Thursday, April 6, 10:30 p.m.I scurry out of Firestone, after an all-day JP-and-working-in-microforms frenzy to go "watch and critique" my band calico.
Barbara Bosworth has been photographing nature for nearly 20 years. Her work, a selection of which is on display at the University's Art Museum through June 18, showcases landscapes across North America.
When new members enter the secret society that gives "The Skulls" its name, the society's insignia is branded onto their wrists with a red-hot iron.
I pretty much joined the Black Arts Company on a whim. One Sunday way back in September, when I was still trying to figure out why I decided to come to Princeton, a group of sophomores came up to me in Wu dining hall and asked whether I was trying out for BAC.
As the lights go up at McCarter Theater on Emily Mann's newly adapted production of Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard," the audience sees a set layered with a number of strategically placed floor-to-ceiling screens, softly filtering the images behind them.
Jim Jarmusch looks like Max Headroom. He is not the image of the indie film demigod that he has been for the past 15 years, making movies as diverse as his half dozen short films all entitled "Coffee and Cigarettes" or Johnny Depp's neo-Western "Dead Man" or his most recent film, currently in theaters, "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai" (perhaps the most creative title of the movie season).Jarmusch is friends with people like Iggy Pop and Tom Waits, and he has worked with Rza of the WuTang Clan.
Going into Theatre-Intime's production of Archibald MacLeish's "J.B." ? a "modernized retelling of the Book of Job" directed by Kate Callahan '01 ? I was afraid that it would be the same old Biblical story, only the characters would wear jeans and sneakers instead of sandals and sackcloth.
"Dad, I want to major in drama.""Drama?! What kind of major is drama? What kind of med school you get into majoring in Drama?"These lines are from "Desis of Our Lives," the first student-written, student-directed production by a new on-campus "drama" group, Princeton South Asian Theatrics.
Who could come up with a story as whimsical as "The Who's Tommy?" The question answers itself: Only a rock band such as The Who could come up with this show.
Like most Princeton students, Catherine Stoia '00 has been leading a double life for the last several years, and one half of it is about to reach fruition this weekend in Hagan Dance Studio at 185 Nassau.
When Michelle Crank '01 was struggling to find a creative outlet this year, she found the perfect solution, alternating between hiphop and ballet, jazz and tap, in the oldest Princeton dance troupe, Expressions.
Religion. Believe in it or not, it's always been a part of daily existence. And it's always been a presence in the world of art.
"We exist to sing His praises." So reads the core of the purpose statement of Princeton's Kindred Spirit a capella group.
What if every tear you shed, every loved one you lost, every anguish you had to bear wasn't part of some cosmic justice, wasn't the icy harmony of a clockwork universe's crystal spheres falling into their allotted course?
"It is the story of the first civil disobedience in history ? and women did it, across class lines, race lines, age lines.
John Grisham certainly times his book releases well. His newest thriller, "The Brethren," ($27.95) arrived in stores three weeks ago, just in time for spring vacations, a time when nearly everyone is looking for an airplane book.
Spring Break looking grim? Carrel walls starting to close in on you? Does the sight of footnotes make you ill?
When Richard Foreman began writing, directing and designing plays, some audiences were so turned off that a sign was placed in the theater which read, "If you have to leave during the performance, please leave quietly.""Bad Boy Nietzsche" is Forman's 47th production, running until April 30 at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, the company that Foreman founded.
Sex in a film adaptation of Jane Austen? Such a thing is practically unheard of, almost unfathomable.
