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Nine years and still poignant

NKU production demonstrates scope of American ideals post 9/11

Wine, decadent food and titillating conversation are the subjects of Northern Kentucky University’s latest production: Omnium Gatherum. The play is a two-hour ride by way of running discourse—but more closely resembles acrimony—covering the breadth of our nation’s hot topics: U.S. enslavement to oil, killing the planet one fuel-inefficient car at a time, a divided war, globalization, sweeping stereotypes, rampant capitalism, excessive patriotism, class division and who can forget, food—all via an upscale dinner party in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Full story

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The jury draws a verdict

NKU art exhibit awards students for talent

It’s not very often Northern Kentucky University’s art gallery promotes such an assorted grouping of student art — ranging from heroic in nature, to the very macabre and surreal.

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Will play music for money

NKU Jazz Ensemble headlines festival to fund local cause

The Northern Kentucky University Jazz Ensemble participates in a variety of on-campus performances every semester. But, for the past three years, the band has kept its instruments tuned and rhythm section at the ready in order to headline its local Blues Festival each spring. Full story

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It's a mad, mad world

A look at Tim Burton's new film

Alice (Mia Wasikowska) isn’t a little girl anymore. She’s 19 years old and ready to take on the Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter) in an attempt to win back the throne for the White Queen (Anne Hathaway).  With director Tim Burton at the helm of this latest adaptation, it’s guarunteed that you will be in for one wild, trippy ride. Full story

Pattinson proves more than a vampire

Remember Me lets actor break the mold

Remember Me is the tale of two young adults looking to find their way in life, yet forever haunted by the deaths in their past. Full story

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Insanity of Shutter proves genius

DiCaprio proves his worth among Hollywood’s best

There was once a time in Hollywood when the title credits would roll and the combination of a Paramount Pictures logo and the gloomy sound of a horn section meant one thing: an Alfred Hitchcock feature with Bernard Herrmann at the helm of film score duties. Like Hitchcock before him, Martin Scorsese starts “Shutter Island” with a pronounced level of tension. Full story

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Celebrating Black History

NKU serves up opportunity to learn from our past

The United States has long been regarded as the ultimate melting pot, a tremendous vat by which large throngs of race, culture and religion were once assembled to form a homogeneous clump-de-void of the spirit and history that defines a people. Full story

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Interactive: Senior Art Exhibition, Dec. 3-11

Meet the graduating art majors and see their work

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Filming from different angles

EMB program offers more than the opportunity to be a ‘Spielberg’

Motion pictures were first produced over a hundred years ago and, although archaic by today's standard of film, instantly gripped the nation with the innovative ability to capture and replay a moving image. And although movies are continuing to enthrall the spectator in the modern age, the same principles of film still apply. But unlike the celluloid that defined a century of motion pictures, the movies of today are captured by a higher technology, with digital at the heart of the trade. Full story


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