Elmhurst College and several area businesses will celebrate local art, music and culture Nov. 6 to raise money for the United Community Concerns Association, a charity that provides money and food to the poor.
“This Is It” is the most appropriate title of the year. Michael Jackson’s film is indeed it-- “it” being the closure the world needed after the King of Pop’s untimely death this past June.
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Hollywood still has a strong, horsey-mouthed, borderline man-ish actress to play history’s most daring and boundary-breaking females.
A cluster of previously-unspoken nuances of the female experience float to the surface of Traveling with Pomegranates, making an otherwise-unextraordinary story worthwhile reading.
Dan Brown books have long been labeled as guilty pleasures. Whether rushing through the action-packed Da Vinci Code (2003) or laughing at Tom Hanks’ matted hair in the movie adaptation, the results of Brown empire have always been entertaining. His newest addition to the Robert Langdon saga, however, is all guilt without the pleasure. A sequel six years in the making, The Lost Symbol (509 pages. Doubleday. $29.95) plods along with none of the excitement and charm of Brown’s earlier works.
Elmhurst’s own folk-pop darlings, Mendelssohn have recently finished their first full length album, Living and Dwelling. The band has been plugging away at the album since early march, in a way said to have been “DIY, but cooler.” And with recording done by master hit makers Chris Powley and Travis Duffield, the statement really can’t be refuted.
On Oct. 31, 1938, millions of radio listeners fell into a state of panic as a New York broadcast simulated an alien invasion.
Jane Austen fans have been lucky these past few years. The vogue surrounding the Regency author surfaces in Elmhurst with the GreenMan Theatre Troupe’s production of Christina Calvit’s adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice.”
It’s 6:30 p.m. on a Tuesday evening and you’re stomach is imitating a bear that just came out of hibernation. You round the corner to the cafeteria, already drooling at the thought of food, but stop short as you crash into a snake-like line of students winding about waiting for food. Uh oh, looks like you’re going to be there for a while.
Digital music sales continue to dwindle in the digital war of $0.99 per-song downloads versus pirated music. Though album and single sales have declined for nearly ten years now, big players like iTunes are still finding creative new ways to revive album sales.
Piracy— no not the “Arg, I’m a pirate” kind, the “I download things illegally” kind— has become more and more popular. We’ve moved on from things like Napster and Kazaa simply because now we have to pay for them.
As a general rule of thumb, if you're going to film a zombie movie and try to make it serious, then it's not going to do so hot. All right, so the one exception is Danny Boyle's “28 Days Later,” but other than that, if you're going to make a zombie flick then you're going to have to make it a parody if you want it to work.
The fruits of EC's talented artists seem to be getting better and better as time goes on. The most recent result of exceptional talent comes from senior Matt Kovich, who recently starred in and produced an independent film.
Has anyone seen a carousel barker around?
If so, you've probably experienced the timbre of Taylor Okey's voice firsthand. A sophomore music education major, Okey takes the stage with the part of the leading man, barker Billy Bigelow, in the EC Mill Theatre's production of “Carousel.”
If you can get past the script, EC's rendition of Rodgers and Hammerstein's“Carousel” is truly enjoyable.
Walter Dean Myers' “Riot” pushes to be innovative and inspiring – pushes so hard, in fact, that it falls flat on its face.
Still waiting for your Hogwarts admissions letter after all these years?
While that owl might not be swooping through your window anytime soon, you can start planning your trip to Florida, where the world of Harry Potter is coming to life.
Pizza is considered one of the main food groups of a college student, right up there with coffee, macaroni and cheese, and ramen. But now it’s not just any pizza for Elmhurst College students: it’s Domino’s.
Visual art is not just confined to the galleries and studios. Elmhurst College art professor John Weber and sophomore Ellie Pipal have become well-acquainted with how community public art reaches neighborhoods and communities in meaningful ways.
We're not in high school anymore, but it's about that time again. It's when the girls browse through countless racks on the lookout for that perfect dress, guys wander around trying to find dates, and everyone prepares themselves for a night filled with great music, dancing, and spiked punch. Yes, it's time for homecoming.
Kicking off with over-reaching “Careful,” Paramore’s third album “Brand New Eyes” shows exactly how stale pop punk has become. After the release of 2007’s wildly popular “Riot!” (and two superfluous live albums to cash in on said album), Paramore found themselves all over magazine covers, video playlists, blogs, and vampire movie soundtracks.
