Conceived by Colby students three years ago, Hill 'N the Ville has become a permanent autumn staple in downtown Waterville. It was created to push students to experience all that Waterville has to offer outside of the campus, and to unite the students with the local community.
In her new one-woman show, Colby's own Professor Jennifer Finney Boylan recounts her experience as the awkward teenage James Boylan. She shows us the young boy practicing his presentation on the Hanging Gardens of Babylon while wearing a bra stuffed with gym socks.
The hefty, balding guy in the Jar-Jar shirt is the performer. He is placed not on a stage, but amidst a churning group of people who mostly have never heard his music. He is unfazed. He speaks. He admits that "A Funny Clown" is an old friend of his, and in so doing divulges his equally unusual sense of reality.
I told myself I wouldn't watch the MTV Video Music Awards, but I caved. I have a sweet tooth for pop culture and a soft spot for the lovely Taylor Swift, so it was probably inevitable that I would tune in. What is it about that channel and event that makes me feel guilty for watching? Perhaps it is the idea that if you like popular music you're unoriginal, na've, tacky.
Amidst the all-pervading silence of the ruins of civilization, a tiny rag doll awakens to find himself alone. Unable to speak, the doll tentatively travels into the desolate remains of a global war between humanity and machine. Such is the stark opening to 9, Shane Acker's full-length feature debut.
Our journey begins in the 18th century, in British-ruled India. The Empire's regime began to loosen as morale amongst British troops plummeted, due to the fact that all the beer being sent to the troops was unable to survive the long, hot and humid journey through the sub-continent.