10 DIFFERENT THINGS
On April 18, 19 and 20, Connecticut College’s senior Dance Department majors showcased their final theses performances in a concert titled 10 Different Things. Featuring eight original performances from seniors Liz Charky, Ayano Elson, Grant Jacoby, Jeramie Orton, Rachel Pritzlaff, Sammi Shay, Chloe Spitalny and Skyler Volpe and two solo pieces choreographed for seniors Amy [...]
Evil Dead Remake Delivers Even More Horror and Gore Than Original
You’ve seen it countless times before: a group of naïve twenty-something-year-olds venture off the map for a weekend at the family cabin, bad stuff happens, each friend is left to fend for him-or-herself while mayhem ensues, etc. So what gives Evil Dead the right to carry a tagline as bold as “The Most Terrifying Film [...]
The Best Places to Get Breakfast in and around New London
Conn students are perhaps most familiar with Hodges Square as a one stop-shop for booze, be it at “Hodges,” or for the younger crowd, “Universal.” (Boy, free Bud Light posters featuring scantily clad cowgirls and the occasional gift of a Four Loko sure do make it worth the trip!) But for the first three years [...]
Lee’s Oriental Market offers a wide variety of foods from Asia
Though it’s located just a short walk from Conn’s southern boundary, the exterior view of Lee’s Oriental Market strangely resembles a retail establishment from… oh, about 1953, give or take a few years. The phrase “mom-and-pop store” may come to mind, totally unbidden, at the sight of the clean but weather-beaten pale blue colonial-style house [...]
Warning: New Timberlake Album Is a Massive Aphrodisiac
Justin Timberlake is an icon of American pop culture. Whether you know him as Mr. Sexy Back, fake Sean Parker or the dancing omelet from Saturday Night Live, Timberlake has no doubt affected your life, and possibly your hormones, from time to time. Last month, Timberlake returned to the industry that made him big, releasing [...]
The Next Day Looks to Yesterday: A review of Bowie’s latest album
Before I tell you anything, you probably already know that The Next Day is not David Bowie’s best album. You probably already know that it doesn’t even make it into his top ten. I’m sure you were excited when its release was announced in January, but even then you probably knew that no matter how [...]
Want More Spring Break? James Franco Has Got You Covered
Spring Breakers — already one of the more controversial and outrageous films of the year — is sure to grab you by the seat of your pants, however willing or unwilling you may be. Marking writer and director Harmony Korine’s entrance into the (semi-) commercial realm, the film is a colorful collage of concentrated adolescence [...]
Student-Directed Play Dead Man’s Cell Phone Leaves Audience Smiling but Reflective
Ringing phones, punch line zingers and awkward comedy were in abundance at this weekend’s performance of Dead Man’s Cell Phone. The play, written by Sarah Ruhl, follows a bookish young woman named Jean (Julia Larsen ’14), who discovers a dead man named Gordon (Ben Ballard ’16) at an adjacent table in a lonely café. He [...]
AMC’s Epic Zombie Series, The Walking Dead, Resurrects with Third Season
Imagine it’s one year into a zombie apocalypse. Your wife just died giving birth to your daughter. You weren’t there to deliver the baby so your eleven-year-old son had to shoot his mom in the head to prevent her from turning into a zombie. The safest shelter you found is a prison, and there were [...]
The New American Horror Movie and Musical Standard
In a world stricken with violence, hate, insincerity and Glee, it is refreshing to see the plagues of our time revamped and used for good. Andrew Marco ’15 has done just that in his musical reimagining of the classic horror film Friday the 13th. This satirical retelling of the murderous Jason Voorhees was first workshopped [...]
Not Your Grandmother’s Fairytale
You may have seen trailers for Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters and thought to yourself: “Golly gee. That movie is going to be horrible. It doesn’t look like it has anything to do with the Hansel and Gretel fairytale that my grandmother told me when I was a young lass growing up in the German [...]
A Smash Hit?
Liz Lemon once said (lofty way to start this article, I know), “I don’t bail. I’m still watching Smash.” This among others is a similarity I proudly share with the queen of 30 Rock. Despite a strong pilot, after Smash premiered last year on NBC, many were underwhelmed with the sometimes strange and frustrating choices [...]
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