People waiting for the "must-have" puzzle game for the Nintendo DS will keep waiting. Polarium makes great use of the DS' touch screen, but doesn't pack enough puzzle punch to entertain gamers for more than short bursts of time. The game consists of white and black blocks that switch colors when pressed.
Hi. My name is Molly. I interview bands, but I'm about to stop because it's summer. That's right, sports fans -- this is my last music column until September.
Well I'm gonna raise a fuss, and I'm gonna raise a holler because we here at tableau have the perfect cure for those impending summertime blues: Music. That's right.
While fame has undeniable perks, it is inevitably accompanied by the pressure to live up to others' expectations.
Back in middle school, Ben Folds Five was fresh -- all the cool kids were into "Brick." It was kind of like parents' music, but younger and hipper. On the other hand, my youth was spent with Black Flag and Minor Threat.
The opening scene of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun presents the Youngers, a poor and black family in 1950s America, with a tough decision: how to spend an insurance check worth $10,000 -- more money than any of them have ever had -- now that the patriarch of their family has died.
There's a point in The Interpreter when Sylvia Broome (Nicole Kidman) explains to the haggard Secret Service Agent Tobin Keller (Sean Penn) a tradition from Matobo, an apocryphal African nation the writers dreamed up from a fistful of Scrabble letters. When someone has committed murder, she quietly recounts, the perpetrator is taken by the community to a nearby lake.
It's that time of year again. If late December and early January are the months for year-summarizing Top Ten Lists, then summer previews undoubtedly dominate late April and early May.
American audiences have had limited exposure to filmmaker Stephen Chow, although he's already a film icon overseas.
When I decided to stay in Charlottesville this summer, it was a simple financial decision. I need a job, and the market for summer employment is not so hot in my hometown.
What would your last meal on earth be? Okay, graduation isn't nearly so dire a situation, but after four years of wining and dining in Charlottesville, we feel like an era is coming to an end.
Music producer Mark Batson has come a long way from the Brooklyn projects where he was raised. Over the past several years, he has worked both as a producer and contributing musician (he plays just about every instrument known to man) with an eclectic group of artists ranging from G-Unit to India.Arie to Beyoncé to Anthony Hamilton to Seal to The Game to Gwen Stefani to Eminem to Rachel Yamagata to Talib Kweli. Batson gained national stature with India.Arie's 2001 release Acoustic Soul, on which Batson co-wrote and co-produced several songs.
You could call him a musical minimalist. You could categorize his style as emerging folk rock. But no matter how you describe him, Will Oldham's comfortable, organic sound is inescapable. This native Kentuckian has been the front-man (and sometimes only member) of numerous projects since his debut in 1992, including Palace Music and Palace Brothers.
In retrospect, the fact that The Sims, the "life simulator" that happens to be the best-selling PC game of all time, never includes college life is almost criminal. But fear not, because the legendary Will Wright and his cohorts at Maxis have atoned for their grave oversight in grand fashion.
With his unique brand of high-energy stand-up comedy, Dane Cook has been burning up the comedy circuits for years.
Graduation is right around the bend, and with it comes tears and goodbyes but also celebrations, parties and most importantly ... food.
While the local band the Grove certainly doesn't look like its name, it functions quite the same.
In your pocket, you hold the key to centuries of music and the ability to hear live performances by your fellow students.
Is life inherently comical or inherently tragic? Thus begins Woody Allen's latest film, which, to no one's surprise, deals with neurotic New Yorkers who argue sexual politics while pacing the tree-lined streets. Allen has built a career upon gleaning humor and romance from urban anonymity, and this film is familiar ground for the 70-year-old filmmaker.
Bands change their names for all sorts of reasons. Whether the change is meant to turn over a new leaf or wipe the slate clean, critics and fans alike will question the motive. When singer-songwriter Jason Molina decided to rename his one-man band, Songs: Ohia, questions flew.
