Article by: Angela Christoforos All over Boston this month, local residents have been raving about the The Town (Legendary Pictures, slated for 2010) a film directed by and starring Ben Affleck. Affleck has been filming scenes around Boston’s historic Italian neighborhood adjacent to Suffolk, as well as shooting a number of scenes where the film [...]
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November 14th, 2009 
Matthew McQuaid Article by: Matt McQuaid This Saturday, New-Bedford-based hardcore band Have Heart is set to play their last show at Club Lido in Revere. Have Heart first formed in 2002. After releasing the What Counts EP (Think Fast, 2004) and their hard-hitting follow up The Things We Carry (Bridge Nine, 2006) they quickly established themselves in [...]
Tags: Vince Vaughn’s Couples Retreat
November 14th, 2009 Journal Staff Article by: Kelly Harvell Just because autumn is here, it doesn’t mean the vacation needs to be over. Couples Retreat (Universal Pictures, 2009) includes four couples who leave their normal life to go to Eden East Island, a resort that specializes in restoring marriages. Sadly, it was the film that needed more therapy then the [...]
Smashely Simpson, Babe Ruthless and Bloody Holly Whip butt!
November 14th, 2009 Journal Staff Article by: Ashley Maceli Oozing with girl-power and independence, Whip It (Fox Searchlight, 2009), directed by Drew Barrymore, simply kicks ass in the best way possible. A contact sport film with girls in skimpy outfits and fishnets for the boys and a coming-of-age tale for the girls, Whip It is able to entertain anyone. Adapting [...]
Grunge, as dead as Layne Staley
November 14th, 2009 Marissa Holt Article by: Marissa Holt Flannel shirts and a heavy, soul-wrenching sound will forever be attributed to the grunge music scene. However, in today’s reality, we may have lost what is truly grunge. Of course there are many artists that have been influenced by bands such as Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, [...]
Never sleep again
November 14th, 2009 Matthew McQuaid Article by: Matt McQuaid Contemporary horror movies have basically degenerated to high-budget snuff films. Films like the Saw franchise (Twisted Pictures) and Hostel (Next Entertainment, 2005) have long substituted actual scares with over-the-top gore and uncomfortable torture scenes that are more unsettling than they are frightening. Paranormal Activity (Blumhouse Productions 2007), a new mockumentary from [...]
Olympia Snowe blows her way into my heart
November 14th, 2009 Journal Staff Article by: Matt Altieri I never thought the day would come, but I think I’m in love with a Republican. Junior Senator and Finance Committee member Olympia Snowe, if I didn’t have a girlfriend I would marry you in a second. Maybe it’s those gorgeous, brown, Greek eyes of yours, or the way your red [...]
The conscience of a free thinker
November 14th, 2009 Journal Staff Article by: Jim M. Wilson Students learn quickly that the Student Government Association is a dynamic body that requires the mutual respect of its members for the process to be beneficial to Suffolk students. In a reasoned manner, SGA encourages all Suffolk students to come and make their voices heard. While debates can be at [...]
Staff Editorial Nov. 14, 2009
November 14th, 2009 Journal Staff The election of Barack Obama as President of the United States is a huge breakthrough in American history. He is revered by the majority of the world, so much that he can now add a Nobel Peace Prize to his resume, leaving many people, both supporters and opponents, asking if he really deserves the prize [...]
World Briefs Nov. 14, 2009
November 14th, 2009 Journal Staff Asia – KABUL, Afganistan–President Hamid Karzai has acknowledged his presidential victory as fraud according to the AP. President Karzai asks the Afghan people not to turn this “victory” into a into a nightmare for the Afghan people. Karzai told AP, “There were irregularities. There must’ve also been fraud committed, no doubt. But the election was [...]
Smile Train expands awareness
November 14th, 2009 Journal Staff Article By: Molly DeLeon Suffolk Smile Train and Program Council co-sponsored a screening of The Hangover last Wednesday night in the Donahue café to educate students about the epidemic of cleft lips in developing nations. The screening served as the second of many of Smile Train events this year; the first being a free viewing [...]
The Problem with Russia
News Commentary by: Alex Pearlman Even though Russian Prime Minister Putin made headlines earlier this year for riding bare-chested through the Siberian wilderness, looking foxy as ever, the muscles don’t distract from the real problem brewing in the East: Russia is once again becoming a pain in everyone else’s ass. From refusing to cooperate with [...]