The University News

Hilton, Messina nab final spots for spring show

Kelley Dunn • March 28, 2008

Things started to come together on Tuesday, March 25, when the Student Activities Board officially announced the final information surrounding ticket information for the Saint Louis University Spring Fever, as well as the final two acts for the spring concert: Tyler Hilton and Jo Dee Messina.

‘America’s Next Top Model’ auditions strut into St. Louis

Cecily Erker and Will Holston • March 28, 2008

Early morning shoppers witnessed quite a show at Union Station on Saturday, March 9. More than 150 women, dressed to impress in heels, and bundled up in jackets to shield them from the cold outside, waited in line with their mothers and friends looking on, hoping to make it on to Cycle 11 of reality TV show "America's Next Top Model.

Santana re-releases rare tracks on album

Matt Wilhelm • March 7, 2008

Santana, the band led by famed guitarist Carlos Santana, has been a musical institution since it performed at Woodstock in 1969. At that time, the band had yet to release its first album. Nevertheless, Santana gave a legendary performance that rocketed its members into a well-respected 40-year career.

Footfalls proves to be suspenseful thrill ride

Carly Doenges • March 7, 2008

A good suspense novel is hard to come by. A suspense author must create intensity without going over the top, must keep the reader wanting more without giving them too much and must keep the plot moving all the while. Saint Louis University alumnus Eddie Gresham manages to keep this balance nicely in his debut novel, Footfalls.

New suspense novelist moves from computers to thrillers with career change

Carly Doenges • March 7, 2008

Look out, Stephen King; there is a new suspense writer in town. Saint Louis University alumnus Eddie Gresham (class of '92) has released his first novel, Footfalls (23rd St Publishing, Dec. 15, 2007). Achieving this, however, is a far cry from the aspirations of Gresham's youth.

Action movie kicks into high gear

[email protected] • March 7, 2008

According to Dijmon Hounsou (Blood Diamond) and Sean Faris (TV's "Reunion") their new film Never Back Down (Summit Entertainment, March 14) is anything but another fight movie. The film tells the story of Jake Tyler (Faris), the new kid in town with a troubling past.

UTheatre’s ‘Charlie Brown’ brings down the Peanuts house

Stephanie Sidak • March 7, 2008

You're a good man, Ben Nordstrom, for you have successfully directed a fun musical worth attending. The Saint Louis University Theatre opened its spring musical, "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown," Friday, Feb. 29, to a nearly full house of energetic theater goers who were expecting a night of laughter and fun-few were disappointed.

Let Me Explain: Breaking up and breaking out

KATIE LEWIS • March 7, 2008

I'm not sure that I buy in to this "break" thing. Let me explain. Some couples stay together even when the passion dies because it's easy. Some break up because one or both of them had a wandering eye. And still others, the indecisive ones, take a break in hopes that when they reunite, their problems will have disappeared.

The Golden Dogs is a band born out of a dream-literally

[email protected] • March 7, 2008

A Canadian alternative rock band that has already made it big up north is hoping to wage the tails of audiences here in the United States. The band The Golden Dogs has been together so long that lead singer and guitarist Dave Azzolini could not pinpoint when they originally came together.

‘The Wedding Singer’ is business in the front, party nowhere to be found

KATIE LEWIS • March 7, 2008

1985: A year of big hair, stirrup pants and hot pink lipstick. A year when shoulder pads were big and computers were bigger. A year when most current college students were but a dream and a wish in their parents' pretty minds. "The Wedding Singer," which opened Tuesday, March 11, and is showing at the Fabulous Fox Theatre through March 23, is set in 1985.

SLU comedians show stuff in student center

Kelley Dunn • February 29, 2008

Knock, knock. Who's there? The Student Activities Board. SAB who? You would be a sorry SAB to not attend the National College Comedy Competition on Monday, March 3, at 7 p.m. The comedy competition is part of a larger nationwide competition that covers 32 campuses across the country, pitting the winning Saint Louis University comedy team against the likes of Columbia University, Duke University and the University of Missouri.

On the Inside: Planes, trains and teapots

Kelley Dunn • February 29, 2008

Simply put, I'm the least-cultured person in the history of mankind. No, seriously. I should be happy that, growing up in Kansas City, Mo., I lived about three blocks away from the state line. I really wouldn't have gone anywhere if it weren't for the convenience of it.