Arts & Review Articles

Worth Idol-izing

Community and music from the Pedro Arrupe group

By Pat Irish / Outreach Coordinator
Forget about Paula Abdul, Randy Jackson, Simon Cowell, and the peppy Ryan Seacrest. "Arrupe Idol" was much better without them. Hosted by the Pedro Arrupe Service Trip group, the Friday evening showcase was full of original songs and some covers performed by members of the Aruppe group, their friends, and supporters in McGuinn 121.

Fleabag falls short of prior performances

By Lloyd Liu / Heights Senior Staff
First, the bad. Devlin 008, with its enormous 300-plus person capacity, was not particularly friendly Friday night for the main fall semester My Mother's Fleabag show. The room's neutering lights exposed everything and absolutely killed the focus and attention span of the crowd.

Artsfest auditions underway

By Alex Sharp / Heights Senior Staff
While Artsfest, and spring, might still be months away, the annual arts event is already being planned. Auditions for "Musicians Among Us" will be held tomorrow from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., before a panel of judges.

Groups try to make a perfect circle

By Meg Beste / Heights Senior Staff
On Thursday night four groups of Boston College a capella singers gathered to give a performance to benefit the Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Institute (KPTI) at the New England Medical Center and Camp Sunshine, a camp in Maine where children with life-threatening illnesses and their families can go for a weekend and stay for free.

Old meets new in a magnificent Magnificat

By April L. Rondeau
The University Chorale filled Trinity Chapel on Newton Campus with the sounds of two different settings of the Catholic Magnificat on Friday night. The performance, dedicated to the late Rev. J. Robert Barth, S.J., featured arrangements by John Rutter and Antonio Vivaldi.

Now Playing on Stephen DeMarco's iPod

By April L. Rondeau
Man Behind the Music Stephen DeMarco, CSOM '09, is new to the Boston College community, but he's caught on fast. This freshman says, "Jesuit ideals are an important part of a good education, a well-rounded one." That's what originally drew this New Jersey native to BC, along with its prime location next to Boston.

Movie Review: Aniston and Owen are moving in the right direction

By Patrick Condon
4 Stars Derailed Dir. by Mikael Hafstrom (The Weinstein Company) Clive Owen and Jennifer Aniston keep Derailed on track. The spine tingling suspense thriller, directed by Mikael Hafstrom, is an unexpected relief from the recent Hollywood trends of weakly manufactured sequels and remakes of classics.

Movie review: The next generation of Jumanji on screen

By Chris Hewitt of Knight Ridder Newspapers
3 Stars Zathura Dir. by Jon Favreau (Columbia Pictures) Think of Zathura as Jumanji, except good. The movie is deceptively simple, an adventure in which two rambunctious brothers play a board game that keeps doing strange things (like transporting their house into space and then destroying half of it).

Column: Not your average bad boy

By Gregory White
This week marks the release of one of the most reported on albums of the year, but it's not someone you may have heard of. Pete Doherty, lead singer of the band Babyshambles and accessory to model Kate Moss' latest indiscretions, releases his new band's first album this week.