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When was the last time you went to the movies just to have fun? You know, the last time you went into the theater and you weren't trying to evaluate the film the whole time. You just sat back, watched and immersed yourself in the film.
Before every game, Monica Knight, the senior captain of the volleyball team, closes her eyes and visualizes the game for five minutes. Then, she leads her team onto the court and works her hardest to make sure those visions come true.
There was no question as to whether Knight would play volleyball in college or not, "it was a childhood dream," she said. And one that came true.
DG: I should start by saying that I saw this production in the summer of 2008, when it played the open-air Delacorte Theatre in Central Park. Many aspects (staging, casting) have improved considerably.
LD: Well, being that this was my first experience seeing a professional version of "Hair" I was extremely impressed. The amount of interactivity with the crowd really made the show for me, especially from Gavin Creel. He really took his role to an extreme, but it worked.
Week two of the Colonial Athletic Association featured both a high and a low for men's soccer. A thrilling 3-2 victory over Virginia Commonwealth University highlighted the Pride's weekend, but a 2-0 shutout at the hands of Northeastern provides the lone blemish on the Pride's conference record.
During last season's meeting, the James Madison Dukes demolished the Hofstra Pride, 56-0, and the loss was personal for many of the Pride players -- definitely for senior quarterback Cory Christopher.
And then there were eight. The Major League Baseball playoff field has been set. And, this year's teams have all the familiar faces. Out of the eight teams, six have been in the World Series this decade, and five have won the title. Yet, each team has a different story.
Over the weekend, the Hofstra Women's soccer team asserted themselves in the Colonial Athletic Association, winning both their games and maintaining a perfect 4-0 conference record.
Friday night in Fairfax, VA the Pride took the field against George Mason. The game represented a tremendous defensive effort for both squads, as there were only six total shots taken in the first half of regulation play.
Q. Why are New York sports fans like politicians and gymnasts?
A. Flip-flopping is part of the job.
How about those long suffering New York Jets faithful? Last season, after Gang Green beat the Titans in week 12 to hand the Titans their first loss of the season, New Yorkers - - and Jets fans in particular - - were ready to push Mike Bloomberg out of office and replace him with Brett Favre. Disappointing losses to the Broncos, 49ers and Seahawks put the team out of the playoffs and Brett Favre on the fan's fecal roster. Where is the loyalty?
On Tuesday, October 7, the University's English Department held an event called "Hofstra Writers Now: A Student/Faculty Reading." The reading featured students and graduate writers.
Students may have noticed the heightened security when swiping into their building, and the more prevalent presence of Public Safety officers in dormitories. John C. O'Malley, the Assistant Director of Public Safety cleared up many misconceptions.
Student journalists recently got an inside look at the coverage of the false rape incident that occurred on the University campus a few weeks ago.
Public Safety briefs for the September 17, 2009 Issue of the Chronicle.
Ten senators were voted into the Student Government Association during the Senate's weekly meeting in the Student Center Greenhouse. According to Vice President Akeem Mellis, the 10 new senators are the most inducted in a single week in the SGA's history, breaking last year's record of nine.
In recent days, students have begun to notice that they are now being given receipts with meals that they've purchased in the Student Center Café.
While I was in diapers and the other Bush was sending bombs over the barren, oil-scarred Iraq of 1991, Alice in Chains was rocketing to the top of the billboard charts. Now, after the death of lead singer Layne Staley in 2002, Alice In Chains, one of the big four Seattle bands, released a new album on September 29th. The band currently consists of guitarist/singer Jerry Cantrell, new singer William Duvall, bassist Mike Inez and drummer Sean Kinney.
Watching films on a projector in a room surrounded by posters advertising the world's "strongmen" and sideshow would be a bizarre atmosphere for your typical film festival. Luckily, Coney Island is not your typical festival.
On the heels of its successful Broadway mounting of Schiller's "Mary Stuart," London's Donmar Warehouse is back at the Broadhurst Theatre, this time with "Hamlet," starring Jude Law as Shakespeare's titular Melancholy (or in this case, Violently Temperamental) Dane.
I'm not saying that creating a stage play from nonfiction is easy. In attempting to make political, hard-facts reporting into art, however, it seems that Joan Holden is more concerned with not losing anything in translation, rather than crafting something fit for the stage. Her lackluster adaptation of Barbara Ehrenreich's best-selling book "Nickel and Dimed," overshadowed the University's Department of Drama and Dance's daring attempt at performing this so-called "play."
With their fourteenth film, "A Serious Man," Joel and Ethan Coen have been putting their unique stamp on world cinema for 25 years, and I can say with absolute certainty that their latest offering is the strangest film they have ever made, but also one of their most compassionate.
Actress Drew Barrymore's directorial debut, "Whip It," opened in theatres last week. The coming of age story stars Ellen Page who joins a roller derby. The author of the book, Shauna Cross, wrote the adapted screenplay. Other cast members include Kristen Wig, Juliette Lewis, Jimmy Fallon, and Daniel Stern (remember him from "Home Alone?")
