The James Logan Courier

By Melissa Mota, Courier Staff Writer

Lifetime television recently screened the film America, which focuses on a teenage foster child's struggle with the foster-care system. This is very emotional film that broke my heart.

This film is filled with suspense, because we have to figure out why the main character, a bi-racial boy named America, is in Ridgeway, a facility for "troubled" kids. There are clues scattered about in clips of his past.

By Brandie Moore, Courier Daily Editor

As many of you know or have heard Twilight, the very successful book written by Stephenie Meyer, was turned in to a movie. This movie opened in theaters on November 21. Many anxious teenaged girls (as well as boys and older women and men) waited outside the theaters on November 20 until the 12:01 opening of the movie.

Now, four months later, Twilight has finally come out on DVD, released on March 21. Like the movie, many people waited with anticipation on the night before (at various locations, such as Borders and Wal-Mart) to get their copies as soon as possible after the 12:01 release of the DVD.

From wikipedia:
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies (March 27, 1886 – August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect. He was commonly referred to and addressed by his surname, Mies, by most of his American students and others.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, along with Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture. Mies, like many of his post World War I contemporaries, sought to establish a new architectural style that could represent modern times just as Classical and Gothic did for their own eras. He created an influential 20th century architectural style, stated with extreme clarity and simplicity. His mature buildings made use of modern materials such as industrial steel and plate glass to define interior spaces. He strived towards an architecture with a minimal framework of structural order balanced against the implied freedom of free-flowing open space. He called his buildings "skin and bones" architecture. He sought a rational approach that would guide the creative process of architectural design, and is known for his use of the aphorisms "less is more" and "God is in the details".

Learn more from the Mies van der Rohe society at the Illinois Institute of Technology.