Category: Arts & Entertainment

The Wooster Arts Jazz Festival will be taking place downtown this Sunday.† For six years, the event has featured art, activities for children, gourmet food and live bands from the Ohio area. The Jazz Fest is presented by the Main Street Wooster Foundation, Inc, Wooster City School, and the Rotary Club of Wooster in order…

If you want a high-brow post-apocalyptic action film with snappy dialogue and a brilliant twist ending, then Shane Ackerís ì9″ will probably come as something of a disappointment.† ì9″ lacks too many important elements to be a truly exceptional film.† But those areas in which it does excel make it well worth the price of…

On Friday the 11th, I settled into an otherwise empty theater with a friend, prepared for the noon premiere of ìSorority Row” ó the film one Internet Movie Database user defines in a message board subject as, ìThe Second Worst Thing To Happen on September 11.”† While no self-respecting spectator will hail the movie as…

Radio host Michael Feldman, announcer Jim Packard and the WhadíYa Know? jazz trio joined Wooster students and the greater community Saturday in McGaw Chapel for a broadcast of the live radio quiz show, ìWhadíYa Know?” During the two-hour event, audience members were treated to little-known nuggets of Northeast Ohio trivia ó who knew that newborn…

Shakespeare. The name can send shivers up any studentís spine. You can never understand the language, the stories are always depressing, and you have to read hundreds of pages of it every night. The thought brings up visions of old black and white movies, thousands of lines of text and crowded, dusty opera theaters. The…

My eyes settle on the first wood inlay painting. The tranquil isolation portrayed instantly reminds me of summers spent with my grandfather on the placid lakes of southern Manitoba; I am reminded of the tremendous expanse and the peaceful lapping of water against a simple manís fishing boat. Summers in Canada were always a departure…