2008 Woodie Awards
View this section's front page!She cracks her eyelids open at the sound of her alarm clock. It sounds distant, like there is cotton in her ears. Sinuses throbbing, she turns off the alarm and immediately the coughing fit begins. It's not cold season yet, but here she is with the sniffles.
A recent Nike ad reads, "If you think you'll have more time to run tomorrow, remember, you said that yesterday." In a country where flat stomachs and bulging biceps are the standards for being beautiful, where new health and fad diets come out every other week and health and fitness seem to be so important, the contradiction stands that obesity rates in the United States are soaring far higher than in many other countries.
The scene is not unique: a person is out trying to enjoy a run, but can't seem to get anything accomplished due to the hustle and bustle of traffic. But with limited places to run, the side of the road seems to be the one of the only options. Although not always safe, what else is a runner to do? Fortunately for those with this problem, there is now a solution.
Any restaurant that has a smiling hamburger and a six-pack of beer as its logo has to be worth a try, right? That's what I was thinking when I decided to go to Snack n Pack, where "friends and family meet to eat," as their logo says. But oh, was I surprised.
If you feel that between the wizard wand waving and pirate sword swinging of this past summer there wasn't enough glorious gunplay, then Clive Owen ("King Arthur") and Paul Giamatti ("Sideways") offer up a slew of smoking barrels in "Shoot 'Em Up.
When hearing the phrase "beauty queen," people often think of big hair containing pounds of hairspray, thick makeup, corny smiles or even stuck-up attitudes. Slippery Rock student and Miss Teen Pennsylvania Kelsie Sinagra does not fit this cliché mold in any way.
During the mid-1980s, after getting moved in and settling down into a new academic year, students were introduced to an event that brought back what they had left behind on move-in day- their families. This year, the weekend known around campus as "Friends and Family Weekend" and "Village Days" and the "Heritage Festival" to the residents of Slippery Rock, lives on.
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