Video game industry works to generate money, style
Cookie Monster, meet brutal legend Eddie Riggs. Brutal legend, Cookie Monster. Money’s tight, but for now, the worlds of heavy metal and Sesame Street will not collide because under Double Fine’s Roof, everyone can still be different. Tim Schafer is renowned for his creative video design. His video San Francisco-based company , Double Fine Productions, has a … Read more
Icons come and go, legacies last forever
“The hero ends so much more than it lasts a bore,”John Szwed, a professor of music and jazz studies at Columbia University while giving a lecture, “Miles Davis: The Jazz Musician as Dandy” at DePaul University on Oct. 17. He continued, “And nothing is more boring than a hero left over from an era that … Read more
In world of digital bustle, simplicity fights for rejuvination
The El screeched to a stop, the iPod clicked off and the cellphone switched to silent. The doors opened and Minimalism passed over. Simplistic new forms take shape with the old in “The Language of Less (Then and Now),” the new exhibit at The Museum of Contemporary Art. The MCA translates minimalism from the old … Read more
Willis Earl Beal, a treasure worth the hunt
Beal’s ideals align with hipsters and hippies, ironically ordinary and seemingly shallow in depth. But something about Beal is genuine and captivating; something that is causing journalists again and again to stumble upon his work and hunt him down.
Theatre blends past, present, and paint
In the lobby of the Timeline Theatre Company, there is a dark tunnel. Walk through it once, and you travel back in time. Walk through it to leave and discover an unanticipated blend of time. The lobby is transformed into an elaborate mineshaft—a time machine that sets the stage for the performance to come. After … Read more
Hip-Hop & Opera: Like Bacon & Chocolate
Different versions of this article were originally published on Gapers Block and The DePaulia. It is easy to overlook the origins of passion that unfolded onstage last Sunday in HOPERA: Unleashed. Composer and vocalist Adrian Dunn’s musical creativity and technical mastery enabled a seamless fusion of two genres not normally seen on the same side of town: hip-hop … Read more
Exposing Layers of Vogue
As it turns out, Vogue isn’t so so vogue after all. When the 2010 covers were layered together, the product revealed the magazine’s very strict format. However, if you juxtapose the layered editions from various countries, many cultural patterns are revealed. Even if Vogue’s structured approach is fairly disappointing, I have to admit it- the end result … Read more
How Do You Take Your Café?
Café Magazine sent a couple staff members to Bonnaroo this year to catch all of the music and color. I got to compile (from my cubicle, oh yes) videos from their interviews, video, and photographs.
Los Amigos Invisibles at Bonnaroo 2010
Café Magazine sent a couple staff members to Bonnaroo this year to catch all of the music and color. I got to compile (from my cubicle, oh yes) videos from their interviews, video, and photographs.
Nortec Collective at Bonnaroo 2010
Café Magazine sent a couple staff members to Bonnaroo this year to catch all of the music and color. I got to compile (from my cubicle, oh yes) videos from their interviews, video, and photographs.
Aterciopelados at Bonnaroo 2010
Café Magazine sent a couple staff members to Bonnaroo this year to catch all of the music and color. I got to compile (from my cubicle, oh yes) videos from their interviews, video, and photographs.
Hairy Butts and Contemporary Art Arrive at DePaul Art Museum
A photograph of a hairy butt and a decoupaged television set are currently being displayed in the DePaul University Art Museum. For the first time in five years the tables have turned. Now it is the students turn to critique their professor’s work. The artwork of faculty members at DePaul is being shown as part … Read more
Racial Issues in Disney’s ‘The Princess and the Frog’ Considered by DePaul Community
Cinderella’s glass slipper, Jasmine’s magic carpet ride and Ariel’s first steps on land were the Walt Disney princess stories that captured many young girls’ hearts over ten years ago. Of the nine Disney princesses, there has never been an African-American princess-until now. On Dec. 11, Disney will introduce in theaters nationwide, their first African-American princess … Read more
Words of Freestyling Nerds Flow atop Chicago Skyscrapers
Exploring the world of underground hip-hop has recently been given a new angle: one that is 24 stories above the downtown streets of Chicago. Setting in motion a documentary entitled, Rooftop Hip-Hop, nine MC’s spit out freestyle raps as they stand atop city skyscrapers in a wind-blown flow of freefalling words. The producers attempted to … Read more
