By Liz Omberg Senior Staff Writer Having a birthday the day after Halloween , November 1st, has both good and bad parts. The bad being that your birthday will always be associated with the holiday and however you decide to celebrate you will be surrounded with pumpkins, drunk people, and fake blood. The good is [...]

Despite announcing that they were coming to UMBC on December 9, Weezer will no longer be playing in the RAC. The show has been moved to the Patriot Center, and sources tell TRW that the reason is that those planning the concert wanted to sell more seats than the RAC can hold. However, there is [...]

Weezer fans- rejoice! Weezer is coming to UMBC. The alternative rock band from Los Angeles, famous for songs such as “Buddy Holly,” “The Sweater Song,”and “Hash Pipe,” among others, has announced tour dates in support of its new album, Raditude. Weezer will be performing in the RAC on December 9.

UMBC changed its cable line-up last spring, and while many channels were added, students complained that Bravo and the Disney Channel had been removed from the line-up. Due to the high number of requests on an RSA survey for these channels to be placed back on the UMBC cable line-up, they will be added for [...]

The G.I. Joe cartoon was a popular kid’s television show—this movie isn’t a kid’s show. The special ops team hits the big screen in its full-flesh glory bringing superb action and a story line with a couple of twists. The screen play was written by Stuart Beattie and directed by Stephen Sommers. They took the [...]

Check out the first ever meeting of UMBCeats. This interest meeting will be held Wednesday, May 6th from 12-1 pm in Commons 331. If you like food and you like to write, blogging for UMBCeats is a perfect way to make $$$. Get paid for writing food reviews of restarants around UMBC. The blog will [...]

By Erica Balanc Staff Writer Tonight we can temporarily forget that the nation is in an economic recession. The red carpet will be rolled out, the most beautiful gowns and expensive suits will be worn, and golden statuettes will be handed out to honor the outstanding film achievements of 2008. The first Academy Award was [...]

SEB has announced the performer for this year’s Quadmania. Girltalk, a DJ specializing in mash-up remixes of popular songs, will be performing in the UC Ballroom on April 26th. Information regarding tickets will be released soon.

By Erica Balanc Staff Writer I was not alive in 1977 when British TV broadcaster David Frost sat down with former-president Richard Nixon for a series of four interviews. I can only imagine what it must have felt like to be an American at that time. An image that has always stuck out in my [...]

Microsoft Office 2007 has caused quite a stir–negative and positive–since it was launched in late 2006. Love it or hate it, Office 2007 is here to stay and will probably be entirely unavoidable within a few years. I for one was vexed when I went to the AOK Library earlier this semester to print out [...]