The performers sat still on the stage as the audience filed into Goodwin Theater - except for the show's mastermind, 26-year-old North Carolina native Ann Liv Young. Young's show, "Snow White," a retooled version of the Disneyfied Brothers Grimm fairytale, has toured much of Europe and has been performed in New York City.
3 CommentsWhen most artists attempt covers, the results are usually dreadful (Lindsay Lohan's remake of Stevie Nicks' "Edge of Seventeen" is enough to give anyone the corny chills) - unless that artist, of course, is Chan Marshall (alias Cat Power). Jukebox, Marshall's second full-length album of covers, which includes new interpretations of familiar artists such as Bob Dylan and Frank Sinatra, veers in a slightly different direction from the sparse, melancholy Covers Record of 2000.
0 CommentsSaturday night marked the first Late Night this semester, with the Asian American Student Association (AASA) and the brothers of Pi Kappa Alpha (Pike) hosting a welcome back party featuring Stratford, Conn.-based band, The Cutoff Frequency, of which Alex Dancho '08 is a member (and the only Trinity student in the band).
0 CommentsIn a week of sad entertainment news, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released its nominations for the 80th annual Academy Awards. Almost mirroring the somber tone in Hollywood, a much darker current underscored the nominations, with No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood garnering eight nods each.
0 CommentsIn a recent interview with WJW-TV, a Fox affiliate in Cleveland, Heath Ledger shared the perspective he had acquired by becoming a parent, saying, "You learn more about yourself through your child, I guess. I think you also look at death differently. It's like a Catch-22: I feel good about dying now because I feel like I'm alive in her, you know, but at the same hand, you don't want to die because you want to be around for the rest of her life.
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