156 http://reportermag.com/article/126 What do proms and psycho killers have in common? Nothing, but they're both in this movie. Prom Night is a remake of the 1980 film titled (surprisingly enough) Prom Night. It centers around a girl named Donna Keppel (Brittany Snow), whose family is murdered when an obsessed teacher raids her house while she is out at the movies. Life goes on and the teacher goes to prison. Now, a few years later, it's prom night, and the psychotic teacher has escaped. He wants what he came for... Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://reportermag.com/article/126 http://reportermag.com/article/125 Hulk Rules I have a unique fascination. I find it absurdly entertaining when things are done horribly. Whether it's zombie movies, crazy commercials, or oddities on the home shopping network, it seems that how much of a failure something may be just adds to its humor. There is something greatly satisfying about watching "Attack of the Giant Leeches" and noticing that the jaws of each creature were fashioned with plungers, and the "disgusting" larva sacks were nothing more than... Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://reportermag.com/article/125