On September 17, the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts held a screening of the documentary, "Garbage Dreams." The 2009 film follows the lives of three young men living in the world's largest garbage village outside of Cairo, Egypt, known as Mokattam. The men are just three of 60,000 Zaballeen, Arabic ...
Title: "The Bully Book" Author:Eric Kahn Gale, Nick Lang, and Matt Lang Publisher:Publish Green Price: $9.99 From the creative team that brought to the Internet "A Very Potter Musical," "A Very Potter Sequel," and "Starship" comes a small theatre troupe's first foray into the world of writing ...
"Art house" is a term used to describe a film that is independently made for a small niche market. "Mainstream" is used to describe something that is constructed for a wide audience. What happens when the two worlds collide? Films like "Drive" are the result. This film is artfully directed by Nicolas ...
This film is a comedic adaptation of the 2002 novel by Allison Pearson. It offers a star-studded cast with a plot that many modern women can identify with. The female protagonist of the movie is Kate Reddy (Sarah Jessica Parker, Sex and the City) a hedge-fund manager in Boston, Massachusetts. ...
Based on true events, the 2010 film "Mooz-lum" tells the story of an African-American Muslim family living in Dearborn, Michigan. The majority of the film takes place around the time of the devastating events of September 11, 2001. The movie focuses around the character of Tariq (Evan Ross, "ATL"), ...
Title: "Love Struck" Author: Melissa Marr Publisher:HarperCollins Price: $1.99 for Kindle "Love Struck" by Melissa Marr is a short story that was first seen in the anthology, "Love is Hell" (published in 2008). The short story was recently released as a Kindle Single. A Kindle Single simply refers to ...
Your love is like the sun Which brightens up my dreary days Your love is like the moon Which illuminates even my darkest nights Your love is like the wind Which blows my mind in so many ways Your love is like the ocean waves Which wash over me heavily Your love is like cocaine Which I am undeniably ...
Author: Melissa Marr Publisher:HarperCollins Price: $1.99 for Kindle "Love Struck" by Melissa Marr is a short story that was first seen in the anthology, "Love is Hell" (published in 2008). The short story was recently released as a Kindle Single. A Kindle Single simply refers to a story—sometimes ...
10 years after the tragic events that unfolded on Sept. 11, 2001, where do we stand as a society? I would say that our culture is largely dominated by fear; fear of the unknown and fear of what is to come. That day was so heavily scrutinized that we base a great deal of our daily lives around the incidents ...
The country trio, Lady Antebellum, released their third country album September 13th to an eager audience. Their single hit, "Just A Kiss", went out as a teaser to country fans on May 2nd, 2011, receiving a wide span of attention and playing on country stations nationwide. The trio came together in ...
Your love is like the sun Which brightens up my dreary days Your love is like the moon Which illuminates even my darkest nights Your love is like the wind Which blows my mind in so many ways Your love is like the ocean waves Which wash over me heavily Your love is like cocaine Which I am undeniably ...
The alternative-funk-experimental rock group, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, just released a new album on August 26th! It is called "I'm with you", and sure enough, it does feel like a very personal album. Regrettably, before I reviewed this album, I knew very little about the Red Hot Chili Peppers, other ...
"Apollo 18" is reminiscent of the "Blair Witch Project" … almost a "'Paranormal Activity' in Space." The trailers for "Apollo 18" are enigmatic, confusing and fragmented, which is a good representation of the one hour and twenty-six minutes of the film in its entirety. Viewers are first ...
Based off of Kathryn Stockett's 2009 novel, "The Help," the film adaptation features the lives of Mississippi women, raised in a world where mothers pass off their motherly duties to African American maids and nannies, called "the help." Set in the early 1960s, the racial discrepancies are outlined ...
The Name of the Star / By Maureen Johnson / 384 pages / Putnam Juvenile / $16.99 When Maureen Johnson, author of "13 Little Blue Envelopes", "The Last Little Blue Envelope", and the "Suite Scarlett" series, announced her newest book, "The Name of the Star", her entire fan base was set atwitter (quite ...
This weekend, my roommatesand I trucked it to Virginia Beach for a little adventure and much needed sunlight after being back at school for two weeks. (Four months wasn't long enough, honestly). After a day of bumming it on the beach, we took to the streets, walking from shop to shop just browsing and ...
The fourth season of "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" on ABC Family has been filled with drama and heartbreak, and the season finale was no exception. At the beginning of the episode, Grant High School was buzzing over the rumor that Ricky would be proposing to his girlfriend and the mother ...
I feel so alone Even when I'm surrounded As I stand in the middle of a crowd I see hundreds walk by And still there is a feeling of loneliness It feels as if I'm the only one left The lone survivor of a bloody massacre My cries for company are not heard They must not be able to see me Or maybe ...
"Wicked" came to D.C. this summer at the Kennedy Center. Though not the original Broadway cast that swept the world into a ‘wicked' frenzy, this cast had just as much to give the audience as any cast before them. Starring Amanda Jane Cooper as Glinda and Dee Roscioli as Elphaba, the play follows ...
I have currently been attempting to write this column for the last three hours. I began thinking about it at precisely 6:14 pm, and then I got caught up in television, Facebook, eating food, drinking coffee, and crazy, immature roommates. But now I'm settled and have decided on a topic. So, here ...
