Arts & Entertainment
Music Nelly to Perform at Slope Day 2011
Posted by on February 17, 2011 (No Comments)
Photo courtesy of Universal Motown and Derrty Entertainment - Your questions have been answered. The Slope Day Programming Board announced at the Student Assembly meeting that hip-hop extraordinaire Nelly will grace Cornell with his presence on May 6th, Slope Day 2011. Picture this: You’re lounging on the slope, basking in the glory of the annual event, when suddenly it... Read More
Entertainment Exclusive Mann Library Causes Me Movie Madness
Posted by on February 16, 2011 (No Comments)
Mann Library, sometimes an arena for my most productive hours…but currently this comfortable couch chair and the dim lighting is helping me channel my counterproductive side. Thus, a blog post ensues. I am not able to read books for pleasure very often, but when I do I become extremely enveloped in plot lines. I visualize every detail, every plot occurrence, and every c... Read More
Entertainment Dispatches from (A)mended America: A Conversation About Race
Posted by on February 7, 2011 (No Comments)
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 society is set up.” By ... Read More
A-List A*LIST: TJ Rhymes
Posted by on November 30, 2010 (No Comments)
[caption id="attachment_14174" align="alignnone" width="225" caption="TJ Rhymes"][/caption] While in college, internships are extremely important and I have been fortunate enough to have had amazing internship opportunities working with Clear Channel Communications' Los Angeles based radio station, KIIS-FM.  While there, I was fortunate enough to work with incredibly n... Read More
Entertainment Our Town Shows the Significance of Life’s Fleeting Moments
Posted by on November 21, 2010 (No Comments)
“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 in life is as significant as the nex... Read More
Entertainment Exclusive Psychological Reality Television: A Successful Experiment?
Posted by on October 30, 2010 (1 Comment)
So, there’s The Jersey Shore and The Real Housewives, The Bachelor and The Real World. It’s called reality, but its goal is entertainment. In any case, from this base of absurd television has evolved a sort of psychological experiment genre that exists under the Reality Television umbrella. Shows in this category use the television medium as a way to investigat... Read More
Entertainment Alan Schwartz ’53: Commitment, Communication, and Comedic Encounters
Posted by on October 26, 2010 (No Comments)
“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 Series. Schwartz, whose practice focuse... Read More
Entertainment “Big Love” Was A Many Splendored Thing
Posted by on October 13, 2010 (No Comments)
A timeless tale of the complexity of love, of the complexities embedded in life, Big Love juxtaposed comedy with tragedy through extensive representations of gender roles. The play, adapted from the Greek tragedy The Suppliants, infuses traditional elements of Greek theater with modernized references and outlandish comedic stunts. The director of the play Beth Milles expla... Read More
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