One of the most basic needs a human being has is self-expression. For some, this comes through art or music while some just jump up and down when excited. For others though, it's dance that allows them to express their emotions.

Red Pulse gives you The Drop on the latest albumsf rom Michael Lucarelli, Gomez and Beirut.

Red Pulse staff share their favorites.

U officials have been working round the clock and have finally devised a new system to help keep things more organized in the event that a future disaster prompts another evacuation. Next month, every building on campus will be equipped with civil defense sirens, and the basements of each will be dug out and converted into bomb shelters.

Sam Weller's Zion Bookstore8212;a Main Street staple8212;is moving. However, bibliophiles do not need to start mourning in the streets. The bookstore is NOT closing (thank you, sweet heaven) but is leaving the location it has inhabited for nearly 40 years.

In "Observe and Report," Hill teams up with another Hollywood heavyweight8212;Seth Rogen. Both Hill and Rogen have their own distinct style of humor, and by all accounts should have knocked this one out of the park. But though the film has some hilarious moments, Hill leads the story down a dark road that Rogen's range isn't quite ready for.

With the release of Feed the Animals in 2008, Gregg Gillis of Girl Talk burst onto the national scene, garnering rave reviews for putting out one of the best albums of the year. He will take the stage Wednesday with Lupe Fiasco at the U's annual Grand Kerfuffle.

It's a time of year when about 5,000 students, hopped up on dehydrated Asian noodles, turn to their elected officials for a distraction. As in years past, ASUU continues to confront the challenge head-on, matching the demand for entertainment with an equally necessary work ethic.

Russell Edson has been one of the premier writers of prose poetry since the 1960s. In Edson's hands, the prose poem can be a fable, a joke, a darkly comic fairy tale, a surreal sketching of misanthropy, or the reverse, as in "The Reason Why the Closet-Man is Never Sad," from the 1977 collection of the same name.

I'm not going to lie. I had no idea what the word "kerfuffle" meant until I looked it up last week. The definition I found was this: "disturbance: a disorderly outburst or tumult." Even after reading that, I'm still not convinced that it's a real word.