Arts & Entertainment got the chance to sit down with Khalilah Joi, a University alumna (Col ‘01) and recent winner of ABC’s “Make Me a Star” contest.
A lot is going on in the entertainment industry at the moment. Rising stars are emerging at every turn, major motion picture studios are gearing up for summer blockbuster season and Kesha is finally out of rehab, having shed her quintessential $. But if we take a closer look, I’m sure we’ll find many of our beloved celebrities are not doing so well.
We want Nickelback back. Where into the dark, foggy depths of the 2000s have they disappeared to? The band’s last studio album, “Here and Now,” was released in 2011, but no one has heard from them since. Their latest album was exactly like the preceding six: fantastic!
Since the release of “Mastermind” — Rick Ross’ sixth studio album — there has been a renewed focus in the media surrounding the rapper’s personal life and, more specifically, his history as a Florida correctional officer.
Shakespeare on the Lawn, a group of actors, designers and tech crew members dedicated to performing Shakespeare’s historically vibrant and emotional works, excelled at breaking down the barriers between actor and audience in their rendition of “Titus Andronicus” this past weekend. “A lot of people say [Titus Andronicus] is Shakespeare’s Tarantino phase,” said director Charles Eckman, a fourth-year Engineering student, referring to the play’s heavy violence and action. One of Shakespeare’s less-popular plays, “Titus Andronicus” is a statement on the volatility of human nature, justifying acts of sex violence, and madness under overarching themes of revenge, honor and deceit. The title character, a great Roman war hero, returns home to find political turmoil has sent the Roman nobility into an uproar.
Each year, Architecture School students draft plans for buildings in locations they have never visited — the designs of which will only ever be seen by a few members of the faculty. These exercises which take place in studio classes give students a helpful opportunity to practice their skills, but lend few real-world consequences. Until that all changed.
Things just ain’t the same for gangsters. N.W.A.‘s “Efil4zaggin” debuted at number one on the Billboard charts in 1991, and ever since, rap has maintained an impressive foothold in American popular music.
From Ra’s al Ghul in “The Dark Knight” trilogy to Bryan Mills in the soon-to-be trilogy “Taken,” Hollywood has pretty much typecast Liam Neeson as a one-man wrecking crew.
There’s been a real dearth of good and honest science on television. The Discovery Channel may as well be called The Shark Channel, while the History Channel just plays endless reruns of “Pawn Stars.” Not to be left with just National Geographic, Fox’s latest reincarnation of cult classic “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey” breathes new life into science-focused television and documentaries as a whole.
How are we supposed to react to the realization of an irrefutable injustice, one which is difficult to recognize, comprehend and ultimately change? The University’s International Justice Mission (IJM) chapter doesn’t have all the answers — but they do aim to make the injustice of international slavery well known, and offer feasible methods to address wrongdoing.
March 28 marks the beginning of this year’s annual Arts Madness celebration. There will be several exciting and hands-on arts events for everyone in both the University and greater Charlottesville community to take part in this Friday through Sunday.
There is a point in the film “Divergent” when Tris (Shailene Woodley) looks up into love interest Four’s eyes (Theo James) and, with a sigh, says, “I don’t want to go too fast.” Quite right — and I wish the film had taken this advice for itself.
SOJA’s lively mash-up of folk story-telling and Jamaican funk style has stunned audiences around the world since the band’s self-titled EP dropped in 2000.
Last May, third-year College student Alex Rafala started writing a screenplay about suicide. Just a month later, the topic became all too real: one of his co-workers took his own life.
Last week, the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities hosted the 20th annual Virginia Festival of the Book, a five-day event bringing together various speakers, writers and readers to promote books and literacy culture.
Daniel Mendelsohn, a University alumnus, author and essayist, visited the Harrison Institute last Thursday to promote his new book, “An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, and as Epic,” in conjunction with the Virginia Festival of the Book.
On Saturday, the University Bookstore hosted Deborah and Mark Parker, a husband and wife duo who recently published “Inferno Revealed.” Their book explores the epic poem “Inferno” by 14th century author Dante Alighieri. The authors discussed how their book interprets Dante’s original text and explicated the challenges and experience of writing “Inferno Revealed.”
Before the advent of Spotify playlists but after the do-it-yourself mixtape, iTunes rolled out the iMix feature.
These days, Facebook and Twitter get all the glory when it comes to social networking, but let’s be honest: Facebook is for pictures of family reunions and new babies, and Twitter is for celebrity gossip and Internet fights.
Spotify’s meteoric rise to prominence after its release in 2008 parallels that of Pandora after its launch in 2004. Both marked new and innovative ways to stream music online. Pandora was the pioneer of its kind — a method of listening to specific genres of music without having to pay for the service or for a subscription to a radio show. However, it lacks the ability to listen to an entire album or a particular song — two services in turn offered by Spotify.
