Category: Arts & Entertainment

  • ìThe Fantasticks” provides light entertainment

    Looking for a good way to avoid homework this weekend?† Instead of another party at Bissman or a night in your room playing DragonAge, consider seeing a show.† Effieís Players production of the off-Broadway classic ìThe Fantasticks” is a quirky, charming and fun way to spend your evening.

  • ìMen Who Stare At Goats” bizarre but witty

    ìThe Men Who Stare at Goats” is definitely not what I would consider to be a mainstream movie. It can also be said with almost complete certainty that it will have absolutely no chance of beating ìTwilight” at the box office this weekend. Still, ìThe Men Who Stare at Goats” is a surprisingly entertaining film…

  • Student Choreographers create eclectic presentation

    This yearís ìStage Door” fall dance concert is doubtlessly one of the most compelling showcases of student work to be presented this semester. The intimacy of dance ìin the round,” wherein the audience is seated on all sides of the performance space, immerses the audience fully in each piece, and even under such intense scrutiny…

  • ìThe Box” disappoints

    ìThe Box” begins in 1970s suburbia with a seemingly nice couple Norma (Cameron Diaz) and Arthur (James Marsden) suddenly facing economic hardship. It is then that a stranger shows up on their doorstep offering a vast sum of money and a moral dilemma. Norma and Arthur are given the chance at a million dollars; all…

  • Composition major channels talents into Electronica album

    If I had to describe ìSquelch & Skronk,” the debut album of the Mentor, Ohio-based electronic group Prof. Noise, in one word, it would be ìquirky.”† The album has an unusual mix of sound samples which create really cool effects, and layered with very nice vocals on the whole is very solid.† There were, however,…

  • Dan Miraldi í09 gives thoughts on his album, career

    For those who havenít heard the album yet, how would you describe it? I think I would describe it as† accessible but thoughtful. I wanted it to have mass appeal, but at the same time didnít want it to be mindless. I picked songs of mine from various genres of inspiration that are catchy and…