'Crash' offers unique look at stereotypes, race issues
If you think you know who you are, after seeing "Crash," you'll think again. This movie brings an all-star cast together to take on racism with full force.
If you think you know who you are, after seeing "Crash," you'll think again. This movie brings an all-star cast together to take on racism with full force.
Zzz isn't a sound you'll be making when you listen to zZz's "Sound of zZz." The duo of Bjorn Ottenheim and Daan Schinkel create a high-energy mix of trance, electro wave, garage grunge and rock 'n' roll on their full-length debut album "Sound of zZz." Ottenheim plays drums and provides dark sensuous vocals, while Schinkel plays the organ.
Tom Dudzick's "Over the Tavern" is back for another run at the BoarsHead Theatre after sold-out showings last fall. The play, which opens May 18 and runs through May 29, was such a success that the full cast is back to revive this comedy.
"Grease," the musical, will be at 8 p.m. June 3 and will run through June 5 at the Wharton Center.
J. Lo is looking for a relationship, but this time it's in the movies. The only difference is she and Mr. Right aren't having problems - it's Lopez and her future mother-in-law battling it out. Charlotte "Charlie" Cantilini (Jennifer Lopez) is your average city girl, working as a receptionist at a doctor's office, and has dreams of becoming a fashion designer.
Hard rock and heavy metal lace all the tracks on Superkollider's new release, their second album, "Atomic Clock," out May 27. The CD may have a message to be heard about self identity and how we figure out who we are, but it's hard to understand with the overbearing sound of electric guitar and drums beating in your ears. From the first song to the last, the disc has 12 tracks that are virtually the same - with the exception of different lyrics that don't enhance the quality of the band's music. The listener is distracted by all the unnecessary musical elements added to the production.
Looking for a good movie this summer, but don't know what to watch? Don't worry, my movie friends, I'll be your guide for this 2005 summer film bonanza.
Put a 1984 Oscar winner with an NFL coach and add a Saturday Night Live performer, and you've got a movie.
Whenever I buy a CD, I always check for that little parental advisory sticker in the bottom corner. I'm not one of those people who won't buy it just because of the sticker.
Hair stylist Javon Windham was on her fourth head of the day and it was only 2 p.m. While music blasted, the stylist was laughing and joking as pieces of hair lay scattered on the tiled floor.
In the golden age of the 1970s, singer/songwriter Luther Ingram said "If loving you is wrong, then I don't want to be right." Jeff Byrd's "King's Ransom" will receive no love.
With story-telling, people-molding and ad-libbing games, the student group Your Mom Improv is shaking students out of the study doldrums this weekend. Your Mom Improv has three shows this weekend, but each night has a different layout of games, and culminates with a roast of three senior members on Sunday. "Improv is about coming and seeing something new," said Phil VanWagoner, a telecommunication, information studies and media senior.
Enter Michael Connolly's world. At 24 years old, he's already pegged as a lifelong resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled.
Now that spring is here, shouldn't your car be looking its best? The condition of your car probably doesn't faze many of you - but it should.
On the cover art of American Hi-Fi's latest studio album, "Hearts On Parade," the four band members wear leather jackets, striking tough-guy poses behind a graffiti font bearing the group's name.
Thousands of students are graduating next week, and if you're one of those students, chances are you don't know what will happen after you walk across that big stage. Some of you might go home and chill for a while.
Watching director Sydney Pollack's latest film, "The Interpreter," is like walking down a street where you hear a dozen languages, and not one of them your native tongue. It's this notion of incomprehension, lost translation, and mystique that propels Pollack's film, but also leaves it feeling slightly rough around the edges. Nicole Kidman is African-born U.N.
It's Tuesday and you know what that means - brand new albums. There are plenty of goodies coming out today, including debuts by new artists and fresh material by old favorites.
Riverwalk Theatre's Black Box Series has brought the notch up for classy acting. "Vampire Lesbians of Sodom" opened this weekend at Creole Gallery, 1218 Turner St.
Breaking into the professional world of critics and judgments can be difficult for artists. Luckily, the Kresge Art Museum Undergraduate Exhibition is one way to ease into these untested waters. About 250 pieces were submitted and 106 chosen to be in the two-week exhibit that ends Sunday.