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Ah, summer. A magical time chock full of freedom, outdoor concerts, mosquitoes, unpaid internships and sunburn.
You know, once upon a time, it was pretty hard to become a major cultural sensation. Exposure wasn’t necessarily easy to get. You had to star in some movies, preferably ones people wanted to go see.
Movie buffs and film connoisseurs were in for a treat this past weekend; despite Hopkins’s penchant for movies like Tangled and Iron Man, the university finally screened films for the more discerning student.
Jane Eyre, that ubiquitous novel lauded by critics and high school English teachers for decades, is no stranger to either the small or silver screen.
When it comes to live music, Baltimore has got a lot of venues, and Rams Head Live is one of the stranger ones. When a big name comes to town, like Joanna Newsom or Passion Pit, it’s not unusual for them to headline a show at Rams Head.
Between procuring Lupe and making those snazzy Pringle-esque shirts, it seemed like the HOP couldn’t outdo itself, but their latest venture — a four-part series of stand-up comedians — seems to be a resounding success.
As the movie industry’s big names gathered outside the Kodak Theatre for the 83rd Academy Awards last Sunday, viewers at home wondered, waiting with baited breath, how “hip” hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway would fare for the evening.
Great sitcoms are hard to come by. Sure, there’s been Seinfeld, M*A*S*H, Cheers and Friends, but frankly, on-camera shots and laugh tracks get super stale super fast, and standby formulas seem, well, standby after a while.
Ah, life after college. The beginning of self-sufficiency, of “real world” otherness. The ultimate unknown. It’s every college student’s worst nightmare and most anticipated dream. And it’s the focus of Tiny Furniture, up-and-coming writer/director Lena Dunham’s newest feature film.
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Guys, let’s be real here. Sure, Verizon finally getting the iPhone after, oh, a bazillion years is pretty exciting, but the real gift brought to you by 2011 is MTV’s brand spankin’ new season of ... dun dun dun ... JERSEY SHORE!
Despite their widespread popularity and ability to make major motion picture bank, the Harry Potter films have, for the most part, failed to capitalize on their cinematic potential. Few, if any, have managed to capture the real magic of J.K. Rowling’s original books, using gimmicky special effects and 3-D innovation to replace the exquisite tapestry of her writing and imagination.
When CBSs How I Met Your Mother premiered back in 2005, it didn’t make much of a splash. A sitcom about a bunch of 20-something friends living, laughing and loving in New York City? Puh-leeze. Nothing was going to top NBC’s beloved Friends, which, at that point, was barely cold in its grave.
Love can be a difficult thing, fraught with complications, twists and turns, ups and downs. JHUT’s brilliant production of Fool for Love, Sam Shepard’s 1980s play about a turbulent Western couple, explores and amplifies love’s labyrinth with subtle, insane strength.
OK, Gossip Girl. We’ll admit it. We were pretty concerned last season, when you sent Upper East Side Queen Bee Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester) to NYU, of all places, when you allowed that psycho Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively) to have a bizarre affair with a senator/Nate’s cousin, and when the indomitable Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick) was all weepy about his faux-mother.
Hollywood is no stranger to dramatizations of psychiatric wards. Cult classics like One Flew Over a Cuckoo’s Nest and Girl, Interrupted have delved into the difficulties of dealing with mental illness, as well as the failings and frustrations of our mental health support systems and levels of care.
On October 9, The American Visionary Art Museum will begin to explore the human experience of happiness with their new exhibition, What Makes us Smile? Curated by Matt Groening, the creator of The Simpsons and Futurama, along with AVAM founder Rebecca Hoffberger and artist Gary Panter, the exhibition will focus on the cultural significance of smiling, humor and laughter. The history of jokes and laughter will be laid out, detailing humor’s ride from the era of court jesters all the way to comedic news-anchors like Tina Fey, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Artwork on display include vintage toy assemblages done by comedian Michael Baldwin, an Alfred E. Neuman headboard by artist Patty Kuzbida, and a seven-thousand toothbrush welcome mat that spells out “Smile” with colored bristles.
This weekend marks the return of Hopkins’ Fall Fest, an annual celebration of all things awesomely autumn. Fall Fest kicks off at Nolan’s HOPtoberfest on Thursday night with a pumpkin-pie eating contest and a Buzztime trivia competition. There will also be an opportunity to paint mini-pumpkins, a free T-shirt giveaway, and beer available for purchase for the 21+ crowd.
Way back in early August, when promos for season six of Weeds hit the World Wide Web, it looked like Showtime’s struggling former darling was about to get back on its feet. Season four got weird when Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) fled the suburban dystopia of Agrestic and hooked up with a Mexican drug cartel.
Once upon a time, in a land called Fall 2009, there was no such thing as The Jersey Shore. Well, there was, of course, but back then it was just a nice summer spot, a place where Jersey residents and Philadelphians made pilgrimages so they could walk the boardwalk and enjoy the beach during hot July days.