Spring Break
The Hillel Block Party 2005, held Sunday, featured a bungee run, a Velcro wall, sno-cones, the UConn a capella group A-Minor and religious funk band Beyond Eden. With songs from the Beastie Boys and others playing in the background, students and families gathered on the lawn of the Hillel House to "get the spring started right.
Ever since "the Day the Music Died" 46 years ago, numerous musical icons have followed the same footsteps by dying in their prime. The haunting memory of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper's sorrowful demise will forever leave a scar upon rock 'n' roll's history.
Internationally celebrated artist/writer and MacArthur Fellow Guillermo Gómez-Peña brought his visually jarring and titillating performance, "Mexotica," to the Benton Museum of Art Friday. Half of the aesthetic decisions for the show are made while the actors are mid-performance.
Tomorrow evening, Marina Carr, one of few female playwrights to attain notoriety within the elite field of Irish dramatists, will make an exclusive visit to the Nafe Katter Theater for a reading of her work followed by a question and answer period. Carr, a former writer-in-residence at The Abbey Theater - the playhouse founded by Irish literary icon W.