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Blink and you might just miss it. The blur of crisscrossing hands and zigzagging neon cups is probably the weirdest organized sport you've never heard of. Dubbed sport stacking, this rapid-fire competition could at first glance be mistaken for some peculiar carnival game. Players are tasked with arranging 12 lightweight plastic cups into various formations; a stacking kit comes with a touch-pad timer and cups that have a trio of holes in the bottom to reduce air resistance. At slower speeds, it seems easy enough: build up pyramids and break them down in a predetermined sequence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stacktacular: The Speedy World of Sport Stacking | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...Fingers” also succeeds in these same respects. Sounding more like a Beatles ballad than anything else, the track integrates staccato piano chords, a marching beat, and some impressive orchestration to give it a simultaneously fresh and dated feel. While the lyrics are a bit more hit or miss (“And the fingers of your mind / Have wrapped around my spine / And made me feel so blind”), the retro yet contemporary feel is more than engaging enough. “The Jimmy Choos” also straddles the line between pop past and present, channeling...

Author: By Joshua J. Kearney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Chester French | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

...internal pulse. Each character’s arc acts as a sonata to the film’s whole, and scenes are explosive not because of physical action but rather because of latent energy. “Lymelife” is a dark satire, like “Little Miss Sunshine,” and its power draws from irony and moments of veracity.Despite the film’s reliance on clichéd movie gimmicks—an angsty adolescent romance, one parent’s infidelity, and a father-son antagonism—the emotional violence...

Author: By Lillian Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lymelife | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

...sorry, ‘Miss,’ but our last available apartment was JUST rented five minutes ago!” one speech bubble read...

Author: By Danielle J. Kolin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Speakers Advocate for Transgender Rights | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

...adds that arguments like Stossel’s miss the purpose of conflict of interest regulation by perpetuating a false perception that physicians are either for or against pharmaceutical companies...

Author: By Laura G. Mirviss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Pro-Industry Professor | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

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