Arts

A Night in the ER: Even an uneventful evening is full of surprises at 'U' Hospital

While the TV-drama "ER" is perched atop the popularity ratings, its exquisite plots are highly condensed and oftentimes distorted versions of real life emergency rooms, as the show's producers aren't subject to accuracy ratings.

Proletariat slices and bourgeois pies round out A2 pizza fare

The reason pizza is such a quintessential college food, I am thoroughly convinced, lies in its structure rather than its taste. The circular slab of dough, divided by four-plus radii, is perfectly constructed to be shared with an indefinite number of people.

Oscar winners plan new projects; Jamiroquai, others, play Mt. Fuji

Now that you've won the Oscar, what are you going to do next? No, you don't go to Disney World. As reported in Entertainment Weekly, you make more movies. Best Actor Geoffrey Rush has flown to Europe to begin filming "Les Miserables" with Liam Neeson, Uma Thurman and Claire Danes.

Dean did it 'His Way'

Last April, I lambasted former Daily Editor in Chief and Weekend, etc. columnist Mike Rosenberg for his tendency to bluster and blather on with sentimental wish-wash about graduating and being a senior. This April, I fear I've caught the disease of college newspaper columnists around the country: "The Oh-no-I-have-one-month-left-of-school-and-am-getting-inexplicably-sentimental-about my-days-as-a-Wolverine (or other favorite mascot)-syndrome."

Electronic music lacks the buzz

According to the musical powers that be, the stars have realigned and a new musical revolution is finally upon us. The hype has hit the streets and the critics agree that electronic music is the next big thing. But they're all wrong.

'Dans' theater premieres tonight

What dance company would you consider to be an ideal company? Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) just might be your answer. Combining classical ballet technique with a style that is both contemporary and avant-garde, NDT equals absolutely amazing dance. Tonight and Friday NDT II and III make their debut in Ann Arbor at the Power Center.

First Holocaust film to be shown tonight at Nat. Sci.

University students will be blessed with yet another film during Hillel's 18th Annual "Conference on the Holocaust" (March 24-April 4) tonight. Directed by notable Jewish filmmakers of the time, Herbert Fredersdof and Marek Goldstein, "Long is the Road" marked the first dramatization to depict the Holocaust from a Jewish perspective.

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