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  • Torture Garden

    By on September 3, 2008

    The first thing to note about The Catalyst Theater Company's production of George Orwell's 1984 is that it does not feel like high school. I...

  • Soundwaves

    By on September 3, 2008

    Rihanna WHAT'S SUMMER WITHOUT RIHANNA?... Another summer has come and gone, and Rihanna once again showed her strength as a summer songstress. But for the...

  • Witty Repartee

    By on September 3, 2008

    The trick of improvisational theater is taking a few ideas and stitching them together on the fly before an audience. Success can be measured in...

  • Offending the Masses

    By on August 27, 2008

    Hamlet 2 is blasphemy, pure and simple. And it's not just the musical number ''Rock Me Sexy Jesus'' that's going to have people apoplectic; Shakespeare...

  • Sticky Fingers

    By on August 27, 2008

    Contemplation of the Post-Industrial Family surely ranks as one of the most indispensable themes of the modern playwright. What writer worth their salt can resist...

  • Soundwaves

    By on August 27, 2008

    YOKO ONO'S PEACE DANCE... In a world coming increasingly unmoored, pleas for peace may seem naĂŻve, but they're also very necessary. Just as she did...

  • Jazz Singer

    By on August 27, 2008

    Robin McKelle Remember ''Abracadabra''? The Steve Miller Band's '80s hit was good cheesy pop, but it was less magic trick than novelty act. If you...

  • Getting a Woody

    By on August 20, 2008

    Imagine a summer of love and romance in Barcelona. There would be late nights filled with good wine, soft music and a sexy artist who...

  • Teen Tunes

    By on August 20, 2008

    As if high school wasn't hard enough. Imagine a private, Catholic boarding school where two teenage boys fall in love in that familiar ''opposites attract''...

  • Laugh Attack

    By on August 13, 2008

    Humor is subjective. What strikes me as funny may not be funny to you. There are, however, plenty of crossover areas that make us all...

  • Soundwaves

    By on August 13, 2008

    BURNING UP HER BIRTHDAY CAKE... How many times in one year can gay bars celebrate Madonna? In fairness, it's not every year the Sticky and...

  • Faraway Lands

    By on August 13, 2008

    ''I'm from a land called secret Estonia, nobody knows where it's at,'' Kerli Koiv raps repeatedly on ''Creepshow,'' a blistering track off her new debut...

  • New Classic

    By on August 13, 2008

    ''I feel like there's a lot of ways in which being a composer now is almost more weird than being gay,'' says Nico...

  • Shock Operas

    By on August 6, 2008

    Normally, there is nothing more irritating (to some at least) than a creative work that feels the need to announce itself upon arrival, to clarify...

  • Brit Lit

    By on August 6, 2008

    In high school, there were two ways to get out of reading a literature assignment -- watch the movie or get the CliffsNotes. For students...