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Column: In entertainment industry, sex sells is on the rise

January 26, 2011

Just as I thought the media and entertainment industry couldn’t promote sex anymore than it already does, there are singers like Katy Perry and Enrique Iglesias coming out with a new hit song that revolves around inappropriate sexual references. The way that sex is promoted in songs, and in the entertainment industry in general, seems to be getting more vulgar every year.

Calendar: Jan. 27 – Feb. 2

January 26, 2011

By Emma Shuck, News Staff Entry of the Week: The award-winning, internationally recognized company Bread and Puppet Theater returns for a fifth year to the Boston Center for the Arts. The puppet performances feature a group of Vermont puppeteers on stage, creating a scene...

Oh, the places we go: Shanghai

January 20, 2011

The flights from San Francisco to Tokyo and Shanghai were long; and the triumphant, leg-stretching emergence into non-recycled air was less joyous than it could have been.

TV Review: ABC’s new hospital show fails to meet expectations of ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ fans

January 20, 2011

Last Wednesday ABC premiered its new show “Off the Map,” a doctor drama with a twist: Instead of a hospital, “Off the Map” is set at a tiny clinic in the middle of the South American jungle.

Exhibit Review: Boston Public Library presents poetry

January 20, 2011

Tucked away in the rare books room of the Boston Public Library (BPL) is an exhibit entitled “The Public Life of Poetry: Whitman, Dickinson, Longfellow and Their Contemporaries.” The exhibit, which runs through Jan. 30, highlights the works of several famous American poets.

Getting better all the time: NU & Improv’d

January 20, 2011

There is something viscerally funny about a performer sacrificing his or her body for the good of a joke. Like Chris Farley crashing through a table on SNL, Joel Marsh, a junior cinemas studies major, was completely committed.

Column: A bright opportunity

January 20, 2011

We all have them: Those long-forgotten bands we once listened to in high school when we were convinced they were the coolest thing ever. A song comes on shuffle and you think, “Oh man does this bring back memories … I haven’t listened to them in ages.”

Calendar: Jan. 20 – 26

January 20, 2011

Entry of the Week Jerry Remy’s Sports Bar and Grill will host the first taping of a new sports and comedy show, called The Beer 30 Show, in front of a live audience Monday, Jan. 24.

Column: Political panic erupts over Arizona shooting

January 13, 2011

I didn’t mean to start off spring semester with such a heavy topic, but I couldn’t help it. So most of us have heard about the tragic shooting in Tucson, Ariz., where Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot by Jared Lee Loughner

‘unStandard’ events integrate multiple art scenes

January 13, 2011

The All Asia bar and restaurant wasn’t crowded Tuesday, Jan. 4, but it was certainly lively. Many people were wearing decorated cone-shaped party hats and some had more unique headgear – a fake turkey, a trucker hat with a radio antenna, a handmade Jigglypuff Pokémon hat.

NU Band Spotlight: Red Bellows

January 13, 2011

After spending the past three months recording in the studios in Shillman Hall at Northeastern, Boston-based ambient/progressive rock band Red Bellows plans to release its first album at the end of this month.

Oh, the Places We Go: Barcelona

January 13, 2011

My brown leather shoes are literally worn out, and inappropriate for the New England cold. My hair is overgrown and my body is lined with an extra thin layer of fat from too many “cafés con leche” and “patatas bravas.”