La Luna Mexican Cafe to move locations

La Luna Mexican Cafe will close its doors and turn off its lights for the last time at its Campus Corner location Nov. 26.

One University of Oklahoma club will also have to find a new meeting place with the loss of their regular meeting locale.

According to the restaurant’s website, the business was started in 1974, and has had a location on Campus Corner for the past ten years, manager Donyae Lindsey said.

The decision to move to Newcastle came from a want for a more stable location. Lindsey said it was hard getting used to an influx of people during the school year, but fewer people in the summer.

The owners of La Luna were also looking to buy their own property, as opposed to renting on Campus Corner.

The Panamerican Student Association held its regular meetings at La Luna and will now have to find a new venue for meetings.

PanAm president Edwin Villarroel Jr. said the club met at La Luna because the affordability of renting the venue and the Latin American food and decor.

“As much as everything has an ending there is always room for a new beginning,” Villarroel said. “Therefore, I am confident that the new venue that PanAm will be using will bring as much or even better memories.” PanAm has not yet figured out a new location for its meetings, but is considering whatever new location goes into the La Luna space on campus.

La Luna intends to open there new location in Newcastle sometime in the middle of December.

Chris Lusk: Editor-in-chief

Being an editor at The Oklahoma Daily can easily lead to bad grades and a lack of sleep because some editors make their job at The Daily top priority, a former editor-in-chief of The Daily said.

Except for the times he goes to class, curent editor-in-chief Chris Lusk is usually found in The Daily’s newsroom Sunday through Thursday, leaving him little time to sleep or have a social life.

Lusk is more than just the editor-in-chief of The Daily, he is also the design chief and editor-in-chief for The Daily’s pre football game publication, Inside the Huddle.

When Lusk took the editor-in-chief position he was enrolled in 17 class hours. He has since dropped to six hours, because he works about 70-80 hours a week at The Daily. With about 14 more hours to complete to graduate, Lusk plans to take a five-hour intersession class over winter break and the rest of his credits in the spring semester.

“It’s hard to be an editor, any of the top editor positions at The Daily and also be a top student academically because they put in so many hours here,” said Judy Gibbs Robinson, Daily editorial advisor.

Lusk usually gets to the office between 9 a.m. and ten and then leaves between midnight and 2 a.m., with the paper being sent to the printer around 10:30 p.m.

“I still get a fair amount of sleep I feel,” Lusk said. “Maybe it’s not your recommended eight hours a day, then again, we’re in college, so who is getting eight hours a day?”

Lusk concedes to not being able to have much of a social life, and says the one he does have revolves mostly around the people he works with.

Lusk hopes to attend graduate or law school after receiving his bachelor’s degree in journalism. Though, Lusk studied for the LSAT over the summer, his studies have fallen to the wayside because of his responsibilities at The Daily.

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Local Businesses Screen Artsy Cult Films

Dreamer Concepts and and Anty Shanty on Main Street screened "Fantastic Planet" and "The Red Balloon" in the alley behind their stores Friday as a part of the Films in the Alley Series. The Films in the Alley Series was started about four years ago by the owner of Dreamer Concepts.

Two local businesses are working together to bring unusual films to an alley behind Main Street.

Owners of Anty Shanty and Dreamer Concepts on Main Street have expanded their film selection for the Films in the Alley Series to bring films never before screened in Oklahoma

to the alley behind their stores.

The Films in the Alley Series showed French films "Fantastic Planet" and "The Red Balloon" Friday.
Amber Clour, owner of Dreamer said she started the series about four years ago, a year after she opened her art gallery. The owners of Anty Shanty became involved after opening their store in March. Anty Shanty helped out with their first film in the alley in August when they screened "Urgh! A Music War" in August.
Anty Shanty owners, Julia and Corey Gingerich have changed up the style of movies shown in the alley since they started helping with the event. The couple, used to work in a film studio in Los Angeles, and said a lot of their inspirations for movies they choose come from the work of Cinefamily.

Anty Shanty owner, Corey Gingerich, talks to people about the Films in the Alley Series in the alley behind Dreamer Concepts. This was the second time Corey Gingerich helped with the Films in the Alley.

“I don’t think anything is too weird for Oklahoma,” Corey Gingerich said. “If you’ve spent some time in the art scene, I’d say the art scene here could rival any other scene or major city.”
The owners of the two stores keep their businesses closed when screening the films because it is hard for them to run their stores and enjoy the films. Moreover, attracting business to their stores seemed to be the furthest thing from theirs minds.
“This is all about the artist’s cinema,” Corey Gingerich said. “It’s almost an afterthought that I run the store, if anything I send my customers over here.”
Clour said she hopes to eventually get a screen installed inside Dreamer so she can show films even in the winter.
Films in the Alley’s next movie will be 'The World According to Monsanto' at 7 p.m. October 20, according to Dreamer’s website.

Anty Shanty owners, Corey and Julia Gingerich, watch the opening credits of 'The Red Balloon' as a part of the Films in the Alley Series. Corey and Julia Gingerich sponsor and help run the movies in the alley.