Arts & Review Articles

The BC community selects its top dog

By Heather McIlvaine
They walk around campus every day, their talents cleverly concealed, their formal wear put away in the back of the closet, Supermen masquerading as Clark Kents - they are the contestants for Mr. BC. The fifth annual competition took place in the Rat on Thursday, March 29, entertaining a packed room from 7 to 9:30 p.m.

'After the End,' stirring

By Christina Lepri
Theater can do a lot of things people. It can open up their minds to new ideas, make them re-examine their views of society and the individual, and bring uncomfortable truths to light. It can also seriously creep them out. The Contemporary Theater's spring show, After the End, did all of these things and more.

ELP raises money with 'Idol' worshipping

By Maria Lagorio
It's 7:30 p.m., and as the facilitators usher in the music-craving crowds, nine talented contestants are waiting backstage for their chance to dazzle the audience and become the next BC Idol. As friends and fans alike intermingle in the impromptu VIP hallway, they fuel their engines - ballad-blasting pipes and guitar-picking, piano-playing fingers - with piles of donated pizza and soda.

Hollywood on the Heights

By Marc Cubelli
As students were filing up to the second floor of Corcoran Commons to attend the third-annual Baldwin Awards, the night was showing infinite promise. A red carpet stretched out the front door of the dining hall, accentuated by two footlights that pierced the sky ( surely mystifying to drunken Boston College students miles away).

Moving, magical fiction

By Matthew Keeley
Susanna Clarke's last book, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, runs over 1,000 pages in paperback. It's written in an imitation 19th-century style and moves at an extremely slow, though not boring, pace. The novel is compelling enough to finish, but the reader has to take it slowly.

Carving up some laughs with 'Blades of Glory'

By James Fagan
Blades of Glory effectively uses a mixture of absurd farce and subtle comic timing. It also adds just a dash of inspirational athletic triumph, love story calamity, conquest, and a plotline that dares to be simple yet refreshingly … well, existent. This is more than can be said for the recent Ferrell box office smash, Laughing all the way to the Bank (US Release Title: Talladega Nights: the Legend of Ricky Bobby).

Editor's Corner: American Idle

By Joseph Neese / Arts & Review Editor
In the words of the jazz standard, the sixth season of American Idol has left me not "bewitched" but rather "bothered and bewildered." Following this week's show, I called my friend and Idol confidant Linda Young to reflect on it. It's good to know that I'm not alone.

Dynamo Dynamics

By Blair Thill
Everyone knows about the Acoustics and the Bostonians, Boston College's most prestigious a cappella groups. There is a newer, younger group on this campus, however, that deserves just as much buzz as the others - the Dynamics.