Smith: Republican spending cuts don’t support pro-life ideals

As a passionately pro-life moderate, I felt more than a little anxiety voting for a Democratic president. I had no idea that the biggest attack on everything the pro-life movement stands for would come from the Republican right.

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“Thebes” a gritty display of students’ excellence in theater

"The Burial at Thebes," the School of the Arts' first mainstage production to be completely designed, run and directed by students, brings a gritty Greek tragedy to Geneseo.

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Epic explosions imminent in summer flick lineup

Featuring shots of the Norse gods in action and the dazzling scenery of Asgard, the Thor trailer is definitely one to remember.

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VegS.O.U.P.’s latest production ‘chronicles’ a young woman’s search for identity

"The Heidi Chronicles," presented by VegS.O.U.P., is a moving and genuine look at what happens to the foot soldiers of a revolution when their movement actually takes hold.

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Film Review: Bromance blooms between superhero, sidekick in The Green Hornet

The Green Hornet is no work of cinematic art by any means, but it is a fun and pulpy popcorn flick that's equal parts epic action and sidesplitting hilarity.

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Smith: Compartmentalized budgets woefully outdated

In the wake of devastating program cuts, it's hard to walk by the construction fence erected around Doty Hall and not cry foul.

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Film Review: Tangled brings life to Rapunzel through strong artistic vision, vivid voice work

A lush and vivid fusion of traditional Disney animation and 3-D technology, Tangled is the ideal film to revive traditional Disney with an eye-popping modern twist.

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Incidental Amusements: The decay of the modern cartoon

Remember the days when all that mattered was whether or not Ash caught the next Pokémon? The days when you’d run off the bus to watch the latest epic faceoff on “Power Rangers?”

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Alice Austen's fourth wall broken down in solution to "Edwin Drood"

For one week only, the campus community is cordially invited to join the cast of the Music Hall Royale as it attempts to unearth the secrets of Charles Dickens’ last, unfinished novel.

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"Ghost Hunters" challenges the paranormal

You could get some giggles from BBC's "Most Haunted," and if you're all about macabre melodrama, Travel Channel's "Ghost Adventures" is your show. Into laughable pseudoscience? "Ghost Lab" on Discovery is the way to go.

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Incidental Amusements: Forget 2012, the end is nigh!

Good people of Geneseo, I have reason to believe that we have a biblical plague on our hands.

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Smith: Films deserve scrutiny of critical themes

It's OK to say you dislike a movie because it was bad. It's when you say that you dislike a movie because its ideas are problematic that people get annoyed.

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Harding lecture explores the depths of Melville's secrets

Unconventional academic and award-winning blogger Caleb Crain took the podium last Thursday in the College Union Ballroom to deliver Geneseo's annual Walter Harding Lecture.

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Book Review: The Clockwork Angel is a masterpiece of steampunk fantasy

Steampunk, magic, mystery and love combine in Cassandra Clare's latest novel The Clockwork Angel, a masterpiece of period writing and fantasy realism with stunning imagery and unforgettable characters.

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Smith: Easy A exposes anti-Christian prejudice

Never has a movie made me fight alternating urges to throw up and cry like Easy A. Its expertly written banter and snappy one-liners thinly disguise a brutal, ignorant and disgustingly heavy-handed attack on Christianity.

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Incidental Amusements: All's fair in love and Wario

Nothing says, "I love you, man" like picking up your friends and diving into lava. To clarify, The Lamron does not endorse murdering people with lava. Fortunately, that doesn't stop me from doing so.

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"Mask Dance" a visionary collaboration from GENseng

GENseng tackles the controversial subject of international adoption this weekend with Rick Shiomi's "Mask Dance," a play about Korean-American adoptees struggling to find their place in the world.

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Dancers assemble for impressive display of talents

Geneseo's talented dance ensemble dazzled their audiences with their skill and passion last week in the School of the Arts' "New Dances Edition 2010."

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Mindless Entertainment: Hollywood's next fad

In the wake of Twilight, "True Blood" and every other bandwagon vamp romance out there, I think it's safe to say we're all pretty tired of vampires.

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Students shape this semester's VegSOUP production

VegSOUP and Cothurnus teamed up this week to present "The Shape of Things," a biting commentary on society's superficial ideas of beauty and art.

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