Holidays are often romanticized as Currier and Ives family moments-heading into the woods for that perfect Christmas tree, standing around the kitchen sink eating Manwiches on Thanksgiving, or Uncle Phil blowing off his thumb at the second knuckle on the 4th of July.…

It's spring concert season at Eastern and country music artist Rodney Atkins and opening act Fisher Stevenson, an up-and-coming country guitarist, will be appearing at Alumni Coliseum on April 9 to start the ball rolling. While Atkins is a relatively new artist, he was nominated for and won the 2007 Top New Male Vocalist Award from the Academy of Country Music, according to his Web site.…

Everyone likes a good concert, but everyone knows they can stretch a starving student's budget to bursting. Well, you can save all that money you have squirreled away for summer text books-you won't need to tap into it to hear some of the top musical acts on the charts.…

Most television-marketing people could tell you that I, as an 18-to-35-year-old male, spend many of my nights watching cartoons. Whether it's The Simpsons, Family Guy or South Park, we all have our guilty pleasures. In an average week I spend what is most likely an unhealthy amount of time watching The Simpsons, Family Guy, Futurama, American Dad, King of the Hill and any superhero cartoon I can find.…

Imagine swimming 300 yards, biking six kilometers and then running five kilometers-in the same day. That's what the participants in Richmond's first-ever triathlon will do Saturday, April 12. Mark Howard, assistant director and facilities coordinator of Campus Recreation, said he is excited about the event.…

Nerds rule the world. This is simply a fact of life, and will grow increasingly true as we speed along in the information era, when computers have a practical stranglehold on communications and information the world over. Nowadays the title of computer geek comes with quite a bit more prestige than it did ten years ago.…

Director Robert Luketic (Legally Blonde, Win A Date With Tad Hamilton, Monster-in-Law) finally made a movie my girlfriend didn't have to drag me by my ears to see. 21 is a story about six MIT students who learn to count cards and make a fortune playing blackjack in Las Vegas casinos.…