Popular ’90s rock band Third Eye Blind made a stop at Magic City Music Hall last Sunday night as part of their one month tour to promote the group’s new album Out of the Vein. After a three-year recording hiatus, the band vowed to finish their fourth album this year. The album will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the band’s self-titled debut album in 1997, which established the group’s rock icon status, selling 6 million copies. The group’s career started out in the ’90s in the San Francisco club scene, where they reportedly slept on various floors before hitting it…

The world of media is a battleground, teeming with millions of purveyors of mixed messages and downright bad advice about health, fitness and weight management — and they all have one goal in common: YOU. They are all fighting for our desperation to be led down the path towards ultimately failing fad diets. The truth is, if any of the quick fix, extreme weight-loss plans really worked, we’d all be the “after” pictures we see in brilliantly deceptive infomercials and magazine ads. In college, a time of life in which image obsession is at a peak and we are forming…

BU students and local fans were taken back to a simpler, more familiar time Monday night at Binghamton’s Veterans Memorial Arena. It was circa 1998 when many of us were jamming to popular Goo Goo Dolls hits in the back of our parents’ cars. Or maybe it was at a middle school dance when a 3-foot void of space separated us from our nervous slow dance partner as we rocked back and forth to “Name.” Though the band hasn’t had a big blockbuster movie hit since “City of Angels,” or a wildly popular album like Dizzy Up the Girl from…

The Goo Goo Dolls are coming to Binghamton next week to perform at the Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena on Monday, March 19, at 8 p.m. The band, who has been playing together since 1986, and had a number of hits in the ’90s including “Iris,” “Name” and “Slide,” is touring to promote their eighth album Let Love In. Though the band will be playing music from their new album, fans can expect to hear all those middle school dance classics and other ’90s hits at the show. Tickets are available at Ticketmaster.com or at the arena for $35.

Blue Man Group’s national tour “How To Be A Megastar Tour 2.0,” will be coming to Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena this Tuesday, March 20. The original group, whose famed performances include music, comedy and multimedia theatrics, began performing together in the 1950s. The group’s music and theatrical performances have been featured on TV shows such as “Arrested Development” and “Scrubs,” as well as in film and commercial campaigns. Tickets are available at the arena or at ticketmaster.com starting at $49.50.

1) Lunges •Muscles worked: quadriceps, hamstrings, glutes and gastrocnemius (calves) Stand tall, feet shoulder-width apart, chest lifted, shoulders rolled back. Holding onto the back of your chair for balance, place your right foot directly backward, keeping your feet parallel. Slowly bend at the knees, making sure that you are not leaning forward. You want to go straight down and straight up, making sure that your knees do not go past your toes. When you extend your legs and lift back up, you want to make sure to squeeze through the glute muscles. •10-15 repetitions on each leg. It is better…

Here are some easy ways to get your cardio in if you don’t belong to a gym. The American College of Sports Medicine recommends doing cardiovascular exercise three to five times per week for 20 to 60 minutes. Monday: Walk or run twice around the brain — 2.5 miles Tuesday: Walk or run around the track — eight laps equals two miles Wednesday: Rest day Thursday: Dance for 20 to 30 minutes in your room to favorite music Friday: Rest day Saturday: Walk around Lecture Hall at a pace that gets your heart rate up for 30 minutes. This is…

When you’re craving chocolate -Chocolate chip rice cakes with some peanut butter. -Chocolate pudding (one scoop) with a banana and whipped cream. —Samantha House, sophomore When you want a healthy dessert-like snack - Mix a Kraft 100 Calorie Pack with low fat or fat free yogurt. If you try and eat just one of those packs, you’ll probably end up eating five. This snack is nutritious, sweet and calorie-controlled. —Amanda Press, senior When you want ice cream -Fudge bars or pudding packs, even the full-fat ones, are less fattening than ice cream! Fudgsicle’s no sugar added pops are only 40…

If you want to solve the mystery of the infamous “freshman 15,” chew on this for a moment. It takes about 3,500 extra calories beyond what your body already burns to gain a pound. If you drink heavily two nights a week at about 1,500 calories a night, that’s 3,000 calories a week. Multiply that by 15 weeks and you’ve got almost 13 pounds in one semester. Mystery solved. Although every student is different and there are many factors that contribute to weight fluctuation, the calories you drink definitely affect you more than you may think — at least until…

From the birth of American culture, little girls have been draping pillowcases over their heads like veils and planning their own versions of “happily ever after,” generally including marriage from some age around 25 to … oh, say … “’til death do us part.” But if we were to tell a truer tale or modern society, it would surely include a few more plot twists, like second and even third marriages, same sex unions and many years of voluntarily singlehood. According to an article published in the New York Times on Jan. 16, more than half of women in the…

Chis Carraba, front man for popular emo band Dashboard Confessional, put his famous bleeding heart on display for Binghamton University students last Thursday in the Events Center, and the crowd wept and wailed right along with him. Last week’s Dashboard and Brand New show was definitely a case of Events Center half full — in fact, more than half full, with over 4,000 tickets sold. Following a 45-minute set by opener Brand New, whose performance earned a mostly lackluster reaction from the crowd, Dashboard opened from behind a white curtain and to the cadence of a single drum. Revealing only…

Starting next semester, the Undergrounds Café will be available to student bands as practice space. Practice sessions will be open Sunday through Wednesday, and each day will have two sessions: 9 to 11 p.m. and 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. The cost is $20 per session and $5 for recording. Contact psikahn@binghamton.edu for information and booking. Sound engineers will be provided.

