Newport, R.I. – After four successful years of French cinema and an outstanding turnout last spring, the Tournees French Film Festival, hosted by Salve Regina University, will once again return to Newport this March. As always, this spectacular event is free and open to the public, featuring six recent award-winning films of varying genres from lustful romance to the rediscovery of life.

Newport R.I.-It’s almost 10 p.m. on a Thursday night in the basement of Salve Regina University’s Wakehurst Student Center. Students are grazing through their study materials on comfy couches, the community TV sets are blaring, and students Justin Wood and Nicole Baldassari have just come through the back door and are headed toward the small, soundproof studio behind the basement’s indoor glass window.

You go to this website multiple times a day, and before you log in you see, “Facebook: A place for friends.” Sometimes when I catch this, I giggle to myself. Is it really? It seems to be more like “Facebook: A vulnerable place where your enemies can harass you” or “Facebook: A place to upload pictures of every party you’ve ever been to.

For the Scrooge of Valentine’s Day who definitely won’t be first in line to see the star-packed new movie Valentine’s Day hitting theatres Feb. 12, 2010, take into consideration these classic films that I am sure will fulfill your black heart. So grab a pint of your favorite Ben & Jerry’s, a toasty beverage and a garbage can to burn all those pictures of your cheating ex-boyfriend/girlfriend while you enjoy an evening filled with the satisfaction of stabbing love right in the heart.

Now you see it. Now you don’t. Thanks to Proposition 8, in November of 2008 California’s LGBT residents witnessed a similar trick with their right to legally marry. Proposition 8, more commonly known among the LGBT community as “Proposition hate” revoked Californians’ right to same-sex marriages, which had only been passed in June of that year.