Selena Gomez got her start where all of today's best pop stars originated: Barney and Friends. Thanks to that opportunity, she has become Disney's new favorite starlet, playing the sassy Alex Russo on “Wizards of Waverly Place”.
While the Founders Lounge has always been the chosen gallery for art, several pieces of student artwork have found a home in the cafeteria.
Adam Rapp’s latest young adult novel Punkzilla is gritty and real, but his failure to capture the readers’ sympathy for the protagonist emotionally guts the first half of the book.
Too old for trick-or-treating? Instead of indulging in free candy and tooth decay, curl up this Halloween with a deliciously creepy book. Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle proves you don’t need ghosts and ghouls to craft a thoroughly chilling story.
What do you get when you piece together one very imaginative director, one of the best all-around writers, and quite possibly the most beloved children’s classic of all time? A messload of fun, that’s what!
Your childhood monster-under-the-bed has finally come to the silver-screen to show all you twenty-somethings who’s boss. And this time, you can’t go get your daddy to check the closet.
Three years have passed since Built to Spill released their last (and arguably worst) album You in Reverse. After its release, one worried that Built to Spill might slowly be losing it, but faith is restored with their latest release There is No Enemy.
This wasn’t the winter of our discontent. “Richard III,” performed at Navy Pier’s Chicago Shakespeare Theater, was a well-acted, perplexing, and mesmerizing production. With orchestrated elements, it successfully mirrored the theme of the written play, following its details down to the very last soliloquy.
For the last 82 years, the Academy Awards have annually bestowed one movie with the prestigious Best Picture award. In 2004, this award was mistakenly given away to Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,” while Tommy Wiseau’s cinematic masterpiece “The Room” went unnoticed. Garnering some reviews as the “Citizen Kane of bad movies,” (by Entertainment Weekly), “The Room” became the train wreck that no one could look away from. Six years later, Wiseau’s film has a full-blown cult phenomenon a la “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”
When you hear “Halloween” the first things you think probably go along the lines of candy, ghosts, candy, witches, candy, and more candy. And although some consider candy to be a staple food group it is not the only popular food around during the Halloween and autumn season.
When pumpkins start appearing on doorsteps and fake cobwebs and spiders are hung on bushes, you know it’s that time of year again. But do you choose to dress up like a police officer, a vampire, or as a witch, and go knocking and ringing doorbells for candy?
The Founders Lounge has seen all kinds of art—from sculpture to painting to neon light fixtures. But in all its years the Founders Lounge has never seen rock show posters. Until now, that is.
Keith Lynch has been writing songs under the moniker Unknown Component since 2002.
There’s nothing quite like a jack-o’-lantern candle (or if you’re in the residence halls, light bulb) flickering and casting an eerie orange glow to bring the Halloween spirit to your door. And although some students consider trick-or-treating to be a kid’s event, many Elmhurst students agree that jack-o’-lanterns are for everyone.
Scary ghouls and ghosts costumes seem to be things of the past this Halloween.
As October 31 approaches, college students everywhere face a horrifying possibility: having a lame costume.
The road curled like a fussy strand of hair through a secluded part of Oak Brook, flanked on each side by rows of modern Gatsbys. The branches of enormous trees reached over the street, as if trying to touch fingers with the oaks and elms on the other side. As we passed underneath their barren canopy, shards of moonlight broke through the concrete sky of mid-October.
The fall weather has kicked in and while many people typically think of heading to their neighborhood pumpkin patch, local pick-your-own apple orchards still have a large draw. In fact, the season practically entices students to take a break from studying and drive out to experience the apple harvest.
What’s better than curling up on a couch and watching a movie with some friends on the scariest night of the year? The answer: nothing. Here’s a variety of flicks that’ll help you get your movie on this Halloween.
Word of mouth has always been the best way to identify and either avoid or sign up for all the classes of a certain professor.
The undead have officially invaded pop culture.
Attaching teenage angst to Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights seems like a horrifying and over-dramatic scheme. Unfortunately, that is what author Brian James does in his young adult novel, The Heights (Feiwel & Friends, pp.256, $16.99), does to its poor readers.
