Kelsey breaks free from the bonds of tyranny

By Kelsey Mesher
INTERMISSION| It’s Spring.

It's time for TV season finales

By Rachel Levy
INTERMISSION| Season finales generally make me happy.

Flicks: Find a horse's head in your bed this Sunday

By Kat Lewin
INTERMISSION| If you don’t go to FLiCKS this Sunday, you might end up with a horse head in your bed — or at least a handful of caterpillars in your hair.

Japanese Film Festival: Catch great new wave flicks, starting this weekend!

By Ryan Lampe
INTERMISSION| 1960 was an important year in the history of Japanese film.

Japanese Film Festival: The Bad Sleep Well

By Marco Hernandez
INTERMISSION| When a Japanese movie comes out with name like “The Bad Sleep Well,” the first thing that comes to mind is some sort of Japanese-Western hybrid flick or a Quentin Tarantino experiment.

Japanese Film Festival: The Island

By Matty Smith
INTERMISSION| Very rarely is there a film that says so much with so little.

Japanese Film Festival: Late Autumn

By Weena Pun
INTERMISSION| Fans of “300” will not like this flick.

Japanese Film Festival: When a Lady Ascends the Stairs

By Brendan Marten
INTERMISSION| In watching Mikio Naruse’s “When a Woman Ascends the Stairs” (1960), one might find it hard to believe that the film was shot in the 1950s.

Japanese Film Festival: Hogs and Battleships

By Matty Smith
INTERMISSION| “Hogs and Battleships” (1961) isn’t a movie that will leave a good taste in your mouth.

Michael's Gelato: Delicious

By Dana Turker
INTERMISSION| Across from the Apple Store on University Avenue, Michael’s Gelato & Café is the perfect after-dinner place to go if you’ve got a little room left in your stomach.

Class stalker

By Emma Trotter
INTERMISSION| “I went into a bathroom and stood staring at the wall, as men do .

Intermission does celebrity gossip!

By Eliza Fox
INTERMISSION| There is definitely truth to the idea of the Stanford bubble.

Listening to Muse is good when you're in the Pit

By Dean Schaffer
INTERMISSION| Anyone who goes to San Francisco with two friends on a Monday night to see Muse, one of the biggest bands in Europe, probably expects weird and surprising things to happen.

Joss Stone keeps rollin' along with her third release

By Katie Taylor
INTERMISSION| At the ripe age of 19, Joss Stone has already accomplished more than many musicians hope to do in a lifetime.

Catch An Art Affair this weekend . . .

By Andrea Fuller
INTERMISSION| Throughout the week, boards has been nailed and tents propped as bikers swerve through a maze on White Plaza.

Roxy rants on Japanese schoolgirls

By Roxy Sass
INTERMISSION| We’ve all run into Japanese animation at some point — the fanciful storylines, the impossible hairstyles, the equally impossible bodily proportions.