Sunday’s Academy Awards proved America is no country for white men, with “The Hurt Locker” director Kathryn Bigelow earning Best Director and Mo’Nique taking home Best Supporting Actress for “Precious.” It was the first time in the show’s history that a woman took the prize for directing…

Every year before the Academy Awards, a slew of negative press dominates headlines, usually attacking the best-picture front-runners. Last year, best picture winner “Slumdog Millionaire” was accused of child exploitation just days before it took home the golden statue…

The creators of television's brilliant, “Family Guy,” have proven yet again their animated series is more intelligent and wittier than former Alaskan governor, Sarah Palin. In last Sunday’s Valentine’s Day episode, Peter Griffin’s awkward son, Chris…

A heinous ESPN article, chronicling the bitter opinions of more than 50 sports writers, has recently named our very own Pullman the worst town in the Pac-10. To be fair, a sports analyst who spends a few days in a certain town cannot possibly soak in its wonders…

I cannot remember the last time I saw someone above the age of 50 in entertainment. Well, not counting last Sunday’s Screen Actors Guild awards, naturally. However, the pop culture circuit is flooded with young entertainers, most not even old enough to drink…

Last year was a strange year in Tinseltown. “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” managed to gross the most money ever for a movie about sparkling vampires and masochists. Then there was James Cameron’s sci-fi epic, “Avatar,” that successfully grossed the most amount of money ever for a movie about blue aliens…

With the year coming to a close, social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter are so 2009. Thankfully, Internet addicts of the world will have a new site in 2010. Foursquare is the latest trivial social networking site expected to take over Twitter’s roughly three-week reign as king of virtual society…

The Mormon Church has finally joined the 2000s, announcing support of gay rights legislation banning discrimination against gays in housing and employment. Despite its opposition to gay marriage, Utah proves that it is not a land lost in time, it is just a little behind the times…

November used to be a month to look forward to. It was the beginning of the joyous holiday season, but now it is a month to dread because the new edition of the abominable “Twilight” series is hitting theaters. Never has a single form of American entertainment encapsulated the rise of shallowness and asininity in our country with as much ferocity…

With the new James Cameron blockbuster “Avatar” set to revolutionize the way we look at 3-D technology, it is about time we call into question why the American public is so entranced with this new form of entertainment. This year alone, the industry has seen a tremendous increase in the number of 3-D movies…

This weekend, Pullman will host its very own zombie apocalypse in the form of Zombie Mosh, a rock show. The show, which will feature bands from around Washington, will start at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Thai Ginger Restaurant & Bar. Aaron Flansburg, WSU graduate and lead singer of the Pullman-based metal band Random Noise…

Attending the Homecoming football game on Saturday was like stumbling into a giant Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, but that is expected. What I did not expect that much of this drunken, boorish behavior would be from parents, not the students. In particular…

When it comes to cancer, they say the key to survival is awareness. Yet here we are in October, celebrating another annual Breast Cancer Awareness Month, with not a word on any other of those poor cancers who are consistently left out of the media. According to the National Cancer Institute…

If there’s one thing that can be said about President Barack Obama, it’s that he has great intentions. I believe he sincerely wants the best for this country,though some of his proposals are slightly unreasonable. By unreasonable, I mean completely absurd and worthless in every way imaginable…

The government has officially taken the full-time responsibility of being the American public’s nanny. Their latest bright idea is to tax soda to decrease obesity in the country and help pay billions of dollars for President Barack Obama’s health care plan…