Halloween isn't just for the kids. Attending the best Halloween party is on most college students mind this year, and someone has to throw it. In order to make sure everyone is going to want to attend the party, make sure to have a killer set up with decorations, punch, and the whole nine yards.
A panicking woman with a large mole rat attacking her face is one of the wax sculptures that can be found at the Phoenix Art Museum. Many other fascinating pieces of modern art, along with collections of traditional American, European, Latin American, and Asian.
The Music Genome Project is an ambitious attempt to analyze music based on a comprehensive list of attributes and generate a massive database of songs allowing listeners to create a personal radio station customized to their particular taste. The project began on January 6, 2000 by Tim Westergren and is the foundation for the music discovery website Pandora.
MCC's study abroad program gives students the opportunity to experience another culture in a foreign country. "You don't realize how much of a bi-product of your culture you are until you step outside of your self and go to a foreign country," said education abroad coordinator Yvonne Schmidt.
Death is running for President in MCC's comedy, "Death by a Landslide," opening October 19. "Death by a Landslide" is a political satire written by Emmy nominee Joel Martel, who worked with Michael Moore on "Fahrenheit 9/11". In the play, Death starts his candidacy after the president's political strategist agrees to run Death's campaign in exchange for his life.
"The War Within," by Bob Woodward is an in-depth observation of the Bush administration during the Iraq War and the build up to the "surge." It is specifically a study of the miscommunication and political backstabbing that became a staple of the Bush legacy. This book is one of nearly a half dozen on the subject by Woodward, but what truly makes this one stand out is its devotion to detail. Woodward writes like a novelist. The backgrounds and personalities of every character, from General Petraeus to the President himself, are painstakingly detailed. By the end of the book one feels as if they know every presidential staff member and every hardened marine general like a brother.
Eagle Eye Action-thriller PG-13 for violence and language 120 minutes Plot: Jerry Shaw (Shia Lebeouf), a burnt out Ivy League dropout constantly overshadowed by his dead brother, and Rachel Holloway (Michelle Monaghan), the single mother of a musical prodigy fed up with her dead-beat ex-husband, are violently coerced into a plot with national and possibly global consequences by a woman who seems to be everywhere.