For family advice columnist Dan Burns, life is much easier on paper. Dan is a little bit sad, a little over protective and a little pathetic when it comes to relationships.

Dan in Real Life is a movie about a father of three young girls and a lonely widower, played by Steve Carell.

Aduei Riak survived the genocide in southern Sudan and traveled at 16 years old from her war torn country to the United States. Riak’s most recent travel, however, was to the Antone Academic Center Thursday Nov. 20 at 7 p.m. where the 24-year-old gave a public speech about her experiences.

Manners have escaped us. In a society that likes to call itself “advanced,” our social conduct has deteriorated to a most basic level. Our love for taking the easy way out is constantly expanding, and the only choice etiquette had was to make a run for it, or perish.

Lines snaked around the corner and out the door of Rodgers Recreation Center Saturday Nov. 22. There was excited chatter as the queue grew longer and longer to the entrance of the gymnasium. Were the Boston Celtics back in town for one last game on Salve’s courts? Nope.

What happens when you combine an executive transvestite with an action transvestite? You get Eddie Izzard, a stand-up comedian in full make-up, strutting across the stage in high heels, glossy leather pants and a star-studded kimono. His exaggerated faces, hand motions and signature expression-a wide-mouthed confused look with his tongue sticking out sideways and eyes gazing in the opposite direction-characterize his animated personality.