Arts & Events

This week 90.1 KUPS The Sound celebrated its 45th anniversary on the airwaves by hosting a number of entertaining and engaging events both on and off campus. On air since the fall of 1968, KUPS has been and remains a strong fixture of campus life, at the same time maintaining a strong and welcome connection with members of the greater Puget Sound area. I sat down with general manager Kim Clancy and marketing director Rafi Ronquillo to discuss the events of this past week and to get a better understanding...

Genesis 6:9—“This is the account of Noah and his family.” As a summary, these words describe director Darren Aronofsky’s film Noah even better, perhaps, than the Genesis story itself. Noah is constantly and intimately concerned with the relationships between Noah (Russell Crowe), his wife Naameh (portrayed masterfully by Jennifer Connelly), their three sons Shem (Douglas Booth), Ham (Logan Lerman), and Japheth (Leo McHugh Carroll), and their adopted daughter Ila (Emma Watson). Over the course of the film, this family unit—as well as Noah’s place in the ancestral chain of his...

Tacoma Youth Theatre (TYT) will put on its spring production of Peter Pan on two separate weekends. The show is a prime example of the theater’s mission to educate youth in the impact, success and joy of live performance. Artistic Director Maggie Knott chose to put on Peter Pan because of the accessibility and relatability for the younger actors. “e feel it is a perfect ‘first-time experience’ for young artists, while providing more experienced actors with some classic character roles,” Managing Director Scott Campbell said. “Additionally, Peter Pan’s story is...

New to Comedy Central’s Wednesday night lineup is “Broad City,” the TV evolution of Illana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson’s popular web series. Produced by the legendary Amy Poehler, the show focuses on the New York City lives of Abbi Abrams (Jacobson) and Illana Wexler (Glazer), centering on their struggle to grow up and leave behind their college years. They are both stuck working dead-end jobs, one at a web-coupon company and the other cleaning toilets at an upscale health club. The majority of the show centers on their attempts to...

Seemingly returned from oblivion, an aging titan of the Seattle post-hardcore scene, The Fall of Troy, delivered a two-hour long barrage of intricate, emotional splendor to their former haunt—the Showbox at the Market. Drawing much of their material from early records, The Fall of Troy held nothing back despite their five long years of dormancy. First, they opened with a crushingly upbeat track, “The Holy Hills” from Doppelganger, to get the crowd moshing. Already fans were throwing their elbows, fists and shoulders into each other so by the end of...

Last semester, Collins Memorial Library played host to a traveling collection of books, book-art and visual art broadsheets made in response to the bombing of Al-Mutanabbi Street, a literary and cultural center in Baghdad, Iraq in 2007. Now, two days after the anniversary of the bombing on March 5, Collins again held an event to talk about the project, Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, with an event entitled Gather Round the Press. “This week, events are going on all around the world to commemorate the bombing,” to “honor the lives of...

“A long time ago, we used to be friends”: these opening lyrics might ring familiar to fans of the cult favorite television show Veronica Mars. Fortunately for long time supporters like myself, our favorite characters are back, and this time on the big screen. Never have those words seemed more appropriate. The series, which ran from 2004 to 2007 followed the life teenage sleuth Veronica Mars, played by Kristen Bell, was resurrected in theaters thanks in large part to the efforts of a record setting Kickstarter.com fundraising campaign. Robb Thomas,...