Over the last several years, Amy Poehler and a wonderfully nuanced comedy cast have made “Parks and Recreation,” a quirky mockumentary about local government in a fictional town, into an under-the-radar hit for NBC. The show, starring Poehler as Leslie Knope, an over-achieving and over-enthusiastic government employee, concluded its sixth season last Thursday, April 24 with a powerhouse episode.
Brooke McCarthy’s voice was pouring into the parking lot of Woods Theatre when I arrived at our interview. She was upstairs finishing a voice lesson before our interview, a hobby that clearly paid off when she won the lead role in the Department of Music and Theatre’s spring production of “Little Shop of Horrors.”
On March 4, 2010, Boston’s own Sammy Adams released his first ever album entitled “Boston’s Boy.” Nobody really knew who he was or where he came from. But he has come a long way collaborating with Mike Posner and Pharrell Williams and will be performing here at the University on Sunday, May 4 at Springfest.
There is a divide in the world of book publishing, and no, we’re not talking about the e-reader debate. Self-publishing is taking the internet by storm, and it has readers divided.
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.