By NICK SIRIANNO Help is on the way! No need to worry, y’all because Springfest is only two weeks away. You might even say that “Paradise waits on the crest of a wave,” the wave being the twenty-five person Chinese dragon that will be squirming through the crowd like a squirrel in the trees. Springfest [...]
By JAMES MELVILLE Something relevant! Ha. Classic misdirection. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call–New Orleans (2009): Plot: After injuring his back when rescuing a convict (Nick Gomez) caught in a flood after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans detective Terence McDonagh (Nicolas Cage) gets promoted to Lieutenant. Six months later, he’s addicted to any kind of drug that [...]
By TYLER ROSS It helps to point out that Adam Bainbridge is more artist than just musician. He’s spent the better part of a decade studying fine art and design in London, winning prizes along the way for his drawing skills. Now, Bainbridge has turned his artistic attention to the music scene with the release [...]
By RILEY SPELLMAN From Wednesday, March 28th until Saturday, March 31st, Gulick Theatre featured a play production of Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone. The story followed Jean (played by Sara Cushing ‘13), and her adventures caused by her discovery of both a dead man, Gordon (played by Matt Morrison ’14), and his cell phone, [...]
The first official day of Spring was March 20th. The birds have been flying freely, flowers are beginning to sprout. The trees are budding. We have seen Spring sun, Spring rain, and classis North Country Spring snow. Nice weather means getting outside. Here is something for all of us. We love, having a few cold [...]
By JAMES MELVILLE This is the first year I haven’t made up a movie to review for April Fool’s Day. I decided to write about The Hunger Games instead, because it’s more culturally relevant. The Hunger Games (2012): Plot: In the future, some kind of global conflict has collapsed America and replaced it with the [...]
By TYLER ROSS Since Odd Future blew up last year they’ve been all over the music world’s collective radar. Some love them–minimalist hip-hop enthusiasts and indie bloggers to mention a few–and others hate them–notably feminists and anyone who reads lyrics as gospel. That’s because they’re shocking. Their music has been labeled horrorcore or shockmusic. “Kill [...]
By RILEY SPELLMAN On March 22nd, poet Joanie Mackowski had the audience in stitches and in awe. Mackowski is working on her third collection of poems after publishing her first two, View From a Temporary Window and The Zoo. It’s also Mackowski’s chance, she discussed, to write about herself and her experiences in her poetry [...]
By JAMES MELVILLE I’m really hoping that by the time you guys read this, it’ll be less than 80 f*cking degrees outside. Yeah, I’m that guy. 21 Jump Street (2012): Plot: Two ridiculously immature cops, Jenko (Channing Tatum) and Schmidt (Jonah Hill) are given an undercover assignment in a high school. Their mission is to [...]
By RICHARD BOHAN This week, our Assistant A&E Editor gives us his top five tracks to herald in the spring. 1. Beach House – Myth Forget the flowers, nothing heralds spring like a new Beach House track. In fact, the band is more than ready to Bloom—their fourth album, to be released on May 15. [...]
