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Life and death situations, climbing, adventure, challenges, new possibilities and dangling from sheer cliff faces are just some of the things participants in the REEL ROCK Film Tour will experience this Saturday. The tour showcases the best climbing and adventure films from around the world and is a way for climbers to come together and celebrate the sport they love.
It is Nuci's Space's 9th anniversary today and they are celebrating. Located just a five minutes' walk from North Campus, Nuci's Space is a haven for musicians, especially students. It began after Nuci Phillips, senior at the University, committed suicide in 1996.
I recently spoke with Cris Kirkwood, the quirky, long-time bassist for the influential rock band Meat Puppets, about the history of the trio, Athens, the late '80s and early '90s scenes, and what it means to be a "desert band." You've released records fairly often throughout your career, but since you got back together in 2007 you've already released two records.
Sometimes all it takes to make it big in music is to confine oneself to a certain genre. University senior journalism major Janelle "Lyric Jones" Clinton believes creativity suffers because of this. "I don't like categories and genres. I hate genres - especially today, since so many things [in music] overlap," Clinton said.
Frank Warren's novel idea is a secret - not his secret, but the secrets of thousands of other people. The seeds of Warren's popular Web site, PostSecret.com, were sewn during a community art project in Washington D.C. His idea was to have people write personal secrets on a post card in a creative way and mail them to him anonymously.
It seems Christmas and related promotions move further and further away from December each year. Shortly after (or sometimes in the days leading up to) Halloween, pharmacies, grocery stores, restaurants and many other businesses begin to flaunt once-a-year specials, festive items and other holiday memorabilia.
THE FLAMING LIPS Embryonic The Flaming Lips is everything a band could wish to be. Most people have at least a passing familiarity with the group, and those that do have usually spent at least a few minutes of their lives digging through one of its albums.
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE The most talked-about movie of the fall has finally arrived, and with it has come a huge wave of nostalgia. "Where the Wild Things Are," originally written by Maurice Sendak in 1963, has now been adapted to film by Spike Jonze. Prior to the film's release this weekend, over four decades' worth of fans were both excited to see and skeptical of Jonze's expanded version of Sendak's masterpiece.
SQUARE ONE FISH CO. After weeks of passing Square One during the day, I finally made it up the rope-lined ramp for a spontaneous dinner date. It was a beautiful, cool evening, and while we could have been seated immediately inside, we waited for a spot on the candlelit patio.
Michael Buble Crazy Love Hey mom, I told you we review "good" music. Now you have a new song to listen to while you make salad for dinner. Foreigner Can't Slow Down Only a Haiku could properly describe how I feel about a new Foreigner single. Here you go: Defecate in ears Weeping at computer desk Anything but this Mayday Parade Anywhere but Here These guys' band photo proves the "punk" rock rule of thumb: If every member in your band is good looking, your music is bound to suck.
The story of King Arthur and the Round Table is well known, but no one has seen the beloved story like this before. The Broadway Entertainment Series production of Camelot comes to the Classic Center featuring the musical score of My Fair Lady's Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe.
Sharkwing is a group of students who have come together to write comedy for the best of reasons: the thrill of it. "The core group has been doing this in some way since high school," said Harry Valentine, 21, a theatre and English major from Athens. "It went from improv to live shows and Youtube videos now.
