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A’s and E’s This Week on Campus

By Bendik Sorensen A&E Editor Feb. 4 Media Arts presents Lunchtime Lecture Series Panel discussion about sports, magazine and broadcast journalism. The discussion is held in Humanities Hall room 109 at 12:30 p.m. Free lunch is served. All journalism majors are required to attend, and all other media students are…

A Tribute to David Bowie

By Bryan Stengel Contributing Writer Two days after releasing his final album, legendary rock persona David Bowie passed away at the age of 69 after an on-going battle with liver cancer. His music never spoke for itself. Bowie needed to be the voice for his own tune and the face…

Pieces

By Randall Taylor Contributing Writer Love, happiness, sadness, peacefulness, contempt, anger, rage, kindness, determination. They are all pieces. Pieces of us. But are the pieces always meant to fit? My love has always made you a piece of me as yours has always made me a piece of you. Our…

Arts in Brief

By Bendik Sorensen A&E Editor Jan. 29: TAO: Seventeen Samurai, a combo of athletics and performance arts, takes place in the Tilles Center at 10:30 a.m. Tickets available at Tilles Box Office and Ticketmaster. Jan. 29-31: Virgil J. Lee New Play Festival, staged readings of two new plays in development will…

Three Things You Must Do This Spring

By Bendik Sorensen A&E Editor See Black Sabbath for the last time Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler are roaming through the states one last time, and they’ll stop by Madison Square Garden. They are getting awfully close to a 50-year career (48 this year), but because of health…

Stray Shadows’ Cinematic Songwriting

By Pete Barell Editor-at-Large Local band Stray Shadows will be playing two shows as part of Gorilla Music’s Jingle Bell Rock Festival. The band, which includes junior film major Mike Themistocleos on guitar and vocals, is to appear on the evening of Friday, Dec. 19 at The Nail in Ardmore,…

(un)still: LIU Post Photography Exhibition

By Melanie Spina A&E Assistant Last week, LIU Post’s photo department held a photography exhibition named “(un)still”. The exhibition took place in the Sculpture Building from Dec. 1- 5, with a reception on the Dec. 2. It presented 14 artists, where each of them exhibited two of their photos. Photography…

“The Flash’s” Universe Expands

By Thomas Gillen Staff Writer The television show “The Flash” premiered in October of 2014 and is a spin-off of fellow CW show “Arrow,” starring the Green Arrow. The show follows the adventures of superhero Barry Allen, a.k.a. the Flash, and is based on the DC Comics character. In “The…