Miller explores modes of seeing in new Palmer exhibition
This Saturday, while the Retreat has one of its rare slow hours of the day, its next-door neighbor, The Palmer Art Gallery, will be busy with their latest installation. The…
Day: December 3, 2014
Through gender bending, Merely Players revise fall show
Merely Players, a student-run theater organization, will bring their gender-bending adaption of Henrik Ibsen’s play, “An Enemy of the People” to life on the Mug floor. The show premieres on…
Bollywood film tackles political themes while staying true to comedic tradition
Growing up, some of the only movies I watched featured brightly colored costumes, flashy musical numbers and exotic locales. No, I’m not talking about musicals, I’m talking about Bollywood—the Indian…
Slapstick humor thwarts sequel’s potential
The films of brother filmmaking duo Bobby and Peter Farrelly are seemingly ordinary bro-centric, mean-spirited comedies. The pair boast a filmography characterized by lowbrow humor (mostly involving sex and poop)…
Frankie Valli’s magic captured on screen
Released in November on DVD and Blu-ray and the first of two Clint Eastwood-directed films in 2014 (along with the upcoming “American Sniper”), “Jersey Boys” is Eastwood’s gayest film since,…
First-year student tackles Black Friday shenanigans
All was silent. No one else moved, spoke, or even breathed, for that matter. They all just stared at the locked automatic sliding doors with this sort of hungry look…
Dos and don’ts of winter fashion with Misc-adventurous Maddy
As the temperatures drop and we all give up our hopes of a mild winter, those of you new to the northeast may be wondering, what do I wear?! How…
Thanksgiving dishes, lifelong wishes: a humorous listicle
My family likes a traditional Thanksgiving meal. None of that tofurky or talk about genocide that would force us to uncomfortably deal with the damning effects of our own whiteness.…