I have a secret obsession with ballet. I watch a lot of documentaries and movies like “Center Stage” far too often. Because of this, I was thrilled when I heard that the Russian National Ballet was coming to The Grand Opera House with Prokofiev’s “Cinderella”. Reading the program notes, I ...
Located at 994 Maple Street, the Bro’s Den has everything Mercer students Vince Cooley, Evan Manning and Matt Huston (and Maconites Kevin Mosby and Mitchel Wachtel) could possibly want out of a house. “We chose that location because it was a large house and we have plenty of space,” Cooley said. ...
Anyone who has ever seen a play performance at Mercer knows about the Backdoor Theatre. In the basement of Willingham, a 67 seat black box theatre is the only performance space students in the theatre department have. It has roaches, mold and it floods so often that Scot Mann makes that a joke in his ...
E.L. James, author of the best-selling “Fifty Shades of Grey” trilogy, is writing a new book called “Fifty Shades of Grey: Inner Goddess (A Journal)”. The book will be a writing guide for new writers as well as an instructional guide on how to find your “inner goddess.” Though the book isn’t ...
Disney is kind of my life. I’m fully aware that as a 21-year-old woman this should not be true anymore, but hey. I worked there for nine months, so I think I’m allowed. I follow Disney news pretty religiously, and because of that, I saw that the princesses were getting a redesign (or an update on ...
February poses two problems for most college students - Valentine’s Day and a lack of money. For crafters with someone to celebrate the holiday with, its nice to have a cheap, if not, free alternative to the typical Valentine’s gifts. Personally, I’m a fan of baked goods. Baking is tough in a ...
Like just about every other NFL fan this year, I was disappointed by the Super Bowl. The two best teams lost in fluke games, so the teams that actually played were mediocre at best—not to mention controversial (my favorite quote of the night was “I hope someone checks around Ray Lewis after the ...
Sometimes, the musicals that I enjoy most are not widely loved. I love them for their original Broadway casts or the music, and they get slammed for their plot and scene design. Or the musical wins Tony awards but isn’t successful at the box office. “Catch Me If You Can” is one of those musicals, ...
It takes a special “rom com” to be my jam, and I mainly like that kind of film if it has elements that are atypical of the genre of romantic comedies. “Silver Linings Playbook” was, without a doubt, one of these films. Yes, there was love, but there was also mental illness, hospital breakouts, ...
Mercer Opera recently produced Seymour Barab’s opera, “The Toy Shop.” It is a one-act opera aimed at children, so all of the words are in English and the subject matter is a little more toned down than what typical opera-goers are used to. As I sat in the audience, this was evident before the ...
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