by Aaron Fetterman in Entertainment
On Thursday, October 14, the National Players performed Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew at Old Snell. The auditorium was relatively full, beyond even the Clarkson students who were required or recommended to go for Great Ideas. Overall, the performance was convincingly done and entertaining.
by Aaron Fetterman in Entertainment
Bands rarely, if ever, come to Potsdam, New York, and unfortunately the closest cities are two or three hours away. Fortunately, there are three such major cities (Syracuse, Ottawa, and Montreal), and bands do come to those cities. The Decemberists are a folk-rock band whose latest album, Picaresque, was listed on the Amazon.
by Christopher Erat in Entertainment
Tim Burton seems to have a man crush on Johnny Depp. I guess you can't really blame him - Johnny Depp is the man! From his off kilter performances (as in Pirates of the Caribbean and Willy Wonka) to his incredibly heartfelt and touching roles (as in Finding Neverland), this guy can do no wrong.
by Christopher Erat in Entertainment
Prior to seeing Serenity, this reviewer had no idea that the film was an extension of the sci-fi television series Firefly. Therefore, this is a fairly unbiased review; Serenity was based on its merits as a film, not as a familiar and beloved (or not-so-beloved) story of a universe quite unlike ours.
by Billy O’Keefe / Knight Ridder Tribune in Entertainment
GENJI: DAWN OF THE SAMURAI (Playstation 2, Sony)
"Short but sweet" is not necessarily the best way to describe a $40 video game. But it is the most fitting description for Genji, a beautiful, derivative but extremely fun game that ends long before you want it to end.
by Thor Christensen / The Dallas Morning News in Entertainment
Many of the performers at "From the Big Apple to the Big Easy" last month talked about love, hope and the need to rebuild New Orleans.
But not Cyril Neville. The youngest Neville Brother walked onstage at Madison Square Garden wearing a silent message on his T-shirt: "Ethnic Cleansing in New Orleans.
by Ross Raihala / Knight Ridder Newspapers in Entertainment
When samples of M.I.A.'s music first hit the Web late last year, hipsters and bloggers worked themselves into a lather over the young rapper from Sri Lanka whose dense, inventive songs suggested, among other things, her ambiguous stance on terrorism.
The controversy was enough to make M.
by Daniel Fienberg / Zap2it.com (KRT) in Entertainment
On a recent Esquire magazine cover, Keira Knightley was toasted as "what cameras were made for." While the oft-photographed starlet is frequently praised for her elfin beauty, she needed a little assistance for a scene in her new film, Domino.
In an early sequence, model-turned-bounty-hunter Domino Harvey (Knightley) elects to diffuse a tense situation by bribing a gun-toting fugitive with the promise of a lap dance.
by Julie Hinds / Detroit Free Press (KRT) in Entertainment
The secrets are spilling on ABC's Lost and guess what? The plane crash survivors will not be shouting "Go Blue!"
The episode on October 5 revealed a connection between the strange events on the island and the University of Michigan.
Local fans love Lost.
by Ed Bark / The Dallas Morning News (KRT) in Entertainment
The last of fall's thirty-one new series checks in Wednesday and instantly finds its level of humor when the shirtless star of the show greets a new morning by scratching his behind.
His four live-in female relatives happily capture the moment with a cellphone camera to the delight of an easily amused laugh track.
