Al, take the high road and concede defeat. It’ll be better for thecountry. It’ll be better for you personally. Listento your fellow Democrats. Former Sen. Paul Simon (D-Ill.) has saidthat if the disputed election drags on much longer, a nationwidefeeling of disgust will accompany it. Sen. Bob Kerry (D-Neb.) saidthat even though one of the [...]

Last week, distraught over an impending sociology midterm, Isought refuge in Love Library. I spent most of the week there, faraway fromdistractions and noise. I was looking forward to nestling in thosecomfortable-looking gray couches and reading the material from thecourse, unbothered. The fact that I am living in the new millennium completely eludedme. Apparently, there’s [...]

They’ve got Web sites and books and probably, by this point,support groups — for liars. Liars! I’m racking my brain trying to figure out exactly when it was thatlying became moral behavior. Maybe I’m just bitter because I’ve always been a bad liar. I gotin trouble all the time when I was little because I [...]

I am a racist. Until a few weeks ago, I thought I was beyond thatdisgusting sense of ethnocentrism that enables the separatism of ourhuman race by the color of skin. It turns out I was wrong. A friend and I were speaking with our server at a restaurant aboutits reputation of a less-than-clean dining area. [...]

When alt-rock fans are looking for a dynamic live performance,they can rely on the Dandy Warhols to deliver. And deliver they did — last Thursday at ‘Canes Bar and Grill. TheDandy Warhols played an electrified performance that lasted nearlytwo hours to an audience of about 400. Playing on stage with a psychedelic light show in [...]

Instead of going to see the theatre department’s production of”Somewhere Over The Rainbow — Yip Harburg’s America,” you might bebetter off renting “The Wizard of Oz” and calling it a Blockbusternight. The musical, which played in the Experimental Theater, paystribute to the late lyricist, poet and playwright E.Y. “Yip” Harburg,most famous for his Oscar-winning music [...]

The ’70s were plagued with two monsters — disco and AM rock ‘n’roll radio. But in 1976, a batch of young bands from New York emergedto combat these evils. Among them were Television, Blondie, theRamones and the legendary Talking Heads. The Talking Heads were at the forefront of the new wave movement.In the late ’70s, [...]

By Marc CuencoSenior Tempo Writer Newsweek published a cover story in June about the state of musicon the Internet. Interestingly enough, the article also dubbed a newbreed of youth subculture that emerged in the midst of thecontroversy — “the Napster Generation.” Leading the way for this digital music movement is Shawn Fanning.As a Northeastern University [...]

Consumers who have been screwed over the years by overpriced CDsnow have a weapon to wield in the face of record companies: freemusic over the Internet. What really makes the record companies quiver in their boots,though, is when their own artists support the infinite possibilitiesof putting their music out on the Web. Many recording artists [...]

IRVINE — As far as the regular season goes for San Diego State,last weekend’s ITA Southern California Championships didn’t meananything. Just don’t tell that to Katja Karrento and Whitney Wells. SDSU’s two top returning players made an unexpected run to thesemifinals of the doubles draw but fell just short of clinching aspot in the final, [...]

Sometimes change doesn’t always equate to wins. That was the case for San Diego State (6-12-1, 2-4-1 MountainPacific Sports Federation) during its 2000 campaign, as it finishedtied for sixth place in its conference. Before the season began, first-year head coach Lev Kirshner wastedno time, recruiting seven players — four of which consistentlybecame starters. With the [...]

By Dan HayesAssistant Sports Editor It was as big as the difference between night and day. At least that’s how the San Diego State women’s basketball teamfelt after they waltzed to an 86-59 victory over USA Elite in itsfinal exhibition game of the season Sunday afternoon at Cox Arena. “We found the things we were [...]