Hurricanes midfielder Brittney Steinbruch will open her junior season against Florida.

The University of Miami women’s soccer team will open its 2009 season at home against the Florida Gators on Friday, August 21 at 7:30 p.m.

The matchup will be the first of an annual series between the two programs, which last played each other in the 2007 NCAA Tournament, a 3-0 UF victory.

“There is no better way to start the season than with an in-state rivalry between two soccer programs of national prominence,” said UM head coach Tricia Taliaferro.

All time, Miami is 1-2 against Florida, with the lone victory coming in 2001.

For ticket information, contact the Hurricane Ticket Office at 1-800-GO-CANES. For the team’s full schedule, visit www.hurricanesports.com.

Astronaut Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is living on the far side of the moon, completing a three-year contract to mine Earth’s primary source of energy, Helium-3. It is a lonely job, made harder by a broken satellite that allows no live communications home. Thankfully, his time on the moon is nearly over, and Sam will be reunited with his wife, Tess, and their three-year-old daughter, Eve, in only a few short weeks. Finally, he will leave the isolation of the moon base that has been his home for so long, and he will finally have someone to talk to beyond “Gerty,” the base’s well-intentioned, but rather uncomplicated computer. Suddenly, Sam’s health starts to deteriorate. Painful headaches, hallucinations and a lack of focus lead to an almost fatal accident on a routine drive on the moon in a lunar rover. While recuperating back at the base, Sam meets a younger, angrier version of himself, who claims to be there to fulfill the same three-year contract Sam started all those years ago. Admission is $6 for all UM alumni, faculty, and staff, and is free for students. General admission is $8. The film screens on Friday, August 21 at 7 p.m., Saturday, August 22 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, August 23 at 2 and 6 p.m. For more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com.

With a tone all its own, this film manages to be three things at once: a portrait of life lived under a dictatorship, a bitter critique of an individual who will do anything to reach his goal, and a blackly comic satire of celebrity obsession. Raul Peralta (Alfredo Castro) is a 50-something man who lives in Santiago during the fearful, suffocating days of Augusto Pinochet’s rule.

Raul is obsessed with John Travolta’s character from Saturday Night Fever–hence the film’s title–to the point where he’s even bought a white suit similar to Manero’s. Each weekend, he performs with a group of dancers at a bar, recreating the moves from his favorite movie. He finds an even more important purpose when a television station announces that they’re holding a Tony Manero dance- and look-alike contest. In such a stifling social climate, Raul takes matters into his own hands, doing whatever it takes to make his dream come true. The tone of Tony Manero is virtually impossible to describe, for the film’s most brutal moments are actually its funniest. Tony Manero is a startlingly original achievement, marking Lorrain as a director to watch in the future.

The film is in Spanish with English subtitiles. Admission is $6 for all UM alumni, faculty, and staff, and is free for students. General admission is $8. The film screens on Friday, August 21 at 9  p.m., Saturday, August 22 at 5  and 9 p.m., and Sunday, August 23 at 4 and 8 p.m. For more information visit www.cosfordcinema.com.

The SPEAK test, required for all international graduate teaching assistants to demonstrate ability in spoken English, will be given on Friday, August 21 at 2 p.m. in Allen Hall, Room 102. For more information and to register for the test, contact Vanessa from the Intensive Language Institute at [email protected] or call 305-284-4727. You must be preregistered by 5 p.m. Thursday, August 20 to take the test. A photo ID is required on the day of the test.