Colorful cars in Clifton
Katie Rosenbaum
Campus News Editor
The Xavier University Visual Arts Society painted a donated car in the style of well-known artists during the Streetscapes Festival in Clifton held Sept. 29-30.
The festival featured chalk paintings by local artists that were reproductions of paintings by Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso and Norman Rockwell among others.
This was the sixth year for the Streetscapes Festival, which “showcases creative talent, celebrates art and brings people into the business district of Clifton,” according to Kip Eagen, a committee member for Streetscape.
The festival is part of the 20 Days and 20 Nights kick-off to the annual arts season. From Sept. 28-Oct. 17, there will be art events, both visual and performing, every day around Cincinnati and northern Kentucky.
While many of these events have an admission price, there are free events throughout the 20 days.
This event is sponsored by Enjoy the Arts, whose mission is to expose young adults to all types of art so that they may become frequent patrons of the arts.
Rosie, a community member donated her car to the festival because she said “the car ran fine, it just needed a new paint job and donating it to the art festival was an interesting way to get a new paint job.”
When Xavier students were called to inquire about participating in the festival, the committee suggested that they paint the car.
About 10 members of the Visual Arts Society participated in painting the car throughout the weekend. On Saturday, Xavier students painted it in the styles of Franz Kline, Keith Harring and Jackson Pollack.
On Sunday, the Visual Arts Society reproduced Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” on the same car.
Ellen Schroeder, president of the Visual Arts Society, said that Rosie seemed excited about driving around a car painted in the style of Van Gogh.
hroeder also said that the art car was a success because “all of the art majors got to have fun outside of class and become part of the greater Cincinnati community.”
Eagen, a committee member for Streetscapes also thought the car was “fantastic and a wonderful addition to the festival. The Xavier students were able to take our idea and enhance it. They were really talented and the community loved the art car.”
During the process of painting the car, club members took over 2,500 pictures to make into a stop-action video that will be on You Tube and the Xavier art department website sometime next week.
Students may become members of Enjoy the Arts for $25 a year. This membership entitles students to over $500 in free tickets to Cincinnati art events and museums, discounted tickets to dance, music and theater events, the Cincinnati Zoo and Newport Aquarium and invitations to Enjoy the Arts social events.
'The Kingdom' come
Brandy Williams
Arts & Entertainment Editor Newswire Official Rating:
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The cast is armed and dangerous.
“The Kingdom” begins with scenes of American oil employees and their families playing outside their housing compound in Saudi Arabia. We sense that something terrible is about to happen as the camera shifts, showing images of men watching the Americans with binoculars from rooftops.
As expected an explosion goes off and the American families run screaming and grabbing their children as they flee. There is blood everywhere and people writhing in agony.
FBI Special Agent Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx) gets a call from another agent informing him of the tragic terrorist event as another bomb goes off killing everyone on the scene.
Agent Fluery gathers his eclectic team made up of forensic examiner Janet Mayes (Jennifer Garner), FBI Agent and explosive expert Grant Sikes (Chris Cooper) and intelligence analysis Adam Leavitt (Jason Bateman). They set out on a secret mission inside Saudi Arabia to find out who is behind the deadly bombing of the American housing complex.
The team quickly finds itself engulfed in a foreign culture that is hostile to their presence. The team fight their way through bureaucratic red tape, language barriers, cultural customs and different styles of investigative police work.
They begin to find their bearings as a native police captain, Col. Al-Ghazi takes them under his wing and shows them the ropes.
The plot develops into action-packed detective work, intense shooting and terrorist brutality as they find clues that lead them to the bad guys behind the bombing.
Throughout the movie we are shown how foreigners view the “cocky” and “know it all” Americans. In one scne the team ignores the investigative rules set in place by the Saudi leaders.
The moral behind the story is that ignorance and lack of communication breeds more hatred and anger.
The message that “we all lose in this endless cycle of war and violence” is what the audience is left with in the last scene.
The movie is rated R for intense sequences of graphic violence and for language.
