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Festival of Food, Film and Culture delights the senses
After fifteen years, the Festival of Food, Film and Culture has returned to UR—and it was worth the wait. Delicious, authentic food from around the world is paired with foreign movies in the four-week series presented by the Department of Modern Languages & Cultures. Spanish professor Claudia Schaefer said that the department first tried to […]
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Oscar Predictions: Everything you should know
Ok, y’all, Oscar Sunday is coming. Get your ballots out, your bets drawn, and let’s win (lose?) you some money! Best Picture Nominees: “American Sniper;” “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance);” “Boyhood;” “The Grand Budapest Hotel;” “The Imitation Game;” “Selma;” “The Theory of Everything;” “Whiplash” Will Win: “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” […]
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‘Student artists speak:’ Yang Yang
Jeff Howard: So, you recently performed with your new project, “Asian Fusion,” at Montage Music Hall this past Saturday. I find the band name very intriguing. What inspired the project and where are hoping to go with it? Yang Yang: Well, that's actually a very temporary name because I was asked if I wanted to […]
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‘I’ll Be Your Pilot Tonight:’ ‘Better Call Saul’
It starts where it left off in the pilot episode of “Better Call Saul.” A Cinnabon. In fact, it is the Cinnabon that Saul Goodman imagined he’d be managing in the penultimate episode of “Breaking Bad.” Behind the counter is the sad, drone-like shell of what used to be Saul (now Gene, according to his […]
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‘Year Walk:’ dark mythology redux
“Year Walk” (Simogo, 2013) is one of those games that completely passed me by on its release. When a friend recommended it to me early this year, I assumed it to be relatively new, and only later did I discover just how late I was to the party. It’s precisely because I only recently discovered […]
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CT Recommends: Bladee – ‘Gluee”
“GLUEE,” the debut mixtape from Bladee, a member of the Swedish rap/electronic music collective Gravity Boys, is a tough pill to swallow. The mixtape’s opening track, “deletee,” is a 3-minute long iced-out autotune casserole where Bladee moans, “Gucci lenses on my eyes / Bank account match my clothing size.” Much of “GLUEE” is moaning–that's the […]
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Eastman pays tribute to Mendelssohn
“So, are you into organ music?” This might seem like an odd question to ask, since in today’s popular music realm, the organ is very rarely heard. It used to be featured in a select group of 70s bands, such as “The Doors,” but, as of late, it has been replaced by electronic synthesizers. This […]
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“I’ll be your Pilot Today”
This weekly column will review the pilot episodes of television shows, both successful and cancelled. In this inaugural column of “I’ll Be Your Pilot Today,” I will review the pilot for “Fresh Off the Boat,” the ABC comedy about the ups and downs of an Asian- American family in Orlando, FL in 1995. “Fresh Off […]
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BSU Step Show features high school talent, UR dancers
Black Student Union (BSU) hosted their 12th Annual Step Show on Saturday, Feb. 7, drawing performers and spectators from across the greater Rochester area. The show, which was themed “You Can't Step With Us,” featured step teams from area high schools and several performances from UR. The show consisted of three parts. The opening performance […]
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Oscar Series: “Boyhood”
We learned in high school what a bildungsroman is–it’s an genre that demonstrates the coming-of-age of the main character of a novel. It’s when the protagonist matures enough to combine the delicacies of his or her childhood innocence and the grounded reality as they reach the age of maturation. It’s a term mainly applied to […]