I believe that breakfast is the best meal of the day. Whether you are a vegan or a carnivore, there is something tasty awaiting you in the world of the breakfast menu. My love for breakfast is so deep that I have decided to dedicate all of next quarter to reviewing the top breakfast joints in the St. Louis area. So to satisfy my craving for breakfast fare, I came across a place in my trusty Sauce magazine, and decided to do a test drive of the breakfast review.
Archive for the ‘Features’ Category
Should we care if our favorite pop artists are copycats?
Friday, March 5th, 2010This week I wanted to address a topic that has recently been popping up on blogs and in my conversations with other music journalists. The other day someone was singing the chorus to “Tik Tok,” the breakthrough song from new party pop princess, Ke$ha. I cringed as I thought of the first time I heard it – I was in a friend’s room doing homework when I heard the eerie Gameboy synth that opens the song, with a bratty teenage girl imitating a hip-hop vocal delivery.
Shutter Island a creepy masterpiece
Friday, March 5th, 2010For the first time since The Departed, Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio team up to dominate the silver screen. Shutter Island demonstrates Scorsese’s prowess in an unfamiliar genre – that of the psychological thriller. This film is guaranteed to distort your dreams for nights after you experience it.
Creative living, sustainable solutions
Friday, March 5th, 2010You can smell the creative juices simmering long before you enter the Williams theme house. Notes of Debussy’s “Clair de Lune” drift out from the newly-acquired piano, sending messages that say, “Talent lives here” and “Visitors welcome.” Dried flowers hang in the stairwell, and a whiteboard with inspirational quotes, including the “German sentence of the day,” adorns the wall. Downstairs in the kitchen, herbal tea bags and paper cranes from an Origami workshop hang on a string across the ceiling as testaments to some of the major activities of the house. Tea is kind of a big deal here.
Camp counseling on the resume
Friday, February 19th, 2010Principia is probably the only college in the United States that can boast “camp counselor” as the most popular summer job for the student body. Here it’s almost assumed that students have some type of camp experience, and it’s never offensive to ask even the most talented and driven individuals if they will spend their summers planning arts ‘n crafts or playing dodgeball with fifth graders.
Kenjams: Yeasayer
Friday, February 19th, 2010When the Brooklyn art-rock trio Yeasayer emerged in 2007, their debut album All Hours Cymbals was peculiar even for people with the most abnormal music tastes. Fast forward to 2010 when fellow East Coast experimental acts like Animal Collective and TV on the Radio are the front-runners in indie music, and Yeasayer’s brand of trippy pop music isn’t as arduous a listen as it is enjoyable.
A GLI-ful test drive
Friday, February 19th, 2010I arrived at the dealership and talked to one of the sales representatives. In the building and on the way to the car, he told me about some of the features of the new GLIs. It’s not an outrageously equipped car. It doesn’t transform and save the world from aliens. It also doesn’t talk to you while it drives for you as if you were Michael Knight. However, there are some features that make life a little better.
Our food buff weighs in on Duff’s
Friday, February 19th, 2010Duff’s has two separate dining rooms and a banquet hall in the back. The first dining room, where I was seated, has wood-covered walls, a cozy fireplace, and a floor-length window with stained glass, which made for excellent ambiance.
Principia’s window to the wild, wild world
Friday, February 19th, 2010New biology professor Scott Eckert once lived underwater for ten days, spending six hours every night at the bottom of the ocean. For four months he lived in a tent on ocean ice in Antarctica, studying emperor penguins and watching killer whales whip beneath the surface. And every summer, Eckert spends two weeks a month on the island of Trinidad, monitoring leatherback sea turtle hatcheries and working to stop their accidental capture. So what’s he doing in Elsah, Illinois?
Book of Eli – Movie Review
Friday, February 5th, 2010The Book of Eli is the story of a man on a mission from God. Eli, played by Denzel Washington, is a former K-Mart worker turned post-apocalyptic badass. After nuclear war scorched the surface of the Earth, Eli is charged with the task of protecting the last Bible in existence.
