After enduring a long commute back and forth from school, Tommy Dietz, 21, a Rowan University senior and lifelong video game enthusiast, likes to unwind with a nice game of “Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft.” What’s strange about this, however, is that Dietz won’t be playing the game himself, but watching someone else instead.
At the entrance to the “A Judgment of War” art exhibit in the library, a quote by the artist, Jacob Landau (whose selected works have been on display there since April 10) reads: “I am interested in art as advocacy of the human, as revelation of the tragic, as hope of transcendence.”
In a clip posted to YouTube on Tuesday, April 8, Alan Ritchson as his “Blue Mountain State” character Thad Castle announced that his popular television show will be made into a movie using a Kickstarter campaign. (The video posted is a tampered version of Jimmy Kimmel’s interview with Kanye West, but still we get “BMS” back.)
On Friday, April 11, the university’s Student Activities Board (SAB) held their Concert in a Tent event with artist Michael Grubbs, the frontman of indie pop band Wakey!Wakey!.
In an era of increasingly realistic and gritty period dramas, it takes more than just extravagant costumes and timely dialogue to be a success. “Turn,” AMC’s newest show about a cabbage farmer that becomes a spy for the colonists in 1770’s America, will have to learn this lesson the hard way after airing a mediocre series premiere on Sunday, April 6.
April 19 might not mean much to most normal people, but if you’re a passionate and rabid music collector (like me), the date cannot come soon enough. That’s because this Saturday marks the 7th Annual Record Store Day event, an unofficial music holiday where artists and record labels release exclusive products (typically vinyl reissues, singles, and compilations)which are sold exclusively on that day in thousands of independent record stores all around the globe.
Pollak Theatre took a trip back to the 1940s with “In The Mood,” a music revue that is in its 20th anniversary season. Audience members sang along to their favorite hits of the 1940s, complete with period costumes and a full orchestra.
After nine years, 208 episodes, and one great pop culture mystery, we deserved a better ending to “How I Met Your Mother.” The eagerly-anticipated finale that aired last Monday, March 31, was not only shallow, but a slap in the face to the series’ dedicated fan base, who were told by the end of the episode that they had misunderstood the show’s basic premise all along.
“Game of Thrones” returned for its fourth season on Sunday after a year of leaving fans in a state of disbelief and heartbreak from the infamous Red Wedding episode. While the premiere lacked high excitement, it set the audience up for a season that promises to be just as thrilling as its predecessor.
After 40 years, the much acclaimed “Of Mice and Men” novel written by Nobel prize winner, John Steinbeck, has been revived on Broadway at the Longacre Theater.