Category: <span>2009 Archive</span>

Ernest Clemons Jr. Published: November 8, 2006 Many people want to start their own record label or business in the music industry but do not know what it takes to have a successful business.  For some, attending college has helped. Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University student Tuesday Donaldson, a junior majoring in Public Relations, has...

Jennifer Rich-Neal Published: November 8, 2006 Through the service learning approach, a series of bonus features has been produced.  Prior to each curtain call of the musical, the audience will be treated to a 10-minute presentation of various aspects surrounding the reality that was World War II.  PJC students, faculty and patrons of WWII have...

Paul Smith – The Corsair Everyone enjoys a good conspiracy theory—a wild romp through fanciful images of shadow and light at war behind the scenes of ordinary life. But once you peel back the layers and do some proper research, those tales of secret brotherhoods, aliens, and government cover-ups just seem so puerile and inane....

Trials HD, for Xbox 360 developed by RedLynx for Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade ESRB rating: T. by Wade Manns Trials HD doesn’t really have a story, but at its soul is competition. You compete with your friends that you’ve added through Xbox Live, as well as the thousands-strong whole of the Xbox Live community. Your...

by Wade Manns Inglourious Basterds Directed by Quentin Tarantino Rating: R, for strong graphic violence, language, and brief sexuality. Length: 153 minutes. Tarantino has returned for his latest cinematic masterpiece, and it is quintessentially Tarantino. He’s taken the formula that he used so well in Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill and applied it to the...

By Wade Manns Shadow Complex by Epic Games, Chair Entertainment Genre: 2D action/exploration on a semi-3D field. Rating: T for Violence and Language. Incremental exploration has always been one of my favorite activities in video games. If you have played Super Metroid or any Castlevania game since Symphony of the Night, you know of what...

by Wade Manns My first game console was the Atari 2600. It was around 1983 or 1984, when I was around four or five years old. My brother (who is about three years older than me) and I would gather around that storied box of wonders that connected to our television set and play several...

Cynthia Munoz Published: October 25, 2006 A LionsGate film released on DVD this month is creeping out teens and adults alike.  It is about a teenage girl who finally meets up with a hunky 30-year-old photographer at a coffee shop after months of online chatting. She convinces him to take her to his place to...

Gina Nespoli Published: October 25, 2006 On Oct. 11, PJC hosted Mark Doty, author of seven books of poems and three volumes of memoirs.  I was ecstatic that I got to hear him read his poetry.  I also had the opportunity to ask questions and hear about his influences for each poem. He opened with...

Kay Forrest – The Corsair “People were walking, like, to Mecca,” Iris Shapiro recollects of her long tramp to Woodstock—the music festival of ’69, not Snoopy’s yellow companion. Depending on one’s point of view, the name “Woodstock” conjures up several different images: an open stage, Jimi Hendrix, intoxicated hippies, free love, the idea of “getting...