Posts published in “Voice”

In August Wilson’s Tony and Pulitzer award winning play, “Fences,” running at The Hartman Center this weekend, an African-American family deals with the effects racism can have on the relationships between one another.  The story unfolds with Troy and Bono, played by sophomores Kofi Jones…

Every day as I walk to class, I immediately turn my iPod on and start shuffling through my songs. Depending on my mood, I might skip over one or two, other times one hundred, until I can find the right beat for the walk.  I…

The last few weeks of television have been relatively void of new programming, but with the Olympics ending, networks have to come back from their games-induced coma in hopes of revitalizing hypnotized viewers from the Olympic-funk. NBC gave its coveted post-closing ceremony spot to a…

The newest iteration of “Alice In Wonderland” was made by a focus group that had to decide how to make a film that would perfectly not appeal to me. It’s based on a book I love. Wait, no it’s not. This version of “Alice in…

Martin Scorsese’s “Shutter Island” plays like a lesser episode of “The Twilight Zone,” prolonged to a bloated running time that tests audience endurance for dusty cliches and obvious red herrings. The script follows U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) as he wades endlessly through alternate…

While recent high-class directors such as M. Night Shyamalan and Micheal Bay have made a name for themselves by crafting masterpieces such as “The Sixth Sense” and “The Island,” they have also been behind some of the more recent critical flops such as “The Happening”…

Tyra Banks has won the world over with her limitless ambition and her inability to do anything constructive with it. This is the woman who once recorded a single with Kobe Bryant. This is the woman who appeared in “Halloween Resurrection.” This is the woman…

Quick, how do you feel about comedian Sarah Silverman? There are three responses to that question.  They are “Who?,” “I hate her” and “She’s awesome.”  These are the only acceptable answers and I can guarantee no one possibly feels differently. Sarah Silverman was previously the…

The Olympics may overtake the networks of NBC for more than two weeks and force other networks into rerun central, but there’s nothing better to watch than the intense events the games bring with them. It doesn’t matter what else is on TV, though. Whatever…