Buddy Wakefield is back. For those of you lucky enough to have witnessed the rousing power of his performance at either of the internationally-acclaimed slam poet's previous shows at Geneseo and have been waiting to hear this news ever since, rejoice! The day is finally here.

The ground may still be damp with the remnants of last week's freak snowstorm, but hopefully that was just Mother Nature's idea of a sadistic joke and spring will be showing up any day now. And even though spring, with all of her lovely April showers, May flowers and pilgrims can be a grand old time, that's not the real reason I'm so dang happy to see the sun shine again.

Just before the Mountain Goats took the stage at Castaways in Ithaca,  N.Y. on Saturday, things started to seem more like a heavy metal concert than the anticipated indie rock show.

Santa Claus can definitely sympathize with The Strokes. He knows better than anyone the main problem with heightened anticipation: the higher the expectations, the more likely you are to be disappointed with the outcome.

The ordinarily lackluster interior of the Holcomb cafetorium was invigorated this Tuesday by the two workshops taught by Sheikha Khadija Radin on the ancient Sufi practices of dance and meditation.

It has been almost three decades since the music video first started killing radio stars. In less exciting news, it's been nearly 20 years since MTV started booting true music television in favor of stunningly artistic episodes of "The Real World."

Broadway is more than a few blocks from Geneseo, but the passion for musical theater is still strong in the cornfields of Western New York. Senior Lexi Schuessler is making sure it stays that way.

As the singular music history professor at Geneseo and the leading American scholar on Danish composer Carl Nielsen, associate professor Anne-Marie Reynolds knows her stuff.

The streets of the underground music scene are whispering: dubstep is dead and James Blake is animating its corpse. The neo-techno beats may be bumping through Brooklyn as we speak, but they're fading fast.

There are so many petty feuds between the music industry's rich and famous that there is barely enough space in the tabloids to divulge the intimate details of every celebrity tiff.

"The Vagina Monologues" is "not a vagina puppet talking on stage, just to be clear," explained the director of the upcoming show, sophomore Rachel Tamarin.

Doug Anderson has been a Peace Corps volunteer, a beekeeper in Guatemala and for the last decade, a professor of painting and drawing at Geneseo. His works of art are influenced by themes from Greek mythology as well as different aspects of human nature, and they have been exhibited nationally.

It's not always fun and games being the music director of WGSU, Geneseo's radio station. Just ask junior Joe Targia. Deciding what songs to play on the radio? Opening boxes full of free CDs every week? Going to awesome house shows all the time? Playing the musical saw? Let's be honest, the job sounds like a lot of hard work.

The Geneseo Dance Ensemble will celebrate its 85th dance recital this weekend with "Crossing Fixed Points," a show featuring the original choreography of students, faculty and guest artists. The performance will be held in Alice Austin Theatre on Dec. 9 - 11 at 8 p.m., and on Dec. 12 at 2 p.m.

Remember the scene from Trainspotting when Ewan McGregor dove headfirst into the filthiest toilet in Scotland to retrieve his opium, seconds after his bowels exploded with diarrhea? 127 Hours is worse than that.

When the phrase “dance recital” comes to mind, so appear images of Napoleon Dynamite breaking it down to Jamiroquai, those creepy Sparkle Motion girls from Donnie Darko or any number of infamous scenes from popular culture involving choreography and matching outfits.

The next time you see junior Claire Littlefield walking down the hallway in her green striped onesie, give her a high five.

Wes Craven, the famed director of Nightmare on Elm Street and The Hills Have Eyes, fails to conjure up the terrifying magic of his earlier films in his latest horror movie My Soul to Take.

Four of Geneseo's student a capella groups presented an entertaining fall show to a rowdy audience in Wadsworth Auditorium on Saturday night.