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Niblets collaborate with Princeton's Quipfire for first show

Niblets collaborate with Princeton's Quipfire for first show
The Buttered Niblets' improv comedy show featuring Princeton's Quipfire was certainly the on-campus event to be at last weekend. On Saturday night Arellano Theatre was packed for the Niblets' first show of 2007 and their "two improv groups for the price of none" performance certainly did not disappoint.… 7 Comments

Going to St. Ives's value relies on its writing

Going to St. Ives, the two-actress culture shock drama by Lee Blessing, can't help striking one as the perfection of a certain breed of meticulous, conflict-heavy political playwriting that, as far as I can tell, has become increasingly well-received in recent years.… Post the First Comment

Volver reveals the brilliance of Almodóvar

Following Talk to Her and Bad Education, films that explored paradigms of masculinity, director Pedro Almodóvar has returned to the female world in his latest film, Volver. Almodóvar has once again demonstrated his genius in capturing a paradoxical world where tragedy and humor, life and death, hope and despair coexist.… 1 Comment

Exhibition on African art explores aesthetics of light

At last -- an unpatronizing display of African art can be admired. Currently running at the BMA is Meditations on African Art, an exhibition that explores the aesthetics of light and its varying conceptual import. As a three-part installation, the exhibition spans 7,000 years of African art, though the majority of its works date between the 18th and 20th centuries.… Post the First Comment


Student artists take N. Charles St. as their muse

Beginning in the financial district in the south and intersecting West University Parkway in the north, North Charles Street is one of the principal arteries in a city humming to the beat of 650,000 souls. Between those geographic extremes are the classical grandeur of Mount Vernon, the ramshackle commercial and residential areas of the low and mid-20s and our very own campus. Post a comment

Zero to 3600 runs through Feb. 8, 2007.

Zero to 3600 runs through Feb. 8, 2007.

Everyone knows DC's big guns -- Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman -- but there are whole other worlds within the DC Comics empire, and the grittiest and by-far most enthralling of them is the Vertigo line. Readers who don't usually check out comics most likely wouldn't recognize many of the characters and tales that Vertigo puts out, but they would probably know some of its writers, such as Alan Moore or Neil Gaiman. 1 Comment

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