Category: Arts & Entertainment

  • Cuteness can’t elevate “Rio”s’ unfortunate predicatbility

    by Kris Fronzak, News Editor The recently released animated film “Rio” from Twentieth Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios film proves that a stellar cast can’t fix inherent unoriginality — but it can make the unoriginality a little more amusing. Relying on a combination of lurid colors (it is set in the tropics, after all),…

  • The Scene Romance, Royal Style

    If you’re reading this on Friday afternoon, you are tardy for the party. Prince William has already married Kate Middleton in a lavish ceremony that took place at Westminster Abbey in London earlier today. For some, the fanfare surrounding the royal wedding stemmed from the well-kept secret of Middleton’s wedding gown.† For others, it was…

  • What’s the Rumor? Effie’s Players delivers a slap-stick performance with “Rumors”

    Have you ever attended an awkward dinner party you were invited to that turned into a night of high laughs and mystery? Put your “Clue” cards away; Neil Simon’s romp-fest comedy “Rumors” puts the game to shame. Effie’s Players, a student theatre organization at the College, delivered a comedic weekend for the campus in Shoolroy…

  • Facing the Unknown: Children’s Curiosity and Adult Fear Come Together at the New Studio Art Exhibtions

    A study of opposites was on display in Ebert Art Center this week, as Adria Hankey-Brown ’11 and Kathleen Mazzei ’11 debuted their studio art Independent Study exhibitions. In her piece “Child’s Play: Nature’s Movement,” Hankey-Brown explored children’s relationship with nature and the bold curiosity they harness to approach its phenomena. Mazzei gave shape to†…

  • The Scene – Exploring Erotic Literature

    We all have multiple talents to offer the world as artists, writers, painters, musicians and performers. One of the greatest talents that people in the world of art have to offer is the ability to teach someone their craft and trade within their genre. For me, whenever a guest artist from the worldwide community pays…

  • Eight unique pieces continue pushing the boundaries of dance

    Last weekend, students gathered in Freedlander Theatre for the Theatre and Dance Department’s Spring Dance Concert.† The show, which ran Thursday and Saturday evenings with a matinee on Sunday afternoon, was directed by Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance Alyssa Lee Wilmot ’00.† Wilmot and seven other students choreographed pieces for the concert.