This evening, the Cleveland Cinematheque on East Boulevard will be hosting a tribute to Buster Keaton and Scott Joplin, two of the 20th century's most respected film and musical talents. The event will consist of three 20-minute long films, accompanied by the musical innovations of pianist Shuai Bertalam-Wang, a doctoral student at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
Take a second and imagine Albert Einstein in 1904, a year before he publishes his special theory of relativity, meeting Pablo Picasso at a bar called the Lapin Agile in Montmartre, Paris. In Steve Martin's play, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, this unlikely yet spectacular meeting takes place.
Making it to graduation successfully, with a job offer or graduate school scholarship requires superhuman powers. It is no secret that it's a cutthroat world outside of your dorm room. Some drown their stresses with borderline alcoholism; others push their bodies to the limit with viral workaholism.
Bruce Springsteen may have turned 60 years old less than two months ago, but as soon as he and his "mighty" E-Street Band launched into a performance of the entire Born to Run album last Tuesday night at the Quicken Loans Arena, the reckless, romantic, eighteen-year-old spirit that drove the seminal record into the hearts of millions took hold and did not let up.
It's that time of the year where we are all ready to go home for Thanksgiving, wish the assignments and tests would just stop, and need to register for spring classes. Hopefully, you've already mapped out which classes you want to take next semester and met with your advisor to lift the hold on SIS.
For nearly half a decade, a genre-breaking group of musicians in Cleveland has been brewing its own blend of metal and pop. Having opened for bands like Chimera and Symphony X, Omerta's lead musician Joey Ariemma describes his sort of music as, "Pantera meets Third Eye Blind.
Edgewater Lights will open for All the Day Holiday this week, Wednesday Nov. 18 at the Spot. You may have seen Edgewater Lights playing at The Jolly Scholar, particularly when they were all dressed up for the Jolly Scholar Halloween Show. Johnny Milligan, Emma Sleva, Joe Timpona, James Heckler, and Garrett Humphrey are all undergraduate students, so chances are you've at least seen part of the band somewhere around campus.
As a man, Curtis Jackson III, better known as rapper 50 Cent, deserves nothing but respect. In March of 2000, living a life built on hustling drugs and rapping, Jackson was stabbed so fiercely that it collapsed his lung, only to be shot nine times two months later, putting him in the hospital for weeks.
Girls are responsible about sex, if not for any reason other than the pressing worry of having babies. We pay $40,000 a year to be here too, and aren't going to leave because we happen to have a libido, so we will deal with paying for and using a variety of birth control methods.