I am going to start this review with a piece of dialogue.
“If I could order you at McDonald’s I would order a McBeautiful titties with tits on the side.” This piece of cinematic gem-dom was uttered by the ‘misogynist Jewish best-friend’ character. He was full of ‘em. You probably laughed at that line, [...]

To say that a film starts off with a bang is usually a figure of speech. Writer and director Michael Davis, however, wastes no time tiptoeing around this issue in his film “Shoot ‘Em Up.” It begins with about 20 bangs, actually, or possibly 30 or 40; it’s hard to keep track after a while. [...]

In Feb. 2007 at a press conference held with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), an influential businessman spoke about a need to “guarantee the uninsured access to good health coverage.” His name is Lee Scott, and he is the CEO of Wal-Mart. With conservative execs like Scott on board, universal health care is becoming [...]

Every year, Whitman hires a security audit firm to try to break into its computer network.
Aside from trying to hack in, the company also tries to gain confidential information from individuals. Company workers will do this in a variety of ways, including pretending to be Whitman College Technology Services (WCTS) staff, bargaining for passwords and [...]

Since early 2003, the Arab government of Sudan has persecuted, raped, murdered and forced the removal of non-Arab, Muslim ethnic groups such as the Fur, Zaghawa and Masaalit in the northwestern region of Sudan known as Darfur.
Around 200,000 people have died from violence, disease and starvation. More than two million more have been forced [...]

As the war in Iraq trudges forward, many early supporters of the endeavor have begun to jump ship. First there was Francis Fukuyama, the neo-liberal poster boy who once declared that the fall of the Berlin Wall signaled the “end of history,” meaning that we had arrived at the end of human political evolution. More [...]

If senators want to prove their ability to cross the partisan divide, they’ll make real changes to the draft of the farm bill that the House passed to them. If they want to use their constituents’ taxes wisely, they’ll change that bill. But they have to be willing to make real change for [...]

The Daily Market Cooperative is attempting to become a full-time operating store. Formally known as the Sweet Onion Co-Op, the Daily Market will offer a wide range of local, organic and fair trade fruits and vegetables from over 50 local vendors as well as locally produced honey, applesauce and air freshener. There will also be [...]

Home to 15 million year old basalt flows, southeastern Washington’s Wallula Gap has interested a conglomerate of power companies now proposing the site for a $2.2 billion low emissions coal energy plant. Proponents are enthusiastic about the application of a new method of basaltic carbon dioxide capture, a technology projected to cut typical coal plant [...]

Walla Walla police officers are cracking down on students hanging out in private wheat fields.
On Saturday evening, Sept. 15, police confronted two different groups of first-year students in separate incidents.
The first group of seven Whitman students had ridden their bikes out to wheat fields north of town
“Well, a bunch of us went biking out [...]

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Walla Walla County was 16.9 percent Hispanic in 2006. Due to farming interests in the surrounding area that population continues to grow.
Walla Walla’s community provides a unique and changing dynamic to Whitman students, and the city’s taco trucks are tasty representations of that. As the appeal of [...]

As of Sept. 17 a new kind of contest began in the city of Walla Walla: The Curbside Recycling contest. The rules of the contest are very straightforward and anyone can participate. You simply compile all of your recyclables in the green recycling bin provided by your City Council and place it on the curbside [...]

The Community Center for Youth is moving this month from its original location in the Walla Walla Armory to Paine High School after receiving a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The CCY program has been housed in the Armory since it started in 1999, and is looking towards their new location at [...]

Hundreds of Whitman students, armed with warm clothing, blankets or heavy-duty sleeping bags, flocked to the Reid side-lawn for a paired showing of “The Incredibles” and “Dr. Strangelove” Saturday night.
This event, known as the biannual “Drive-in Movie,” is put on each semester by the Campus Activities Board (CAB).
An e-mail sent out by Katie Phelps prior [...]

He strolled onto the brightly lit podium dressed in a black leather jacket and a pair of slim blue jeans, with locks of unruly brown hair tumbling over his forehead. His tranquil eyes gazed out into the audience from behind a pair of thin-frame glasses. He looked every inch the scholarly biker, except instead of [...]