Arts & Entertainment

Arts & Entertainment

Bowie Returns

One has to hope that David Bowie has an incredible 66th birthday to make up for the gift he gave us all on it. Ten years removed from his last album and in a supposed retirement that was never confirmed by the Thin White Duke himself comes the out of […]

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Five Shows To Catch Up On Over Winter Break

  As you go home, you’ll find you have a lot more free-time on your hands.  No essays or projects to worry about (hopefully) and you can finally relax.  The best way to spend any long and extended break is to fill it with great television.  Forget about exercise, work […]

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Santa? Why Does This Exist?

  Everyone knows about the famous Christmas film, A Christmas Story, right? The famous Bob Clark film about how kids truly are during Christmas? For anyone who doesn’t know, the film is about Ralph Parker, played by a young Peter Billingsley, during Christmas time in the 1940’s and his pursuit […]

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The Day Beyond Tomorrow

For the holiday season you can turn to TCM for the usual Miracle on 34th Street and It’s a Wonderful Life, which are fabulous films, but there is another option that it also interesting. The film in question is Beyond Tomorrow (also known as Beyond Christmas). It is a 1940’s […]

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Marvel NOW! Roundup

Have you read a comic book lately?   Chances are you haven’t, but Marvel wants to change that.  Announced back in July, Marvel NOW! (their exclamation point) is an initiative by Marvel to get new readers on board, specifically the millions of you out there who helped make “The Avengers” the […]

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Second Verse, Same As The First

If Green Day can be credited for anything it is their ability to consistently churn out pop machine ooze that’s high quality sound. With a teenage metamorphosis beginning with American Idiot, Green Day embarked on a boring adult crisis. Glimpsing a fading career prior to American Idiot they changed their […]

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The Bleeding Heart of Crystal Castles

The album artwork to Crystal Castle’s third album, tentatively titled (III) features an award winning photograph by Samuel Aranda of a woman clutching her son who has fallen victim to a tear gas bombing during a street protest in Sana’a, Yemen in 2011. The artwork proves to be eerily appropriate, […]

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Bringing Back The Colors of History

The evening of Nov. 7th, 2012 was a big occasion for one member of Plymouth State University’s alumni; Kaleb Hart, a member of the graduating class of 2011 debuted his first documentary piece “The Berlin Mural”. The film is a touching glimpse into the history of the small, quaint New Hampshire […]

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The Redemption of George Lucas

By now you, along with the rest of the internet have said more than your piece on The Walt Disney Company’s recent purchase of Lucasfilm for 4.05 billion dollars. There have been plenty of jokes made and paranoid rumors thrown out, but surprisingly, not much has been said of George […]

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Let The Sky Fall

Skyfall is the newest and twenty-third James Bond film with this outing being the third film to star Daniel Craig as James Bond. The film is about Bond investigating an attack on MI6 from the film’s villain, Raoul Silva, played by Javier Bardem. The attacks aren’t occurring to just hurt […]