REVIEWS Page 7 The Renegade Rip I www.therip.com Wednesday, September 22, 2010 Delicious food found at Greek Festival 'Reach' aims for the stars By Zak Cowan you feel like family with Noble By Samantha Garrett Reporter Team, the squad of Spartans you Copy Editor fight alongside. Every member The perfect blend of old and has their own special chai-acter­ It may come as lit.tle surprise new makes Halo: Reach, Bungie istic that will make him or her that essentially the whole point Studio's swan song to the series, unforgettable. of the Greek Food Festival is the best installment so far. As good as the campaign was, the food. There were plenty of The sto1y the multiplayer is what makes things to eat there, as well as VIDEO GAME mode to the this game one of the best video plenty of things to drink, but - game is a games I've played in years. what with a budget and all-I had REVIEW very dark There are a plethora of game ------ to settle with ------and somber modes and game types, with old one meal. classics such as Team Slayer storyofsac- Fooo I had ***** rifice and and Capture the Flag, comple­ REVIEW an $8 dish resilience, and it seemed you mented with new modes like ------ comprised had your back against the wall Invasion and HeadJmnter, all of A of Greek almost the entire campaign, which ai·e fully customizable, ~ sausage, rice which gave my tenito1ial in­ which makes the possibilities and bread. stinct a boost throughout. endJess. I**** also ordered a side of salad, Playing the game on release The weapon set is big and which added an extra $3. Add night,just. shortly aft.er midnight. bold, but every weapon is that. to the $5 I paid to get in and with three other avid Halo fans, thought. through and designed the additional $2 I paid for my on the recommended difficulty very well, providing a balance coffee, and you have a moder­ for your first run-through of the that other first person shooters ately p1icey meal. But, then, it campaign left us in awe all night. such as Call of Duty fail to pro­ does only come once a year. as we pushed through wave aft.er vide. The sausage was probably wave of a relentless alien horde. All of this, paired with the the best part of the meal. It was The overall campaign was newly revamped map editor surprisingly spicy, but that was flat-out magnificent, with great called Forge 2.0 and and return balanced out with the moderate­ graphics, game play, voiceovers ofFirefight, will make this game ly bland rice that. it was served and scenaiios. playable a thousand times over. atop. Although the composition After the final credits roll, of the sausage was a litde ques­ tionable, it certainly tasted fan­ tastically. My serving of rice and sau­ sage seemed to be a bit bigger 'Devil' awaste of time than that of my fi.iend, so I guess, if you want to get more bang for By Kimberlyn Yvonne Macias a reason. your buck, get the salad. Or, at Reporter A detectjve (Chris Messina) least, it looked like more when investigates their background, spread out on a plate instead of The movie "Devil" was more and we find out that they're the bowl that the saladJess order of a sto1y telling than an actual all bad people in some way. is served in. movie. As I was watching this Throughout the movie some of And, speaking of, it was a movie, I was bored. If I didn't the chai-acters die, but you don't good salad. I mean, it was a have to review this movie I prob­ see how they die. The power Greek salad. If you don't like ably would of goes out eve1y tjme someone is Greek salad, you probably MOVIE left and de­ going to get killed and when the wouldn't like it, but if you don't manded a re­ power comes back again some­ like Greek food you probably REVIEW fund. one is dead. wouldn't go to the Greek Food The movie One of the few good things Festival. It was basically your ~ involves five about. the movie is that. it's un­ average iceberg leuuce, carrots strangers: a predictable. The ending actually and onions affair, but the differ­ CARISSA EDWARDS / THE RIP mechanic (Logan Mai·shall­ has a moral about the decisions ence between salad and Greek Samantha Garrett eats her salad at the Greek Food Festival Sept. 10. Green), an old woman (Jenny people make in life. The ending salad is the additfon of feta O'Hai·a), Sai-ah Cai·away (Bo­ teaches that people can repent cheese and olives. Suffice t.o her that! hadn't "It's very thick of muddy concoct.ion had col­ booth, and when she came back jana Novakovic), a secmity and the impo1tance of forgive~ say, it was good. - you'll be dancing all night.," lected on the bot.tom. I spent the she had two pieces - one for me, guai·d (Bokeem Woodbine) and ness. The ending was nice but And, of course, I had to have she assured me. I have t.o say, rest of the evening picking at it her treat. a salesman (Geoffrey Arend). not as good as it could have been something to drink. There was this got. my expectations up just with my straw and wondering It. wasn' t. the best. baklava I They were stuck in an elevator because the chai-acter had strong a stand advertising Greek cof­ a little bit just. what. it. was. By the way, had ever had, but. it rounded out by accident, but throughout the feelings but no strong reactions. fee, so, as a coffee lover, I had to Itwasn' t. amazing,but.it.wasn't it. was probably the least price­ the meal nicely and made the ex­ whole movie they explain how Overall this movie was not. give that a shot. The first time I bad. I was expecting it to be an worthy thing I ordered while at perience even more wo1th it. bad things happen for a reason. t.hrilJing as expected. It. was went up to the booth, the coffee amazing pick-me-up, but it re. the festival, being $2 and less Adding to the whole event Ramirez, a security guard (Ja­ something you tell around a wasn't ready. The second time ally just tasted like strong instant than six ounces. was the live music in the back­ cob Vai·gas), says that his g1-and­ campfire to teach little kids a I went. over, the woman behind coffee. There was something a It took us a while to figure out ground. I wasn't about to get up mother told him a sto1y , and that lesson about life. That would the booth exclaimed, "Oh, the little powde1y about it. The where the baklava was. Even­ on the dance floor and dance, in the sto1y one of them was the be a good campfire story but not Greek coffee!" She asked me if most interesting thing is that, by tually my hiend went off in the but it did make the food seem devil and they were all there for a good movie. I had tried it. before, and I told the time I finished it, some sort direction of the Greek Pastries just a lit.Ile bit more Greek. Rock duo explore new sound By Martin Chang their songs their sing-along quality. songw1iters. Each song is composed to Reporter Both play the guitai· with an aily ease have the best impact. Compai·ed to their that lets their melodies glide in a nice, earlier material, the album is produced This is the music that. makes being a flowing way. Their original technique in a much clearer and more listenable music fan worth it. This is the music as musicians is brought. to the forefront fashion. that.I love. by the direct composition and lyrics of This more professional approach The Vaselines ai·e Eugene Kelly their songs. may not. sound attractive to the fans of ------ and Frances Mc­ Whether the song is a fast rock song the low fidelity nature of their earlier ALB UM Kee. They recorded or a pop ditty, this music comes at you work. Yet it gives the music a punch about an album in a pure way because of the simplicity that they have not had before. REVIEW and a half wo1th of of the songs and the personality of the On songs, such as the title trnck and ------ mate1ial in 1987 to playing. "Mouth to Mouth," the songs have the The songs ly1ics have a simple, al­ same joyful bounce that is their signa­ 1989, and broke up ***** in 1989 shortly after most innocent feeling that is a great ture. Yet these new songs have a poten­ the release of their first. full-length re­ counterpoint. to the more adult theme cy that. is not on their earlier material. cord "Dum Dum." The Vaselines play of sex that. has always been present in The entire album has this. These a mix of stripped down rock and roll, their music. songs here are bett.er and more com­ and their version of bubbly pop. After playing a smattering of reunion plete. Since their original breakup their mu­ shows throughout the last decade, the They explore musical ideas they have sic has found a small following among Vaselines have released their second not yet explored.