'Jarhead' is no empty vessel

By Di Dang
INTERMISSION| “A story: a man fires a rifle,” Anthony Swofford, or Swoff (Jake Gyllenhaal), narrates over the austere opening credits of “Jarhead.

Intermission Gives Thanks

By Betsy Congdon and Caley Anderson
INTERMISSION| Our mind-blowing weekend could not have happened without the help of many, many wonderful people. We would like to thank Camille and Brendan for allowing us to go in the first place, setting up our plane tickets and attempted hotel reservations, and for always being there with an “Oh, shit!

Palestine is no 'Paradise,' neither is the movie

By Kelly Peterson
INTERMISSION| Though “Paradise Now,” a film about Palestinian suicide bombers, may appear to be a great romantic comedy and the perfect date movie for all you post-Full Moon on the Quad lovers, I’m hoping that this review might make you reconsider your options.

'Pride and Prejudice' has little to be proud of

By Caley Anderson
INTERMISSION| Director Joe Wright claims that he has not read Jane Austen’s novel “Pride and Prejudice” or seen the BBC’s celebrated six-hour mini-series.

'Leaving Las Vegas' reminds us performance counts

By Ryan Lampe
INTERMISSION| “Leaving Las Vegas” is arguably the greatest movie to be set in Sin City. If you don’t find “Pride and Prejudice” appealing, consider revisiting the performance that earned Nicolas Cage a Best Actor Oscar.

Welcome to the Twilight zone...

By Caley Anderson and Betsy Congdon
INTERMISSION| Over 40,000 people spent $120+ on tickets to the first annual Vegoose Music Festival this past weekend in Las Vegas.

In photography, sometimes the rubber ducky has to go...

By Caley Anderson
INTERMISSION| About ten of us crowded together on the far left side of the stage, nervously checking our watches. Five o’clock had come and gone, and we were all still standing on the wrong side of the barrier.

No festival is complete without a little cabaret

By Betsy Congdon
INTERMISSION| In an age where music has never been more accessible, when everyone has some type of portable music device that is as an important an accessory as the cell phone and ear buds hum in coffee shops, libraries and classrooms with everything from 50 cent to the newest NPR news release, the music industry could not be more upset.

Good thing no one's tapping our cell phones

By Betsy Congdon
INTERMISSION| I guess it was karma. We put out a Worst Case Scenario: Survival Guide Intermission on Friday and by Friday night Caley and I were already living our Worst Case Scenario: Vegas.

It was almost like Vegas; there were strippers

By Cassidy Deline
INTERMISSION| The audience couldn’t help but grin and groove along with the Foo Fighters as they performed Friday night. Even with an arena full of dancing, drunken, screaming fans it was clear that nobody was having as good of a time as the performers themselves: Dave Grohl was pulling pranks and cracking jokes and drummer Taylor Hawkins could not keep from beaming through his workout-tape worthy drum sets.

Roxy doesn't need Vegas to have her fun

By Roxy Sass
INTERMISSION| So it goes without saying that The Daily was too cheap to send me to Vegas with my fabulous editor gal pals. What else is new?

The best of Vegas

By Caley Anderson and Betsy Congdon
INTERMISSION| Most photographic band: The Shins Least photographic: Beck and Trey Anastasio (wouldn’t stand fucking still!

Face-melting music Vegas style, baby!

By Caley Anderson and Betsy Congdon
INTERMISSION| The weather could not have reflected the mood of the 40,000+ crowd more perfectly last Saturday at the Vegoose Music Festival in Las Vegas.