‘Arts & Leisure’

• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

  Feb 9, 11 • 764 Views • Arts & Leisure, News • knightadmin • No Comments

  by A great performance of a musical takes all the essentials — an orchestra, costumes, song and dance and throws glitter on it all. The Erie Playhouse’s performance of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” this past weekend was even more...

• Biology professor dances through Old Testament in local performance

  Feb 2, 11 • 824 Views • Arts & Leisure, News • knightadmin • No Comments

  by The Biblical story of Joseph will be told at the Erie Playhouse this weekend through a variety of song and dance numbers that make up the play, “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.” The musical is like a journey through ancient Egypt, with...

• ‘Fighter’ challenges cliche sports movies

  Feb 2, 11 • 922 Views • Arts & Leisure, News • knightadmin • No Comments

  by Sports movies usually contain so many clichés that the ending is easy to predict. The protagonist loses a game, fights through adversity and then wins the “big game” with an underdog mentality. The audience is amazed. Repeat, repeat, repeat. “The...

• Philadelphia indie rock band charms with bizarre finesse

  Jan 26, 11 • 830 Views • Arts & Leisure, News • knightadmin • No Comments

  by Philadelphia alternative-indie band, The Extraordinaries, will cheer everyone up while bringing down the house. Quirky, crazy, and bizarre is the name of the game for this narrative-based group. Philly is known for many things, including cheese steaks,...

• ISO opens Coffee Shop fundraiser in Zurn

  Jan 26, 11 • 872 Views • Arts & Leisure, News • knightadmin • No Comments

  by Gannon University’s International Student Office, in an attempt to narrow the gap between American and international students, kicked off the spring semester with its student-run Coffee Shop fundraiser in the Zurn Science Building. Jason Steinberg, the...

• Irish band plays it safe on new album

  Jan 26, 11 • 899 Views • Arts & Leisure, News • knightadmin • No Comments

  by The new album from The Script, “Science and Faith” finally hit the U.S. shore and fans witnessed very unscripted emotions. The Irish alternative band offers up an album full of emotional lyrics, but lacking any real risks in its music. In late 2009,...

• Career inspiration derives from significant sources

  Jan 19, 11 • 808 Views • Arts & Leisure, News • knightadmin • No Comments

  by I used to be so sure of what I wanted to do after graduation, and always had a confident response to the, “what are you supposed to do with an English degree” question, which was graduate school then law school. The answer was simple, and gained...

• ISO prepares to open international coffee house

  Dec 8, 10 • 892 Views • Arts & Leisure, News • knightadmin • No Comments

  by The International Student Office is looking to globalize Gannon University’s campus with a coffee shop staffed by international students and American student volunteers. This goal will be accomplished in two ways. First, the coffee shop is looking to...

• Body modifications take on new spiritual meaning

  Dec 1, 10 • 1386 Views • Arts & Leisure, News • knightadmin • No Comments

  by This past September, a 14-year-old North Carolina high school student was suspended from school for refusing to remove a small piercing stud in her nose, a violation of the school’s dress code policy. It seems simple – remove the stud and continue to...

• Abundant, raunchy sex scenes twist sweet love story into incredulous, predictable flop

  Dec 1, 10 • 1948 Views • Arts & Leisure, News • knightadmin • No Comments

  by Film director Ed Zwick could be given at least this much tribute: in the midst of the latest comedy-drama “Love & Other Drugs” – about an upstart pharmaceutical salesman who falls for a 26-year-old stage one Parkinson’s-afflicted woman —...