Ever since the Smashing Pumpkins broke up in 2000, the memory of the iconic '90s band has been reissued through greatest-hits collections and tribute albums.
Ang Lee has gone with "Brokeback Mountain" where no major filmmaker has dared.Homosexuality has become a topic of increasing social concern in the last few years, but aside from Gus Van Sant's "My Own Private Idaho," it has largely been ignored.The key to "Brokeback Mountain's" success is that it addresses social issues discretely, with its eyes tilted towards its boots.Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger of "A Knight's Tale") and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal of "Donnie Darko") are assigned to tend to a flock of sheep on Brokeback Mountain over the course of a summer in 1963.
The Strokes' third album, "First Impressions of Earth," is an album heavy on concept and light on lyrics."Impressions," a follow up to the 2003 album "Room on Fire," imagines someone in outer space discovering Earth for the first time and documenting what they see.Listening to The Strokes, one can see a band struggling to remain relevant in the face of continual pressure from critics and music snobs.The lack of a strong single is one of the detrimental elements.
The hiring of Turner Gill as UB's head football coach should prove beneficial in bringing a winning era to the school's stunted football program.
After several months and a national search for candidates, the SUNY Board of Trustees named John Ryan the new permanent SUNY chancellor on Dec.
Now that PJ Bottoms is closed for good, and Molly's Pub faces an emergency suspension of its liquor license, I think it is time we all took a deep, cathartic breath and admit that the legal drinking age of 21 is a stupid, impractical law.I, for one, can no longer stand to hear the self-righteous sound bites from university administrators and local police who pretend that shutting down a place like PJ Bottoms has somehow served the greater good.One less bar on Main Street, even if it was infamous for its underage crowd, will not stop freshmen from flocking to get drunk.
In response to "Religion can go to hell" by Ken Ilgunas (Dec. 7): I understand that you were most likely writing this article out of anger for those who have misused their faith in inappropriate judgment.
Even a Student Union abuzz with a mechanical bull and hot chocolate to boost the ears, stomach and eyes cannot disguise returning to school on a dreary day in the middle of January.
Officers responding to a complaint of a loud party in a downtown motel arrested a UB teaching assistant on charges on possessing cocaine with the intent to sell in the early hours of Jan.
After many months of hard work, the Gender Institute will be showcasing a variety of films at this year's 10th annual Women's Film Festival, which are created and directed by women filmmakers from all over the globe.The festival will take place from January 19 to March 2 at the Market Arcade Film and Arts Centre, beginning at 7 p.m.Barbara Bono, co-director of the Gender Institute and associate professor of English, stated that the importance and purpose of the festival is to help the U.S population understand more about the experiences of women around the globe.The film festival, which filmmakers and members of the Gender Institute work vigorously towards each year, first began during the days of the Chippewa revival and has flourished to a yearly event,According to Andrea Spain, the graduate assistant to the Gender Institute, it is very difficult to get all of the films to be showcased at this event due to participation from large U.S movie distributors."I've been involved in the ground up process of the festival and what most people don't know is that these films are very difficult to find to be shown in the U.S.
As hundreds of onlookers stood in the beautifully renovated Hallwalls building for its grand opening Saturday night, it was a comfort to know that this architectural relic was saved from becoming a parking lot, salvaged by one of Buffalo's few but foremost celebrities.Renowned singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco reportedly invested $2.7 million of her own money in a $10 million project towards renovating the 1871 Asbury Delaware Methodist Church on the corner of Delaware and Tupper Streets that was originally supposed to be torn down.The old church will now be used by DiFranco's record label Righteous Babe Records and will also be a multi-faceted haven for the Buffalo arts community.
It's not often that university administrators like UB President John Simpson get big surprises in their schedules.
PJ Bottoms and Molly's Pub, two local bars notorious for underage drinking, were shut down over winter break after a Dec.
Who can take a sunrise, sprinkle it in dew? Cover it in chocolate and a miracle or two?Well, Willy Wonka may make everything he bakes satisfying and delicious, but now even he is getting a run for his money.It looks as if it could be a salon, a spa, or a women's boutique, but Butterwood is none of those things.
A long awaited code of conduct for faculty members took the next big step towards fruition on Wednesday, as the Faculty Senate Executive Committee reviewed a first draft of the document, which will set standards for teacher-student relationships and define a university mission for all professors.The Faculty Senate also amended UB's academic dishonesty policy, allowing accused students to now seek advisement from outside the UB community.The latter part of the meeting was spent reading and discussing the newly developed Faculty Code of Conduct.
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