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Charleston has never really been known as a music hub in East-Central Illinois. That honor usually is given to Champaign, with its annual Pygmalion Music Festival. The Broadhead Music Festival is hoping to break any assumptions one might have about the Illinois music scene. (0) comments
His face is red and contorted. His eyes begin to bulge out of his head as sweat pours down his face. Victor Mancini, played by Sam Rockwell ("Confessions of a Dangerous Mind," "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford") is looking for love. (0) comments
The two-hour premiere of "Heroes: Villains" season three starts off with an edge-of-your-seat opener that will hopefully hold out through the season. After watching new characters develop, new secrets of characters revealed and a future that ever changes, who wouldn't want to watch the rest of the season? (0) comments
Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant once again hushed rumors of a reunion tour that British tabloid newspaper, "The Sun," published on Sept. 26. The remainder of the band has been rehearsing with another singer, one they can go on tour with next summer. Every weekend at night before I go out, I like to get myself in a great mood by putting on some loud, live Led Zeppelin. (2) comments
The first known usage of the term "punk rock" was in the Chicago Tribune on March 22, 1970 in an article about a New York band called The Fugs, where lead singer Ed Sanders described his solo material as "punk rock - redneck sentimentality." Punk was not just about making a different style of music for the hell of it, which is a common misunderstanding. (1) comment
During the day at Eastern, students attend classes, play sports and study diligently. When their busy days come to a close, students like sophomore theater and English double major Paul Martin settle down in front of their favorite game console and fire up their favorite games. (1) comment
Tribe After Tribe is a South African alternative rock band that delivers a musical blow that begs you to stand up and change the world. "M.O.A.B. (Mother of All Battles): Stories of Deuteronomy," due out Oct. (1) comment
If you're expecting a usual column reacting to something going on in the wide world of entertainment this week, I'm sorry to say I don't have it for you. This week, I'm suggesting a regression from entertainment. Last Friday was the first presidential debate for the upcoming election next month and on Monday, the $700 billion bailout bill failed, causing the Dow Jones to plummet. (0) comments
Victor Mancini is a sex addict, scam artist, medical school dropout and all around scuzzball. He's slept with nearly every nurse at his mother's extended care facility. Meanwhile, he tells his dying mother a ludicrous string of lies posing as a district attorney who defended her in one of her many brushes with the law. (0) comments
Fans of Nicholas Sparks will be pleasantly surprised with the movie adapted from his book, "Nights in Rodanthe," despite some changes made by screenwriters Ann Peacock and John Romano. After previously playing opposites in films such as "The Cotton Club" and "Unfaithful," Richard Gere and Diane Lane are entertaining to watch with convincing chemistry, while beautiful seascapes add to the movie. (0) comments
There's a picture being painted by Hollywood. Using a wide array of stereotypes, a portrait of the college atmosphere is created for those who can't fill their own canvases. The term "college movies" is stuck to any film that creates an image of what college life might be. (0) comments
Will Marfori was never really into comedy. It wasn't until he was in college that he started to do it for fun on the weekends. He never thought it would ever take him this far. Marfori said that he, like many other comedians, likes to joke about his life. (0) comments
Even if you have passed through the Doudna Fine Arts Center, you have just gotten a taste of what this facility truly means for theater art majors. As I walked through the mirrored halls, I found myself wandering through a backstage set. I was amazed as I stumbled my way onto the set of the first production in Doudna, "Arsenic and Old Lace. (0) comments
State Rep. Chapin Rose, R-Mahomet, will play a deranged man who thinks he is President Theodore Roosevelt in Eastern's production of "Arsenic and Old Lace." The production will be the first-ever theater production at Doudna Fine Arts Center. Rose said the rehearsals have taught him a few things about himself. (4) comments
