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The piano, bass and drums of the Danilo Perez Trio offered a two set, hour and a half jam session that mesmerized the packed audience at Blues Alley Friday night. This contemporary jazz group added ingenuity and a Latin spice that injected the air with a unique rhythm.
Nutrition News is a weekly column complied and contributed by Professor Anastasia Snelling's Nutrition Class.
In its scant 209 pages, Penguin Publishing's "Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War in Iraq" attempts to expose the Bush administration's alleged manipulation of public opinion and the media in its case for the pre-emptive invasion of Iraq.
Even though the term "sexile" may not be a common expression in everyday conversation, students living in residence halls are familiar with the expression. "I first learned the term 'sexile' when my cousin was a freshman and got thrown out of her room for the night," freshman Nicole Hunter said.
"This is the f--- 'em tour," joked veteran comedian Harry Shearer, standing in front of a packed audience at Visions Cinema in Dupont Circle. When Shearer isn't recording voices for his famous personalities like Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders and Principal Skinner on "The Simpsons," performing concerts with Christopher Guest's comedy troupe for their latest film, "A Mighty Wind," or broadcasting his political radio show entitled "Le Show," he's speaking to audiences across the country, fielding questions about his new film "Teddy Bears' Picnic.
Dan Zak is a junior in SOC and the former Arts and Entertainment Editor at The Eagle. He will be writing a weekly column about his semester abroad in Prague, Czech Republic.
Not just for teenyboppers Drive-Thru Records is a smart label. It knows that if someone likes one Drive-Thru band, chances are that person will like the label's other bands. This fall, it has gotten even smarter, sending five of its bands out on tour together to conquer the nation on the Drive-Thru Invasion Tour.
This season the Department of Performing Arts will perform two musicals, "Cabaret" in October and "Kiss Me Kate" in March, as well as the Shakespeare play "Much Ado About Nothing" in February and numerous vocal and instrumental concerts throughout the year in the newly created Greenberg Theater.
Small plastic sandwich bags, each containing a suspended watered-down paint covered a section of the Nebraska Hall brick wall. AU alumni Dan Steinhilber, affixed this integral art piece in 2002. The artist now has his first solo museum exhibition, "Directions - Dan Steinhilber" at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
The study lounge is usually a safe sanctuary for those who have been sexiled from their rooms. But in case students in heat have taken over the lounges, too, here are 10 alternatives for under $10. Letts-Anderson Quad Armed with a fresh pack of cigarettes, you'll be making friends in no time.
When the hormones are raging like a tyrannous Middle Eastern warlord, the only resistance to doing that-thing-you-do-best is a hostile roommate who refuses exile. Well, fret not over this mere obstacle, horny readers: Occupy other territories. Thankfully, AU's campus provides many suitable locations more remote than the hiding spot of that detestable rapscallion, Osama Bin-Laden.
Seldom can an artist create a sound that is both ethereal and original, but Brookville's debut album "Wonderfully Nothing" sculpts introspective, melodic soundscapes as prettily on the record as it does in concert. Brookville, touring with the United Kingdom's Goldfrapp, played the first show of its tour last Wednesday night at the 9:30 club.
I am not a member of the Mile High Club, but I know many people who are. It's not as though I don't want to "do it" in the bathroom stall of an airplane. I just haven't had anybody to "do it" with when it was possible. It seems to me that having sex in forbidden places is making a comeback.
"The Art of Romare Bearden," an extensive exhibit of nearly 130 works, showcasing Bearden's life, career, causes and world, is currently showing in the National Gallery of Art's East Wing from now until Jan. 4. The exhibit is divided into two levels, with several sections on each floor level.
Eric Garmon Wallace critiques order-in Web sites. He is a certified chef and sophomore in CAS.
Most contemporary high-profile rap albums last too long and use too much filler. Folks like Jay-Z, with last year's "Blueprint 2," release ill-advised double CDs packing too much into one release. However, Outkast, comprised of Big Boi and Andre 3000, reigns the rap genre with its latest effort of two solo albums packaged into "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below."
Here's "The Rundown." The film opens with the ever-large, the Rock (aka Dwayne Johnson) as Beck, an aspiring chef with dreams of owning a small restaurant. Beck, also just happens to be an "extraction expert," a guy who earns money beating people up, for a gangster.
As its new fall line-up debuts this week and next, ATV is gearing up for its top four shows. Featuring a little debate, a little humor, students involved expect this year's shows to take channel 2 and 15 to a whole new level.
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