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Monday, April 24, 2006
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SMAD makes documentary of MACRoCk
The Mid-Atlantic College Radio Conference (MACRoCk) celebrated its 10th anniversary for two days in April by packing various venues around Harrisonburg with indie rock fans. Realizing its huge success and immense potential, media arts and design professor John Woody had his SMAD 420 advance post-production class create a documentary of the event as a class project. More... |
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Class adds a modern twist to 'Oedipus' By Monica Booker, staff writer Late 19th-century Austria comes to the stage this week as the school of theatre and dance presents ”Oedipus Rex,” a play developed out of professor Tom Arthur’s fall 2005 seminar in Sophocles’s “Oedipus.” The class wrote its own version of the text and then the final piece emerged from a collaboration of the favored scripts. More... The hidden arts Editor Obsession Beth Orton ’s Comfort of Strangers is a delightful mix of pop-rock and folk music. With her Iron and Wine-esque acoustics and unexpected libretto (thanks, Microsoft Word, for your synonym-finder), Orton’s latest album — whose cover, unfortunately, looks like a Thomas Kincade poster — has been the perfect backdrop for this rainy weekend. More...
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