Shark In a Pink Suit Jacket

I would like to share with you, pictures from a particularly interesting day on campus. The Sketch 22 group was promoting their "Promedy" show, meanwhile Tibet and China were duking it out. The day was April 8th, I believe, right outside of the Student Union.



The Promedy squad before they began their dance party.
This made my week, and most likely everyone else who witnessed the shark, in a pink suit jacket, dancing to Rick Astley.
Real drama.
Nobody wanted any of her baby mama drama.

I felt sorry for all of the campus tours while this was going down. I bet we lost a lot of prospective students that day.



And lastly, Tommy Devine captured some of the chaos that day.

The Northamptonist

Local blogger, The Northamptonist, officially announced on March 30 that he will soon be moving to New York City where he hopes to pursue new journalistic ventures. As a result The Northamptonist blog will be updated less frequently and then not at all. This brings me great sadness. Like a big old pit of despair sadness.

If you never got the chance to check out his blog before, do it. A great feature of his blog is that he covered local street art. My personal favorite was The Brick Of Gold as pictured above which, last time I checked, is still on the Pleasant Street side of Sweetie's candy shop.

Other great things he covered include; "Do you have a quarter?" Al street art, and Bennie "Bucket Man" Johnson. You know, the guy who drums on a bucket in front of Delano's.

Paolo Mastrangelo, the local 31 year-old, who runs the blog has done other great things like his Northamptonist TV channel on blip.com which has all of his past videos there to browse through. Perhaps the most disturbing yet completely brave video that he made was a photo slide show documenting a heroin user in Northampton going to the pharmacy for needles and then shooting up.




And one of his most recent ventures is the Community Audio Recording Project. He essentially created a phone number that anyone can call and leave a message to. You can leave your name and location and talk about anything that you want to share with the community and the links will appear on the map at your location with the message.

I love this blog and he's done some great community focused blogging. I am sad to see it go.

On a personal note, I've gotten coffee with Paolo recently and he's incredibly supportive of other journalists and blogs and I'm sure if you ever had a question for him he'd only be more than happy to help. I wish him all the best in his new endeavors.

Posted by Andrea Murray

Lollapolooza 2008 Lineup Supposedly Leaked

While the official version of the lineup won't appear on the website until April 7th, England's equivalent of Rollingstone, NME has reported that the lineup has been leaked.

As previously reported most of the bands that were speculated to be on the bill are in fact actually going to be playing the festival, with a few suprises thrown in:

HEADLINERS INCLUDE

Radiohead
Nine Inch Nails

Rage Against the Machine

The Raconteurs

Kanye West

Wilco

Rage Against the Machine will be playing there at one of their only scheduled U.S. dates this summer. As originally reported, Radiohead and NIN are on the bill as well with festival favorites this year Kanye West and the Raconteurs.

Leak Story:

http://www.nme.com/news/lollapalooza/35691

Official Website:

http://www.lollapalooza.com/default.asp?fd=1

By: Peter Rizzo
Collegian Staff

Ty Burr not only is a great movie Reviewer but also knows pop-culture...

This weekend I went out to write a little at Brueggers Bagels in downtown Amherst only to be ambushed by little children running a muck in the bagel shop that poses as a coffee shop too. So i left, like any sensible human being would. I headed out to buy milk in downtown Amherst. Where can someone buy milk? CVS or Cousins and CVS just seems like a nice placer. While I was there i picked up my favorite little reading of the week: The Boston Sunday Globe.

I love the Globe on Sundays. I can read about people that spend hundreds of dollars searching for their lost pet (using a helicopter at times). And attempt to read one of Dan Shaugnessy's terrible sports articles. (If only Jackie McMullen would write everyday and give me my fill of sports and great writing.)

And then the Ideas section int he Globe always has one great column by someone who doesn't usually write a column but should have one. this week was Ty Burr, the Globe's movie critic who Critics should be judged by. But the column was not about movies at all. It was about his little teenage girls. So what you say? Well it was about the role up-and-coming actresses and starletss have on our society and how their are no good role models.

So what you say? Well he explains very simply how they are anti-role models and children are understanding that. So read it up. Soak it up. And relax.

Go see "Walking with Dinosaurs"

The show "Walking with Dinosaurs: The Live Experience," premièred tonight at the Mullins Center to a rather impressive crowd for a Thursday Night. I have Never seen anything this before. I encourage everyone who can afford the some what price tickets ($30-70) to attend at least one showing.

I went in excited and was utterly blown away. I like to think I am an intelligent, rational human being but in the presence of a life-size, fully animatronic, wireless T-Rex I will admit I became a 12-boy again. Regardless of your age or how much cooler you think you are then people who want to see this, take a couple hours out of your weekend and take this show in.

Remaining Show times:
Friday, March 28 7 p.m.
Saturday, March 29 11 a.m., 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Sunday, March 30 1 p.m. and 5 p.m.

Ryan McAskill/Arts and Living Editor, Massachusetts Daily Collegian

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Friday March 14

EVENT


Smith College’s “Second Friday Gallery Talk” continues with a presentation by Edward Check, who worked on the art design of TV’s “Sex in the City.” This free event takes place at 6 p.m. at the Smith College Museum of Art.

Monday March 17

DISCUSSION


The Odyssey Bookshop’s “Open Fiction Book Club” will discuss “Martyr’s Crossing” by Amy Wilentz, a book about a Palestinian and an Israeli in the midst of the conflict. The discussion takes place at 7 p.m. at the bookshop located at 9 College Street in South Hadley. The event is free and open to the public.

Hailing from Galway, Ireland, The Saw Doctors performs at the Calvin Theater. The band is known for their energetic performance style. The show is set to start at 8 p.m. Tickets are $28.50.



Thursday March 20

TALK

David Maine will be talking on his book “Monster 1959,” which tells the tale of actions by the United States during the 1950s. This free event will take place at 7 p.m. at the Odyssey Book Shop, located at 9 College Street in South Hadley.

Friday March 21

CONCERT

Drive-By Truckers, a rock band from Athens, Georgia, play at Pearl Street Ballroom. They will be supported by The Whigs. The show starts at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 in advance and $23 at the door.

Saturday March 22

CONCERT

Female singer-songwriter A Fine Frenzy, who is best known for melodic and mellow hits like “Almost Lover,” is playing at the Iron Horse with Chris Stills and Ferras. The show starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 in advance and $18 at the door.




Complied by Allie Roth; Collegian Staff