When one of the owners of Ridglea Theater was diagnosed with double pneumonia and other complications about eight weeks ago, a number of bands wanted to help pay the bills.So they did the natural thing. They scheduled a concert.

The metal concert is Sept. 23, and doors open at 6 p.m.

Band members from around the area think of Ridglea Theater as home, and husband-and-wife owners Wesley Hathaway and Richard Van Zandt as family, the owners said.

Jeff Ogle of the band Lockjaw told Hathaway, "It's like going to grandma's house."

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, TCU students worry about family and friends in Galveston, Houston and the surrounding areas as Hurricane Rita heads toward Texas.Janet Hess, a parent of a TCU student, has been living in Houston after being relocated from New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina. Hess teaches at a school for evacuated children.

"Houston has been unbelievably generous," Hess said.

Comparing "Just Like Heaven" to 1990's "Ghost" because of an ethereal main character would give everyone the wrong impression of this film.Reese Witherspoon plays a love-starved, corporally-challenged doctor who begins haunting her old apartment, and its new resident, Mark Ruffalo, after a car accident.

Unlike the Patrick Swayze character in "Ghost," Witherspoon's character faces a much more complex dilemma - she is a spirit with amnesia.

On the inside cover of the Old 97's first live release, "Alive and Wired", guitarist Ken Bethea introduces the double-disc set by saying, "When I think of the Old 97's, the thing that makes me the most...

Forming the third piece of Coheed and Cambria's concept album tetralogy, "Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV Volume 1: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness" is over-the-top in ways the band's previous release, 2003's "In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3," doesn't come close to matching.Beginning with a new symphonic rendition of the theme music common to all previous releases, the first two tracks are light and acoustic-based, yet still convey an ominous atmosphere that holds the listener until the more energetic music kicks in with track three.

RTVF soap opera is great start but we need full stationThere may be enough drama in most college students' lives, but maybe there is room for a little more.

The radio-TV-film department's recent announcement that it is going to put together a student-run soap opera is a great idea.

Where else but college will students get the opportunity to learn the ropes and experiment with different forms of media from newspapers to television, from theater to film?

Hurricane Rita forced universities in southeastern Texas to cancel and reschedule athletic events, two of which will affect the TCU women's soccer team.Head soccer coach Dan Abdalla said the game at Rice, scheduled for Friday, has been canceled, and the game at home against Sam Houston State, scheduled for Sunday, is postponed until next week.

"The impending hurricane has caused us to take a step back," he said. "We are most concerned with the well-being and safety of the players, their families and anyone near the hurricane."

Suicide kills more people worldwide every year than war, and college-age students are among the most vulnerable, said Monica Kintigh, a licensed professional counselor in the TCU Counseling Center.Statistics show that suicide is the third leading cause of death for 15- to 24-year-olds, according to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Kintigh presented SuicideTALK, a community forum based on ways to help prevent suicide, on Sept. 15 in the Huguley Fitness Center.

Though some might call it tough, the MBA program in the School of Business is a far cry from where Capt. Marc Ortiz was last year.That's when Ortiz - a 1999 graduate of the United States Military Academy and a captain in the 1st Squadron, 7th (US) Cavalry Regiment - was in Iraq.

Ortiz decided to go back to school after getting back from Iraq on March 15.

"I went back to school to get some experience in the business world since all of my work experience has been in the Army," Ortiz said.