When I first saw the trailer to the upcoming John Cusack movie The Raven I wasn't quite sure what to think. At first, I was excited because it is a movie based on Edgar Allan Poe’s work, but I'm still skeptical. The English major side of me jumped for joy (but then remembered he was an English major and went back to brooding).


Everything was fine until John Cusack...  

 Quilt making is a hobby anyone can do, that is if you have the right materials. Quilting has also become an art form with skilled quilters crafting unique and beautiful images in the fabric. If   

Movies that populated theaters in the '80s and '90s are making a comeback. Some are better than others but since there is a built-in audience, Hollywood is cranking out remakes and reboots left and right. This practice has been done for years but recently more movies than ever have been redone. March brought 21 Jump Street with skinny Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum. The buddy cop movie was actua...  

Origami isn’t the only way to transform paper as an art medium. A new exhibit coming to the Phyllis Weston Gallery explores the variety of ways paper can be used as a medium. Three artists are fe  

When I go see a movie, it better be a great one — at least a good one so that I didn’t waste an evening. Being in my final year of college I don’t exactly have all the time I want to go out to the theater. There have been numerous movies that are already out on DVD that I missed out on seeing on the big screen, the most recent example being The Rum Diary.
There is another reason that I vi...  

The Cincinnati airport is located in another state — I’ll let you decide on how backwards that makes the city. The Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky airport, CVG, was a major hub for Delta Airlines but in the last few years the number of daily flights and employees has dropped. In 2009 the airport laid off close to 900 employees, and I was one of them. I was a baggage handler for two years, and boy...  

Those stickers of Andre the Giant were made by someone, and so was the Obama “Hope” poster. That someone is contemporary artist Shepard Fairey. The street artist and DJ returns to the Contemporary  

After a suggestion from her therapist, Joanna Barnett began to draw and paint what she felt. Barnett was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder that left her isolated and depressed, an affliction she batt  

Mixing of Eastern and Western tastes has happened before, and the result is known as the egg roll. The two cultures have crossed paths again, but this time in a more respectable manner. The Canadian-b