Upcoming movies for the silver scream
Ben Algar, Web Editor
February 16, 2012
Fear is a basic emotional response or feeling initiated by an aversion to a perceived risk or threat. For instance, an audience fears the movie “Hostel” because there is the perceived threat of being abducted and tortured while visiting a European hostel. The horror genre is a platform assembled...
A tale of passion, faith and f-bombs
Ben Algar, Web Editor
February 16, 2012
Horror movie tropes come in many forms. Be it a lustful vampire, a dream-leeching murderer or a psychopathic killer, Hollywood has been able to chill audiences with anything. However, in recent years producers have figured out that the evolution of the scare needs reconstructing. But how do they expect...
“August: Osage County” fabulous tragicomedy
Anna Maria Liccione, Staff Reporter
February 16, 2012
“Life is very long,” says Beverly Weston, the alcoholic patriarch of the Weston family. This quote from “The Hollow Men,” T.S. Eliot’s 1925 poem, opened the show, and the poem is a continual theme throughout the play. Zane Watkins in his first performance on the Dibden Stage, delivers this...
The New Kids in Town
Anna Maria Liccione, Arts and Entertainment Editor/Senior Copy Editor
February 3, 2012
When Ian Keller and Patrick Purcell bought the Hub Pizzeria and Pub in September 2011, they brought a fresh new perspective to the slowly declining “hub” of town. Ian and Pat originally hail from Clark, N.J., but after being in Burlington for the past 10 years, they were ready for a new adventure....
“Singing Revolution” shows music’s power
Anna Maria Liccione, Arts and Entertainment Editor/Senior Copy Editor
February 2, 2012
Professor of Performing Arts Bethany Plissey hosted a showing of the documentary “The Singing Revolution” on Jan. 25 in Bentley Hall. The Creative Audience presentation featured a short lecture, followed by the documentary, which focuses on the period between 1987 and 1991, when the small nation...
Author Series features Fried and Saunders
Shannon Edmonds, Copy Editor/Staff Reporter
February 2, 2012
Two internationally acclaimed authors will visit Johnson State College in March and April as part of the Spring Author Series. Gabriel Fried will arrive at Johnson on March 29. George Saunders is scheduled to make his appearance April 11. Both authors will read in the Stearns Stage Space, the times...
“August: Osage County” puts the fun in dysfunctional
Anna Maria Liccione, Arts and Entertainment Editor/Senior Copy Editor
February 2, 2012
“This is one of those plays that’s about real life,” said Chris Colt, the director of “August: Osage County,” which will be performed Feb. 8-11 in the Dibden Theater for the Arts. “There’s nothing absurd about it. It’s the dysfunction, and the characters are people who are funny. But...
“Devil Inside” not a heartwarming family film
Ben Algar, Sports Editor
February 2, 2012
Found-footage horror films, notorious for having low budgets and becoming extremely profitable box office hits, recently changed the horror industry. It stems from a girl-next-door atmosphere, a neighborly disposition that draws viewers into believing they intimately know the characters on screen. Producers...
José Chepe Cuadra: Portraits from the Back
Shannon Edmonds, Copy Editor/Staff Reporter
February 2, 2012
The MFA Thesis show “Retratos de Espaldas,” or “Portraits from the Back,” is currently showing in the Julian Scott Memorial Gallery. The show is dominated by life- and larger-than-life size paintings of full-body portraits, all depicting people in the crowds of “el mercado,” or the market....
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