ALBUM REVIEW| Rock band Needtobreathe changes up their musical style on their fourth studio album, “The Reckoning.” On their fourth album, “The Reckoning,” rock band Needtobreathe adds Southern flavor to radio tailored rock music to create a blend of rock and country. The Southern twang of lead singer Bear Rhinehart’s voice is evident but not [...]
Makeshift performs in the Crow’s Nest during STAND: Concert in the Crow’s Nest on Feb. 9. The band has played there many times since they formed 10 months ago. “The crazy thing is that we’ve been together 10 months and can already make an album,” said sophomore Daniel Cribb of Makeshift, a budding band made [...]
If I told you I went into this movie with high hopes and good expectations, I would be a liar. I saw Danny McBride, “from the people who brought you Pineapple Express,” and, well, literally anything about this movie that gave me a strong impression how it was going to go: terribly. And in that [...]
THEATER | Theater CNU’s Spring musical, “Steel Pier” brings the big dances of the 1920’s to CNU, students rehearsing every week night since before the start of the semester. It’s the Great Depression, and many people are out of work. People are desperate. However, at the Steel Pier in Atlantic City, NJ, desperate people try [...]
THEATER | Initiative Student Theater recently hosted the 24 Hour Play Festival and plans for future showcases and performances. Imagine walking into a room, being given a prompt you had no idea about beforehand and then being told you have exactly six hours to write a play that will be performed in less than 24 [...]
If you’re a nerd and looking for a female celebrity to empathize with, you don’t get a much better option than Felicia Day. She’s cute, awkward and generally puts on an accurate performance. Anyone who’s seen “The Guild,” her online series, can attest to that. She has a good reputation in the community and a [...]
May 23, 1921. Daly’s 63rd Street Theatre on Broadway. “Shuffle Along,” the first theater production of its kind, starred a cast that included Josephine Baker and Florence Mills. This was the first musical to be written and performed solely by black Americans, and to a largely white audience at that. “They thought that no one [...]
ENTERTAINMENT | Sunday night marked the 54th Annual Grammy Awards Show. Here are A&E Assistant Rachael Long’s top 10 moments from the big night. 1. Adele collects the statues With a total of six Grammy’s, Adele took home the most gold of the night. Her biggest wins were the Grammys for “Record of the Year” [...]
A bottle of Southern Comfort sits on a table, sunlight hitting it from behind. A hat rack hangs on a wall, shadows spanning the area beneath. A butterfly sits cradled in a woman’s hands. Such are the photographs junior Jason Poulin has on display at the 5th Annual CNU Juried Photography Exhibition in the Ferguson [...]
Horror is hard. Anyone can throw monsters up on the screen real quick and get a jump scare, but that’s not a real horror movie. Real horror takes tension, timing and proper use of imagery to evoke fear. In short, real horror takes atmosphere. “Vanishing on 7th Street” pleasantly surprised this week by having atmosphere [...]