For a nice change of pace during finals week, head to the Don Powell Theatre on campus this weekend to enjoy the San Diego State’s Department of Theater’s “Jean Isaacs 35th Anniversary Retrospective Concert.” Under the direction of...

Fox Searchlight recently gave The Daily Aztec an interesting opportunity to meet a few of its new summer films’ actors and actresses by holding a Web chat videoconference. Mind you, we haven’t actually seen these films yet. ...

A man is suing the New Orleans Police Department because an officer threatened to arrest him for wearing a black skirt to court. The accused man is filing a lawsuit for $1, which is the minimum in damages when you’re just trying to prove a point. Th...

Picks: Pontiac is finally gone General Motors, surviving on its $15.4 billion in government loans, faces a June 1 deadline to either restructure or go into bankruptcy protection. To help put a Band-Aid on its $28 billion debt, the company is offering a tr...

Do you wish that you could have more of a say in what type of music gets seen and heard? Would you like to see one of your favorite local bands perform live on campus? Then listen up and rock your right to vote for the upcoming San Diego State Campus Rumb...

Once you’ve been a student at San Diego State for a year or so, you might begin to notice the rivalry between SDSU and our local UC counterpart. Typically, this competitive spirit might only be tied to grade-point averages or athletic teams. If you ...

Last Friday, Julien Chautard, 39, who was faced with a seven-year sentence for two counts of arson, decided to give himself his own commutation to his sentence. Shortly after he got off the bus at London’s Pentonville prison, he somehow got under th...

At first glance, the sophomore LP “003” from Los Angeles-based band Oh No Not Stereo appears to be just another average attempt at fame from the plethora of mediocre musicians trying to make it big. Yet what sets this duo apart from these type...

Metal, as a music genre, often gets a bad rap in today’s society. It’s often perceived as an angry and uninspired form of music, played by long-haired, irate misfits. However, a closer look at a number of bands that have the metal element in t...

Back in 1999, when the world was in pandemonium about Y2K, it was Shawn Fanning and Napster that really made the biggest online impact. Fanning’s music stealing, err, sharing program, had taken advantage of the unique tools the Internet offered for ...

Easily one of the best short, animated films of 2008 is the environmentally conscious “Varmints.” Beautifully filmed in a Pixar-esque manner, this short animation gives viewers intense moods and sets the tone of the story through the use of co...

So I guess the new and improved presidential chopper has come out to be a little more expensive than previously thought, becoming the cause of accusations of hypocrisy left and right for President Barack Obama....

I feel uncomfortable calling this 1989 film a romantic comedy because it does not rely on sappy love scenes to draw the viewer in. It is a true comedic gem that just so happens to be based on the developing friendship between two divorcees....

I’m just as excited as a little boy on his first trip to Disneyland when I think about President Barack Obama’s next years in the White House. However, don’t let the title “Obama’s Presidency” fool you. The real excitem...

Next Monday, one of the originators of heavy metal is coming to San Diego’s very own Cox Arena. In order to give our loyal Tempo readers a little headbangin’ action, we’ve been lucky enough to be able to offer two free tickets given by L...

New Year’s Eve is a once-a-year celebration that proves to offer countless events and social gatherings around the world, so what’s the hard part? Picking a place to engage in the raucous festivities....

Every year around this time, we wonder: What am I going to do for New Year’s Eve?...

10. “I Am King” promo video I have a theory that P. Diddy actually knows exactly how ridiculous he looks to everyone, and consciously acting outrageous to draw more attention to his latest cologne, “I Am King.” Then again, after wa...