Arts & Review Articles

'Kay Punku' bears witness to Peruvian women

By Christina Lepri / Online Editor
The Center for Human Rights and International Justice hosted the Peruvian theater troupe Groupo Cultural Yuyachkani in Gasson Hall this Thursday for a special performance of a piece titled Kay Punku, which used theatrical elements to tell the story of sexual violence incurred against the Manta women of Peru, and the process of healing they undertook in the aftermath thereof. The history of the Manta women is a sadly familiar tale in its historical parallels of using women's bodies as "a battlefield," as one line from the show stated. The continued presence of armed insurgents from the Communist Party of Peru-Shining Path in areas of Peru since the 1980s has brought the Peruvian counterinsurgency army into these emergency zones.

Free film screening of 'The Express'

By Joseph Neese / Arts & Review Editor
Arts & Review, in conjunction with Allied Advertising, will be giving away free tickets to an advance screening of The Express. The film, which stars Dennis Quaid, chronicles the tale of Ernie Davis - the first African-American to win college football's Heisman Trophy.

Death Cab will play you to vote

By David Smail
On Nov. 4, our nation will decide who will become the next president of the United States. With all the attention the election has been receiving in the media, many people already have staunch opinions on which candidate they will or will not be voting for.

Harry Potter takes it all off

By Christina Lepri / Online Editor
Some things are worth $137. A nice TV. A great pair of boots. A dinner at Lower. The ultimate question: Is seeing Harry Potter naked worth it? Last weekend, the first Broadway revival of the Tony Award-winning play Equus opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on 44th Street in New York.

Fall in love with Kat Dennings and Michael Cera

By Michelle Kaczmarek / Assistant Features Editor
As a teen comedy with romantic leanings, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist doesn't try too hard, but it doesn't have to. Lacking any lofty aspirations, Pete Sollett's movie actually delivers what is needed in a plot centering around one sleepless night in New York City.

Greg Kinnear's superb acting is a 'Flash of Genius'

By Blair Thill / Associate Arts & Review E
Every fall movie season, there is at least one film that aims to inspire movie-goers to think the impossible is possible. These types of movies hearken the age-old, David-versus-Goliath story, portraying a small-time protagonist pitted against an evil and all-powerful antagonist.

'How to Lose' an audience

By Laura Pertuy
Based on the book by British writer and former journalist Toby Young, is How To Lose Friends and Alienate People on the track to be this fall's tongue-in-cheek comedy? The answer is no. Some blunders in tone and too cautious choices prevent it from reaching that goal.

Heroine Chic: Bushnell's 'New York State of Mind'

By Kristen Varraveto
The best writers write what they know - and Candace Bushnell knows New York City. Best known as the author of Sex and the City, which was turned into the hit TV show of the same name, Bushnell has proven that no one writes about New York City like she does.

iProf: Eric Strauss

By Will Watkins
Now playing on Professor Strauss' iPod: Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield Ventura Highway - America Running on Empty - Jackson Brown Lowdown - Chicago Statesboro Blues - Allman Brothers Can't Let Go - Lucinda Williams Anywhere Like Heaven - James Taylor Rikki Don't Lose That Number - Steely Dan Tambourine Man - Bob Dylan Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits The man behind the music: Anybody who takes professor Eric Strauss' ecology class knows from his habit of playing music before each lecture that he is a music aficionado.