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	How to make your meal super Super Suppers offers premade meals, home delivery and a place to cook your own food by Katharina Tomaszewski \| Freelance Reporter A welcoming ambiance and a nicely decorated interior, with the smell of fresh-baked apple pie and kielbasa-vegetable-stew, invites customers to come inside and try freshly prepared samples. The Super Suppers in Eugene will already celebrate its 2 1/2 year anniversary this summer.
	Arab students present their culture with 'Arabian Nights' The Arabic Student Union will introduce Arabic-themed food, dance and culture by Jaime Swindle An evening of Arabic music, food, dance and culture awaits those who attend tonight's Arab Student Union hosted event, Arabian Nights, which begins at 6 p.m. and ends at 8 p.m. in the Gerlinger gym. "It's the first event of its kind," said Arab Student Union co-president Norma Kehdi, who will be reading a poem by Kahlil Gibran at the event. Only having been on campus one year, this is the Arab Student Union's first event that will be focusing primarily on the culture of the Middle East. Five performances will be spanning the two-hour event including singing, poetry reading, speeches and various forms of music.
	Cat Power: great voice, terrible stage presence by Tiffany Reagan Two very eccentric women performed at the McDonald Theatre Saturday. The night opened with Parisian artist Anne Laure, who was unsure about the pronunciation of Eugene. As she walked on stage she said, "Hello gene. Eu....gene. Gene?" Laure's performance was eccentric, to say the least. She spelled out her stage name to the crowd ("A-P-P-A-L-O-O-S-A"), did jumping jacks and sang about horses, naturally.
	DIVA Center holds monthly amateur video forums The Center's videomaker forum and video slam is a free place for artists to showcase their skills by Jaime Swindle Everything appears in black and white and a melancholy piano score sets in. The film noir-esque atmosphere sets in as the male protagonist lights a cigarette in angst as he realizes his sore need for deviance from his monotonous life. With a square suitcase and an unlit cigarette in hand, he heads out into the streetlamp-illuminated darkness of Eugene in the middle of the night. His quest for adventure leads him from the Eugene train station where he narrowly misses the late-night train to the outside of a bar where he finds his salvation in an adversary's Vespa that he steals and rides off into the distance. Inspired by the French film "Breathless," Eric Dion's short film "Old Hell and the Midnight Train" features original music composed and played by Steven O'Brien.
	Be a good neighbor and turn off the techno music by Jaime Swindle It's Wednesday morning and I'm sleeping peacefully through the early hours of the day because I don't have class until 2 p.m. In my dreams, I'm strolling through a tranquil forest when all of a sudden the ground starts violently shaking and I can hear the land tearing apart through a brutal earthquake. And then I wake up. It's then that I realize that there is no earthquake; my bed is just shaking from the bass vibrations of the shitty techno song blaring from the apartment below. At this point I groggily sit up and take a look at the time. What the hell - it's only 8 a.m.? Who bumps the same ridiculous techno song on repeat at 8 a.m.?
	'Prom Night' remake is a total waste of time The movie has little in common with its '80s slasher roots and even less common sense by Kevin Glenn "Prom Night," starring Jamie Lee Curtis, was hilarious, frightening, and original and took place on the night of the senior prom. "Prom Night," the recent remake starring Brittany Snow, also takes place on the night of prom. And there, the similarities stop. Maybe this is because the producers of the movie felt that few people remember the '80s slasher flick that helped pave the way for ironic and self-referential horror movies like "Scream" or "I Know What You Did Last Summer." Or maybe, as shown by the rest of the film, they just didn't care. The latter seems more likely. "Prom Night" starts off by showing us Donna Keppel, (played by Snow) as she comes home to find her family being massacred by her former teacher who had become dangerously obsessed with her.
	I don't know why I love Chris Crocker by Matt Sevits I don't know what it is about Chris Crocker, but for some reason I'm drawn to him. Every time the androgenous YouTube sensation uploads another video - usually a close shot of his face, accompanied by some kind of rant - I can't help but watch. You may remember Crocker as the guy who gained an immense amount of media attention and 19 million YouTube views for his tear-filled, mascara-smeared, awkward-laughter-inducing video titled "LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!" For two minutes, Crocker pleaded for the media and Britney haters to back off and leave the pop star alone after her disastrous VMA performance.
	Alabama has a new claim to fame by Alex Gabriel The state of Alabama has always been known for its smoked dry-rub ribs, Graceland, and its rich history of deep soul music. Oh, no wait, that's Memphis, Tenn. Well it's world renowned for being the birth place of jazz and the Cajun style of cooking. Dammit, that's New Orleans. What about Disney World and the Everglades? No? So what the hell is Alabama known for anyway? Southeastern Conference football and… uh… rampant poverty? Now you can add "garage rock powerhouse" to that list because Huntsville, Ala.'s own Thomas Function has risen from the mire of Deep South obscurity to unleash hit after hit of pure rock and roll on its first full-length album, "Celebration." "Celebration" sounds as though it was doused in bleach, rinsed in hot water, buffed and shined - it's clean as can be. The guitars are pure and fat, heating up the songs with the warmth and precision of sizzling humbuckers running through cool vintage tube amps. The cymbal-crashes and snare-hits are as sharp and clear as diamonds and that old Hammond organ lays the foundation for its glowing wall of sound. Lead vocalist Josh's voice is, at times, bizarrely androgynous, yet his vocal affectations and melodies are subtly endearing and often provide the hook, line and sinker that makes "Celebration" so infinitely re-listenable. Think Pete Shelley, or maybe Jello Biafra without his head shoved up his ass.