Get sketchy off campus: SF Sketchfest 2004

The only place you'll find groups named 'Hard and Phirm'
By Sasha Lubomirsky and Alex Rosen
INTERMISSION| What’s the difference between a sketchfest at Stanford and a sketchfest in San Francisco?

Welcome to the Bookstore, my name is Ben Dover and I'll be ringing up your returns

By Tam Vo
INTERMISSION| “The Bookstore is a horrible, evil place — even if my books cost the same online or somewhere else, I wouldn’t buy them here.

Intermission interviews canned corn...er, Scout Niblett

By Bonnie Johnson
INTERMISSION| INTERMISSION: You’re from Nottingham, right?

Everything looks 'Sideways' with the right wine

By Nicole Beckley
INTERMISSION| Who knew that a little film about a road trip through southern California’s wine country would be able to uncork a bottle of critical praise, inspire travel and tourism, and even snag a Best Picture Golden Globe?

The Arcade Fire: Take that, Avril

By Mike Orme
INTERMISSION| “So how do you like San Francisco?

You might be waiting for ole' Teddy boy...and it's worth it

By Katie Berk
INTERMISSION| I have to admit to having a rather large bias toward this book. Howard Frank Mosher lives in Northern Vermont and uses this setting for all of his books.

Guilt-free TV for those who can afford to lose brain cells

By Jim Mosqueda
INTERMISSION| We college students are a cultured bunch. We watch all the latest cutting-edge movies, listen to the hottest rock bands and read the newest radical, left-wing (or right-wing, if you swing that way) books.

Defying Disappearances: Doris Salcdeo's "Atrabiliarios"

By Nora Niedzielski-Eichner
INTERMISSION| How do you tell about death and tragedy in a way that will move the viewer but not exploit the dead?

Don't play tag in the intersection; listen to music

By Mike Orme
INTERMISSION| Here’s a (by no means exhaustive) listing of interesting soon-to-be-released albums, matched with a (by no means authoritative) hypothetical intersection of musical reference points.

Russian to share some vodka: Roxy Sass

By Roxy Sass
INTERMISSION| “You and me baby ain’t nuthin but mammals, so let’s do it like they do on the Discovery Channel” While mammals are busy hibernating, eating and sleeping through the winter, the more intelligent, hotter blooded ones have devised better ways of occupying themselves when confined to the indoors.