Archive for ‘April, 2010’

Dancin’ through the campgrounds

One of the most worthwhile events one can attend during the summer is a music festival, especially for college students. Free from the worry of classes or tests the days after most concerts during the academic year, students can afford to let themselves focus solely on music, arts, comedy and socialization. There are many festivals across the country year-round, but the biggest and most rapidly growing are those in the summer.

BERICK: If you give a girl a column

So I sit down with my notebook or my laptop, I’m on my bed or at a café or at the library, and I start to write a column. I’ve been thinking about it all week. When something happens or doesn’t happen. When I catch or miss a bus, when I get a really great cup of coffee or a terrible one. When I walk outside my apartment and a collage of college paraphernalia is scattered over my sidewalk in beer bottle tones, or when that guy with tunes on his bike rides by. Sometimes, like this week, I haven’t thought about anything suitable, and I wander back through the last semester, colors and tastes and things someone yelled outside my window at 2 a.m. Sunday morning.

Summer sequels

So, it’s that time of year again, when you can’t remember what your life was like before you spent every second stressing over the term paper that’s been hanging over your head like a guillotine. But as unbelievable as it sounds, we’re (hopefully) all going to survive finals and then it’s time for one of the best parts of the year: summer blockbusters. Since you’re all probably too busy making flashcards for Spanish to check out what’s coming soon, The MUSE picked out a few films you might want to pencil into your post-exam plans

Groove tube

Summer, notorious for being a wasteland of television reruns and repeats, is quickly becoming the go-to place for new programming, both good and bad. The trouble is distinguishing the stuff worth watching from the stuff you wouldn’t want to touch with a 10-foot-long pole. Here are a few suggestions that I’m going to be watching this summer

Ain’t no denyin’

The Boston University softball team leads the College of the Holy Cross 11-3 in the second game of a home doubleheader on a frigid and overcast late-March afternoon. Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir” blasts through the one white speaker perched on the chain-link fence behind the home plate of the BU Softball Field as April Setterlund walks toward the batter’s box in the bottom of the third inning.