Culture

ESM students bang out expert rendition of ‘Assassins’

Eastman School of Music students took the stage at Kilbourn Hall in a production of “Assassins,” presented by the Eastman Opera Theatre. Read More

CT Recommends MuseScore

MuseScore is a cost-effective option for digital music notation, printing and exporting on par with competing programs like Sibelius and Finale. Read More

‘Bad as Me’ as good as expected

Tom Waits has been coasting in rather unusual way. Read More

Characterization in Fox’s ‘Terra Nova’ covers no new ground

The pattern of new television shows this season seems to be that none of them have a wow factor Read More

YellowJackets bid farewell to successful run on ‘Sing-Off’

It’s been said that all good things must come to an end. For the YellowJackets, it was their dream of winning  NBC’s “The Sing-Off” — the group was eliminated from the show’s Monday, Oct. 31 episode. Competing as one of the final two groups in the episode, they were pitted against Urban Method — a […]

ABC’s ‘Once Upon a Time’ enchants viewers

Once upon a time, on a network not so far away, a new television show aired with endless potential. It’s a story we’ve heard before, but that’s the point. Inherent in the phrase “once upon a time” is that we will recognize some or all of what we are about to hear, but the alterations […]

The underdogs of UR a cappella show their scary skills

If you told me earlier in the week that I’d soon be seeing a quidditch player and a Pokémon trainer singing at the Interfaith Chapel, I might have been slightly intrigued, but I probably wouldn’t have believed you. Yet both of these fictional characters were present at Trebellious’ Halloween show — appropriately entitled “Spookapella” — […]

CT Recommends "Chopped"

Grab a snack — you are going to need one — and park yourself in front of the Food Network on Tuesday nights at 10 p.m. for “Chopped,” a competitive cooking show hosted by Ted Allen, the food and wine connoisseur of Bravo’s Emmy-winning show “Queer Eye (for the Straight Guy).” This is not your […]

Russell Peters’ comedy a good fit for Meliora Weekend

No one was immune to his fully automatic barrage of comedy. As an Indo-Canadian who grew up in a culturally diverse neighborhood, Peters uses his background to make light of racial stereotypes. Read More

‘Extreme Materials 2’: An eye-opening new exhibit

"A found object is just a familiar thing seen as though for the first time,” artist Nemo Gould said about the peculiar medium of the Memorial Art Gallery’s newest exhibit “Extreme Materials 2” that opened on Saturday, Oct. 22. The exhibit is a rehash of the MAG’s original one — “Extreme Materials” — from 2006, […]