The age of the Elmhurst College literati has arrived. The campus literary magazine Middle Western Voice, hosted a story slam September 9 at 7 p.m. in the Roost. The short story slam is based off the ever-growing popularity of poetry slams.
Imagine drinking a Cosmopolitan. This, however, is not a run-of-the mill pre-mixed Cosmopolitan. This one is made with Grey Goose vodka and fresh-squeezed cranberry juice - and it sits in a frosted martini glass complete with a twisted lemon peel.
Amelia Gray uses each piece of flash fiction in her collection AM/PM like a thread, attempting to weave the 120 separate one-pages stories together into something to keep its readers warm.
Fashion over comfort is a phrase the fashionistas (and fashionistos) of our time live by and may come into play when the nippy weather hits Prospect Avenue this coming fall.
In the same building that Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift and Janet Jackson performed a moving tribute to her brother, Elmhurst College freshman Mike Ranos sat along with nine of his high school friends.
Every music scene has a secret. A band they don’t want to let out. A band so good they don’t want to share with the rest of the world. For the Aught (2000) generation of pop-punkers and alt-rockers, that band is Brand New.
No matter what your age, bedtime stories hold a certain allure. Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Houghton Mifflin. 368 pages. $24.95) holds the same promise.
The questionable comeback of rock ‘n’ roll titans, the Beatles, reached a peak on September 9 of this year (9-9-9 … a nod to John Lennon’s favorite number).
Watching “9” is like reliving Usain Bolt run the 100 meter dash at the Olympics last year. It was cool and all, but after 9.69 seconds, the much hyped event left us wondering: was that it?
It felt almost as if Yo La Tengo was forced into playing 2009s Pitchfork Music Festival. A near depressing lack of enthusiasm and the tired looks on their faces gave off the impression that these indie rock gods were about ready to call it quits.
If there’s one obsession Americans have outside of money and gasoline, it’s the American family itself. It’s like staring into a mirror or watching a home video - it doesn’t get boring because you’re the star.
The U.K. glam-rock sensation Muse first graced the U.S. shores with 2003’s Absolution. This album proved that the Brits can produce cutting-edge music -- not just hash out another classic-rock revival act such as Oasis or Arctic Monkeys. The dynamic album burst with moments of piano classicism, blistering punk and vocals that challenge the talent of Queen’s Freddie Mercury. The album was followed up by 2006’s massively popular and more ambitious Black Holes and Revelations which displayed a much glossier -- yet still tactful -- sound.
It is almost unfathomable to imagine how Rob Zombie could do any worse after he seemingly regurgitated 2007’s remake of the horror classic “Halloween.” But to everyone’s surprise, Zombie has transcended his previous failure.
Nate Ruess (the former lead singer of the indie pop sensation The Format) has come together with Andrew Dost of Anathallo and Jack Antonoff of Steel Train to form fun.
Kathryn Stockett’s novel The Help (Putnam Adult, pp.464; $24.95) debuted in February 2009. The characters of The Help face the challenges of 1960s racism and sexism in Jackson, Mississippi. Eight months later, this novel continues to fly off the shelves.
While the word artist encompasses a wide range of talent, so does an orchestra where we can surround ourselves with strings, bows and classical music.
When it comes to learning something about the Elmhurst College campus, this week we've discovered that 67 pictures might weigh even with a Strategic Plan and a list of core values.
This is my final column as a freshman. At the beginning of the year, my column plan was to chronicle the foreign world of a liberal arts college through the virgin eyes of a first-year student. Instead, I spent more time focusing on cell phones and zombies than I ever planned. In between desperately searching for column ideas, however, I managed to get some education.
Any dancer’s dream would be to bust a move under the hot lights on a LA stage with celebrities, a huge audience and camera crews around them. On MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew’s set at the Warner Brothers lot in LA, sweat that once fell on the floors of a studio in Naperville, Illinois glistens on TV screens across the country.
It’s summer and the big movie studios are about to show us what they can do. Last year’s season brought us gems like “Iron Man” and “The Dark Knight” but also left us with duds like “The Love Guru” and “You Don’t Mess With The Zohan.” But, don’t fret: this summer looks promising. Whether it’s romantic comedies, thrillers, or even heavy dramas that you’re into, there’s sure to be something for everyone in another season of summer movies.
