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“Catching Fire” finds hope in the struggle
On Saturday, Feb. 15, the UR Cinema Group played “Catching Fire”, the second installment of the “Hunger Games” trilogy. Here we go, back into the arena... “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” directed by Francis Lawrence, combines personal struggles of love and survival with the terror of revolution against tyranny. It picks up where the first […]
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Glitch Mob impress on sophomore LP
The Glitch Mob has done it again. Ever since the 2010 release of its critically acclaimed debut album, “Drink The Sea”, the growing fan base of the Los Angeles-based electronic trio has been clamoring for more. With expectations high, The Glitch Mob’s sophomore album, “Love Death Immortality”, does not disappoint. Contrary to what their name […]
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CT Recommends: Tropic Thunder
“Tropic Thunder” is a movie beyond words. But, I will try my best to express the essence of this movie in the limited medium that has been offered me. “Tropic Thunder” is a movie about a group of actors who are in a movie, “Tropic Thunder”, about a group of American soldiers during the Vietnam […]
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Umphrey’s McGee brings the house down
On Sunday Feb. 9, the band Umphrey’s McGee played Rochester’s Harro East Ballroom. They didn’t wear kilts, they weren’t jolly nor stout, and their music didn’t take on the lumpy contour of phrases like “Humpty Dumpty” or “Dunder Mifflin”. They did, however, bring the house down. Umphrey’s McGee is a jam band, which means it […]
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Charlie Parr and and the truth
Charlie Parr is a folk and blues singer-songwriter. He’s from Minnesota. He plays National resonator and acoustic guitars, but he doesn’t do electric. He doesn’t do modern recording studios either. Call him an old soul, rootsy, or traditional– it doesn’t matter, because these labels don’t do Charlie Parr any justice. While influenced by musical-forefathers as […]
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Institute for Popular Music celebrates Beatles’ legacy
February 9th, 1964 was the beginning of an era. Over thirteen million adoring fans tuned in on black and white TV screens to watch The Beatles in their first performance on US soil: live on the Ed Sullivan Show. After that night, in a phenomenon known as “Beatlemania,” John, Paul, George and Ringo quickly became […]
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Lovelife lack substance on “Feel” EP
You’ve got to hand it to Lovelife – at least they held no secrets by naming their latest EP “Feel”. Through the course of four songs, Lovelife prove that they’re masters of the unfocused, emotionally vague melodrama that made Imagine Dragons and The Weeknd so successful. While the aforementioned bands hone in on a specific […]
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Light show leaves mixed feelings
On Saturday, Jan. 25, Rochester’s Strausenberg Planeterium held a Radiohead light show. The phrase “Radiohead light show” is sure to evoke two starkly different reactions. For most people, a Radiohead light show promises an audiovisual journey of epic proportions. This makes perfect sense, as there’s no reason why the union of bright lights and loud […]
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Talent show brings smiles and tears, claps and jeers
On Friday, Jan. 31, the Susan B. Anthony Lower R.A. Staff hosted “UR’s Got Talent” at the May Room in Wilson Commons. Leave it to UR, the school that unashamedly exploits every opportunity to turn the letters “UR” into a pun, to showcase the talents of its students in a mock-reality show format. Like a […]
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In memory of Philip Seymour Hoffman
From drag queen to spy villain, rock critic to Catholic priest, Philip Seymour Hoffman has been it all. On Sunday, Feb. 2, the world observed the passing of one of this generation’s greatest actors, a performer whose style is hard to peg down because it was constantly in flux, adapting to every role that came […]