Arts & Review Articles

McCarthy's storytelling triumphs on screen

By Joseph Neese / Arts & Review Editor
On an unusually warm April Wednesday, the doors of the posh theater district Ritz-Carlton were opened for me, and I was ushered upstairs to the ballroom area. There was a full assortment of beverages and foods in the waiting room where I would wait to interview the recipient of the sixth annual Arts Council Award for Distinguished Achievement - alumnus Tom McCarthy, BC '88 - who was in town to publicize his sophomore film, The Visitor, a stirring take on immigration in the context of a post-Sept.

Emerging from a conference room full of reporters, McCarthy, clad in glasses and a blazer, opted to change scenery and sit next to me in the empty reception. With his now-full resume, it's hard to point a finger at exactly where McCarthy's career began.

Dramatics Society says 'No' to campus prejudice

By Joseph Neese / Arts & Review Editor
This weekend, the Dramatics Society of Boston College presented the final production of its season, the provocatively titled No Niggers, No Jews, No Dogs, set against the backdrop of a small North Carolina town. In the play written by John Henry Redwood, a Jewish man named Yaveni (the delightful Nicholas Hanovice, A&S '10) has come to Halifax in 1949 to do research for a book of his that will be a comparative study of racism on the plight of the Jewish man to that of the black man.

Dynamics poke fun at MTV, win hearts

By Kaitlin Meehan
Enthusiasm is what defines a good a cappella concert, and on Saturday night, the Dynamics proved able to deliver just that. Despite a change in the time of the show made to accommodate the Talib Kweli concert also that night, the Dynamics' Spring Cafe filled every seat in the McGuinn 121 lecture hall.

The perfect prom becomes the perfect nightmare

By Blair Thill / Associate Arts & Review E
It is supposed to be the night of every high school student's dreams. Girls trounce about every mall in town in search of the perfect rhinestone-encrusted dress. Boys enlist their mothers to take them to the florist and pick out the perfect matching fuchsia-colored corsage.

Editor's Corner: Early morning delight with Ticketmaster

By Jeffrey Wallace / Assistant Arts & Review Editor
Maybe it's a bit obsessive, or maybe I am just a fan. It's Friday morning, seconds before 10 a.m., and I find myself sitting in front of a computer, frantically hitting the refresh button. In my search for the perfect seats, my computer quietly puts up with unwarranted verbal abuse, mainly aimed in the direction of the evil empire, Ticketmaster.

'Kings' without street smarts

By Stuart Pike / Heights Senior Staff
The good news: Despite obvious similarities, Street Kings is not Training Day 2.0. The bad news: Street Kings is nowhere near as good as Training Day. While each features cops gone wild amid rampant corruption, drugs, and bullets, a key ingredient is missing this time around: intelligence.

Roving Reader: 'The Hot Zone': A contagious read worth catching

By Tula Batanchiev / Features Editor
How many of you live in Virginia? How many of you have ever visited Virginia? As college students, most of us at least know one person from Virginia, more specifically the area around Washington, D.C. The question, however, is whether or not you know that the Ebola virus was discovered in imported monkeys in Reston, Va.