Jordan Ecarma Editor-in-Chief The next hopeful TV hit Smash is set to debut Feb. 6 following the Superbowl, and it could pull NBC out of fourth place in the lineup of major networks. While Smash should please its most obvious audience, the solid Glee fan base, the Steven Spielberg-produced venture could turn out to be [...]
Jessicah Peters Contributing Writer Being on a budget and staying on that budget is a difficult process for anyone, but giving a Major League Baseball general manager a low budget and telling him to beat the Yankees’ billion dollar franchise is nearly impossible. Oakland Athletics’ GM Billy Beane turned the unlucky odds and low-budgeted season [...]
Kristen Pierce Contributing Writer A show with a real Prince Charming Who could not be a fan? ABC’s Once Upon a Time is a combination of fantasy and drama bundled together and thrown into the present day. This concoction is what has the masses of this decade swarming to the midnight showings of movies like [...]
Jordan Ecarma Editor-in-Chief In Time is set in a world where, like the Poor Richard saying, time is money. Only literally. Written and directed by Andrew Niccol, the dystopian thriller begins on a novel concept: Time to live has become the currency. People are genetically engineered to stop aging, but when they reach 25, [...]
Kayla Rease Assistant Editor Cold weather has arrived with a bang.. With the beginning of this new season, a shopping trip for the latest fall and winter fashions is a must, but it isn’t always easy. Keeping the dress code in mind, I’m here to offer some stylish tips. 1. Mustard and Navy: The dynamic [...]
Jordan Ecarma Editor-in-Chief Like Crazy explores an age-old theme: love and the obstacles that stand in our way of finding and keeping it. While the Sundance Film Festival favorite breaks no new ground, its spare, intimate style is a relatable and refreshing change from the usual romance movie. Jacob (Anton Yelchin) and Anna (Felicity Jones) [...]
Emily Bain Visual Arts Editor There are books that should be consumed like a nice slice of chocolate cake in one delicious sitting, then there are others which should be savored as a box of chocolates and the leftovers tossed in the fridge for later consumption. At 224 pages, Stories for Nighttime and Some for [...]
Allie Outhouse Staff Writer Courageous ranked number four at the box office with its Sep. 30 release. In one month, the film made roughly 12 times its cost, an estimated budget of $2 million. Courageous stars Alex Kendrick (co-producer of Flywheel, Facing the Giants, and Fireproof) as Adam Mitchell, Ken Bevel (Fireproof) as Nathan Hayes, [...]
Jed Stevens Contributing Writer With the release of “Vice Verses,” California-based powerhouse Switchfoot proves they are still strong after 15 years. The album, released Sep. 23, is the band’s eighth full-length record. The band gained popularity with 2003’s The Beautiful Letdown, but has been constantly evolving since. Now, two years after Hello Hurricane, the band [...]
Anthony Reese News & Features Editor If there’s one thing Steven Spielberg is good at, it’s his ability to create an entirely new world. Along with popular producers Peter Chernin, Rene Echevarria and Brannon Braga among many others, Spielberg introduces the new sci-fi drama Terra Nova that everyone has been talking about. Beginning in the [...]
Kayla Rease Assistant Editor Watch out, Glee. There’s a “New Girl” in town and her name is Jess Day. Day, a likeable, quirky teacher in her late-20’s is the lead character in Fox’s brand new sitcom, New Girl. New Girl premiered on Tuesday, Sep. 20, bringing in an impressive 10.2 million viewers. Most of New [...]
Erin Chandler Opinions Editor “Always a trophy; never a wife.” That’s how NBC tags the star of its fresh new comedy Whitney. The sitcom follows the lives of Whitney (Whitney Cummings) and her boyfriend Alex (Chris D’Elia) as they face ripples in their relationship and deal with Whitney’s ever-quirky personality. Surrounding them are Lily (Zoe [...]
Emily Bain Visual Arts Editor What drives CBS’s new fall drama Unforgettable is not the plot, but the character interaction and reaction. Carrie Wells (Poppy Montgomery) is a former Syracuse detective who suffers from hyperthymesia, a condition where she is unable to forget anything she has experienced, which is seemingly perfect for her job. As [...]
Jordan Ecarma Editor-in-Chief Pan Am’s 1960s setting immediately labels it a rival for the attention of the Mad Men audience. Calling it a contender against AMC’s hit, however, is giving Pan Am entirely too much credit. The show, a period drama about the pilots and flight attendants of Pan American World Airways at its height, [...]
Meaghan Wilkie Copy Editor Tim Allen hits television again on ABC’s new comedy Last Man Standing. Allen (Mike) is living in a home of all women; his wife and three daughters, along with his grandson. Mike Baxter gets “grounded” to working on a website design for his outdoor sporting goods shop instead of jetting off [...]
Jenna Ecarma Contributing Writer The action-packed Abduction, starring Taylor Lautner (best known as Jacob Black of The Twilight Saga), consists of blowing things up, fighting to the death, running for your life and figuring out who you really are. Newcomer Lily Collins (The Blind Side) stars as Lautner’s love interest. The romance between these two [...]
Jordan Ecarma Editor-in-Chief One Prince Charming used to be enough. That was before Bella agonized between Edward and Jacob in possibly the most divisive love triangle of all time—when it comes to teenage girls. Stephenie Meyer struck a chord with the female young adult demographic with Bella’s impossible choice between a vampire and a werewolf. [...]
Jessie Shumpert Staff Writer After The Great Divorce premiered on the North Greenville University theatre stage, many students became excited and curious about the upcoming plays. This year North Greenville University’s theatre department is really trying to mix up the genres involving its theatre productions. So far it has had drama, The Great Divorce, under [...]
Jordan Ecarma Editor-in-Chief Local singer-songwriters Elizabeth Wood and Emily Marshall will be playing at Grille 33 in downtown Greenville on Sep. 24. Their set begins at 7:30 p.m. and includes both some of the old and the new in acoustic arrangements. A love of music comes naturally to Wood, an NGU alumna with a B.A. [...]
John Kelly Staff Writer “That’s a toilet you’re puttin’ arms on!” is probably the last thing a North Greenville University student would expect to hear yelled in Turner Chapel. Then again, the unexpected seems to be the norm for members of Raising the Random, NGU’s improvisational theatre group. Raising the Random consists of nine performers, [...]