As the next wave of seventeen and eighteen-year-olds say goodbye to life at home and say hello to a little thing called college, there's one thing that's different from years prior. The Lion King has been re-released into theaters, and it makes one wonder if it has really been seventeen years since ...
The notion that "behind every setback in life lies a potential rainbow" is laid on a bit thick in "Dolphin Tale," an appealing family film that doesn't know when to quit inspiring. In telling the true story of a dolphin whose damaged tail is eventually replaced by a prosthetic one, the actual dolphin ...
On a highly overcast Saturday morning, I got in my car, drove up to the Springfield-Franconia Metro Station and rode the Metro up to Washington D.C. for what many of my peers regard as an excessively nerdy thing to do early on a Saturday morning; I was headed to Washington D.C. for the National Book ...
Another September is upon us, and with that comes the beginning of the fall television season. After a summer of cable reality shows like "Jersey Shore," the major networks will debut their season premieres over the next two months. There haven't been too many new shows that have really caught my interest ...
Senseless violence, tyranny and envy. We are simply fulfilling our own self-satisfaction. Positive actions we all should take for the sake of our forsaken nation. To be ever so blatant, we are in a state of urgency. We all certainly are not so blind to the obvious. We live in a bottomless pit of self-righteous ...
Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, and Philip Seymour Hoffman team up in "Moneyball," a true story about how statistics can tie into a game of skill and heart, directed by Bennett Miller ("The Cruise," "Capote"). Despite the mountains of baseball and underdog films, "Moneyball" manages to stand above ...
The first month of school is over and done with and Oktoberfest is just around the corner! Not only will there be food, games and booths all around, there will also be a great musical line-up. Lancer Productions and Mortar Board collaborated to decide on the line-up. At 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 1, ...
Another September is upon us, and with that comes the beginning of the fall television season. After a summer of cable reality shows like "Jersey Shore," the major networks will debut their season premieres over the next two months. There haven't been too many new shows that have really caught my interest ...
Opening the exhibit Three Ring Circus in the Longwood Center for Visual Arts (LCVA) and inviting the Folk Art Society of America for Saturday, Sept. 17 sounds like a big deal and it fills the room with expectations. Filling the beloved LCVA with color of a different and perhaps less organized kind than ...
Another September is upon us, and with that comes the beginning of the fall television season. After a summer of cable reality shows like "Jersey Shore," the major networks will debut their season premieres over the next two months. There haven't been too many new shows that have really caught my interest ...
Image, these days, is everything. From runway, to billboards, to magazine ads, to beauty commercials—there is this idea of what beauty should be, an ideal image of what a makes a handsome man and a beautiful woman. The Old Spice commercials are the newest idea of what a man should be. It portrays ...
The Longwood Theatre department plans on opening their 2011-2012 play season with Sean O'Casey's family drama, "Juno and the Paycock." The play will premiere on September 29 and run through October 2, and again on the weekend of October 6 to 9. The play is set in Ireland in the early 1920s and focuses ...
Folk-Punk duo Andrew Jackson Jihad's new release, "Knife Man," is their 4th LP which sticks faithfully to what the group is known for, dark lyrics and meta-humor mixed with folk-punk energy. Andrew Jackson Jihad is an Arizona-based group that was formed after its original drummer, Justin ...
Such a pain in my heart, since we've forever been apart So alone in the world, I should have seen it from the start That we were never meant to be, saddening but it's true What am I to do now that you're not with me? My despair turns to envy as I see you with another; Your truly new lover… This ...
Friday, September 16th was Rock the Block for most of you Lancers. But for this Lancer, I was rocking out in Charlotte, North Carolina at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater. Incubus managed to stop there on their "If Not Now, When?" tour. I was escorted to my seat by my boyfriend at approximately 7:50 ...
"Straw Dogs" is a remake of the 1971 movie of the same name and is directed, produced and written by Rod Lurie ("Deterrence,""Nothing but the Truth"), and is a relatively faithful adaptation with a scenery change, while keeping all the plot devices intact. What we get is a competent, visceral ...
On Wednesday, September 14, America's Next Top Model did something that they haven't done yet. They brought back people from previous cycles to make it an All-Star cycle on CW. Angele (cycle 14), Laura (cycle 13),Bianca (Cycle 9), Lisa (Cycle 5), Bre (Cycle 5), Brittany (Cycle 4), Dominique (Cycle ...
On Wednesday, September 14, Lancer Productions held Denice Evans, a filmmaker showing a shortened version of her latest piece of work, "Spitting Game: The College Hook-Up Culture." The film was screened in Jarman auditorium and features collegiate and medical professionals that specifically examined ...
Television is a magical thing. It's a time to bring the family together for that-day-of-the-week bonding; it's a time to have a neighborhood party, or even to have a first date. It's a time when famous people invade the lives of average people, bringing laughs and tears with them, or sometimes a mixture ...
Students and Farmville residences alike turned out to "Rock the Block" on Friday, September 16 for the third of what is sure to remain an annual tradition and partnership between Longwood University and the town of Farmville. Local businesses like Domino's, Sleeping Bee, Karen's Bridal, The Dutch ...
