Posted on February 24th, 2011 by gretchen.frank
Photo courtesy of The Weinstein Company
It’s hard to believe that The King’s Speech, a film about King George VI—father of the current Queen Elizabeth of England—and the overcoming of his stutter during the declaration of war to Nazi Germany, is as funny, as invigorating, and as heartfelt as it is.
The film centers on the royally [...]
Posted on February 20th, 2011 by Olivia Fecteau
Kalesuuala. Issakauula. Baluualka. In the fictional language of Kari, these words mean “morning,” “ribbon,” and “dog.” Spoken as a sentence, they mean absolutely nothing.
Sarah Brodie, the main character of Precious Little, doesn’t care what they mean. After years of working as a linguist, Brodie has lost touch with the meaning of the words she reveres. [...]
Posted on February 7th, 2011 by Olivia Fecteau
Everyone is a racist. At least, that’s the perspective of a character in Dispatches from (A)mended America, a documentary play about race. Usually, the stereotype of a “racist” brings to mind someone who treats others as inferior because of race. Dispatches gives us an alternate definition: “Racism is being able to benefit from the way [...]
Posted on November 21st, 2010 by Lindsay Rothfeld
“Here was the evidence that the past is a sustaining force in present life and that the present itself is only a segment of an endless continuum,” Thornton Wilder, famed and Pulitzer Prize winning author of Our Town, said. The Schwartz Center for Performing Arts’ production of Our Town portrayed Wilder’s notion that every moment [...]
Posted on November 16th, 2010 by elizabeth.brooks
Lizzie Brooks’14
The halls of the Johnson Museum filled with the echoes of students’ poetic voices from 7:30 to 9:30pm on Friday November 12 when the English and Museum Clubs co-sponsored a Poetry Night. Members and associates of the English Club took the mic for the first half of the night. During a short intermission, students [...]
Posted on October 27th, 2010 by lindsay.serrano
Three Cups of Tea:One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace… One School at a Time
By: Greg Mortenson and David O. Relin
The awe-inspiring recollection of a man’s fight to build schools in Asia’s most hostile, anti-American zones, Three Cups of Tea tells the tale of Greg Mortenson a climber who failed to climb the infamous K2. When [...]
Posted on October 27th, 2010 by lindsay.serrano
A review of Louis C.K’s performace at Bailey Hall.
Posted on October 26th, 2010 by Lindsay Rothfeld
“I was driving down the street with my wife, when she gasped and pointed up to the large advertisement for Mel Brooks’ new film SpaceBalls, which displayed in huge letters ‘May the Schwartz be with you.’” Alan Schwartz ’53, a famed entertainment lawyer, returned to Cornell on October 22nd to speak in the Munschauer Career [...]
Posted on October 22nd, 2010 by A
I have a secret. I once broke up with a boy through a note I scribbled in second period History class. Give me a break, I was 13. All foolishness aside, though the profoundness is relative to each person, everyone has a secret. A man looking for a deeper purpose in life discovered this worldwide [...]
Posted on October 21st, 2010 by jennifer.pierre
All in the Timing (And in the Acting)
By Jennifer Pierre ‘13
This past Saturday night marked the end of a weekend long run of Kerry Pinnisi ‘11’s production of All in the Timing, a collection of short scenes written by American playwright David Ives. The show added a fresh twist to the repertoire of Risley [...]