Shea O'Meara

Articles by Shea O'Meara

Senior’s upbeat study helps autistic children

Senior Kristen Axelsen is an A student who is planning to spend the five years after her graduation working hard to earn a doctoral degree in psychology. But for three semesters at Ithaca College, it was all about laughter.

Engaging comedy defies gender roles

“How I Met Your Mother” star Jason Segel finds his comedic better half in the new romantic comedy “The Five-Year Engagement.”

Continuing the battle

After his wife was diagnosed with cancer in 2008, Ed Vorbach worked to keep life as normal as possible for his son, who was a senior in high school. His wife would win her battle the following summer, but the family was far from done with the disease. Two days after his high school graduation in [...]

‘The Three Stooges’: Farrelly brothers bring Stooges back in modern flick

“Dumb and Dumber” directors Peter and Bobby Farrelly return to the big screen in the newest rendition of “The Three Stooges.” The Farrellys trade the Stooges’ traditional slapstick comedy for crude humor to turn out a new hit.

‘Lockout’: Thriller crashes with poor script

While the directors of “Lockout” aimed to piece together the most thrilling parts of classic films like “Armageddon,” “The Green Mile” and “Rambo” to create an epic tale of patriotism and adventure, they only managed to produce a lackluster film filled with clichés. “Lockout” follows Agent Snow (Guy Pearce) as he tries to avoid a [...]

In loving memory

In April of her junior year of high school, Olivia Rowe brought a plastic bag into a hallway bathroom and tied it over her head to stop her breathing. She thought she wanted to kill herself.

Sleepy band awakens for spring tour

After ending a tour with funk rock group Cage the Elephant, garage-rock band Sleeper Agent is getting a new reason to rock with the release of its first album, “Celebrasion.”