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In “Amelia,” Hilary Swank does a respectable job of proving Earhart as an aviator in her own right - one who shattered records and presuppositions about which gender belongs in the cockpit. But as vivid and well done as the film is, it tells a story more than it creates a life, a legend or an adventure.
“I took the walk,” the chant rose from within the crowd. “I took the walk.” As the sun beat down on a gorgeous October afternoon, hundreds of supporters descended upon the Kay Spiritual Life Center, seeking not only to reminisce but also to raise awareness. There, Hanson, the band that rose to pop-idol fame in the late 1990s, relinquished the red carpet for a barefoot walk across cold cement in an effort to provide aid to Africa.
Throughout the Brit-punk band Art Brut's entire set, rhythm guitarist Jasper Future’s mouth was agape and his eyes alternately bug-out wide and clenched shut as if he were caught in the middle of a 90-minute orgasm.
It’s a good thing to be without prejudice when watching an infamously beloved sports team take on the underdog that has worked so hard to join its division. It’s a great thing when a movie tries to go exceed expectations. Unlike most sports movies, “The Damned United” isn’t about a tough coach turning a squad of underachievers into champions; it is much different.
“In the Darkroom: Photographic Processes Before the Digital Age,” shows the constant experimentation of chemicals, technology and artistry that led to the development of digital photography. Instead of assuming a “kids these days don’t even know what a negative looks like” tone, the exhibit instead places digital photography in its artistic context.
The Textile Museum’s newest exhibit, “Contemporary Japanese Fashion: The Mary Baskett Collection,” opened last week, featuring designers Kawakubo, Miyake and Yamamoto who became influential in the fashion world after their work was first introduced in Paris in the early ‘80s.
Any non-believers were given proof of that when Cartel landed what seemed like a great publicity opportunity with MTV: 20 televised days of living in a giant transparent bubble in New York, culminating in a live concert where they would perform the CD they had recorded while inside the bubble.
When people can download any song they want, the biggest hits from a new record fly off the electronic shelves while the rest of an album’s tracks lie dormant. The consequence of this is artists have no reason to continue thinking of their work in terms of whole albums like they did back in the days of CDs and vinyl discs.
Times are tough. Our national economy is on the mend, but Americans are still reeling from the worse recession since the Great Depression. Healing will be slow. Recovery is a long way off. In this economic environment, the last phrase families paying college bills want to hear right now are the words “tuition increase.” That’s why it’s too bad AU’s tuition went up $1,640 this year, increasing by 5 percent. That spike is even greater than the national average among private schools, which is $1,096.
A broken water pipe flooded the first floor of Leonard Hall Thursday afternoon.
The Kennedy Political Union hosted the chairmen of both political parties to a debate on health care reform Saturday night. Michael Steele and Harold Ford Jr. discussed the main bill under consideration in the House of Representatives that proposes national health care reform.
The possession and transfer of marijuana were deemed illegal in the United States with the passage of the Marijuana Tax Act in 1937. For the “reformers” it was hailed as a great accomplishment.
Like universities across the country, AU’s total tuition amount increased this year — and even more than the national average.
The Undergraduate Senate represents and advocates for AU students, but does the Senate’s makeup reflect the AU student body?
More than 7 million people have watched the YouTube video, "The WTF Blanket," by Jack Douglass, an AU student.
One of the best things about this city are its museums. Thanks to tax dollars paid by the rest of country, many of them are free and open to anyone who can get through security. Recently, I took advantage of the generous contributions of my fellow countrymen and took my visiting mother on a kind of historical tour.
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