The Independent Collegian

Jeannette Turner knows what it feels like to procrastinate. In fact, she's worked on an entire play under this same kind of pressure. It was that "last minute paper" kind of circumstance that won the UT theatre major a Best Director award at the 40th-Annual Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.

In 2006, Sylvester Stallone put one iconic screen character to rest with "Rocky Balboa," and now he attempts to do the same with action icon John Rambo in "Rambo." However, unlike the boxer's likable retirement, the veteran's awesomely gory and violent 93-minute finale is bogged down by its constant morality check and images of Burmese genocide.

If being weird and original were enough to get by in today's world of music, then The Mars Volta would probably be one of the world's biggest rock bands. Fortunately for listeners everywhere, weird and original are not the only means of determining a good band; however, for those who can appreciate weirdness and originality, The Mars Volta's latest CD, The Bedlam in Goliath, has more than enough of both of those attributes.