Headed to the cinema over break? Thinking about seeing the dreamy Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd while you’re there? Well, how about it?  Joshua Speiser tries to help you out with a review over on the main site. Decide whether or not that’s how you’re going to spend $6-15, depending on where you go home to.

-Mike Stewart, Editor-in-Chief

— Sam Sweeney, Blog Editor

Major Movie Star

“Now, she’s going to prove, she’s more than just a pretty face.” Hey, is that the girl with the beret from High School Musical asking J. Simp to sign her face? Oh, how the mighty have…moved sideways?

Major Movie Star comes out in 2008 and stars Jessica Simpson and Olesya Rulin.

More trailer reviews after the jump.

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The last time Georgetown played Jacksonville University, they had to forfeit the game after an on-court punch provoked pandemonium in Jacksonville’s stands, forcing the teams into the locker rooms for protection. Thirty-eight years later, the Hoyas avenged the loss the old-fashioned way, with an 87-55 hosing of the visiting Dolphins, Anthony Francavilla reports. Next up: the Highlanders of Radford, in the “exam game” at our very own McDonough Arena, on December 15th at 7:30 p.m.

More photos after the jump.

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Some people have been acting like they’re not excited about seeing Coolio for free tonight on Harbin Field. Even the What’s After Dark e-mail is taking hospitality cues from Lee Bollinger: “Bear witness to the proud living legacy of one of the greatest visionaries of our time: COOLIO. That’s right. That wasn’t a misprint. It’s not a hoax.”

For those of you who think Coolio’s a has-been, here’s how Coolio’s been keeping busy since “Gangsta’s Paradise” (from Wikipedia, naturally):

• Coolio has been on Celebrity Fear Factor and made it to the third round
• Coolio played a “space age stoner” in Dracula 3000, a made-for-tv movie that has only negative reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.
• He was in a Croatian movie!
• The last three albums he’s released have all gone gold.

Still, staying on the field after “Gangsta’s Paradise” is socially impermissible.

-Will Sommer, blog editor. Flickr photo from judge-penitent.

If you’re like more than 50 percent of our readers, you’re visiting this blog using Firefox. Good for you! For those of you who are still using Safari or Internet Explorer, there’s never been a better time to switch. Mozilla, Firefox’s parent group, has released Firefox Campus Edition, a copy of Firefox bundled with add-ons designed to appeal to college students.

The add-ons (music plugin Foxytunes, note-taking plugin Zotero, and social media plug-in Stumbleupon) are good, but they aren’t the best on offer for add-on-savvy college students. Here’s a rundown on the plug-ins in the pack and the superior alternatives. (more…)

Misguided efforts at The New York Times to eke pennies out of an ancient internet revenue model have long restricted access to the adorable Paul Krugman (pictured). Krugman, along with the rest of the Times’s columnists and much of its archives, was behind the TimesSelect pay wall.

Fortunately, if you have a .edu email address, you can finally be reunited with Maureen Dowd. The Times is letting .edu emails have access to 100 TimeSelect articles a month, which is a solid deal. Click here to get it. It’s sort of complicated to do if you don’t already have the free account, so do that first.

- Will Sommer, Blog Editor

Even as I basked in the glow of reflected glory from our beloved Men’s B-Ball team—final four bound—after the game last night, I was left with a question that had irked me from the first half onward. Why, when the ball was at UNC’s end, did we hear loud chants of “DEFENSE! DEFENSE!” from in-crowd mics, but when the Hoyas were under attack, nary a Georgetown voice was heard? I was positive that Hoya fans would make themselves heard, so it must have been CBS muting Georgetown supporters. Well, it was a combo of the two. One on-site correspondent reports that CBS covered up the Georgetown section’s in-crowd mic because the Hoyas were yelling “BULLSHIT!” at every bad call—apparently, the FCC doesn’t like it when you broadcast that. Either way, Atlanta here we come …

–Posted by Tim Fernholz, Managing Editor.

(An Occaisonal Reuben Review)

Loeb’s New York Deli
832 15th St. N.W.
Loeb’s Reuben is a jungle beast looming on your plate, overstuffed with an unbalanced amount of corned beef. Saeurkraut is sparse but fresh, with a light dousing of Thousand Island Dressing. Most delightful is the hearty Rye, though it earns a penalty for being untoasted.
6.5 out of 10 Delicious Points

Posted by Tim Fernholz, Managing Editor