Jon Fratelli is the lead singer of the band The Fratellis, formed in 2005. Even though Jon and the band are in the UK at the moment, he was kind enough to give us an interview. He did not want to answer questions about his wedding, but he did give us everything else.
Solange Knowles, Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams If your older sister had sold over 20 million albums worldwide and had a new singles on the radio approximately every three hours, putting out your own successful album can be a somewhat difficult task. Solange Knowles, singer, actress, and sister of all but little-known recording artist Beyoncé Knowles, gives it a shot - and the result is surprisingly well done.
Cleveland's culinary world has been at the forefront of the revitalization of a metropolis that Forbes Magazine recently named "one of the nation's fastest dying cities." In neighborhoods previously experiencing cultural slumps, amazing eateries have popped up, as in The Warehouse District, Tremont, East Fourth, and the Detroit Shoreway.
• The CSU Library will be having an ice cream social on Thursday, Sep. 4 from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. Everyone is welcome to come and enjoy ice cream at the free event, and there will also be some library giveaways. • On Sat. Sep. 6, faculty, students, and staff are asked to volunteer at the Polish Cultural Garden.
With its first production of the season, CSU's Dramatic Arts department firmly places creative control in the hands of the students. Minimizing faculty involvement, "Love's Fire" is complex, funny, and thought-provoking, due almost exclusively to the varied talents of CSU theatre majors.
When one thinks of a fantasy book, images of early colonial South America do not readily come to mind. Granted, One Hundred Years of Solitude is not entirely a fantasy novel; it is a realistic fiction novel, with various fantastical elements to it (labeled "magical realism" by those desirous of proper genre titles).
So what do sex addicts, imitation colonial villages, half-clones of Jesus, and mothers who are runaway felons all have in common? They can all be found in the upcoming movie, Choke. This is the second book-made-movie of Chuck Palahniuk's, acclaimed writer of cult classic Fight Club, which was also translated onto film.
Anderson Cooper, America's poster boy for crisis reporting, came out with Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival last year. The book, primarily an autobiography, chronicles his journey into the world of journalism, and also explains his penchant for covering wars and catastrophes around the globe.