Contant: Walking into this dimly-lit, California wine country style restaurant, it was hard to believe that it once was the home to the old martini bar hot spot, Presidio Grill. The simple elegance of tufted leather booths and candlelight tables made us eager to sample the elegant variety of gourmet dishes Cuvee has to offer. What a change of pace for two college students!

Smith: No, I'm accustomed to fine dining. Just kidding. I frequent places like Chili's. This was like a gift from above for me. [Read article]

O.A.R.
In Between Now and Then

Back in the Northeast, from where this reviewer hails, O.A.R. is pretty scarce, unless you count the oars that Harvard boys use.

"Crazy Game Of Poker?" Never heard of it.

Over here in Arizona, however, everyone says, "You've never heard ÎCrazy Game Of Poker?' Are you deaf?"

In Tucson, O.A.R. shows are loaded with college kids who jam out like they grew up on this band. Lots of girls make up the audience, which seems to be a country-wide phenomenon as I complete more research into the band's live show attendance. [Read article]

The Devil Wears Prada

Lauren Weisburger
Doubleday

The Devil Wears Prada, a book by Lauren Weisberger, is the journey of a young college graduate, Andrea Sachs, and her struggles to make it up the fashion totem pole to work for the New Yorker. Andrea was fresh back from her travels around Europe and Southeast Asia and her graduation from Brown University when she landed the job as junior assistant to the editor in chief of Runway magazine, Miranda Priestly, otherwise known as Îthe devil.' [Read article]

Miss it:

The Italian Job

The name completely threw me off, despite the fact that the movie opens up in Venice. However, the overall plot of the movie threw me off as well. I kept comparing this movie to Ocean's Eleven, which was one of the best remakes I've ever seen thanks to its spectacular combination of cinematography, acting and plot advancement. Compared to that, this movie seems to fall to the same level of grandeur as the first Charlie's Angels (to all those Angels' fans, that means it was very bad). Just a personal nitpick, Edward Norton should NEVER wear that disgusting "I work at Denny's" mustache. [Read article]

We've all seen them before, unfortunately. Like a five car pile-up on the side of the highway, we probably took a second look. But really, there aren't many sights more bothersome than the camel-toe.

Since this story prints in a college paper, I want to assume my audience knows to what the term refers. But, yes, I know what happens when you assume. So for all those late bloomers or out-of-the-loopers, a camel-toe is when a girl's pants are pulled up so high and sit so tight that the outline of her "privates" boldly stand out. (And just for the record, the male counterpart, the moose-knuckle, ain't so hot either!) [Read article]