Arts & Entertainment

Artists, no matter how creative they may be, must derive inspiration from somewhere, and as art is at its most basic form about communication, the transference of ideas from one person to another, these creative mines can generally be found within relationships.

Regarding celebrities, bad publicity usually trumps the good. Entertainment news is plastered with articles regarding the bad parenting of the Spears family, Lindsay Lohan’s new girlfriend and the parenthetical and marginal lives of the “characters” from The Hills. Sometimes, it is hard to take entertainment …

In Martin Millar’s “Suzy, Led Zeppelin, and Me,” he writes, “I’m not going to say much about school. After all, you were at school. You know what it’s like.” Teenage misery is universal. Even if your high school years were wonderful, some difficulty probably dogged …

Theatre students spend countless hours every day in Wishart Hall practicing and studying the art and craft of theatre. Students who decide to major in theatre at the College also have a different Independent Study (I.S.) experience then other students. Majors have the opportunity to …

The Writers Guild of America Strike officially ended on Feb. 12, 2008, but its effects continue to resonate through the industry. This, unfortunately, will be clearly seen in this fall’s TV lineup. What few anticipated new shows there are, like Joss Whedon’s “Dollhouse,” won’t be …

For many singer-songwriters, it’s the happy songs that are the hardest to write. The kind of artist who seeks to convey his or her own struggles is driven to do so by the kind of inner turmoil that necessitates melancholy, the kind that thrives on …