Spring Break
It is Wednesday and you have had a Nosh-burger three days in a row for at least one meal. You are craving some, well, better eating. Luckily, on your way to the highway, you spot a colorful sign. "Breakaway Café" it reads, in bright letters on the left-hand side of the road from campus.
Awww, the Holiday Season. It is a time for Hollywood to give something back to massive audiences that made it what it is today, that is, crappy Christmas comedies. Year after year, we are guaranteed at least two of two of these would-be masterpieces but only a few actually succeed in becoming a holiday tradition.
Have you ever noticed how fashion designers can put out a line and people buy it just because it is from that particular designer? The shirt could have a butterfly collar, torn fabric, wrinkles under the arm pits and as long as that designer logo is on the front somewhere, people will buy it.
Musicians truly have a plethora of things they can write about. Johnny Cash wrote about Ghost Riders in the Sky and we worshipped him. Britney Spears wrote about having to grow up too fast in the pop industry and we felt bad for her - well, maybe not. However OTEP, a fusion metal, rap, jazz band from the West Coast believes that as makers of media, its job is to write about something important.
Long ago, before Biological Anthropology seminars and eighty page readings every night we enjoyed stories-simple ones. It was not hard to imagine yourself as a princess or a nutcracker on the night before Christmas, or to believe in a fat elf squeezing through your chimney and dropping off tons of presents.
A musical wind from Asia stirred hearts at the Touhill Performing Arts Center last Wednesday when the East Winds Ensemble graced the Lee Auditorium stage. East Winds Ensemble is a group of five musicians who play traditional Asian instruments, but who perform a mixture of traditional and modern compositions, sometimes with a distinctive modern flavor.
Rather than creating a film about the life of Robert Kennedy or an Oliver Stone style conspiracy theory tale exploring his assassination, director Emilio Estevez's "Bobby" is a brilliant snapshot of a pivotal time in American history, "Bobby" follows an ensemble cast at the Ambassador Hotel on a single day in 1968 on the day that Bobby Kennedy was assassinated, and creates an astonishing microcosm of that time.
Suppose you want to write the perfect love letter that will lead a new flame to a new flame that will leave him or her in a state of absolute breathlessness or perhaps you plan to make a long car trip to rekindle a failing relationship. In both these situations, it might be helpful to have a copy of Carey Ott's debut "Lucid Dream" on hand.
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