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‘Milk’ does a movie good

Gregory Westcott
December 10, 2008

Gus Van Sant's "Milk" tells the story of the political challenges endured by Harvey Milk, who eventually becomes California's first openly gay elected official and is ultimately assassinated, along with...

Sexcapades: Climb corporate sex ladder

Gregory Westcott
December 10, 2008

Now that we are getting closer to the end of the semester, with some close to graduating, we need to have a talk about a situation that might arise when you go out into the workplace: SEX. Now, I'm not...

Artist brings art to digital age

Gregory Westcott
November 19, 2008

Get ready for art in the 21st century. Artists are tossing paint brushes and skipping the tedium of watching paint dry for the new age of artistic expression: Digital media. One such artist is Melanie...

Sexcapades: Cutting the cheese at home

Gregory Westcott
November 14, 2008

"I'll give you $100 if you fart in front of me right now." There was no quiver in her voice or even a smile on her face. She was dead serious. The shock of the statement knocked me back into confusion....

‘Boogie Man’: Scary truth

Gregory Westcott
November 12, 2008

You more than likely have never heard of Lee Atwater unless you're a political junkie. However, if you were a Democrat during the 1980s, you probably checked under your bed to make sure he wasn't there....

Noah and the Whale debut with peaceful bliss

Gregory Westcott
October 28, 2008

Noah and the Whale's debut album "Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down" takes you on a tuneful adventure somewhere between tragedy and comedy. Tragedy, in the sense that you can play this during a bad break-up...

VIDEO: In the studio with KSSU

Gregory Westcott
October 23, 2008

KSSU 1580 AM DJs Evan Boylan, Liana Winternitz, Sean Rooney and Steven Gillis offer up an inside look at some of the student-run radio station's on-air programming. For more information about KSSU, visit...

‘W.’: Based on a true story

Gregory Westcott
October 21, 2008

Oliver Stone's "W." would have been funnier if it wasn't true. Okay, maybe it's not exactly true but like the movie "Titanic" even if the stories are fabricated, it doesn't change the fact that the ship...

‘Wild Ocean’ offers new adventure

Gregory Westcott
October 17, 2008

Up for an adventure to Africa? How about swimming underwater off the African coast in a gigantic cluster of sardines being picked off by hungry ocean predators? You don't have to find your passport or...

Junior Bobby Solorio and senior Jomer Belasario promote Sacramento State's KSSU radio station in the Library Quad on Sept. 4, during the first week of school at the Associated Students Inc. Carnival. KSSU broadcasts 60 student DJs and streams online live.:

Station nominated for Woodie awards

Gregory Westcott
October 8, 2008

When you first walk into Sacramento State's KSSU station, you feel like you just walked into a party that you weren't invited to. Numerous students are strewn out across two mismatched couches; one forest...

Computer lab lockout

Gregory Westcott
October 3, 2008

You've got five minutes to be in your Placer Hall class for a presentation. Your eyes throb from sitting in front of a computer screen until dawn because, last night, you started that paper your professor...

Rocking out with Goldfinger

Gregory Westcott
October 2, 2008

Are you ready for some punk? You better be or you'll get swallowed up in the mosh pit when Goldfinger comes to Sacramento State at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday at the University Union Ballroom, along with The...

Man-struation

Gregory Westcott
September 19, 2008

I'll never forget the first time that I got "it." I was in gym class, afraid to change because everybody had already gotten "theirs." Then it happened. All of sudden, I was irritable, angry, bloated, then...

Not so ‘Righteous Kill’

Gregory Westcott
September 16, 2008

According to the Merriam-Webster Online dictionary, the definition of righteous is: "acting in accord with divine or moral law: free from guilt or sin." I wanted you to know this because Hollywood feels...

‘Reno 911!’ alum returns for comedy show

Gregory Westcott
September 15, 2008

On Wednesday night, UNIQUE brought to Sacramento State the free comedy show of Alum Carlos Alazraqui ("Reno 911!") and Jill-Michele Melean ("Mad TV"). Approximately 300 students gathered to claim a patch...

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