Film review: For Scott Pilgrim, all the world’s a game

Film review: For Scott Pilgrim, all the world’s a game Zaynah Akeel Contributing writer Seeing the commercial for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, directed by Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) and released on August 13, one might have assumed we’d already seen all the good parts. Incredibly, this is completely false. Scott […]

Crime log

8/28 At the corner of West Grace and North Shafer streets, a male visitor was arrested for possessing an open alcoholic container in public. On the 800 block of West Grace Street, a male visitor was arrested for being drunk in public. 8/29 On the 700 block of West Main Street, a male visitor was […]

CarnivOil highlights murky oil issues

Julie DiNisio Contributing Writer On Tuesday, Clean Energy Works and Environment Virginia, a state-wide advocacy group, held a two-hour long event to raise awareness about the Gulf Coast oil spill and the government’s current oil and energy policies. CarnivOil: The Greatest Addiction on Earth, as it was billed, occurred in Monroe Park and assumed the […]

Ground Zero mosque debated at Muslim Students meeting

Zarmeena Waseem Contributing Writer The building of new mosques have made headlines recently, but the proposed construction of an Islamic Center famously referred to as the ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ in the Lower East Side of Manhattan has become a major national topic. During the meeting in the  Student Commons’ Richmond Salons, students weighed in with […]