The NL can play ball too, just watch
For those of you who jumped on the baseball bandwagon this past week due to the excitement that the sport’s biggest rivalry brought to the table, let this be a reminder: that was just the appetizer.
Yes, Boston-New York is baseball’s main attraction, especially to the casual fan.
Bosox make history, Cards can’t let it happen to them
For the first time in professional sports history, a team came back from a 0-3 deficit to tie a seven-game series and force a Game 7. Unfortunately, the team to do so was the Boston Red Sox in their American League Championship Series with the New York Yankees.
Happenings
Monday, Oct. 25
“New Math: Contemporary Art and the Mathematical Instinct” opens with a lecture by Peter Spooner at the University of Richmond Museum. Starts at 7 p.m. followed at 8 p.m. with an hour-long reception. 289-8980.
Tuesday, Oct. 26
Catch Carrot Top, the 1-800-CALL-ATT pitchman, at the Carpenter Center.
Zodiac Cookies
Scorpio Oct. 24 – Nov. 21
You need to start listening more…or else you’ll be eaten by mummies. Watch out for dollar bills on the sidewalk, they’re probably cursed with venereal diseases. But they’re also probably free. Moral dilemmas such as this will characterize your week.
“Villainy and Virtue”: Mediocre metalcore
Reviewing a death-metal or hardcore album is not the easiest task in the world: it takes an active ear to both react to and decipher the sound. Very few critics will agree on every element because the music form is so abstract.
Dead to Fall’s metalcore (a combination of death-metal and hardcore) album “Villainy and Virture” is no exception.
Destination: Useful Information
Just because it’s unauthorized doesn’t mean it’s unreliable. It means the authors are providing information that students want to know the most, including which international schools offer their program of choice, and which schools provide an abundance of campus activities.
Anime Club showcases broad spectrum of anime
Halloween is descending once again here at VCU, which means it’s time for all you freaks and peaks to come out and put on your faces…and we’re not just talking about all you regulars from the corner of Grace and Robinson. It’s that time of year to get all costumed up as your favorite escape from reality; be it your played-out pirate garb, infinitely boring ’60s greaser/waitress couple, or even your ultra-lame, homemade, out-of-focus Nightwing costume.
“Turandot” brings love, death, marriage to Landmark Theater
What would you risk for the one you love? Would you die to keep their secrets? Would you risk your own death after such a person died for you so that your future spouse would love you?
A prince (Michael Hayes) does just that after Liu (Wei Huang) commits suicide to keep her master’s name secret from wicked Princess Turandot (Mary Ellen Schauber).
Crime Log
Oct. 7
Female arrested for public intoxication in the Navy Hill area of Jackson Ward.
Oct. 8
Male arrested for domestic assault on the 1100 block of W. Main Street.
Oct. 14
Male student advised an unknown person damaged personal property in the Main Street Deck.
Choldlabor activist encourages involvement
Craig Kielburger told students and faculty who attended the World Studies Student Research Conference about the inspiration for his organization Free the Children: a young Pakistani boy who was trapped in a carpet factory.
The boy managed to free himself and spoke against child labor and the exploitation of children.