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The history of jazz and its roots run deep in American music history. When big band and swing took over in the 1930s, musicians like William "Count" Basie and Duke Ellington paved the way for jazz as some of the most important musicians, composers and bandleaders from the big band generation.
The sensational "find-a-new-pop-star" talent show, American Idol, created by Simon Fuller, is underway and already on season number nine. I'll admit that the show is uncharacteristic of my tastes, but it has proven to be a wonderful guilty pleasure, and just about the only television show I watch.
The Wolfman, directed by Joe Johnston, was finally released in the U.S. on February 12, 2010, after several delays. A remake of the original 1941 horror flick by the same title, the film follows Lawrence Talbot (Benicio Del Toro) who returns to his home in Blackmoor upon learning of his brother's strange death.
Math the Band, an electro-pop band from Providence, Rhode Island, played to a meager crowd at Hurley's Nightclub on Friday, February 19. While the band played with a tenacity to be reckoned with, they hardly enticed the crowd into exuding little more than slight bobbing of heads and polite applause at the end of each tune.
Echo Drive and the Best of the Worst put on quite a show this past Saturday at Hurley's. Echo Drive opened the set to a swelled Hurley's crowd. Despite being down a trumpeter and saxophonist, Echo Drive proved they still could stir a crowd into what only can be described as a "skanking whirlpool.
Video-gaming is a great replacement for legitimate college work. As someone who half-heartedly endorses that statement, I've chosen a few games for all of you to unhealthily occupy yourselves with this semester. There is a game here for whatever system fancies you.
Mr. Darcy is a zombie, Ophelia is on Facebook, and Romeo and Juliet love Disney's High School Musical. As old becomes new, classic literature has become re-vamped by other authors. This style of parody can be argued to be something that as been mimicked for decades, a notable recreation being the musical West Side Story, a retelling of Romeo and Juliet in 1950's New York City.