Firebirds Soaring makes room for medieval dragons and ghost-catchers, young businesswomen 10 years in the future, and a timeless assassin's apprentice that may or may not have once been a dog.
With finals coming up, don't let stress make you hit the bottle or resort to potentially harmful methods of stress relief, instead try all natural organic methods to stabilize stress levels that won't leave you hanging in the morning.
The youth of novelist, John Wray, need not be identified as a disadvantage in his writing; rather, the youthfulness he weaves in to his latest novel, Lowboy (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, pp. 258, $25), is the quality that transforms this already substantial novel into a pulsating life form.
After a long winter of pasty skin and excess weight packed on to protect us from the cold, Chicagoans are in need of a bit of prepping before hitting the beach. Get to the gym, get a tan, and wear a stylish swimsuit because everyone knows that no one goes to the beach for overpriced hot dogs and sand in uncomfortable places...
As far as I’m concerned, Gavin Hood’s “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” is the summer’s first blockbuster, the opening note in an epic and highly anticipated symphony. I just wish the initial note wasn’t so sour.
Every life includes a few stagnant periods—those in-between months or even years where everything seems to be frozen. Still, most people have the mental capacity to realize that these stale periods make for poor story telling. They won’t attend a party and relay the story of the unemployed month they spent eating chili dip and watching every episode of “One Tree Hill.” And they certainly won’t indulge themselves by writing a book.
It’s difficult in this day and age to criticize, nay, even approach Robert Zimmerman’s career as anything but godlike without being grievously ridiculed and having one’s mental health seriously questioned.
The next installment of Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse series deals with one Southern girl’s interactions with the supernatural—namely, vampires arrives early this summer. HBO’s television series “True Blood” is adapted from this book, and both series have increased in popularity as a result. While vampires may not seem to be entirely fitting for a beach read, the series’ simplistic, corny writing and its popularity will create buzz among the beach crowds.
The Animals are one of my favorite British Invasion era groups. They out-lived the Beatles, and unlike the Rolling Stones, didn’t get boring after 1972. But, unlike most groups, they only survived because of one member – Eric Burdon. Eric IS the Animals.
Unseen forces are threatening Chicago, attempting to remove a figure that has stood proud as a pillar of the city, a figure that symbolizes Chicago’s very heart and spirit. No, I’m not talking about the renaming of Willis’ precious tower. I’m talking about The Jerry Springer Show.
Answers to 4/21 issue Sudoku puzzle
The closing credits of an old favorite, “Grease,” role out with pictures of John Travolta, Oliva Newton John, the Pink Ladies and the T-Birds. Smiling faces from their yearbook, supposedly, capture the perfect ending to senior year and we’re to imagine them looking back on it all, reminiscing.
Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band will always be inextricably linked to summer. The initial listening of their first self-titled CD took place in the backseat of my friend Amy’s car as we blew through Michigan on our senior year road trip. Dozing in the back seat with my feet propped out of the open window, the minutes blended seamlessly into hours as Oberst sang us across state lines.
There are not many bands with self-descriptive, egotistical names, but Glen Ellyn Indie quartet the Fantastic Mammals definitely fits that bill. They’re an Indie band mixing the sounds of Snow Patrol, Postal Service, and Dinosaur Jr., smothering punk/rock beats with all sorts of electronics and home-made instruments (such can be heard on the track “Treelude”).
Most of us haven’t reached that age yet where we begin to regret our past … hopefully. But unfortunately this inevitably will happen when we reach about 35 or 40 years of age.
“El Norte.” “The North.” These phrases don’t mean much to us. But to some, they’re everything.
On this side of the border, we don’t usually hear the stories from those who risked their lives to get here from down south. Mainly, because we don’t want to.
Amidst the busy intersection of Milwaukee, Logan, and Kedzie lays the Illinois Centennial Memorial Column; a 70 foot high tower complete with an eagle on top that commemorates Illinois’ 100 years of statehood.
Silversun Pickups released Swoon, their second full length album after three long years of anticipation since hit album Carnavas. The album came out April 14 under indie record label, Dangerbird Records and is worth picking up.
Toni Morrison's Beloved moved its readers, and The Bluest Eye woke frissions and aches – but A Mercy is a work for trembling.
