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Meet Maroon 5
November 10th, 2009“We love to be in places like colleges where people love music,” Maroon 5 lead singer Adam Levine told the sold-out crowd in Barton on Sunday night. “That’s how we started our whole career.” The concert marked the group’s fourth stop on their Back to School Tour of college campuses with opener Fitz and the Tantrums. Read More
Practicing What You Preach
November 10th, 2009In a new exhibition at the Johnson Museum, artwork takes on a very conceptual form. The work, produced by Cornell’s own art faculty, displays a variety of complex ideas and poses questions about the discipline of art itself. The new exhibit confounds the usual practice of many art exhibits, which typically invite the viewer to create a history or explanation based on his or her own unique interpretation and perception of the aesthetic image. Instead, this show asks you to dig deeper to think of the ontological questions that art puts forth. Read More
Does Your Dad Like Kelly Clarkson?
November 10th, 2009I think it’s fair to say that I, more than the average person, really love updating other peoples iPods. There are few feelings better than being handed an iPod and asked to upload 10 albums that I think someone will love. It’s such a fun game and when I succeed, I feel like a champ. However, every time I go home for a break I inevitably get asked by my father to update his iPod. The only problem is that my father’s music taste makes me question his sexuality. Which is obviously a very big issue. Read More
Ignoring Neutrality: Architect Daniel Libeskind Speaks
November 9th, 2009If art and design are some of the few fields where life and work are inextricably linked, then architect Daniel Libeskind’s lecture on Wednesday night epitomized the anti-“nine to five.” Far from being someone who sits down in a cubicle, pays his dues to the corporate world and then goes home to enjoy what non-work related pleasures he can, Libeskind, from the beginning and for better or for worse, has saturated his work with his voice, his hand, his beliefs and his personal history. From photos of his childhood in Poland and his expressive account of his family’s ties to the Holocaust, to his politicized slogans paired with highly commercial works, Libsekind’s sometimes incongruous but always passionate beliefs can be traced through his prolific building history. Read More
The Conceptual and the Concrete in the Work of Thom Mayne
November 9th, 2009A Pritzker Prize-winning architect and the visionary founder of the Morphosis firm, Thom Mayne filled Lewis auditorium with an overflow crowd last Friday evening with his lecture “tC: The Continuity of Contradictions.” No doubt, much of this excitement can be attributed to the way in which Mayne’s work demonstrates how architecture can change how the public sees the world. Read More
No Country For The Discontent
November 6th, 2009In the newest Coen Brothers’ film, A Serious Man, the writing and directing duo draw from personal experience to create an interesting story about a middle-aged Jewish man whose life is falling apart before his eyes. The film is set in Ethan and Joel Coen’s home state, Minnesota, specifically in a suburb where religion plays a significant part in everyday life. Read More
What Goes Bump In The Night
November 6th, 2009Do you believe in ghosts? It doesn’t matter. The best films on the subject will have you incontrovertibly convinced until the theater lights come on. There have been good and bad films claiming to be “horror,” on slashers, poltergeists, cannibals, plagues, zombies, vampires and even vaginal teeth. None quite spook the soul like an old-fashioned ghost yarn. Read More
Sequel Fail: 'Boondock Saints II' Disappoints
November 6th, 2009Everything I love turns to shit. It’s like the world loves playing these sick little filmic jokes on me. “Oh, Graham, you liked this? You thought it was a good movie? Well guess what, we just got Nicolas Cage to do the remake. And he’s bringing his worried face.” Nicolas Cage is the worst. Read More
A Season For Singing About Life, Love
November 6th, 2009Once upon a time there was a little girl and a little boy. They met Once by accident. They met twice by accident. They met thrice on purpose. And they lived happily ever after. Read More
An Etude In Innovation
November 5th, 2009While there is no stereotypical member of Contrapunkt, Cornell’s main outlet for undergraduate composition, Zach Romeo ’10 seems to embody the group strengths. As the group likes to stress, he is an engineer — which should be an anomaly in a group of music majors. However, it isn’t, as Contrapunkt boasts several engineers as well as members from other non-musical majors such as the AEM program. Read More