Opening this weekend in the Blackbox of the Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater is "Thornton Wilder - The Trivial and the Divine." The play will be performed at 7 p.m from March 5 to 6 and 8 to 10, and at 2 p.m on March 7. While tickets for the weekend shows are sold out, there are still plenty available for the March 8 to 10 shows.
On Feb. 24, one of the theater department's workshops performed three of David Ives' one-act comedic plays, "English Made Simple" and "The Universal Language" in a studio as small as the environment was informal. The production, featuring quick-witted dialogue exchanged between comical characters with sharp tongues, was the directorial debut of Ruth Morrison '12.
Sometimes, a rap feud can taint a rapper's entire career. For Canibus (Can-I-Bus, sometimes shortened to just Bis), this is definitely the case. Ever since Bis's infamous feud with LL Cool J, ignited by his verse on the latter's "4, 3, 2, 1," the former has largely been panned by critics and listeners as a wannabe.
Nov. 9, 2009 was the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Peter Maurer '10, who already had an interest in "the struggle between Communism and Capitalism," felt that such an event should not pass by without some sort of tribute, and so he wrote and directed a play called "Cold Wall," which set out to portray an accurate view of a divided Germany.
At 8 p.m. on Feb. 24, Reginald Lilly of the philosophy department gave the Moseley lecture, the highest honor bestowed on a faculty member at the college. Lilly spoke about trauma and beauty and how these concepts affect our understanding and experience of time.
I'm sitting at the counter at Supremo's, better known as the pizza station in the Murray-Aikins Dining Hall, watching George DeMers shuffle one pizza after another from the oven to the counter. We're talking about music. "Metal's my favorite, man. I was always into metal when I was growing up in Texas and, when I moved up to New York, I met up with my family here, and my cousins all played guitar.