There is a stigma which seems to reside primarily among young people that classical music can be stiff and unapproachable. Last Thursday night, there were definitely coattails, high heels and compositions from over 200 years ago. Read more...

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“Hard Candy” Directed by David Slade Lions Gate Films In the age of MySpace, Facebook and instant messaging, the online predator has replaced the friendly stranger with candy at the local park as the scourge of every parent’s nightmares. Read more...

Though she currently resides in Los Angeles, Esther Baker-Tarpaga is hardly here to stay. Baker-Tarpaga, a third-year graduate student in dance, splits her time between Africa, the U.S. Read more...

When trying to characterize her dance style, Maria Gillespie, choreographer and artistic director for the Oni Dance company and dance instructor in the world arts and culture department, said, “I couldn’t say it in one word.” To an outsider, modern and postmodern dancers may seem to use an incomprehensible language. Read more...

If one were to scan the titles of movies opening this Friday, that person would find a group of adjectives appealing to a somewhat degenerate nature: scary, wild (admittedly used as a noun in the movie’s name), hard, notorious, kinky. Read more...

Famed comedian Jack Benny was known for his notoriously self-deprecating humor. It’s appropriate, then, that a recipient of an award named after Benny might resort to similar strategies. Read more...