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So, it’s my favorite time of year again: award season. The nominations for the 82nd  Academy Awards have been released, and here’s who I believe will leave as winners. Best Picture – AvatarAs much as I hate to say it, the blockbuster movie of this year will more than likely go home with quite a […]

After the success of The Notebook, the story line of the new film based on a Nicholas Spark’s novel, Dear John, should have developed into something more than a frustrating long-distance relationship with an ambiguous ending. The film, starring Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried, opens with attractive cinematography of the Charleston coast–and the lead actor–and

The stage in McInnis auditorium is covered with students and volunteers who lay flat on their backs. Some giggle, unsure of what’s about to happen. Some wait patiently for instruction. What are they doing there? They’re warming-up for rehearsal for the Yes! And… musical, A Winter Sort of Thing: It’s About Time, which will be

The Student Activities Board has big plans for this spring semester, and Coordinator of Student Activities Paul Daigle has come up with events that students can attend every weekend. Here is a list of the top five events of the semester that should be on every student’s calendar: 1. Spring Banquet, King’s Mill, April 10:

“Strange,” uttered one woman in the sparsely populated theater, rising from her seat during the ending credits of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, directed and co-written by Terry Gilliam. Though it would be hard for anyone to argue with the word choice of her brilliantly concise review, I did not share the sense of disappointment

    On Nov. 23, the Contemporary Music Center is putting on a concert at Eastern. CMC is a study program that is offered at Martha’s Vineyard.   Senior Steven Diaz, who took part in the program last semester, explained the program as the equivalent to a conservatory, except that the students study and perform

Longwood Gardens displays autumnal season

    Relient K’s newest album, Forget and Not Slow Down, is a compilation of Matthew Thiessen’s deepest thoughts over the course of three months spent alone in Tennessee after a tragic breakup with his fiancée.    The reasons for the severed relationship have not been explained to the public because Thiessen’s song lyrics, rather

    It’s Saturday night, and there’s nothing to do. You’ve finished your homework, you’ve already watched season one of Grey’s Anatomy–twice–and you don’t want to drive out to Wayne or Philadelphia. What can you do? Go to the Jammin’ Java.   Starting this semester and continuing next semester, there will be local entertainment at

The sounds of the 1960s filled McInnis auditorium when The Return took the stage in front of a mostly older, but excited, crowd. The band looked like The Beatles, with shaggy hair and trim suits. Some of the crowd members even came dressed as The Beatles on the cover of their Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts