Zooey Deschanel is one of oday’s most-beloved up-and-coming actresses, having starred in well-known films such as “Elf,” “Yes Man,” “(500) Days of Summer” and “Our Idiot Brother.” She is an extremely talented actress from a showbiz family. It’s rare that a star as talented as…
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Services like Netflix and YouTube have made the most recent films readily available to anyone. Can we find anything of value in the muck of b-movies, ambitious failures and exploitative crap-fests? We’re going to find out in Dispatches from Instant View Purgatory. What’re we watching:…
Stop the insanity. Super conferences benefit no one. Not the new members, not the current ones, not the players and certainly not the fans. The concept will ruin college athletics, as we know it. Traditions are being cast aside for the promise of a little…
Culture doesn’t just appear; it’s birthed, often painfully after hours, days, weeks of labor. It takes focus, dedication and practice. Personally, I love seeing the sausage get made. I’m obsessed with how TV, music and film are created. Going into the first full dress rehearsal…
After dropping the first two sets against Southern Illinois Saturday, the volleyball team rallied back for a five-set victory and its first conference win of the season. “We settled down, we battled, and we were able to show what we are capable of,” coach Jenny…
Greek Night BU, the first Late Night BU piloted by Bradley’s greek community, was aimed at curbing parties following bid day, known as “Blackout Monday.” While students were split on whether the event worked to diffuse parties, greek and non-greek students alike agreed that Greek…
Watching the Republican Presidential Debate last week, I was reminded of an opinion piece by former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw in The New York Times: “In 1992 someone asked me how I would change the presidential debate format. I proposed handing each of the…
Despite rain and many defeats, the Bradley women’s tennis team opened the 2011 season at home during the Hotels at Grand Prairie Invitational last weekend. While the team’s tournament record of 16-38 may not be something gloat about, many of the team’s freshmen got their…
Hope springs eternal on Bradley’s campus. The volleyball team is 6-3 after a painful couple of seasons, the men’s soccer team is nationally ranked and the women’s basketball team returns nearly every player from last year’s team. But you’re kidding yourself if you think any…
If the aging kings of modern day indie rock are Pavement, then Wilco is their strongest son, a collective of experimental individuals with a vision of what the kingdom is to become. Through seven studio albums of ’70s inspired alt-country and cock rock, Wilco became…