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WEEKEND | 'Lantern' lacks light
In brightest day or blackest night, DC Comics' Green Lantern is still pretty dull.
WEEKEND | 618 brings lessons for Spring Fling
“If 618 were my last day on earth, I’d say I had a pretty good run,” YouTube Fratstar Dom Mazetti declared in a promo video for 618, an “electronically flavored music and arts festival” that took place June 18.
WEEKEND | 'Beginners' defies categorization
Featuring Ewan McGregor and boasting a talking dog and quirky, tongue-in-cheek narration, “Beginners” seems like it would belong to that category of indie film too wrapped up in its own cleverness to say anything real. Fortunately for the audience, “Beginners” is in a category all its own.
WEEKEND | Falling in love with 'Paris'
One can’t help but become enraptured by cities when watching Woody Allen films. Allen originally filled his films with adoring shots of New York, but in recent years, he has taken a European turn.
WEEKEND | Examining the ordinary through performance art
Inside 36 Edgewood, Charlie Kelly ’14 steps into a bathtub full of milk à la Claudette Colbert in "The Sign of the Cross." The lights are dimmed and a semicircle of onlookers gathers around the spectacle. Food coloring drips from a bunch of hollow eggs that hang above the tub as Kelly watches television, washes himself and has a “routine” nervous breakdown.
WEEKEND | Another “Hangover”? You might have a problem.
You’d think these guys would’ve learned their lesson the first time.
WEEKEND | A tasty (and intoxicating) trip to Ibiza
Last week, I received a most seductive email from Ibiza, the swanky Spanish restaurant at 39 High St. It read: “why not skip school … and go?”
WEEKEND | It's on: Restaurant Week!
I was looking over Ibiza’s menu online (what I do during my spare time; don’t worry about it) when a bright blue graphic caught my eye. “New Haven RESTAURANT WEEK,” it proclaimed.
WEEKEND | Pumping up for 'Captain America'
Move over Major League Baseball—steroid self-empowerment is hitting the big screen. Introducing: Captain America.
WEEKEND | Love Live Lounge
Sometimes I despair at American contemporary music. Often, it seems that pop artists are too scared to unplug the synthesizers, lose the auto-tune and pay attention to pure vocals, inventive instrumentation and a good melody. So forgive me for being sentimental but allow me step over the pond to purvey the inventive new ways British artists are approaching live music.
WEEKEND | Close encounters of the British kind
You know that "Seinfeld" episode where Elaine has that boyfriend who stands really close to everyone while he’s talking to them and it’s really uncomfortable and everyone calls him a “close talker” behind his back?
WEEKEND | Who needs Tyco?
A young man came into the narrow print shop with a 300-page book in his hand.
WEEKEND | A vacation in Maya's Room
If you still find yourself plagued by a case of spring break withdrawal syndrome, the antidote lies tucked away in Silliman's Maya’s Room. In “Delusions of Grandeur," student photographer Kathryn Brown ’12 provides a haven within New Haven, a mini-vacation for those who didn’t really have one over spring break. Or for those who did, and just need another.
WEEKEND | Anna Nicole Smith: The Opera - Too Soon?
From the librettist who brought you the time-honoured classic 'Jerry Springer: The Opera' has come an equally controversial and thought provoking production: "Anna Nicole."
WEEKEND | High street burger skips high street prices
A block and a half away from Louis’ Lunch, the birthplace of the original hamburger, a new burger joint opened last fall after the decline of Liberry at 45 High St.
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