By Beatrice Vantapool Up against books-turned-movies like Harry Potter and the Twilight series, The Hunger Games had its work cut out, especially with the added skepticism that the…
By Tom Johnson and Liz Kaempf Unlike Comic-Con, during which stars of current television shows appear and hotter chicks show up in cosplay, I-CON likes to forego…
BioWare had a job and they did it. People enjoyed the first two Mass Effect games and then assumed BioWare had forgotten they’re supposed to still make good…
Saturday, March 10 was the start of the 2012 Major League Soccer season, and no one seemed to care. To those who follow MLS, it’s disappointing that the…
by Beatrice Vantapool Lucy Van Dalen, a senior sociology major, took the gold in the mile and tenth place in the 300-meter race for Stony Brook in the…
Seasons’ newest album, Spring, is here and Stony Brook students are digging it more than Rick Santorum is digging his own political grave. If this is your first…
The NCAA bid has evaded the Seawolves once again, after a disappointing loss to the University of Vermont on March 10. Before a sold-out crowd in the Stony…
So I think it’s safe to remark on the love affair the classical music world has with Beethoven. My music history textbook, for instance, torridly describes Beethoven and…
As a classical musician, I’ve learned to respect the sanctity of ceremony in music performance. One grows accustomed to the frenetic chaos of performers warming up, the whispered…