Blues Traveler took the stage at Magic City Music Hall on Saturday, Nov. 18, one member short. Front man John Popper pledged that the show would go on until absent band member Ben Wilson’s wife (who was in labor at the time) gave birth. While the band decided to throw in the towel before the new baby Traveler entered the world the following day, the performance proved to be a noble effort, lasting over two hours and ending in a spirited encore. The packed house included a mix of dedicated older fans — some sporting John Popper-esqe glittered hats —…

Apple Students This week we have chosen to acknowledge Apple Students for being totally lame. What other group could get 541,398 people to rally around an advertisement? Apple Students used to give away 25 free iTunes a week to its members, but for the last few weeks, the digital music cupboard has been bare and the group’s .5 million members are left with nothing more than advertisements for the flashy products to look at. If you check out their message board, you can contribute to the angry dialogue of this group’s following. So here’s our 2 cents: bring back the…

On a campus, where apathy permeates every aspect of student life, it’s difficult for an underground music scene to develop and thrive — or even maintain a steady pulse. With a population that seems to be unified by nothing and skeptical of everything, Binghamton University’s music scene is basically limited to a few big hit-or-miss acts in the Events Center, and some sparsely attended Undergrounds shows which are burdened by the Late Nite Binghamton stigma. So what do you do if you’re a BU student who just wants to rock out and be heard? The housemates of 70 Conklin Ave.…

Facebook Has Gotten Too Creepy (graphic here) We at Release, as well, were deeply disturbed by Facebook’s latest addition, the “news feed.” It’s scary when your stalking addiction becomes public. Just ask Albert Belle. Want your Facebook group to be the “Group of the Week”? Send us an invite and get in the paper.

Welcome to Release, Pipe Dream’s weekly arts/entertainment/lifestyle section. For those of you loyal readers who have perused the pages of Release in the past, you’ve probably noticed the section’s lack of a consistent identity, as it has taken on the distinct personalities of each of its editors over the past several years. Release has been every kind of entertainment section, from a veritable ode to the beer bong to a conservative magazine aimed at vegan violinists — a real soup-to-nuts kind of section. It has moved from Thursday to Friday, from a separate pile next to the distribution rack and…

With the rising cost of gas driving up cab fare and drink prices following suit at popular downtown bars, a night out in Binghamton is becoming a more pricey endeavour for Binghamton University students. The Sport Bar, one of the most popular bars on State Street, raised its cover charge at the beginning of the semester from $2 to $3 on Friday and Saturday nights and drink prices have also gone up, putting a strain on the wallets of the many students who go there every weekend. At the beginning of the semester mixed drink prices went up to $6.25…

Three of Binghamton University’s top officials turned out for a town hall-style meeting to address the questions and concerns of the student body — a body of students that numbered about 20 — and five or so faculty members. The panel included Vice President for Student Affairs Rodger Summers, Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Mary Ann Swain and Vice President of Administration James VanVoorst. With three weeks left in the academic year, the meeting was the first of Student Association President Mike Smyth’s term. Following through on one of his campaign promises from last year’s election, Smyth continued…

A Binghamton freshman who was accused of attempted rape by a dorm neighbor last October was indicted early last month on felony attempted rape charges in Broome County Court. The grand jury’s indictment, dated March 3, accuses 20-year-old William Marulanda Jr. of Dickinson’s Digman Hall of first-degree attempted rape and provides fresh details about the female student’s allegations against her classmate. According to the grand jury’s indictment based on the allegations, Marulanda was “stoned” early on Oct. 15, 2005 when he allegedly accosted the unidentified female student in a Digman Hall bathroom, pushed her onto the ground and tried to…

Study Abroad in London information session An information session on the Semester-in-London program will be held on Wednesday, March 1 in Lecture Hall Five. The program offers students the opportunity to live, work and study in central London. Students of all majors are eligible for the program. For more information, students should call 777-2087 or e-mail London@binghamton.edu. Career Development Center offers help with connecting majors and careers The CDC will be hosting “Your Major Your Career,” a program to help students understand how their majors can serve them in the professional world, on Wednesday, March 1 in UUW-324 from 3-4:30…

A series of racially motivated incidents at the University Plaza apartments, including vandalism and scrawling of racial epithets on walls and doors, was reported to Vestal Police two weeks ago. According to Jesse Nathaniel Reed, who was among those reporting the vandalism, the incidents are connected to a pattern of racist vandalism that began approximately two months ago at the off-campus student housing complex. Reed, a sophomore at Binghamton University and the Student Association’s vice president for multicultural affairs (VPMA), first noticed the vandalism when he saw the word “n—-r” written on a dry-erase board on the front door of…

