New York Comic Con - arguably the biggest comic book convention after San Diego Comic-Con International - coincided with the University's Fall Break.
If you make the videos, they will come. Justin Bieber's discovery through YouTube solidified the dream of every independent musician.
"Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve," Tom Wingfield, played by Alex Grubbs, tells the audience in the very first line of the drama department's production of The Glass Menagerie.
Why should I waste $10 dollars and 100 minutes on a film that is only "kind of" funny? Writers-directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck should have asked themselves this question before they embarked on It's Kind of a Funny Story. Adapted from Ned Vizzini's novel of the same name, the film tells the story of teenager Craig Gilner.
Karen Owens, a Duke University senior, is gaining widespread recognition for her "senior thesis," a 42-slide PowerPoint presentation entitled, "An Education Beyond the Classroom: Excelling in the Realm of Horizontal Academics," submitted for her "degree in tempestuous frolicking." In her so-called thesis, Owens ranked 13 men she slept with during her undergraduate career, using a holistic system that included factors such as "attractiveness" and even left room for goodies like "Australian accents" or "creativity in bed." Owens initially sent the PowerPoint to three of her girlfriends; however, one of them forwarded it to a friend, and that friend forwarded it to another friend, and the rest is history. In our Internet-centered age, it isn't uncommon that such stories would go "viral," and indeed Owens' PowerPoint has received national attention.
We all know that August and September are the months when studios like to throw out their trash. Luckily, by October, as the leaves begin to change, the quality of films changes as well.
YouTube: the home of your favorite drunk squirrel, sneezy panda and the "America's Funniest Home Videos" that will never make it on TV because they are too obscene, too violent or really just not all that funny. But these are no longer the only videos that people go on YouTube to watch.
It may surprise some, but cartoons are currently some of the longest-running, most-love primetime shows on TV.
Big Echo, the sophomore release from Berkeley-based band The Morning Benders, takes a familiar sound and puts it on steroids.
The latest album from Sufjan Stevens, Age of Adz, marks his first song-based, full-length LP in five years.
Kanye West will be remembered as the biggest force in popular music since The Beatles. But I'll get back to that.
After months of hype and anticipation, The Social Network was released this past weekend, already prompting some fans to call it the movie of the year.
We here at tableau do not like to get political often, but sometimes the occasion calls. Much attention has been drawn recently to ABC's Modern Family broadcasting a kiss between its two gay characters, Cameron and Mitchell.
Nonstop explosions, heart-racing songs, powerless women and a complete lack of plot - these elements of the stereotypical horror film are nowhere to be found in the thrilling new romantic horror flick Let Me In.
If you don't know who Lil Wayne is, here is a suggestion: Please exit the cave that you have been dwelling in for the past five years.
The Nintendo DS has been nothing but a success since its release six years ago. With three different iterations improving and enhancing the portable gaming device, there's almost no excuse not to own one - especially with the recent announcement of Nintendo's next groundbreaking handheld: the 3DS. Make no mistake, the upcoming Nintendo 3DS is by no means another iteration of the well known DS handheld, as the DS Lite and DSi were.
What happens when you put blaring beats, bass, birds, a bust of Beethoven and a barrel's worth of blue ribbon into one room?
I often marvel at performers' ability to put forth energetic performances on an almost nightly basis while simultaneously skipping about the country, or often the world.
The avant-garde Tokyo-ites featured in the documentary, We Don't Care About Music Anyway - shown this past weekend by OFFScreen, a contracted independent organization which screens independent and foreign films - stay true to the title, at least in terms of the conventional music one might have on an iTunes playlist.
