By Lacey Colby
Welcome to Zombieland, where nearly all of humanity has been reduced by infection into unintelligent flesh-eaters and everything you’ve ever known — home, family and friends — has changed. And in some ways, this may not be such a bad thing.
Jesse Eisenberg (Adventureland) stars in this romantic zombie comedy as a socially awkward [...]

By Megan O’Connell
Ballet, modern dance, hip-hop, tap and contemporary classical are all genres that will be part of the diverse dance performance, Rider Dances in the 21st Century. The program is made up of 10 different dances with almost 40 dancers performing. It will feature works by choreographers Laney Engelhard, Mary Barton, Janell Byrne, Rider [...]

By Kaitlin MacRae
Looking for a different way to satisfy your sweet tooth? Twist — “Princeton’s do-it-yourself yogurt lounge” — serves up frozen yogurt treats in a new way. The self-serve establishment on Nassau Street is one of many in a string of trendy self-serve frozen yogurt places, including Yogurtland and U-Swirl, which are based on [...]

Q: How did you get into comedy?
A: I finished school at Kent State University in Ohio and… my folks live in New York City so I just wanted to crash on their couch and spend time in New York and get a crappy job and hang out with them for a little bit.
I ended up [...]

By Cathleen Leitch
In a hotel room outside of Oklahoma City, Agnes White (senior Joanne Nosuchinsky) stumbles drunk around the room. The phone rings but when she answers, no one speaks. It rings again and still no one is there. It rings yet again, and Agnes is now annoyed. She yells into the phone at Jerry, [...]

By Lacey Colby
The organizers of the Horror Film Symposium are set to unleash one of the most aesthetically unusual films ever made onto the Rider community next week. Janus Films recently brought Nobuhiko Obayashi’s 1977 Japanese film House to the United States for the first time, and Rider will be the location of its New [...]

By Jess Scanlon
Fake blood, zombies and a vampire slayer named Buffy — oh my.
Rider will dedicate its second annual film symposium, titled “A Mini Course in Horror,” to the genre. The four-day event will feature screenings of popular shows such as The Twilight Zone, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Simpsons; classic films such as [...]

By Heather Fiore
What distinguishes illusion from reality? This is the striking question that boggles the audience’s minds during Tracy Letts’ eerie and atypical play, Bug.
Directed by Dr. Patrick Chmel, the recently retired director and professor of theater, this production strays far from the predictable.
“In Bug, Letts is not interested in providing all the answers,” Chmel [...]

By Heather Fiore
Flip your world upside down. Imagine being 16, illiterate and pregnant with your second child. To top it off, imagine having a dysfunctional mother who continuously tells you how worthless you are.
This is the life of Claireece Precious Jones. Precious (Gabourey Sidibe) has to face these seemingly impossible tasks every single day in [...]

By Matthew Walters-Bowen
Westminster has sent plenty of talented artists out into the music industry, but this semester an established artist is entering the program.
New to Westminster this semester, Kiya Heartwood is an aspiring Master of Composition who brings a colorful and extensive vocational background with her, which is sure to attract attention.
While in and out [...]