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Potential(ly bad) results of Disney’s LucasFilms acquisition

By Chloe Wilson • October 31, 2012

Social media blew up yesterday when Disney announced that it had purchased LucasFilms for 4.05 billion dollars and also promised “Star Wars: Episode 7” (a.k.a. “Star Wars: Let’s Rake in the Dough”) in 2015. This deal has great media industry potential, but for every great idea this deal could spawn, there are five more that…

Cheers, beers and lederhosen

By Durst Breneiser, Assistant Photo Editor • October 31, 2012

Ithaca’s first Oktoberfest celebration, modeled after the original festival in Munich, Germany, took place Saturday on The Commons.

Did the “one hour photo” speed the death of film?

By Shawn Steiner, Photo Editor • October 30, 2012

The lack of quality in one hour photo shops may have led to a faster demise of film in the consumer world.

What to do about Marcus Lattimore

By Andrew Kristy • October 30, 2012

What do you say to Marcus Lattimore?

Images that ‘standalone’ — Oct. 25, 2012

By Alex MasonDurst BreneiserSabrina Knight, Staff Photographers and Assistant Photo Editor • October 29, 2012

The Ithacan's standalone images tell the stories that lack a full-fledged article. So here they make a jump into the online world.

The “Sandy”s of television

By Chloe Wilson • October 29, 2012

With impending Hurricane Sandy, the name has become one of the week’s most popular buzzwords. An a peace offering to the year’s most dangerous storm, here are some television characters that share the Hurricane’s name. Sandy, “Friends” He’s not a major character, but in the episode “The One With The Male Manny,” Ross and Rachel…

I was rejected by a cartoon cereal mascot

By SB Kasulke, Blogger, Jerk • October 29, 2012

Sun. 4:15 PM Sent off my fourth or fifth tweet to @RealCapnCrunch, the official, verified[1] twitter account of Captain Crunch. Yes, that Captain Crunch. The foremost naval commander of Quaker Oats cereals. He’s never responded to any of my tweets asking for an interview. This is worrisome. I have a bunch of followers who can…

Desperados, a “beer” for the desperate

By Taylor Long, Staff Writer • October 28, 2012

On a recent trip to Poland I found myself in Krakow's Nowa Huta neighborhood. Today it is essentially a suburb of Krakow, but once upon a time it was touted as the perfect communist society, a satellite Soviet utopia where everyone was employed by Vladimir Lenin Steelworks and lived in large block-style apartment buildings that were lined…

Top 5 eco websites

By Lewis Kendall • October 28, 2012

There are so many voices in the world of environmental reporting that it's hard to know who to listen to. With that in mind, here is a list of some of my go-to resources

Ithaca is Gourd-geous!

By Durst Breneiser, Assistant Photo Editor • October 27, 2012

In preparation for Halloween, community members are picking up pumpkins and gourds at nearby farms like the Eddydale Farm Stand on Elmira Road.

Baby Fashionistas Spotted on The Coveteur!

By Cady Lang, Staff Writer • October 26, 2012

The Coveteur recently revamped their website and celebrated their site relaunch in style! The fashion luminaries in attendance, however, were quite a bit...younger...than when we saw them during Fashion Week. In a video that they just released, pint-sized bloggers, editors, designers and social doyennes all mingle and celebrate the new site! From a tiny Karl…

As election nears, no clear winner in recent debates

By Rachael Hartford • October 26, 2012

In the past couple of weeks we have seen all four of the presidential and vice presidential debates that mark the final push at the closing of election season. With just more than a week left before Americans across the nation cast their votes Nov. 6, I think it is safe to say we have…