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SNL season premiere featured favorite alums
As usual, “Saturday Night Live” plunged into its new season with relevant political references with the Cold Open, which featured Kristen Wiig, the show’s most recognizable female star, as Christine O’Donnell, the Tea Party candidate for Senate who admitted to dabbling in witchcraft. Wigg shouted the familiar opening line, “Live from New York, it’s Saturday…
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IngenuityFest provides a opportunities for artists
It’s always a challenge for artists to find the best venue to showcase their latest work, whether it is a musical performance, a play, a dance piece, paintings or photographs. This past weekend, IngenuityFest: The Cleveland Festival of Art and Technology, became the hosting venue for a number of artists, especially those from Northeast Ohio.
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“Easy A” is a wild, over dramatized adventure
“Easy A,” the latest in the inexhaustible string of silver screen interpretations of the travails of the American teenager, is a charming, feel-good film. Directed by Will Gluck,† it tells the story of Olive Penderghast (Emma Stone), a self-aware and wittily observant high school student, who is shunned by her peers after she decides to…
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P-10 releases final installment of MIXtapes
After almost an entire year since releasing music, Patryk Tenorio ’11, better known as P-10, put out the final installment of his four part Mashup MIXtape series. Tenorio has created and released mashup mixes since his first year at Wooster, using a music editing software called Sonar that allows him to mix tracks.† Although many…
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“Going the Distance” a crowd pleaser
Though “Going the Distance” is among the last of this summer’s silver screen releases, it deserves a place as one of the season’s smartest mainstream films. Directed by Nanette Burstein and written by Geoff LaTulippe, it tells the story of Erin (Drew Barrymore) and Garrett (Justin Long), two young professionals whose summer fling in New…
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Art documentary exposes big ëartistic’ controversey
“The Art of the Steal,” a documentary directed by Don Argott and released in February, brought to light the insufficiently-acknowledged art scandal that undermined Albert C. Barnes’ will in regards to his private art collection.† Barnes intended for his collection to be a freestanding educational institution, not a museum in the conventional sense, and only…
