ARTS ENTERTAINMENT


3/4/2013, 9:59pm

Game On: Improv's first performance a success

Random lines and awkward situations filled Orndorff Theater with laughter at Game On: Improv’s first performance night of the semester. The group acted out scenes for different games in a “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”-style show, given audience input to help select locations, occupations, characters, strange addictions and even humorous deaths.


2/25/2013, 10:01pm

What celebrities are saying about gun control

On Dec. 21, a week after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, demandaplan.org released a video featuring numerous celebrities encouraging viewers to “demand a plan” for the issue of gun violence. The video included actors, singers and comedians such as Beyoncé Knowles, Aziz Ansari, Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler, Selena Gomez and Ellen DeGeneres.


2/25/2013, 10:00pm

Thought Lot hopes to bring new faces

On Thursday, Feb. 28, five bands will be performing at Shippensburg’s music and art venue The Thought Lot. The lineup features local bands The Demon Beat, Tuck Son, Black Black Beast and Bishops, as well as Indiana-natives Sleeping Bag.


2/18/2013, 9:14pm

The Oscars: A student's predictions

For 85 years, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has given awards to the best in film and will do so again this year with “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane hosting the show. Strong female characters dominated the Best Actress category as the women landed in varying roles such as a Central Intelligence Agency officer hunting Osama Bin Laden, two characters weathering a storm, an unemployed young woman befriending a mentally ill man and an elderly paralyzed woman.


2/11/2013, 10:10pm

55th annual Grammys awards

Big moments of the night… Al Walser in a full space outfit. The singer, DJ, and producer Al Walser , nominated for “Best Dance Recording” showed up to the Grammys in a full astronaut outfit, holding a sign that said his name.


2/11/2013, 9:55pm

Luhrs presents Popovich Comedy Pet Theater

Feb. 6, marked the 10-year anniversary of the release of 50 Cent’s “Get Rich or Die Tryin’,” one of hip-hop’s most significant albums. 50 Cent put the rap game in a stranglehold in 2003 after his “In Da Club” single helped sell more than 6 million copies of the album by the end of the year, and by selling 872,000 copies in its first week.


2/11/2013, 9:53pm

In Motion kicks off spring 2013 semester

On the weekend of Feb. 7 dozens of students, parents and community members arrived at Memorial Auditorium on Shippensburg’s campus to watch In Motion Dance Troupe perform its spring semester recital at 8 p.m.