In the beginning, there were mere poets like Shakespeare and Robert Frost. In the beginning, there were mere music-makers like Beethoven and Debussy. More recently, these poet types and music-maker types have combined forces to create such lame lyrics as Kayne West’s “All of the Lights,” or, a little older, Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida.”
On the Thursday night before spring break, Patricia Smith read her poetry in front of an audience of professors, students and locals all piled into the Sykes formal lounge to hear a true performance poet. Smith was introduced as a giant of the poetry world. In addition to winning four individual Slam poetry championships, she [...]
The buzz about last week’s Java show did not fail to generate huge crowds when Rochester native Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad took the stage Thursday night. Having played several times at the Barn over the past five years, it is no wonder they have achieved widespread familiarity and popularity among St. Lawrence students. In [...]
The SLU Ski Club will be showing the 1993 film Aspen Extreme this Friday at 7 p.m. in Hepburn Auditorium. If you like skiing, snowboarding, hot snow bunnies, fly ski instructor dudes, romance, drama, cocaine addiction, love triangles, bad acting, poignancy, seduction, silly Austrian accents, radical extreme waterfall-hucking, daffies, backscratchers, iron crosses, fluorescent ski clothing, [...]
I’d make some comment about the weather at St. Lawrence, but that’s totally not where I am right now. That’s right: I’m randomly travelling through time as a result of SCIENCE GONE WRONG. Right now, I’m writing from THE FUTURE. Is it amazing? Why, yes, it certainly is. They have jetpacks, and everybody flies around [...]
Every night after dark this week, from Monday until tonight, the St. Lawrence campus was treated to “E-lumination.” Stationed on the quad, numerous projectors lit up different nature images on the large snow forms positioned sporadically across the grounds. These snow forms acted as easels for the projectors. Matt Burnett and Scott Fuller created this [...]
On My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Kanye West exhibits the deft production skills and poignant lyrical poetry that have made him one of music’s most important figures since his 2004 debut, College Dropout. His first three efforts stand as near perfect examples of how fluid and whole an album can be. Even his critically thrashed [...]
Published February 5,2010 Hi-ya campus. I hope you enjoyed my last column. Maybe we are not even friends, but you still read on. That’s great; my phone number is (603) 867-5309. I like long walks on the beach, good conversation over a bottle of port, and I’ve recently come to terms with the fact that [...]
Published February 5, 2010 From its onset, Electric Version by The New Pornographers is immediately catchy. The album’s opening track, aptly titled “The Electric Version,” starts with frenetic drums that are quickly matched by a jumping guitar riff. When frontman A.C. Newman falls in with his soulful yet quirky vocals, you know it’s a match [...]
One of the best examples of provocative art in the permanent collection is Pop Quiz, by the group of anonymous female artists known as the Guerilla Girls. Printed in 1990 and purchased with funds from the Griffiths Endowment, the stark black letters of Pop Quiz resound in true Guerilla fashion. The text reads from top [...]
