2008 Woodie Awards
In their first concert of the year, the Con Artists, the cornerstone group in Lawrence a cappella, took the stage in a full Stansbury Theatre last Friday night, along with the newly formed women's group Conchordance. The Con Artists have long been a campus tradition, and its regularly modified membership now includes Mike Axtell, Brent Funderburk, Evan Bravos, Nick Meyer, Zach Monteith, Zach Becker, and Zach Olsen.
With "A tout de suite", French director Beno***^ over the i***t Jacquot has crafted a movie that is at once a romance, a crime thriller and a psychological character study. Set in the 1970s and shot entirely in black and white, the film focuses on Lili (Isild Le Besco), a 19-year-old art student living with her bourgeois parents in Paris.
Jazz saxophonist Chris Potter and his quartet, Underground, are coming to the Chapel this Friday, Feb. 8 at 8 p.m. Their performance, the third installment of the 2007-08 Lawrence University Jazz Series, will be the group's last U.S. show before they begin an international tour.
As Lawrence's most celebrated fan of PBR, our first female Trivia Grand Master in 25 years, and now the star of this week's Artist Spotlight, Erin Campbell Watson certainly has a lot to offer the Lawrence campus. At the moment I met her, Erin in her pink alphabet glasses and I in my stirrup leggings, I knew that I was beholding great talent.
Joanna Newsom, the unique singer/songwriter harpist from California, has been touring for a while. After a stretch of popular concerts in the UK, a brief United States orchestral tour was arranged that took her to six cities across the country starting last October.
Movies Friday, February 8 "Fool's Gold" "In Bruges" "London to Brighton" "Spiral" "Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show" DVD Tuesday, February 12 "Gone Baby Gone" "We Own the Night" "Becoming Jane" "Into the Wild" "Things We Lost in the Fire" Music