Listening to DOOM and Born Like This is a lot like smoking weed: you don’t feel anything the first few times, but eventually some center in your brain clicks on and the pleasure ensues, and exponentially with each subsequent use.
Grotesque zombie combined with a literary classic is probably more frightening to scholars than actual zombies.
For all the talk and buzz about The Hazards of Love, this really is nothing more than a Decemberists album for Decemberists fans.
Right now, college students may see getting a job impossible. Perfecting the resume and buying the suit make presenting yourself as best you can possible. You’re essentially selling yourself, which includes advertising. A Facebook profile in a way is your ad.
The quiet anticipatory conversation is hushed by a roar of thunder, and lightning cuts through the suddenly-dark room. Seconds later, a woman falls windmilling from the high ceiling into a deep pool – the most prominent feature of a spectacularly distracting set. Josie Rourke, a visiting director from London's Bush Theatre, certainly knows how to catch an audience's attention.
Joyce Carol Oates, who is widely considered to be one of the most prolific authors of American fiction, gave a reading and signing at Elmhurst College on March 19 as part of the Elmhurst Public Library’s first “Elmhurst Reads” program.
For most, $3,000 is a lot of cash. But for EC student Matt Kovich, it’s not enough. Kovich, 22, is a 5th year senior Music Ed/Philosophy major, but based on his latest endeavor, it may appear that he’s destined for Hollywood.
All things aside, how marketable is the title “Monsters vs. Aliens?” Seriously, who isn’t going to take interest in that? It’s the perfect formula for a money-making gimmick.
We love their stories- Harper Lee, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Anne Rice and getting a glimpse into these idols’ lives is just as much of a prized possession as their craft.
Starbucks has introduced VIA Ready Brew instant coffee in Chicago, Seattle, London, and online; finally a coffee that customers can pronounce.
Tournaments, televisions and gee(c)ks are taking over the A.C. Buehler library. Geeks are sure to be found in a library but GEEC are bringing a new kind of popularity.
“The time and place are the only things I am certain of: March 2, 1908,” begins the fictional narrator Vladimir Brik. “Beyond that is the haze of history and pain, and now I plunge.”
“We see the nightmare of the lies that you speak,” Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer Karen O warbles, on pace with the choppy rhythm of “Dull Life,” the fifth song on It’s Blitz! One has to wonder, then, if Miss O has actually listened to this album in its entirety
Why is it that summer love is so much fun? What makes us come back time after time to see the same situation play out?
Any self-respecting rock fan knows of This is Spinal Tap, Christopher Guest’s hilariously pitch-perfect Nigel Tufnel, and Tufnel’s classic line that he can always top every other band because his amps can be turned up to 11, one higher than any other.
Last week in a moment of boredom I decided to clean my room. It actually didn’t start out as a cleaning project. I just wanted to move my huge art box down to the basement. But there was a ton of stuff piled on top of that box that needed a new place to go. No problem, I’d throw it all in the closet. But then I realized my closet was an avalanche waiting to happen. Literally.
We need to work on our security at Elmhurst College. Sure, we have plans for fires and tornadoes and bullets, but who really worries about those things anyway? We need to focus our efforts on immediate threats—namely zombies.
Fashion is revisiting the ‘70s this spring with floral prints, colored denim and jumpers filling stores.
Most of the time going to a new movie includes the thrill of the unknown and watching a new character unfold in front of you as the plot rolls out, but somehow Dennis Iliadis’ “The Last house on the Left” missed all of this completely.
Spring break is fast approaching and you already have your plans made to spend the sunshine-filled days outside. You’ve got the new bikini and plane tickets to the prime beach location and your mouth is filling with salvia just imagining that tall glass of rum and punch with juicy orange slice on the side. It’s time for some major, must needed lounging and you can finally lay aside those textbooks and skim something more entertaining and slightly trashy.
Walking into the chapel during Jazz Festival instantly brought to attention the uniqueness of what was happening on stage that usually shines the light on orchestras and lecturers. With artsy banners sweeping down over the tall windows, blocking out the light that normally highlight the light pink walls, Hammerschmidt Chapel became a swanky jazz hall complete with the real artists.
The thing about adaptations is that the movie is almost never the same as the book. And for that, fans of the source material are usually disappointed.
Chicago is going green…with Irish pride of course. Chicago is having beer, politics, parades, and more beer.
