This weekend sees the opening of professor Randy Kaplan's latest impressive School of the Arts production, "Game of Love and Chance," by the 18th century French writer Pierre Marivaux. The show's program describes it best as a work "known for [its] comic air and interest in romantic love.
A lone guitar onstage was the first thing to catch the eyes of audience members Saturday night for a comedy show featuring Tom Tran, Matt Bergman and Josh Potter. At 10 p.m. in the KnightSpot, this simple, original stage setup in no way reflected the mood that would permeate the room as the night progressed.
On Wednesday afternoon, Newton Hall housed the highly anticipated annual Phi Beta Kappa lecture given by professor of English at Yale University and Pulitzer Prize winning poet J.D. McClatchy. According to a statement released by Geneseo's Office of Communications and Publications, McClatchy has written six collections of poems including 2003 Pulitzer Prize nominee "Hazmat.
Students gathered in the KnightSpot last Thursday evening to participate in an innovative and fun-filled event called Paint Your Heart Out. Hosted by Activities Commission, the three-hour event kicked off the organization's third annual Winter Week, which included other activities such as window painting, a lip-sync competition and the Winter Ball.
Dan Auerbach, guitarist and singer for The Black Keys, released his first solo album, Keep It Hid, on Feb. 10, to little fanfare. His choice to step out on his own as an artist seems a little redundant when his full-time band only consists of one other person: drummer Patrick Carney.
