http://blog.dailycolonial.com/artsblog Notes and chatter from The Daily Colonial's artisitic side Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:27:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The hip-hop-rock band, Gym Class Heroes, is scheduled to headline Spring Fling on April 5, according to a press release from GW Program Board.  The band is known for the singles "Cupid's Chokehold" and "Clothes Off!"  Tyga and Kidz in The Hall will be special guest performers.   Stay tuned with ... http://blog.dailycolonial.com/artsblog/2008/03/18/gym-class-heroes-to-headline-spring-fling/ You won’t have to wait for the Academy Awards to see some of this year’s Oscar-nominated foreign films on the big screen. The National Geographic Society, based in Washington D.C., will show five screenings this week of films nominated for Hollywood’s top honor in the foreign language category. ... http://blog.dailycolonial.com/artsblog/2008/02/11/oscar-nominated-films-at-national-geographic-society/ From arts reporter Morgan Davis: The gods of rock are calling, and they want you. Rock Band 2007 Tour is on GW's campus this week as part of a nation-wide tour to promote Rock Band, a video game due for release in North America on Nov. 23. The tour offers ... http://blog.dailycolonial.com/artsblog/2007/10/17/mtv-offers-students-a-chance-to-be-on-trl/ Lisner auditorium will host some well-known guests in the upcoming week, with Stephen Colbert discussing his book I am American (And So Can You!) next Friday, Oct. 19, and author David Sedaris coming Saturday, Oct. 6.  Student tickets are sold out for both shows, said Carl Graci, marketing manager for ... http://blog.dailycolonial.com/artsblog/2007/10/03/stephen-colbert-and-david-sedaris-at-lisner/ Singer-songrwriter Ben Kweller will headline this year's Fountain Day concert on Saturday, April 28, according to the Mount Vernon Programming Council. The annual event celebrates the end of spring semester and the beginning of summer by turning on the MV Quad's fountain for the first time of the season. Keeping in ... http://blog.dailycolonial.com/artsblog/2007/04/14/ben-kweller-to-headline-fountain-day/ This cycle's theme: "A Student in the City" --- as another semester comes to a close, we want to see how you can best describe the life of a GW student in Washington through an original photograph. The winner's picture will run on our front page on Dec. 11, 2006. All ... http://blog.dailycolonial.com/artsblog/2006/12/04/the-daily-pictorial-the-daily-colonials-photo-contest/ At least, for a little while, our airwaves will no longer be clogged with the same, overplayed, increasingly combative political ads. Now the networks can get back to playing important, informative commercials, like those for Erectile Dysfunction. (One's on right now.) Thankfully for political junkies, now comes the period of post-race analysis ... http://blog.dailycolonial.com/artsblog/2006/11/08/television-viewers-we-can-all-breathe-a-sigh-of-relief/ Hi. I’m Matthew Lubin. You might remember me from such articles as “PS3: The good, the bad, the costly” and “Nintendo’s Revolution.” But today I’m here to talk about something far more serious: Bro Rape. It’s bad stuff. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you ... http://blog.dailycolonial.com/artsblog/2006/10/24/the-magic-of-the-internet-or-how-i-suddenly-became-somebody-who-apparently-knows-something/ After the first of Jerry Seinfeld's two sold-out shows Saturday night, a small gaggle of GW reporters were allowed into the downstairs meet-and-greet. Unlike Jon Stewart last year, there was no mini-press conference or time for GW TV to do an ambush for its station promos. No press cameras allowed, ... http://blog.dailycolonial.com/artsblog/2006/10/23/meeting-jerry-seinfeld/