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What I did on my summer vacation

Hi, I'm Erica. You can find me here every Friday. And maybe some other days around campus you'll see me wearing headphones and a dazed look on my face. 

Pick a good movie, for Andy's sake

So, this is my last column, and it's time to wrap things up. First, I'd like to thank both of you for reading this all year. I hope I helped you find a good movie and avoid a bad one. Secondly, I'd like to thank the Cardinal, where I grew up writing comics and arts surrounded by some of the smartest, funniest people I have ever known. Third, I'd like, in some small way, to inspire everyone to demand more and take more out of movies. I promise that the more you put into watching a film, the more satisfaction you'll get from it. 

Packer uncovers places close and unthinkable

Picture a perfect summer day: You and your fianc?? get into the car for a warm, sunny drive to the beach. The sunroof is open, and you feel a warm breeze brush your cheek as you race down a Madison highway. Two hours later, your fianc?? is lying on a bed in the emergency room, unconscious and unaware that he will never walk again. 

Paradox continues to clutter Women's History Month

March is National Women's History Month. Started in 1981, it was meant to honor and showcase the remarkable lives of those women who paved the way for greater possibilities for women who would come after them. Since its inception, it has come to celebrate the breaking down of certain gender stereotypes. While most people think of larger gender issues, like gaining suffrage in 1920 and the continuing battle for equal pay, there are also minor changes that have occurred in the past decades. As a result, many women, including myself, now face a sense of confusion when it comes to defining our femininity. 

Taking a vow to always be the bridesmaid

Do you remember Lisa's column from a couple of Fridays ago? The one about the prostitute and her husband in Amsterdam's red-light district? Well, because of that column, I was recently challenged to marry a prostitute.  

'Crossroads' takes a wrong turn

Red-hot love from your kitchen

Before the big date on Valentine's Day most students never ask themselves if they've got asses' milk. If this were Valentine's Day in ancient Rome, asses' milk would be in every kitchen pantry across the great Papal city.  

Prepare to take the plunge

Imagine spending a Saturday afternoon throwing your body into a pool of freezing water cut out of a sheet of solid ice. After immersing yourself in below-freezing water, your body shakes and shivers and welcomes the heat of the hot tub you quickly jump into.  

'Monsters, Inc.' stunning

Doctors get the picture

In 1895, Professor Wilhelm Roentgen discovered a strange new type of radiation. After some experimentation, he had his wife put her hand between a cathode ray tube and a piece of radiation-sensitive paper, and found that he could readily see the shadow of her wedding ring and of the bones in her hand. He called the mysterious radiation an X-ray, from the mathematical use of X to stand for an unknown, and so began the science of medical imaging.  

Cast talent upstages stories

Can we allow ourselves to believe in extraterrestrials? This is the question that \K-PAX"" asks us. In this variation of ""Phenomenon"" meets ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,"" Kevin Spacey stars as Prot, a mysterious stranger who winds up in a New York psychiatric hospital after being diagnosed as insane. Prot is a friendly and good-natured man who says he comes from the planet K-PAX. He is smart and soon begins to have inspiring effects on the other patients and workers. His doctor, Mark Powell (Jeff Bridges), at first does not want to believe him, but soon like others begins to think otherwise. Can Prot really be from another planet or is he just mentally ill?  

Textiles go digital

A new exhibit called 'Pixels and Textiles: Digital Close-ups and Objects from the Helen Louise Textile Collection' opened in the Gallery of Design Oct. 4 and runs through Dec. 16. The exhibit focuses on highly-detailed textiles in the collection and digital photography's ability to show these intricacies. 

Desperate measures for poor students

According to UW-Madison officials, this year's freshman class could be the largest ever, with over 6,000 freshly-scrubbed faces dutifully trudging off to overcrowded survey classes and boasting about their 'sophomore standing.' 

’Dinner’ fails to whet appetite

As subscribers of digital cable may know, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play 'Dinner with Friends' is currently an HBO original movie. Receiving the usual amount of hype an HBO movie can expect, HBO subscribers are treated to brief specials of the premiere parties in both L.A. and New York, with flattering comments provided by the cast of 'Sex and the City.' 

Anxieties about majors and stereotypes

RK: I love how on the first days of class you have to fill out little cards with your name, year and major. As if by writing down that you're an English major, the TA will gain a great insight into your personality. 

A Mercury Players blitz

In the early 1990s the Madison theatre scene got a boost. A man named Tom Peterson opened a new venue, Brave Hearts Theatre, with the mission of making a performance space available to anyone who wanted to put on a show. 

Soap opera biography

\Georgiana: The Duchess of Devonshire,"" by Amanda Foreman gives a personal view on the life of the very amazing Duchess. Georgiana began her flamboyant lifestyle at the age of 16 when she married William Cavendish, the Duke of Devonshire. Georgiana became an instant celebrity and every action was monitored by society. She gained notoriety for her odd sense of fashion. In a time of tall hair, Georgiana would outdo everyone, making hers three-feet tall and topping it off with ornaments of waxed fruit or a ship in full sail.