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TIMES Movie: WEST OF MEMPHIS Type: XXX Specs: XXX THEATRES Version: Last Rev: Date/Time: Line Screen: AD SIZE DM 12/13/12 9:30 AM READER A PDF X1A DENSITY OK TABLE OF CONTENTS Dec. 20, 2012 - Jan. 16, 2013 WHAT’SINSIDE Vol. 22 Issue 25 Join Us for the Editor-in-Chief Sean Bello [email protected] Rose Bowl Managing Editor Sydney Champion 8 17 10 [email protected] on our Art Director / Food Editor NEWS Sean Michael Beyer 04 The Latest from L.A. and Beyond [email protected] Flat Screen TV Film Editor [email protected] MUSIC 06 Meet Rapper Rockie Fresh Many tasty garlic specialties Music Editor [email protected] 07 Music Report Calendar Editor Fun dining experience Frederick Mintchell FILM [email protected] in five unique dining areas 07 DVD Dish Sports Editor 08 The Guilt Trip: Marvin Vasquez [email protected] A Funny, Family Movie Convenient location, with parking on Restaurant Row Editorial Interns 10 Oscar Buzz Around Nicki Spencer Zero Dark Thirty Roonhee Ko Julie Chamberlain Open every day of the year LAST MINUTE GIFTS 11 am to 11 pm Contributing Writers 14 Retro Baseball Tees Nataly Chavez, Roonhee Ko, Patrick Meissner, Lizette Ramirez, 15 WiFi Speakers Kevin D. Robertson, Nicki Spencer, Michael Sebastian, Kevin Wierzbicki EXPLORING KOREATOWN Contributing Artists & Photographers 16 Top Cafés in K-Town Roonhee Ko, Kevin D. Robertson SPORTS ADVERTISING 17 Shabazz Muhammad: Sean Bello [email protected] What’s He Really Like? Joy Calisoff [email protected] CALENDAR 18 What’s Happening 12/20-1/16 Campus Circle newspaper is published 36 times a year and is available free at 35 schools and NIGHTLIFE Follow Your Nose To… over 500 retail locations throughout Los Angeles. Circulation: 30,000. 20 Party Like It’s 2013! Readership: 90,000. PUBLISHED BY GAMES CAMPUS CIRCLE, INC. 5042 Wilshire Blvd., PMB 600 21 Crossword, Sudoku & More Los Angeles, CA 90036 22 Answers (323) 939-8477 (323) 939-8656 Fax [email protected] 55 North La Cienega Boulevard (near Wilshire) LIFESTYLE campuscircle.com Beverly Hills • 310.652.7673 22 L.A.’s Hottest Exercise Trend: © 2012 Campus Circle, Inc. www.thestinkingrose.com All rights reserved. Pole Dancing www.CampusCircle.com Campus Circle 12.20.12 - 1.16.13 3 NEWS: BLURBS This piece of debris from Japan was found on the beach in Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. NEWS back in June. VIEWS: THE LATEST FROM LOS ANGELES AND BEYOND BY ROONHEE KO AND NICKI SPENCER Al Seib/Los Angeles Times/MCT U.S. STATES AND CITIES SEE A DECREASE IN CHILDHOOD OBESITY problems for the future. For instance, MRI machines rely heavily on helium for functionality, and According to a report put out by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, childhood obesity rates some hospitals may have to limit MRI services to their patients. The issue has also caused many in the United States are on the decline. This phenomenon is occurring in places such as New businesses to decline, especially in the party supply industry. Though helium is actually one of the York, California, Mississippi and Philadelphia where obesity reduction policies (such as limiting most abundant elements in the universe, it’s hard to come by on planet earth, and it takes a long down sugary drinks and stocking healthier snacks at school) were put into action for several years. time to produce. Thus, some researchers are urging governmental bans on using the gas for more The New York Times reported that the number of obese children from 2007 to 2011 declined by frivolous items like parade and party balloons. 5.5 percent in New York City, 5 percent in Philadelphia and 3 percent in Los Angeles. Although the decrease is small, this change indicated that the obesity epidemic might be turning reverse. TSUNAMI DEBRIS DAMAGES U.S. SHORELINES AND SEAFOOD SUPPLY In addition, rather than affecting minority children, the drops mostly occurred within affluent Debris from the tsunami in Japan that happened over a year ago is just now washing up on U.S. white populations (especially in Mississippi and California). Thus, it seems that a child’s race and shores, and it is destroying natural habitats. The largest wave of debris from the tsunami is expected economic status turn out to be two influential factors on whether or not he or she will become to arrive in the coming months, but piles of trash have already invaded beaches, especially on the obese. Hawaiian coastlines. The big island in Hawaii has been the most effected by the arrival of the trash, as its once pristine beaches transform into dumps. The debris threatens the habitats since HELIUM SHORTAGE COULD CAUSE A BAN ON COMMERCIAL USE the animals sometime accidentally consume plastics while searching for food. Tiny fragments of The world’s helium shortage is threatening a lot more than your little sister’s birthday party. Though plastic known as microplastics are even being found inside tuna and salmon, two popular seafood the natural gas has become famous for its ability to transform a human voice into the voice of options for humans. Though the Food and Drug Administration claims there is no reason for Alvin the Chipmunk, it actually plays a more important role in the medical, water manufacturing concern just yet, the issue may negatively impact the seafood supply as research on the effect of and welding businesses. The extreme decrease of helium facing the world today is posing many these microplastics becomes solidified. 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OR DISCOUNT TICKETS ACCEPTED CAMPUS CIRCLE THU 12/20 5 COL (10”) X 13” LT ALL.GTR.1220.CAM MUSIC: FEATURE ROCKIE FRESH’S ATTITUDE SAYS IT ALL With Rick Ross as his “big brother,” this rap artist is on his way to stardom. Rockie Fresh, 21, is a hip-hop sensation on the rise. Provided by Big Hassle Media BY MARVIN VASQUEZ BORN DONALD PULLEN IN CHICAGO, rapper Rockie Fresh CC: Discuss the process of your latest mixtape, Driving 88, What’s your personal take on social media? has taken his natural rapping gift and made it a music career how long it took you to make it and the selection of songs. RF: I feel it’s a good means of promotion. Rick Ross found out while fusing alternative rock and hip-hop. The 21-year-old RF: It took me a whole year to work on that project. It was just about me via Twitter, so I can’t really knock it, you know what sensation received his now artistic name from his friends when me doing a lot of traveling and working with producers, trying I’m saying? At the same time, I feel it shouldn’t be something he engaged in freestyle rap battles in high school. to find individuals to help me deliver the sound that I wanted. that’s taking too seriously. I feel like a lot of people abuse Rockie Fresh sports four total mix tapes (Rockie’s Modern It was very tough getting that done with the resources and the would-be social networks.