I’m a lifelong thrifter. I was raised on secondhand. By now, I have a library of pre-read books, an ever-growing collection of eccentric T-shirts, and enough tacky sweaters to clothe an army.
Even well-established authors generally take the “safe route” for publication – agent, publishing company, contract. Lisa Genova, with her first novel Still Alice, didn't.
In The Museum of Dr. Moses, Joyce Carol Oates channels the master of all suspense writing Edgar Allen Poe.
When you think of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, rock music probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. That may change if a certain group of Elmhurst College students have anything to say about it.
Compilation collaboration, thy name is futility. What is it about pop music artist collaboration that brings out the lowest common denominator in musicians?
If you’re unfamiliar with the little Beastie album that could, Paul’s Boutique, you should seriously consider purchasing and listening to it as soon as possible.
One nice thing about iPods is that there's no need to compromise. It's not that radio doesn't have its uses, but there's something nice about the dictatorship represented in the technology: you listen to the music you want to listen to.
Look, I’ll be the first to say that the typical love story genre is widely overused and almost never effective. And so far this year, this statement has stood its ground amidst movies like “Confessions of a Shopaholic” and “He’s Just Not That Into You.”
With the advent of the watered-down pop-rock of the Jonas Brothers and any other blight on music propagated by the Disney Corporation, classic albums by great artists get drowned out.
Artist collaboration has always been a slippery slope in the music business, as some recent collabos have shown.
Jamal Malik (Dave Patel), an 18-year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, gets the chance to fulfill his destiny when he becomes a contestant on India's version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"
A patchwork quilt of clashing patterns and cartoonish Neanderthal men stretches across the cover of The Best American Non-required Reading 2008, created by San Francisco graffiti artist Barry McGee.
Do you feel a road trip in the making this spring break? Hit the road with Mendelssohn, a folk rock quartet comprised of four Elmhurst College sophomores. On their tour through the Mid-West, Mendelssohn will be going through Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois, and Wisconsin – “through the heartland,” as band members Jake Whitecar and Jon Filkins put it.
Don’t bother trying to make sense out of Animal Collective. They don’t look or sound like your average band, and there’s a reason for that: they aren’t your average band.
After seeing P.J. Hogan’s “Confessions of a Shopaholic,” audiences might be reminded of a dog on a leash, running to and fro but never getting anywhere, despite trying desperately to break free. Long story short, you’ll get bored after a while and stop watching.
Some may consider an iPod to just be a device that holds music and videos. But it is so much more than that. Without iPods how would we ever get through that five mile run at the gym or that two hour train commute? Simple. We wouldn’t.
A genius may be pictured cladding a white lab coat solving scientific holes and proving theories, but for writer Joyce Carol Oates, her genius status is proven in her words.
Jessica Sullivan, a senior education major, was one of the Elmhurst College students to accompany Professor of Music Judy Grimes from the music department to Jamaica this past J-term.
When we were kids, I’m sure we all wondered what it would be like to discover a new and wonderful world. And while most of us were stuck with shovels digging to China, it’s highly unlikely any of us actually found anything near to that.
What would you do if your daughter was kidnapped by Paris Mobsters and had only 96 hours to find her? If you’re Liam Neeson (Kinsey, Schindler’s List), then you’d shoot as many people as you can until you find her.
Want to meet Chris Martin of Coldplay? EC student Andrew Ecklund did at Grammy Camp. With hopes of becoming a composer or musical performer, Ecklund has had some priceless encounters.
Elmhurst College is hosting the 42nd annual Jazz Festival Friday, Feb. 27 through Sunday, Mar. 1, where entertainment and education mesh with the finest college and professional jazz musicians from across the country.
The Beatles are long since dead; long live the Beatles. But Paul McCartney, the “cute” one from those Liverpool lads, is still around and is as creative and rock-n-roll as ever (even at 66!).
One wouldn’t normally expect a New Jersey rock band to name drop “Seinfeld,” Albert Camus, Pieter Brueghel, “The Simpsons,” and Hunter S. Thompson in their debut album (talk about a wide range of influences). And one wouldn’t expect that band to name themselves after one of Shakespeare’s lesser known plays. But this is indicative of Titus Andronicus’ selective interactions with culture, both pop and world: the name drops aren’t meant to sound cool.
A review of recently released movies.