2008 Woodie Awards
This week, the Tripod sat down for a conversation with Trinity's College Organist, John Rose. According to his press package, Mr. Rose "has performed in 44 of the United States and has made a number of foreign concert tours to Australia, Canada, Mexico, Brazil and various European countries.
1 CommentsLast Thursday, we were stuck. When the weather decided to renege on its promise of spring by dropping nearly nine inches of snow, we found ourselves stuck in our rooms making microwave Easy Mac in favor of trying to slip and fall our way to Mather for dinner.
0 CommentsAnyone who ventured over to the Bistro last Tuesday night in search of a sandwich ended up getting much more than they bargained for: Upstart literary mag The Slate was having the first of its annual poetry slam/open mic nights. Bistro tables were pushed back much as they are for an a capella concert to make room for a microphone and small speaker, and they were cleared from the kitchen side as well for a few tables selling home-baked goodies.
0 CommentsFor the twenty or so members of the audience that were lucky enough to see Double Edge Theatre's (DET) performance of Relentless, they were witnesses to an emotionally charged, intimate story of desire, perseverance and despair. The play, which was inspired by the confession of Susan Smith, the woman who drowned her two children by rolling their car into a lake, and the memoirs of Jacobo Timmerman, an Argentinean Jew who was imprisoned during the country's tumultuous military period.
0 CommentsWow. It's rare that a movie with Kevin Spacey in it sucks this much. Wait, I forgot about K-Pax. I never saw it, but I'm not sure that it could have sucked as much as The Life of David Gale. This was possibly the worst script Hollywood has shot in long time (and I'm including both The Scorpion King and Extreme Ops in my consideration).
0 CommentsFriends and Family Mar 12 (2002) Directed by Kristen Coury. Screenplay by Joseph Triebasser. Cast: Greg Lauren, Cristopher Gartin, Tony Lo Bianco, Tovah Feldshuh, Anna Maria Alberghetti. Don't miss the Hartford Premiere of this hip new comedy, described as a cross between La Cage aux Folles and The Sopranos! Danny and Stephen are the perfect New York couple: they have had true love and a bigger-than-a-breadbox apartment.
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