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Weezer digs back to the past on new LP
Weezer has been around for more than 20 years, and their latest album, "Everything Will Be Alright in the End," reaches back almost to the very beginning. "Everything Will Be Alright in the End" (EWBAITE), released on Oct 7, is very much an album about a band going back to its roots and reclaiming its […]
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‘What the Butler Saw’ provides humor and intrigue
Running a madhouse has never seemed so fun. Unless, of course, that madhouse is your psychiatric office. Such is the premise of the UR International Theatre Program’s current production “What the Butler Saw.” The farce, written in 1969 by Joe Orton, is rooted in British culture of The Sixties, satirizing conservative culture and Freudian psychoanalysis. […]
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Eastman Arts Leadership Program looks to future
This article was originally printed on 10-9-14. Nineteen Eastman students will have the opportunity to “adapt, invent, succeed” as newly admitted members of Eastman’s prestigious Arts Leadership Certificate program. The Catherine Filene Shouse Arts Leadership Program (ALP) was founded in 1996 and remains among the cornerstone programs of the Institute for Music Leadership at the […]
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The return of ‘Twin Peaks’
This article was originally printed on 10-9-14. There is a fantastic video on YouTube entitled “Badalamenti Twin Peaks Love Theme” in which the composer, Angelo Badalamenti, explains how he composed the main theme to the surreal television drama “Twin Peaks.” Badalamenti explains how David Lynch was telling him about Laura Palmer and how he envisioned […]
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Thom Yorke of Radiohead releases understated LP
This article was originally printed on 10-9-14. The actress Gwyneth Paltrow caused a minor stir earlier this year when she announced on her website, GOOP.com, that she and her husband, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, were “consciously uncoupling.” Conscious uncoupling is not just a method for celebrities to imply their quasi-self importance while retaining very little […]
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‘Gone Girl’ is thrilling, unconventional
This article was originally printed on 10-9-14. “The primal questions of a marriage: what are you thinking? How are you feeling? What have we done to each other? What will we do?” These opening lines of David Fincher’s newest film, “Gone Girl,” present the central question of the film: can we ever truly know another, […]
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Short Term 12
It’s rare to find a film like “Short Term 12.” It’s a movie that is marvelously small in scope, and has no grand ambitions or self-created pretentiousness. Left in their place is a truly moving story that wears its heart on its sleeve. This story, one of messed-up people trying to help and understand each […]
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Aphex Twin return in style, form with Syro
In the middle of August, a chartreuse blimp appeared over London bearing the Aphex Twin logo. A few days later, Aphex Twin’s official Twitter account posted a link only accessible through Tor, which revealed the track listing and the title, “Syro,” a nonsense word made up by Richard D. James’s son. James, of course, is […]
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PUSH Physical Theatre: dancing to demonstrate unity
Although I appreciate the multiple forms of art, I have not attended many dance shows in the past. My prior dance experience, consisting of tap lessons at three years old and ballet at eight, hadn’t given me very memorable impressions of dance as an art form. However, my experience as an audience member of PUSH […]
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Vic Mensa and Asher Roth storm Douglass
“Bowl cuts was the craze / I was crazy,” spat Asher Roth in Douglass Dining Hall on Friday, Sep. 27. The lyric adequately sums up the MC’s current stage in his career: Roth, best known for his 2009 suburban-bubblegum-rap single “I Love College,” wants you to know he’s playing the rap game for real this […]