ENTERTAINMENT | After a few years of absence, the CNU Anime Club brings back CNUCon, a convention for lovers of anime. Ever since Fall semester 2011, CNU’s Anime Club has been hard at work planning CNUCon. The convention was held in the Freeman Center and the David Student Union last weekend, March 23 and 24. [...]
The Black Keys, a blues-rock band based in Akron, Ohio, visited Norfolk’s Ted Constant Convocation Center on Friday, March 23. Guitarist/vocalist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney make up The Black Keys, who are currently headlining their first arena tour. After the Arctic Monkeys opened the show, The Black Keys began with a fan favorite [...]
Seven hopeful contestants paced to-and-fro backstage, anxiously awaiting for sound check to start. Laughter masked the pre-show jitters as the contestants discussed the songs they had chosen to perform in the WCNU Idol singing competition on March 19. Despite the pressure, no one was nervous; rather, they were jovial. “I will be honest,” junior Ashley [...]
I haven’t talked about vampires in a while, which is really a shame. Despite the whole undead craze the media seems to be stuck on, bloodsucking fiends are a staple of entertainment that far outdates the silver screen. For that reason, it feels good to see a movie that not only has cool vampires, but [...]
CAMPUS | The recently established campus hang-out, the Crow’s Nest, provides a comfortable space for commuters to go in between classes for daily relaxation and evening entertainment. At the height of March madness, senior marketing students are sitting on a large couch with their laptops, watching the tournament on a giant plasma television while they [...]
MOVIE REVIEW| Director Terrence Malick chronicles and explores the evolution and meaning of life in this inspiring tale. By Taryn Rothstein taryn.rothstein.10@cnu.edu “The Tree of Life,” Terrence Malick’s fifth film in 38 years, takes you through a series of emotions and settings starting at the beginning of time. The introduction of the film begins with [...]
The dance studio in the Ferguson Center has been aflutter this past week as many dance students prepare for CNU’s annual dance showcase, “A Delicate Balance.” Last Wednesday afternoon, dancers performing in Professor Jennifer Lent’s piece, a reflection on Sept. 11, congregated into the dance studio to put on the final touches to the untitled [...]
MUSICAL THEATER | Long running musical, “Wicked,” is in its last week of its run at Chrysler Hall in Norfolk. Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! Most of us have followed Dorothy and Toto on their adventures as they followed the yellow brick road to meet the wonderful wizard of Oz. What most of [...]
It’s rather rare that a movie is truly so bad it turns all the way around to fantastic. People have bad movie nights, of course, and watch truly terrible films, but really, it takes a special film to achieve true great badness: A film like “Cross.” “Cross” is so bad, so phenomenally uninspired, insipid and [...]
TECH| Contributor Christopher Snead explores alternative architectural styles that put the art back in architecture. The most common artistic element in any society is the architectural style of which its buildings are made. Most of our social structure revolves around these buildings and the many functions that are performed within them; so it should be [...]
