A&E knows best: Expanding your entertainment horizons
By Caroline Gecker | January 23, 2013Here at A&E, we never claim to be arbiters of taste; but let’s face it, we’d all like to be.
Here at A&E, we never claim to be arbiters of taste; but let’s face it, we’d all like to be.
Mark your calendars: The University may be a hotbed of a capella culture, but it’s not every day that the most exciting act in instrument-free music sweeps through town.
We now know Playboy considers the University the nation’s number-one party school, but here’s a question just as debatable: Is Charlottesville a Southern city?
First utilized by musicians of the 1940s and popularized by hip-hop artists of the 1970s and ‘80s, sampling was nothing new when Gregg Gillis became Girl Talk in 2002.
The American music industry has not been kind to rock stars in the new millennium. Look no further than Maroon 5, who went from Songs About Jane to “Payphone” in seven years flat, to see that the most well-intentioned bands struggle in a world where candy-coated hooks out-chart blistering riffs every time.
Where did tableau go? Not to worry, readers: we’re still here, but we have decided it’s time for a permanent name change: the Arts & Entertainment section will now be called The-Section-Formerly-Known-As-tableau. Just kidding. We are now simply and straightforwardly “Arts & Entertainment.” This move is designed to increase the accessibility and visibility of our section because we believe that what we write about is important.
College is a time when youthful exuberance meets unprecedented freedom – sounds like great TV to me.
The Fault In Our Stars would be a troublesome novel if it were not so beautifully executed.
Tea Leaf Green has been playing by its own set of rules for nearly 15 years.
Feminism has been a point of societal contention since the term itself was coined.