“The Kingdom” is a good movie. It has constant action and even some strategically placed humor. However, if blood, gore and violence make you squeamish then you may want to pass.
The other Hilton
Brandy Williams
Arts & Entertainment Editor
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And yes, his hair is blue.
In Hollywood, they either love him or hate him. He breaks hearts and enrages those who are famous. He even had to move from his place of work to avoid harassment.
Sounds like it would be a powerful Hollywood mogul right? No, instead it’s a regular guy from Miami writing under the pseudonym Perez Hilton.
Most of you have at least heard of him, if you haven’t checked his blog to read up on the latest happenings of the rich and famous. His real name is Mario Armando Lavandeira, a native of Miami who now resides in L.A. so he can starwatch to his heart’s content.
Lavandeira started the blog in 2004, originally titled PageSixSixSix.com and became so popular that the New York Times threatened to sue him for using the term ‘page six’ which is their term. So Lavandeira moved to perezhilton.com, named after his friend and idol, Paris Hilton, and has been blogging away ever sense.
The site, which is strikingly pink, consists of posts in which Lavandeira comments about what celebrities are doing. His commentary is usually funny, but sometimes sarcastic and harsh. He’s been given credit for voicing the things that some people are afraid to say.
Usually the posts contain a photo snapped by paparazzi with comments or doodles drawn on by Perez. His least favorite celebrities, which include Kirsten Dunst and Nicole Richie, are usually given devil horns. Whenever there is a picture of Britney Spears’ children, Lavandeira writes “help!”
Certain celebrities have been given nicknames by Lavandeira. Zac Efron is usually referred to as Zacquisha and Britney Spears’ children are Tater Tot and Small Fry.
ienna Miller and Kirsten Dunst are both usually referred to as‘that slutty girl.’ If Lavandeira loves you or hates you, he lets everybody know. Some of his favorites include Paris Hilton and Jennifer Lopez.
While the site is incredibly popular, mostly because of Lavandeira’s bitting humor, it has caused some controversy for him. He has been sued for using paparazzi photographs without permission.The site now runs by itself, and Lavandeira makes enough money from the advertisements on his site to blog as a day job.
Lavandeira also had to change blogging locations, because he was causing a disturbance at the coffee shop he used to frequent. He admitted to E!News in an interview that celebs such as Nicole Richie have verbally threatened him, while others have invited him to party with them.
Because his website is thriving, Lavandeira is now an overnight sensation with appearances on the View, a show on “VH1” and a clothing line in the works
Stephanie Metz
Diversions Editor
Late Night Movie
Take a break from your studies and come see the GSC Late Night Movie feature “The Bourne Ultimatum” at 11p.m. in the GSC Theater starting Thursday, Oct. 4 through Oct. 6. The movie is free to XU students.
Bowling night
International Student Society and African Student Association are inviting all members of the Xavier community to join them for a great night of bowling on Friday, Oct. 5 at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $3 and can be purchased in the Romero Office GSC 230. Space is limited. Meet at Bellarmine circle to leave for Stones Lanes.
Off-campus shuttle
Every first Friday of the month there will be a off-campus shuttle trip taking students to Newport on the Levee. Beginning Friday, Oct. 5 the shuttle will leave from Bellarmine Circle at 8 p.m., 9:15pm, 10:30 p.m and 11:45pm. Buses will leave Newport on the Levee to come back to Xavier at 8:30 p.m., 9:45 p.m., 11 p.m., 12:30 a.m. and 2 a.m. The service is free.
Community Action Day
Looking for ways to give back to the community in the form of service? Want free food? Come on out to Community Action Day, Xavier’s largest day of service. Meet in GSC at 8:30 a.m, grab breakfast, then head out into Cincinnati with your friends to paint a classroom, play with kids or help out at a healthcare fair. The first 100 volunteers get a free T-shirt.
Barely Legal Teens
The Barely Legal Teens will perform their first improve comedy show of the season at 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 9 in Kelley Auditorium. The actors will take a single suggestion from the crowd and develop it into a whole series of characters and scenes. The event is free and promises to be fun!
