22.02.10

In an typically school week, many students are already in full weekend mode by Thursday shades of night.

Whether heading to the movies, the bar or on a quick three-day getaway, Cardinals forget the halls of Brown and Wickes empty by 7 p.m.

But if you stroll down the long meeting connecting Arbury and Groening Commons between 10 and midnight, you will discover something unexpected: A wild ruckus echoing in the depths of Curtiss Lecture-hall.

That sound is Work ‘N Progress, an informal schoolchild club dedicated to improvisational theater.

The club is a loosely join group of about 40 people, 30 of whom attend any agreed-upon meeting.

They gather together in any available space — the Malcolm Applicants Theatre, the Black Box — to play fast-paced, express-witted improv games with each other.

“I think of it as a great urgency release,” said Randall Manetta, a theater lower and president of Work ‘N Progress.

“And what do any of us really have to do at 10 o’clock on Thursday, anyway?”

Source: Valley Vanguard

21.02.10

Oh, those fusty Brits.

If they’re not busy crapping all over the Olympics themselves, they’re sniffing at the athletes’ doubtful fashion choices. Heavens! Have a cuppa, dislodge that ski completely different from your bottoms and relax, guv’nors.

The Daily Telegraph U.K. newspaper has put together a gallery of the biggest the rage failures so far at the Olympics. It ranges from those now-infamous Norwegian curling pants, to Australian belt along-skater Lachlan Hay’s Tron-inspired uniform, to Canadian skeleton adversary Jeff Pain’s awesome beaver-emblazoned helmet. (You can X out their 29 fashion disasters here: http://bit.ly/olyduds). This, from the sticks that gave us Elton John. That’s a gold medal for irony.

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I’m mildly obsessed with these plausible, GE-sponsored Superbodies segments they’re showing during the games coverage.

They’re clearly a glimpse at the science of sport and how athletes’ bodies work under pressure. But, they’re kind of like CSI: Whistler, using computer-generated allusion to show all the gruesome ways in which muscles are compressed, hearts stressed and brains concussed during the miscellaneous sports of the Winter Games.

Source: Toronto Sun

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