Spring Break
Tuesday night brought out students who united to hear the works of Saul Williams. Some know him as the activist, while others admire him as the actor. "I liked him in slam, and I like a lot of his poems," said Jiji Said, a 5th-semester business major. The 35-year-old Williams, a musician-poet-actor, is known as a renaissance man in the industry. (0) comments
There are currently many individuals on death row; it is not known how many of them are innocent. In the film "The Exonerated," the survivors of wrongful death row convictions are not considered lucky. They are just getting back to a life that was taken from them, often in cases of common mistakes, shoddy evidence and false testimony. (0) comments
From the shortest of staccato notes to lively main melodies and deep diverging harmonies, Quartetto Di Venezia, translated to the Venetian Quartet, kept the audience last night at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts thoroughly impressed. This Italian string quartet, which was founded more than 20 years ago, has toured the world and has played as special guests for several prominent international figures such as the presidents of Italy and the European Union, and the late Pope John Paul II. (0) comments
Michael Moore's latest documentary, "Sicko," is an impassioned plea for universal healthcare in America. Fifty million Americans, according to Moore, are living without health insurance and the viewer comes face to face with just the tip of this proverbial iceberg throughout the film. (1) comment
In Cameron Crowe's 2000 film "Almost Famous," Phillip Seymour Hoffman's character Lester Bangs talks to aspiring journalist William Miller (Patrick Fugit) about the thin line between friendship and being used when it comes to rock stars. His advice? "Be honest and unmerciful. (1) comment