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In the upcoming months there will be a ton of new music coming our way. From Kanye West to Kings of Leon, there will be something for everyone. Not just new releases, but a few reissues, as well.
Last Saturday evening, the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts celebrated the beginning of their new season with a show stopping performance from Long Island born, Idina Menzel. Best known for her performances on Broadway in ‘Rent' and ‘Wicked,' Menzel came back to her home roots to sing and share stories.
"The Red vs. Blue: Recollection Box Set" is a fine addition to the story of "Red vs. Blue." This DVD set follows the story of the red and blue armies as they leave Blood Gulch, fight the mysterious Meta and unravel the secretive history of the freelancer program. This three DVD box set comes with a cost of $29.99, but with all of the extra features included, it's worth the buy. This set also comes with the two mini-series, "Recovery One" and "Relocated" as well as commentary, deleted scenes and trailers.
Brian Fallon is crouching next to a bass amp waiting for the song to break back in, leaving the audience hung in silent suspense. The singer of folk-punk band, The Gaslight Anthem, plays with the crowd but fails, as shouts of the next lyrics come rushing out of fans' mouths.
It's official, camel is the color of the season. The previously bland color is now splashed over fall's hottest accessories. Designers like Michael Kors, Salvatore Ferragamo and Gucci are all embracing the chicness of the not-cognac, not-brown color on runways and in boutiques this season. But who says you need the big bucks to get in on the camel action? Plenty of reasonably-priced stores are beginning to sell camel-colored items, so it won't hurt your wallet to start injecting the color into your fall wardrobe.
The first event in The Department of Drama and Dance's fall lineup turned out to be a thoughtful presentation of a play it seems everyone had forgotten. In the director's note, it stated that the department's production of "Intimations for Saxophone" is only the second production of the play, which was written in 1934 by Sophie Treadwell. Largely due to the economic standing of the time, the play was never produced until recently.
"New York City Hotel Blues" is the first single off of the new Margot & The Nuclear So & So's album. As a song, it reflects the overall change the band has experienced in creating their new album, "Buzzard," from orchestrated, pop oriented music to biting, distorted and unsettling rock. Walking down Delancey Street Sunday night, it seemed that the city stood to reinforce this mood as the sky's overcast gray faded into cold winds and darkness.
One's reaction to a film such as "Howl" is dependent upon whether or not one finds validity in the efforts of the Beat generation.
"Howl's" narrative is separated into four segments interspersed with one another: Ginsberg's initial reading of the poem in San Francisco, animation that interprets the content of the poem, the obscenity trial that ensued, and an interview with Ginsberg conducted by an anonymous interlocutor.
Going into Steve Carell's final season as Michael Scott, and with NBC determined to continue ‘The Office' without him, to expect an urgent pace from the beginning of the premiere is not entirely unreasonable. After all, one would expect that a believable and, more importantly, likeable departure for Michael Scott--the show's most important anchor--would require a great deal of development over the course of the season. But perhaps not.
WRHU: You've just come off a big performance at the Emmys, a big ‘Born to Run' spectacular, what was it like dancing with Kate Gosselin?
Jimmy Fallon: She was a good sport, you know, it was one of the first ideas. I was like we gotta get Kate Gosselin ‘cause she was just so awful on ‘Dancing with the Stars.' But she was a good sport. She was like ‘I know I'm not an Dancer,' but she was totally game and we ended up having a good time. It was great. It was so stupid but like, that's the whole idea of it. When you're the host of that big show you gotta set the tone and it was like everyone just be silly and enjoy it.
It goes without saying that the participants in this year's Hofstra's Got Talent competition, held at the John Cranford Adams Playhouse this Friday, September 24, were the most talented that Hofstra University had to offer.
The Thermals- "Personal Life"
The Thermals fifth studio album, "Personal Life," plays out as a sort of relationship catharsis. Bookended by "I'm Gunna Change Your Life" and "You Changed My Life," all the tracks in between fill in a sloppy tale of confusion, self-doubt and all the other facets of a nosediving relationship turned power struggle. Lyrical pathos abound, complemented by Hutch Harris' stalwart yet fidgety delivery. However the upbeat and snappy guitars keep the album from wallowing in its own misery. There's enough pop sensibility in "Personal Life" to set it a little above the pack in terms of indie rock.
"You Again" proved to be an aptly titled film because for the majority of the film, those words described the sentiment felt. In case you weren't aware, girls in high school are catty and mean, the nerds get revenge and the sworn enemies always learn to find the best in each other by the film's end. This is nothing new. And while "You Again" is funny, it relys on a plot that has been laughed at before and using slapstick comedy to try and disguise bad writing.
Several decades of pop culture provide a surfeit of examples of quiet young ladies earning the attention (both negative and positive) of their high school classmates. Olivia Newton John bags the class bad boy in "Grease," while Lindsay Lohan climbs the social ladder by way of sabotaging the queen bee in "Mean Girls." Then there is Emma Stone, who, in, "Easy A," has fake sex for gift cards and falls in love with the school mascot. Whatever works, I suppose.
MTV's Video Music Awards has been a September staple for as long as anyone could remember. This year marks the first time a female has hosted the show in 16 years, with Roseanne Barr hosting in 1994. Chelsea Handler was the center of attention last night as she took the VMAs into a new decade.
A good friend of mine summed up "Avenue Q" perfectly: "Puppets talking about sex; what's not to love?" The racy musical comedy about a diverse group of puppets, monsters and humans is just as delightful and hilarious way off-Broadway at the Gateway Playhouse in Bellport, NY.
The smell of stewed goat and freshly prepared fish fills the air. On the TV, commercials play in an unfamiliar French dialect. Colorful local artwork lines the wall, most of it for sale. Like most restaurants in area, bodegas, hair salons, and pool halls surround it. The Creole Buffet on Uniondale Avenue was exactly what I was looking for.
Student petitions are a funny thing.
At the end of last semester, a seemingly impetuous petition surfaced in which students lobbied for the university to add Showtime to its cable programming. In what can only be viewed in retrospect as wishful thinking, most students assumed that they could have their cake and eat it too—that is, have both HBO and Showtime.
