Eugene-based rock group Floater
will be coming home Friday.
For all the info, see page 8.
Gallery of a NewTwilight Zone
and goblins rule the night. With HaHowei
this spooky season, the New Zone Artist
tive thought it was the right time to sumir
spirits of the paranormal and display the
artwork that came of the calling.
N. "This is just kind of playing with the ids
has a reputation for edg
Zone president Tom Hig
was a good time to do a
theme. And that is inter}:
kind t
The New Zone
Artist Collective
aranormal
■ In my opinion
ANDREW MCCOLLUM
ADROIT
Entertainment Software
Ratings Board — a sham
Last Friday, California Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger signed AB1179. In doing so,
he terminated a piece of the First Amendment.
The bill, penned by Assemblyman Leland Yee,
prohibits retailers from selling or renting violent
video games to anyone underthe age of 18. The
bill does not include any mention of the Enter
tainment Software Ratings Board, a group that
was created voluntarily by the Electronic Soft
ware Association in 1994 afterthe video game
industry started getting flack over violent video
games.
The ESRB is responsible for rating games so
parents can tell whether a game's content is ap
propriate fortheir children. Unfortunately, the
ESRB is almost an absolute failure when it
comes to providing parents with the information
they need to determine what is appropriate for
their children. If the ESRB did its job properly,
MCCOLLUM, page 12
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rhythm thatGuannum wasn't headed down the same path.
But with the release of ‘The Craft," the third LP from the clan's illustrious duo Black- R
alicious (lyricist Gift of Gab and DJ Chief Keel),! breathed a sigh of relief, bec ause afi IHHmM'wm#" i ll
corporate advertising aside, the music is still supreme.
Xcel's beats on the album—from staccato tracks like "Rhythm Sticks" and "Your Move" (featuring The Life
savas), to the groovy Lotus Flower (featuring funk god George Clinton), to the straight circus-like Side-to-Side (tea
same'depth and originality every projeetthis Bay Aroa^based I
World," hit
[j and women
INSIDE PULSE
Local thrift stores offer
Halloween costumes
TheTango Center builds a
people connection
Newest 'Spider-Man'
game falls flat
Today
Toby KoenigsbergTrio
& Jam Session
UO Jazz Jam
Luna
6:30 p.m.,$3
Friday
Second Friday Film
Forum: Youth visions
2005
DIVA
6:30 p.m., free
Saturday
Eugene Weekly 'Best of
Eugene'Awards Show
Benefit for Lane County
McDonald Theatre
7:30 p.m., $3 to $10
TOP 5 MOVIES
1:"Wallace& Gromit:
The Curse of the Were
Rabbit" ($16.1 M)
2:"Flightplan" (10.8 M)
3:"ln Her Shoes"
($10 M)
4:"Two for the Money"
($8.4 M)
5:"The Gospel" ($8 M)
UO BOOKSTORE
TOP 5 FICTION
1: Khaled Hosseini,
"The Kite Runner"
2: Gregory Maguire,
"Wicked: The Life and
Times of the Wicked
Witch of the West"
3: Mark Haddon,
"The Curious Incident
of the Dog in the
Night-Time"
4: Edward P. Jones,
"The Known World"
5: Carlos Ruiz Zafon,
"The Shadow
of the Wind"
ITUNESTOP5
1: Kanye West (feat.
Jamie Foxx),
"Gold Digger"
2: Nickleback,
"Photograph"
3: Black Eyed Peas,
"My Humps"
4: Fall Out Boy,
"Sugar, We're Goin
Down"
5: INXS,
"Pretty Vegas"