Volume CXXXII, Number 6 October 25, 2002

Kresge Auditorium trembles before Dubowski
GYLLIAN CHRISTIANSEN, STAFF WRITER
Sandi DuBowski is milking his film for all its worth. After spending five years negotiating interviews, traveling the globe in search of sources, and crafting hundreds of hours of footage into a cohesive 80-minute documentary, DuBowski is not content to simply sit back and watch as the awards pile up [read the article]

Praise for Verbinski's film rings loud and clear
MONICA GUZMAN, COLUMNIST
Do you like scary movies? [read the article]

Coffeehouse kicks off Homecoming fun
LUKE WILSON, STAFF WRITER
The gentle strains of strummed guitar chords melted slowly into the last refrain of NSync's "Bye, bye, bye," and applause rolled through Morrell Lounge, echoing to the farthest reaches of the bonfire. Last Friday night's coffeehouse was another indication of the ecclectic and extraordinary talents of Bowdoin students. [read the article]

Students beware...
AUDREY AMIDON, STAFF WRITER
In honor of Halloween's approach, Bowdoin Film Society is bringing creepy movies to Smith Auditorium, including a very special screening of a silent film with live music. [read the article]

Big Top
KERRY ELSON, COLUMNIST
The Foodie pulled her pink sparkled leotard from her closet and clasped her streamer-bedecked baton. She painted her lips frosted pink and her eyelids midnight blue. Tumbling mat folded into her backpack, the Foodie strolled out of Howard Dorm ready for her circus adventure at Big Top Delicatessen on Maine Street. [read the article]

Coldplay heats up
BRIAN DUNN, ORIENT STAFF
The past five years in the United States have been one of the darkest periods in mainstream music. The staleness of early 90s rip-off bands and overblown teen sensations has ruined any hope of an American music revival. [read the article]

Reiding between the lyrics
ANDREW DAIGLE, CONTRIBUTOR
This past Friday at Portland's State Theater, about 500 of us were in attendance for the second fall tour date of Reid Genauer and The Assembly of Dust. Genauer, formerly the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for Strangefolk before he left the band to pursue business school, recently performed in coffeehouses and summer festivals before officially forming the Assembly of Dust this fall. [read the article]

Wilco will still thrill
MATT LAJOIE, STAFF WRITER
Wilco was the proverbial phoenix that rose from the alternative-country ashes of one of the genre's pioneer bands, Uncle Tupelo. But on Sunday night at the State Theater in Portland, Wilco's lead singer, guitarist, and principal songwriter, Jeff Tweedy, made sure that the crowd knew that this was not the same band that released its folk-rock debut A.M. in 1995. [read the article]

West Coast riots in Boston
GYLLIAN CHRISTIANSEN, STAFF WRITER
The draw was three bands, each with three members, who were touching down in Boston for a tour date. The openers, San Francisco up-and-comers the Quails, were followed by garage rock's shiny new thing the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. But the belles of the ball were the women of West Coast rock sensation Sleater-Kinney, a band that is almost never mentioned in a sentence without the words "critical darlings" or "rock's salvation." [read the article]