In the coming days, Switzerland will decide if they will give up Academy Award winner, Roman Polanski. Polanski, 76, fled California after allegedly having sexual relations with a 13 year-old girl in 1978. Since then, the director has continued to make movies, win countless awards, and even receive lifetime achievement awards.

I was thrilled for the premiere of NBC’s new show, Parenthood. And then I screened it.

A Ron Howard original, Parenthood left me expecting big things, and rightfully so. The show, loosely based on the movie from the late 1980s, and starring Craig T. Nelson (Coach, Poltergeist), Lauren Graham (Gilmore Girls), and Peter Krause (Six Feet Under), disappoints.

Necco candy conversation hearts, Godiva chocolates, perforated Snoopy valentines for your classmates – how sweet love is.

But Valentine’s Day is long gone, and Ithaca’s Chilifest is in the now. This Saturday, from 11:30 to “until the chili runs out”, Ithacans will wait in long lines to sample a host of local chilis.

The 2010 revival of “We Are the World” is set to premiere on Friday, February 12 during the opening ceremony for the Vancouver Winter Olympics. In homage to the 1985 original celebrity collaboration, the 2010 version will seek aid for a new cause – the victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti.

Tuesday, November 10th marked Bon Jovi’s return to rock. In 2007, the band dabbled in country music with its tenth album, “Lost Highway”, only to explode back into its original scene with its eleventh album, “The Circle”.

2009 is a big year for Jim Henson and Sesame Workshop’s “Sesame Street” program. On Wednesday, November 4, the series celebrated its 40th Anniversary, and on Tuesday, November 10, the show will premiere its 40th season.

Whether or not you personally have a Twitter account (I don’t), you probably know what it’s all about. No matter if your 140-maximum-word-count-updates are a way for your business to advertise sales and new products, a venue for you to publicize the fact that you just got an A on a prelim, or the only way your larger than life celebrity status can touch down to your fans, you’re connected.

Last week David Letterman exposed himself for cheating on his wife with a CBS Late Show staff member, but also in a shocking twist of events as a victim of blackmail by another member of the CBS family. The alleged culprit? CBS News Producer, Robert “Joe” Halderman.

Because of the United Kingdom’s close proximity to Ireland, one would be inclined to think that St. Patrick’s Day would be an enormous celebration here. And it is – for Americans. Although I am surrounded by Scots, Englishmen, and both Irish and Northern Irish alike, I was forced to orchestrate my St. Patty’s Day plans with my American friends. The others followed suit, but couldn’t for the life of them understand why St. Patrick’s Day is such a huge deal in American metropolises spanning the nation at large. But deciding to forgo all questioning in favor of libation, the celebrations commenced for all.

Allow me to preface this entry by letting the reader know that I am abroad in Scotland for the semester. Without that information, you may find yourself terribly lost. I have stepped outside of the culture I know all too well and revel in all too often, and have embarked on a journey to the birthplace of the bagpipe.

But what does an American pop culture pill-popper slash blogger have to write about the United Kingdom? Well, I’m not really sure either. Even though I am studying at the University of St. Andrews, the alma mater of Prince William, English royalty and tabloid extraordinaire, I’ve had a hard time coming up with comment-worthy banter for the Cornell Sun (and for that, I’m sorry, web editors).