Entertainment Archive

  • Resurrecting the Metal

    Resurrecting the Metal

    It seems the psychological healing that took place during the making of Metallica’s last album, St. Anger, did them some good. Their new album Death Magnetic delivers exactly what fans have been waiting for since Metallica in 1991. We’ve had to wait 17 years for...

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  • Scare tips for Halloween

    Scare tips for Halloween

    Top Thirteen Scary Movies:   1. The Shinning 2. Silence of the Lambs 3. The Orphanage 4. 28 Days Later 5. Children of the Corn 6. The Exorcist 7. Invasion of the Body Snatchers 8. Carrie 9. Rosemary’s Baby 10. Psycho 11. The Strangers 12....

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  • Diwali: The Festival Of Lights

    Diwali: The Festival Of Lights

    India is a land full of different festivals. This week is Diwali, the festival of lights. It is celebrated all throughout the country. The festival of Diwali symbolizes unity and diversity, since each Indian state has their own way of celebrating it.  The celebration lasts...

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  • Fall Honors Concert

    Fall Honors Concert

    The Fall Honors Concert on Monday, October 13, in the Albany High School Little Theater, had all the elements of a great band concert. The selection of songs was one that you might actually want to listen to for your own enjoyment, rather than the...

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  • Madrigal Delights

    Madrigal Delights

    The Madrigal hit the stage last weekend with a royal bang! The audience enjoyed an evening filled with delicious food and superb singing from the men and womens choir as well as the award-winning Advanced Chorale. At 7:30 p.m. the doors opened and in walked...

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  • Burn After Reading Movie Review

    Burn After Reading Movie Review

      It seems that there are a great many films out today with characters so heartfelt, so simpering, and so romantically inclined that the audience member cannot help but wish a certain death upon such characters. In Burn After Reading, however, sentimentality is scarce, yet...

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  • News for the rest of us

    News for the rest of us

    National Public Radio has long and often been ridiculed as the radio station for geeks, as the station brings a plethora of programs devoted to the stock market, analyzing political figures, and other serious and worldly news. However, for those of us who enjoy stupid...

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    The best flash games online

    Computers are wonderful things. In school, they allow us to pursue whatever research we desire. We can easily write papers for all of our classes. But most importantly, we can play Internet games to kill time in some of the slower classes. Here is a...

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  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream finishes

    A Midsummer Night’s Dream finishes

    The AHS Theater Ensemble concluded its final performance of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Saturday night. Senior Sophie Dresser directed the story of four adolescents caught up in a love quadrilateral. Hermia (Mia Kleven) and Lysander (Rees Blanchard) were in love, but that love was...

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  • Juno: If you haven’t seen it already, it’s a must

    Juno: If you haven’t seen it already, it’s a must

    Juno was amazing. Ellen Page was absolutely incredible as Juno MacGuff and never failed to respond with some witty remark thanks to the incredible genius of screenwriter Diablo Cody, who, in parts, owes her talent to her days a pole dancer. Michael Cera made me...

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  • Cloverfield: The Return of the Monster Movie

    Cloverfield: The Return of the Monster Movie

    It seems that in movies these days, giant monsters are a taboo. Not since the incredibly bad Godzilla 2000 has there been a film about a gargantuan monstrosity smashing every building within its reach. Cloverfield, which opened Friday, finally brought this genre back to the...

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  • Atonement: the jury is still out

    Atonement: the jury is still out

    So, it’s been about two weeks since I saw Atonement and I still can’t decide if I liked it. The camera work, the scenery, the script, the soundtrack, everything about it was impeccable and done so beautifully. Yet some things fell flat for me and...

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