The number of lessons incoming freshmen at Binghamton University need to learn went up by one with this year’s implementation of Alcohol.Edu, a three-hour online course that teaches the risks and the rules of drinking at BU. But what some freshmen may not have realized was that failure to complete the course would result in judicial probation, which became a reality for some 200 students who didn’t complete the course, according to Rodger Summers, BU’s vice president for student affairs. At Monday’s Student Assembly meeting, a resolution was passed to take a stance against mandating Alcohol.Edu for freshmen and against…

Although local businesses and the Red Cross have been working diligently to find homes and give aid to all of the 140 victims of last week’s fire at the Riviera Ridge apartment complex, the University is responding exclusively to the needs of current students, leaving some recent alumni feeling literally left out in the cold. William Yu, an alumnus who graduated from Binghamton University less than two months ago, and his girlfriend Wen Juan, were among the victims of the fire. Yu said that the University failed the non-student residents who lost their homes in the fire by offering assistance…

President Lois B. DeFleur and the heads of Binghamton University’s five divisions unveiled this year’s Strategic Plan to members of the faculty and staff last Tuesday, at the annual University Forum. The presentations outlined the administration’s vision for Binghamton University over the next five years, focusing on expansion in faculty and undergraduate and graduate programs, and most importantly, increasing funding to meet their goals. The plan, entitled “Excellence in a Climate of Change,” details the strategies and goals of the University and sets forth a methodology for reaching them over the next five years. According to President DeFleur, most of…

While most students in the Southern Tier were tucked away in their beds this morning, reaping the benefits of the multiple delays and closings caused by last night’s snow storm, Binghamton University students trudged through their first day of classes as scheduled. But the days of hot cocoa and daytime television are over for students at BU. Rather than hope for a light dusting of snow the night before an exam, Bearcats have to pray for a state of emergency, a requirement for closing the University. BU, which is a state institution, can only legally close when a state of…

The formerly minuscule cost of a night out in downtown Binghamton is creeping up as a result of the recent cab fare increase, rising drink prices at popular bars and hefty cover charges just to get in the door. While paying $4 for a sub-par pint of ale is all but inevitable, there is one little-known service offered to students at the wallet-friendly cost of absolutely nothing: OCCT’s late night blue bus. All students have to do to save $6 on cab rides every Friday and Saturday is show their student ID and take advantage of this service that is…

This year’s Caribbean Carnival, sponsored by the Binghamton University Caribbean Student Association, renewed its reputation as one of the largest student-group events of the school year. The carnival featured both old and new attractions, musicians, food and a turnout that included scores of students from schools across New York State. The event included both a day show and a night show, as it has in previous years. During the day, BU students could come and watch student groups from several different universities sing, rap and dance for only $2. In the evening there was a dinner show that included a…

About 50 students packed into a small room in the New University Union last Wednesday night to hear Irving Roth, a Holocaust survivor from Czechoslovakia, share his life story of losing his childhood at age nine, surviving the Auschwitz concentration camp and experiencing the series of “miracles” that brought him and both of his parents through the war alive. The event commemorated the 67th anniversary of Kristallnacht, also known as “The Night of the Broken Glass,” a massive destruction of synagogues and Jewish businesses in Czechoslovakia, in which at least 91 Jews were murdered and 7,500 businesses destroyed. Roth reflected…

Although thousands of miles separate our campus community from the damage of last month’s devastating earthquake in South Asia, many Binghamton students have been deeply affected by the tragedy, and they are mobilizing to support the victims. Several groups on campus, including the Muslim Student Association, Habitat for Humanity and Red Cross Club are banding together to raise awareness and funds for the millions affected by the earthquake. The effort to raise funds for the victims has included tabling in the University Unions, running a clothing drive and collecting donations in classes. The earthquake, which measured a 7.6 on the…

The verdict is in: University Programming Board scored a huge homerun at this weekend’s Lewis Black and Stephen Lynch show, selling out all 3,000 tickets to an extremely well-recieved show. Lynch and Black played to a packed West Gym for a combined three hours on Sunday night, closing out homecoming weekend around 10 p.m. The evening literally went out with a bang as students flooded out of the gym to the backdrop of a fireworks display. “Everything went so smoothly. They were the nicest people we’ve ever dealt with at any show,” said Patrick Craig, vice president for University programming.…

Where can you go to find more beef than your local butcher shop? Those in attendance at Saturday night’s 20th Annual Mr. Greek God competition had to look no further than BU’s own West Gym to find an answer. This year’s competition, sponsored by Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority, featured four contestants and about 800 spectators, a drop-off from last year’s seven participants. The proceeds from Mr. GreeK God will benefit the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. “It’s a really good way to get our name out there as a sorority that does, like, really great philanthropy,” said AEPhi’s April Ramirez,…