The Cine-Files
My, how time does fly. It seems like only days ago that we were packed into the Goldsmith for ALADDIN, ...
Arts & Culture
The Idiot Box: The Situation of Reality TV
Let’s be honest with ourselves. Since the early 2000s, reality television has become one of the most popular forms of ...
Youth in Revolt: Split Morality
It is bracing to watch Michael Cera, leading contender for World’s Most Lovable Young Person, play a character with an ...
Contrasting Views on the Artistic Validity of James Cameron’s New Epic, Avatar
Two critics square off on Avatar.
Between the Cracks: Five Underappreciated Albums
Two-thousand-and-nine, in music, has come and gone. The “X Best Albums of the Year” lists have been tabulated, written, criticized, ...
HIMYM Diaries
First off, we hope you all had a very pleasant Hanukkah (we might as well go with the majority demographic ...
In Defense of…“Gossip Girl” (the books)
“Gossip Girl” has been lambasted for its depiction of vapid socialites-in-training who in between the usual teenage woes—boys and grades—blithely ...
Minneapolis Choreographer Brings “Heaven” to CFA
This weekend the Center For the Art’s Breaking Ground Dance Series will play host to an outpouring of ecstasy and ...
Projecting on “Projections”
Swathed in expensive clothes of varying age- and decade-appropriateness, the women on the projector resemble “Dynasty” characters matured about 20 ...
The Cine-Files
Ah, early second semester, a time to start anew – to set new goals, tackle a new batch of classes, ...