Hot new albums: Improve your life with summer’s best releases
Elizabeth Knowles Contributing Writer The critics have sung accolades for The National’s High Violet and gushed over Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs, but somehow dismissed several summer albums that deserve mention. Sufjan Steven’s All Delighted People is delightfully bewildering. Overly dramatic choruses and discordant plinking noises fill this eight track EP, so like a lot of […]
Can’t you listen to me baby: concert series fosters aural discourse
Nick Bonadies Spectrum Editor Tuesday night saw Richmond concertgoers locking their bikes en masse to a guardrail leading to a church basement. The location, however, was not the night’s biggest departure from Richmond-music-scene protocol. Headline act Tim Barry, formerly of the punk band Avail, admitted himself to being caught off-guard, though you couldn’t tell it […]
Serving the cacophony that is the American people
The Gulf of Mexico is not the only thing that is a mess when it comes to the BP oil spill. The American public’s thoughts are a mess and while they may be for good reason, their confusion should not be taken out on the president who is working to find a solution that not […]
VCU Makes Virginia history with back-to-back draft picks
When NBA Commissioner David Stern announced the 15th pick of the 2010 NBA Draft in late June, it was former VCU star forward Larry Sanders’ face that was shown on TVs across the country as the selection.
Toy Story trilogy is all grown up
Jeremy Clemmons Staff Writer Woody the cowboy (voiced by Tom Hanks) and Buzz Lightyear the space ranger (voiced by Tim Allen) are back in Toy Story 3, the latest installment of Pixar Studio’s outstanding computer animated trilogy about the secret life of toys. This time, however, the toys’ owner Andy is now 17, about to […]