Theater Review (LA): School of Night by Peter Whelan at the Mark Taper Forum
18 Nov 2008 5:47pm GMT Kit Marlowe, spy, atheist, rebel, victim, homosexual, and genius. Elizabethan England wasn’t all sonnets and idyllic scenes. It was full of intrigue, danger, and shifting loyalties. One minute the Catholics were in power, the next the Anglicans. Spain was a dangerous rival, plots were rampant to overthrow the Virgin Queen Elizabeth, and in the middle of all this there was a flourishing of the arts and...
A Call for Community Service
18 Nov 2008 2:58pm GMT Community service should be just that - communal. Let's involve everybody. According to USA Today, TIME, and a plethora of other news sources, Generation Y (to which I belong) is all about community service. We believe in doing food drives, donating blood, reading to children, participating in street cleanups, raising money for charities, and just about anything else you care to think of. We prefer working for companies...
Theater Review (NYC): American Buffalo by David Mamet
18 Nov 2008 1:47pm GMT In arguably his best play, David Mamet gives a better explanation for the current economic crisis than any economist could provide. American Buffalo, David Mamet’s breakthrough play currently in an excellent revival at the Belasco Theater, may be a better source of explanation for the current economic crisis than you can get from any economist. Every exchange in the play has business on the mind; in the world of Donny, Teach, and Bobby, even friendship breaks down into...
How To Make It To Class On Time
18 Nov 2008 8:06am GMT A few tips for college students. College is a new and exciting experience for freshmen. Lost in the confusion, excitement, novelty, and chaos of that first year of college is the thought of going to the classes you paid to take. It's difficult for most new college students to remember that the reason for coming to college is to graduate. That's why I have taken the time to...
Presented By: Expedition Week Continues Tonight
18 Nov 2008 8:06am GMT Seven nights of one great discovery after another continues tonight at 9P e/p only on National Geographic Channel. From the ancient pyramids to the ocean depths, from lost cities to outer space, travel with the latest generation of intrepid explorers as they make one great discovery after another. Expedition Week, only on National Geographic Channel. www.natgeotv.com/expedition Ads by Pheedo