"Jennifer's Body" is a dark comedic response to that unwarranted fan favorite, "Twilight." It may seem romantic to watch a film about sparkly vegetarian vampires who make girls commit suicide out of infatuation, even when the main characters are about as emotionally and intellectually thin as a smear of drool.
Contact staff writers Maria Ribas at mariaelisa.ribas@richmond.edu or Maggie Finucane at margaretfinucane@richmond.edu
"Our blind pursuit of technology only sped us quicker to our doom." So speaks No. 1, a pontiff-dressed ragdoll and one of a collection of burlap heroes at the center of director Shane Acker's post-apocalyptic tale, "9." Remarkably, that line of dialogue, one that feels lifted from the science fiction pantheon ("The Terminator," "Mad Max" and Terry Gilliam come to mind), works better as a commentary on the state of Hollywood filmmaking than any great insight into humanity. Yes, "9" is another narrative "raking over" that familiar scenario: What would happen after the end of the world?
(464): I need to be academic so I gotta figure out how to be drunk and efficient at the same time. (540): Are you all coming tonight? (304): No man, we've got the swine. (267): I would rather set myself on fire than date you.
Contact staff writers Maria Ribas at mariaelisa.ribas@richmond.edu or Maggie Finucane at margaretfinucane@richmond.edu
Ansel Adams was 14 years old when his father gave him his first camera, a Kodak No. 1 Brownie, on his family's first trip to Yosemite National Park.
Students, faculty and alumni have discovered a place to play games and sports besides the Weinstein Recreation and Wellness Center or the Intramural fields - a place that even has a lake twice the size of Westhampton Lake. Wood N' Racket Farm is a racket club in Gum Spring, Va., about a 30-minute drive from campus.
This week University of Richmond played host to The Actor's Gang -- an unconventional theater troupe directed by the accomplished actor and director Tim Robbins -- who put on a moving performance of "The Trial of the Catonsville Nine." I, along with other Richmond theater students had the chance to participate in a workshop led by The Actors' Gang cast and to talk with Robbins himself. The interactive workshop, held on Monday, gave the students a fabulous look into the techniques used by the actors to create their unique art.
Contact staff writers Maria Ribas at mariaelisa.ribas@richmond.edu or Maggie Finucane at margaretfinucane@richmond.edu
What do you do on the weekends? I love the Green Bay Packers and smoke Cuban cigars.
The Modlin Center for the Arts is hosting the comedy troupe The Second City ? a performance group that boasts such famous alumni as Stephen Colbert, Mike Myers, Chris Farley, Steve Carrell and Tina Fey ? on Friday and Saturday. The Second City has performed at the Modlin Center three times in the past, with its last performance in 2007.
Dear Sally, I take the birth control pill, but I just get so busy that I always seem to forget to take it.
Fifteen students befriended fruit, danced under the control of a voodoo doll and drooled over the sweet-smelling shoulder of a fellow volunteer on Saturday night. The students were all acting from the suggestions of Tom Deluca ? a hypnotist who used the student volunteers during his show at the Robins Center. Courtesy of Dante Fontana/StateHornet.com The skits the students performed occurred because the hypnotism allowed the volunteers to tap into their imaginations ? with encouragement from the audience, Deluca said.
(860): Can I just tell you...I danced with a Native American with full-on pony tail and t-shirt that said, "Property of G-unit." I hate my life. (908): Hot.
Grade: A- Starring: Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Geoffrey Arend, Chloe Moretz and Matthew Gray Gubler. Why it gets an A- : Warning: This is a movie about real life.
I recently had a conversation with a fellow movie-goer, the kind of conversation that usually results in my being accused of cinema-snobbery and not enjoying movies for their more entertaining merits.
This year's fall season at the University of Richmond Museums opened with the Stanley Boxer exhibit, where splashes of vibrant color accent canvases textured with gritty sand, rough sawdust, bark and sparkling glitter. Elizabeth Stevens, an independent scholar, curated the Boxer exhibit, which was made possible through collaboration between The University of Richmond Museums, the Housatonic Museum of Art and the Boca Raton Museum of Art. Walking through the Stanley Boxer exhibit in the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum in the Modlin Center, there's a significant change in the style of the artwork, which is arranged in chronological order, stretching from 1946 to 2000. Heather Campbell, the University of Richmond's curator of museum programs, and Elizabeth Schlatter, Richmond's deputy director and curator of exhibitions, said Boxer's earlier paintings had been similar to the works of Picasso and Matisse.
Contact staff writers Maria Ribas at mariaelisa.ribas@richmond.edu or Maggie Finucane at margaretfinucane@richmond.edu
That shrubbery by the apartments: Specifically placed along the path to swallow dropped phones, then taunt you as you stomp around searching in them while the neighbors close the blinds. Toilets: One second your phone's in your pocket, the next it's in your poop.
I was first introduced to the GS Boyz single "Booty Dew" last weekend, and have been alarmingly uninterested in any other music since.
