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Brittany Yap, editor
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Aloha Rosie's and audience hit
“Howdy y’all!” Is what you
will hear on a typical night at Rosie’s Place. Aloha
Rosie’s, a country version of Cheers, a musical written
by the husband and wife team Norm Boroughs and Joyce Maltby.
The play, HPU’s first theatre production of the school
year, is set in present day west Texas. [More]
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Becky Maltby and Ethan Okura
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Sweden's
Sabaton
Heavy metal has long been considered the music of choice for
sleeveless mullet-wearing car mechanics from the countryside.
In a time of commercialized hip hop, the hillbilly label declined,
but today it is seeing a revival. [More] |
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Jarhead: Not Full Metal Jacket
If you were searching for “real” insight
into Desert Storm, or some profound statement about the enemy,
Iraq, or the government, from a soldier’s point-of-view,
you are in the wrong theatre. Jarhead is a personal story about
how tedious the life of a marine can be. [More]
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Brosnan a seedy assassin
in Matador
An assassin and a salesman meet in a bar in Mexico
City. Sounds like the beginning to a bad joke, right? In the
movie Matador this exact situation occurs, and it’s just
the beginning of the laughter. [More]
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Russian music, American
singers, and a Japanese conductor: Symphony brings Russia
to life
“Russia does not get conquered easily,” said
Alexander Nevsky, Russian prince and hero, in the movie of
the same name. This statement is true not only in historical
context. Russia can’t be conquered without a fight
even musically. The music of Russian composers is considered
some of the most difficult to perform. [More]
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Margaret Latiimore
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Fall of Fujimore -
dictator's path
Directed by Ellen Perry, the film The Fall
of Fujimore is an intimate, character-driven documentary
about the former leader of Peru, Alberto Fujimore. Under
suspicion for murder, corruption, and kidnapping in 2000,
Fujimore fled in exile to his homeland, Japan. Perry’s
film was made earlier in 2005. On Nov. 7, he was caught in
Chile on a tourist visa. Peruvian officials are preparing
a formal extradition request so he can be tried in Peru rather
than Chile. [More]
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