Sex non-comedy poorly conceived

Imagine going on a date with someone from an Arrid XX-tra dry commercial. Someone young, hip and into safe sex, just like you or me. They come by in their Ford Focus or Volkswagon Passat at a stylish nine or 10 p.m.



Kids at 'Play'

There's a very good reason that the College's own DoubleTake is the 2000 NCCA South Regional champions. That reason is all over their brand-new CD, "Press Play," which debuted at their final concert April 20. The reason is that DoubleTake are simply incredible, technically, vocally and emotionally.



'Down' and out

When music listeners last met Tracy Bonham, she was the angst-ridden nymph responsible for the hit "Mother, Mother." Her debut, "The Burdens of Being Upright," contained the album track "One-Hit Wonder" in which she muttered "They call you a one-hit wonder/ If I could just hit you right between the eyes."



Directors' grab bag

Students in Professor David Doersch's Theatre 407 class have an opportunity usually reserved for graduate students and professionals. As a final class requirement, they get to pick out a play, audition a cast, rehearse and then present for the community at large the product of all their hard work. Monday and Tuesday nights, this semester's Directors' Workshop productions premiered in PBK's Studio Theatre. Due to the number of plays, they were presented as two bills, each featuring five short plays.



Catchy syrupy pop has depth

Many argue that our generation is one of musical stagnancy, that the songs of today are simply regurgitations of styles established in times past. In defense of our generation, we have given birth to at least two original genres of music. The first would be hip-hop. This style is unprecedented and will be the foundation of the sounds we can expect to hear in the future. The second genre: "Real World" music.



High 'Frequency'

Ever want to change the past in hopes of making a better fzuture? Of course, we all wish that in some point of our lives we could take back one crucial event that affects us both emotionally and psychologically. In the science-fiction thriller "Frequency," a journey into the past reveals the fate of one man's life but holds others' at stake.



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