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...More recent music-related games like “Guitar Hero III” and “Rock Band” have had more passable soundtracks, chock-full of 70s hard rock and 90s alternative, but the newly announced Beatles game has the potential to bring the genre to new heights, at least for those who, like me, worship the Fab Four. One can’t help but wonder, though, what could have been if the Beatles had entered the video game scene earlier: exploring Princess Peach’s castle to the tune...

Author: By Jeffrey W. Feldman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Magical Mystery Tour of Video Game Music | 11/6/2008 | See Source »

...Boston’s support for documentary and independent filmmaking has occasionally found its influence filtered into the mainstream. Independent filmmaker Jan Egleson shot films in Cambridge during the late 70s and early 80s, and his working-class dramas inspired other local filmmakers, such as Christine Dall and Randall Conrad—a husband-wife duo whose 1981 film “The Dozens” won an award at the U.S. Film and Video Festival, the Sundance Film Festival’s predecessor. Egleson was also an early admirer of Ben Affleck, casting the actor in his 1981 film...

Author: By Beryl C.D. Lipton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Projected Benefits | 11/6/2008 | See Source »

...judge extended voting hours in St. Louis. "Since 2000, election litigation has become as predictable as snow in January," says Thor Hearne, legal counsel to the Missouri GOP and head of President Bush's legal election team in 2004. At least the weather is supposed to be nice - mid-70s and mostly sunny for much of the state. - By Karen Ball / Kansas City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Day Dispatches: It's Morning for the Kenyan Obamas | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

Color has long functioned as a cultural mood ring. There was the rainbow cacophony that defined the free-love, footloose '60s and the avocados and vegetal yellows of the '70s, which style experts attribute to environmental empathy spawned by Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Precisely how these trends catch on has always been hazy; the trail of bread crumbs is typically detectable only in hindsight. But there's big business in forecasting the color of the moment. A DuPont survey found that 39% of prospective car buyers would buy a completely different brand if unable to obtain their color preference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Purple Reign | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...Flat” is innocuous enough, but “Hot?” “Crowded?” I turn nervously to the back flap. There’s Friedman, his moustache a hairy smear across his upper lip. Dude looks like a 70s swinger. DECLARE YOURSELF: SPEAK, CONNECT, ACT, VOTE by Declare Yourself This book, aimed at teenagers, includes essays by 50 people on the importance of democratic participation. Apparently, Tyra Banks contributed. Now this next bit isn’t quite related to the book, but here is how Ms. Banks revealed her biggest beauty...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: By Its Cover | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

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