I wish Lauren (Melissa George) would continue to be as snotty asshe was in the first few episodes of this season. I wish even more that she'd let go of her husband, Vaughn(Michael Vartan), and let him...

JJ Abrams and Co. have been running a relentless "We loveLauren! You will too!" campaign for a few months now. And Ihave to admit that it's finally working! When Lauren, akaMrs. Vaughn (Melissa George),...

This week on "Alias," Allison (Merrin Dungey) came back. If Ihadn't known this was going to happen, I would have been shocked.Unfortunately, this was the only major shock for any viewer of"Alias," spoiled...

Gina Kaufmann has waited a long time for this moment. The theater professor and the director of SacramentoState's latest production, Vaclav Havel's"Temptation," first developed an interest in the playnearly...

The "Alias" world has not been quite right lately,what with Sydney (Jennifer Garner) and Vaughn (Michael Vartan)apart and Sloane (Ron Rifkin) being "good." But thelatest episode, "A Missing Link" (which...

We see them every day, but many students have no idea that quite a few professors at Sacramento State have made their mark in the literary world. And they're not just contributing to scholarly journals...

On the Oct. 12 episode of "Alias," Sydney and Lauren (a.k.a.Mrs. Vaughn) retreated back to their high school personalities whenthey fought over Vaughn (Michael Vartan). A "Project Medusa" wassought by...

JJ Abrams, the creator of ABC's "Alias," has some kind of masterplan. One that he's very, very slow in revealing. Which makeswatching his series infuriating &- and completelycaptivating. In the second...

The California State University system's Board of Trusteesapproved a 30 percent increase in registration fees in July, muchto the annoyance of CSU students. While it's not completely clear yet just where...

Alias JJ Abrams, the creator of ABC's "Alias" reallylikes to reinvent. He's so obsessed with shaking things up thathe's done it twice since January. And while it's excellent that theseries never lost its...

Welcome to Michael Moore's world. A man in a chicken costume fights corporate crime and Mickey Mouse; a professional "Teen Sniper School" teaches kids how to commit mass murder; a ficus runs for Congress....

Surely, the last thing Michael Cunningham expected when he was writing "The Hours" was that it would ever make it to the big screen. But eventually it did, and the film that sprang from Cunningham's Pulitzer...

As part of ABC Daytime's Fan February, Sacramento State student Malissa Wong visited the set of ABC's popular soap opera "General Hospital." Wong entered a contest for viewers of "General Hospital," for...

I know next to nothing about photography. Other than an ill-fated attempt at "serious" photography my senior year of high school, I've never ventured far from disposable cameras, and I'd rather prefer...

The band Clockwise is reminiscent of blink 182 - orat least tries to be. The band specializes in angstyrock in its debut CD, "Healthy Manipulation," andwhile the music is okay, it doesn't live up to therock/punk...

Before the title page of Dave Eggers' 2000 memoir "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," there is a page that simply states, "This was uncalled for." Exactly what is uncalled for is never made clear,...

"Hate is not a Laramie value," recalls one of Nicole Fierstein's "The Laramie Project" characters. Such a message just reinforces the themes in the play and one of the founding beliefs of the United States....

Jacqueline Ray, women's studies major and president of the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance (FMLA) at Sacramento State, hopes to bring attention to important issues affecting women.The FMLA educates...

Sacramento State students will get a closer look at the murder of Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard when the Department of Theatre and Dance opens its first production of the 2002-03 season with...

A concert featuring the CSUS Symphonic Wind Ensemble and the Chamber Winds will be held on Sunday Oct. 6 in Capistrano Hall.The concert will be conducted by Dr. Robert Halseth, a Sac State professor who...

I admit it. I have certain views about a movie before I see it. It's been a lifelong affliction, and one that, unfortunately, cannot be cured, not even with vaguely described prescription drugs. I watched...