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AP Photo/Boneau/Bryan-Brown, Joan Marcus This theater image released by Boneau/Bryan-Brown shows, from left, Sydney Morton as Forence Ballard, Valisia LeKae as Diana Ross and Ariana DeBose as Mary Wilson of The Supremes in Motown: The Musical, performing at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York.

Broadway’s ‘Motown’ in Review

April 17, 2013

By JOHN BONAZZO One of the most common genres on Broadway over the last decade has been the “jukebox musical,” in which the catalog of a song or record label is used to score a show. The results...

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’42,’ a Baseball Story, in Review

April 17, 2013

By JAKE KRING-SCHREIFLS STAFF WRITER At the end of this year, New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera will hang up his cleats and retire as the game’s best closer. He will also retire the “42”...

The Ramantic: The Breakup

April 17, 2013

By KAREN HILL I had already deleted his number when I got a text from an unfamiliar area code which read “I need to talk.”I hoped it was a wrong number. We hadn’t been seeing each other long, but...

Déjà vu? Summer Movie Preview

April 17, 2013

By VINCENT PELLIZZI COPY EDITOR Did you love The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises and are hoping for more of the same this summer?  Do you scorn superheroes and instead prefer more original science...

‘Shape of Things’ is a Bold Mimes Production

April 13, 2013

By JOHN BONAZZO THEATER CRITIC The second half of Fordham’s theater season gets off to an exciting start with the Mimes and Mummers’ production of Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things, an incisively...

Dining Out : Chirping Chicken

April 10, 2013

By KAT McNEAL CONTRIBUTING WRITER Chirping Chicken, situated on the corner of Amsterdam Avenue and W. 77th Street, was an unexpectedly pleasant place for my friend and me to enjoy lunch on a warm, sunny...

‘G.I Joe’ in Review

April 10, 2013

By VINCENT PELIZZI To be perfectly honest, I enjoyed 2009’s G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.  The special effects were cheesy, the performances were hammy and the plot was completely absurd.  But as...

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Fleetwood Mac at Madison Square Garden in Review

April 10, 2013

By RICHARD BORDELON The “Gold Dust Woman” and her band mates were on in full force on Monday night, as Fleetwood Mac performed to a packed house at Madison Square Garden.  This concert was the...

Danny Boyles Trance in Review

Danny Boyle’s ‘Trance’ in Review

April 10, 2013

By JAKE KRING-SCHREIFLES Before the New York City premiere of Trance, director Danny Boyle introduced the film, flanked by stars Rosario Dawson and Vincent Cassell (the other star, James MacAvoy, is...

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‘The Company you Keep’ in Review

April 10, 2013

By JOHN BONAZZO COPY EDITOR One of the most suspenseful thrillers of recent years, The Company You Keep succeeds due to a tight screenplay, crisp directing and a phenomenal cast. Thirty years ago,...

The Ramantic: Spring Flings

April 10, 2013

By KAREN HILL It is spring and with the budding tulips, there are many budding romances across campus. Just like that flower, in order for a relationship to grow it needs proper nurturing. The first...

The Seersucker: Workwear’s Continuous Evolution

April 10, 2013

By KEVIN ZEBROSKI Manual labor is tough on clothes that do not cut it. It is no easy task to work under the hood of a car--serpentine belts and fans--while managing the perilous dangle of a necktie,...

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