Category: <span>Arts and Entertainment</span>

Wade Manns – The Corsair The Beatles: Rock Band by EA, MTV Games and Harmonix with the cooperation of Apple Corps Genre: Music Players: up to 4 locally or via Xbox LIVE Rating: T for Mild Lyrics, Tobacco Reference The Beatles is one of my favorite bands of all time. That magical combination of four...

Wade Manns – The Corsair “Wet” developed by Artificial Mind and Movement (A2M) published by Bethesda Softworks rating: Mature, for blood and gore, drug reference, intense violence, sexual content, strong language. Wet is a stylized 70s-style third-person action shooter, complete with film grain on the main playing field, filmstrips intruding upon the gameplay and cutscenes,...

Timm Showalter – The Corsair Shinedown fans attending the show this Friday, Oct. 16, at 7:30 p.m. inside the Civic Center might think they have passed through a time warp back to 1985 when they hear Eddie Murphy’s, “Party All the Time.” Have no fear; this is just the precursor to the rockin’ out Las...

Paul Smith – The Corsair “Why not be utterly changed into fire?” asks Aaron Weiss, the lead singer of mewithoutYou, on his band’s fourth studio album, it’s all crazy! it’s all false! it’s all a dream! it’s alright. The question is posed repeatedly at the close to the awesomely epic track, “The King Beetle on...

Paul Smith – The Corsair It was October of last year; PJC student Patrick Hudson sat alone inside the End of the Line Café waiting for his friend, former PJC student Andrew Gartman, to join him. They were to discuss how, together, they would implement Gartman’s idea for creating a local poetry group. Gartman never...

Wade Manns – The Corsair Brutal Legend Produced by Electronic Arts and Double Fine Productions Genre: third person action, real-time strategy Rating: mature (blood, language, suggestive themes) Jack Black is one of the most entertaining and unique actors on the Hollywood scene today; he started work in the comedic band he founded alongside Kyle Gass...

Alyson Webb Published: January 24, 2006 As long as there have been humans, there has been art.  From ancient cave drawings to primitive written language, we have always been trying to connect to each other. Art is one of the best ways of expressing oneself and if you think you don’t like art or don’t...

Melissa Brown Published: December 6, 2006 The faculty of PJC’s Visual Arts department has an exhibition in the Anna Lamar Switzer Center through December 13.  At the exhibition reception, Managing Editor Melissa Brown sat down with several of the faculty artists to discuss the importance of the show and the meaning behind their work.

by Wade Manns Back in 1900, L. Frank Baum released his timeless children’s masterpiece, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Over 100 years, many sequels, and many adaptations later, the 1939 movie version, simply called The Wizard of Oz, is still the most popular rendition of Baum’s classic. In September, that venerable movie celebrated its 70th...