When I first saw the trailer for Uber Entertainment’s Monday Night Combat (MNC), I was ready to write it off as a Team Fortress 2 (TF2) clone dressed up to poke fun at pro-football. I was pleasantly surprised, however, to discover that MNC owes as much of its heritage to Defense of the Ancients (DotA) as it does to TF2, resulting in a refreshing blend of tower defense and team-based shooting.

About six years ago, I heard that a friend of a friend was working to start up a local roller derby league in Atlanta.

Some might think it would be risky to set up a burger joint right down the road from the famous Flip Burger, but that’s exactly what Erik Maier and Shaun Doty did. Yeah! Burger opened on June 3 in the White Provision Complex on the corner of 14th Street and Howell Mill.

Dragon*Con 2010

Nintendo has finally unleashed the next game in the Metroid series of video games, Metroid: Other M. This new installment in the series offers a few changes, including a brand new kind of game play that’s different from previous games such as Metroid: Prime. However, there are the familiar aspects of the game that will remind you of the Metroid series. This joint venture between Nintendo and Team Ninja is a new step into a different kind of game play in the Metroid series.

Cypress Street 3rd Annual Pig Roast

Are you bored of the same old rap and indie songs? Give Toadies a try. A grunge band that’s not as over reliant on sheer aggression as say Nirvana, this group provides a unique sound that hasn’t been heard in the last decade.

Before you even read this sentence, you are already incredulous. Five stars? For Piranha 3D? What sort of staff writer is this? How could you compare this movie with the cinematic greats of the past? This rating is meaningless, you might think, and so now I must spend the rest of this review convincing you.

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World fills a curious void in pop culture, in spite of its humble beginnings. It could be mistaken for merely a video game movie by some or a comic book movie by others, but this would be a sore mistake as Scott Pilgrim vs. the World effectively blurs and blends the story across different media to keep the audience riveted. It throws humor, poignant thought and boisterous fight scenes onto the screen so fast that it makes viewers feel as though they have ADD.

Fox Theatre: Atlanta’s Fox Theatre is one of the most prestigious historic venues in America and a main attraction of Atlanta nightlife. It has 4,678 seats and annually puts on more than 300 performances a year, specializing in everything from plays to concerts to movies. The Fox is located in the center of Midtown, right on Peachtree Street. Coming this fall, Drake, Lady Antebellum and The National are all playing at the theatre, so be sure to check them out when they visit town.