By Katlin MacRae
This winter, one Rider student and one graduate are competing for a chance to walk the red carpet at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles and mingle with Hollywood’s elite.
Junior Gina Grosso and alumna Kelly Dixon compose one of the 10 semifinalist teams in mtvU’s Oscar Red Carpet Correspondent Contest, which [...]

Paul Rickert’s “Industrial Visions” depict images of suburban and industrial America. A graduate of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif., Rickert uses oils and watercolors to create illustrations that mimic the colors and weather of the Earth at various times.
Rickert says he is attracted to the “mystery of urban of life,” which [...]

By Dereck Rivera
Director Roland Emmerich (Indepedence Day, The Day After Tomorrow) seems to have a knack for depicting catastrophic events, as shown in his latest disaster installment, 2012. The movie loses touch with the in-depth Mayan calendar explanation of the apocalypse but becomes a visual, edge-of-your-seat joyride.
Adrian Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejiofor, American Gangster), an American geologist, [...]

By Lacey Colby
Each fall semester, Alpha Psi Omega produces a student-written sketch comedy show, but be careful not to group these all together as the same production. Though the directors, senior Bobbie Parker and junior Ben Mendelson, have been in some of the past productions, they’ve worked to make it clear that No Laughing Matter: [...]

By Ryan Oliveti
A type of production new to the arts scene will hit the Rider stage this weekend. The Ten-Minute Play Festival being performed in the Spitz Studio Theater is a chance for the community to see gripping pieces of entertainment — briefly.
“The Ten-Minute Play Festival is a night of theater in which several plays [...]

By Kaitlin MacRae
In an amazing display of talent, the hit Broadway musical Rent came to life in the Yvonne Theater last weekend, opening to rave reviews.
Directed by Assistant Professor Miriam Mills, the accomplished cast of Rent delivered a powerful and moving performance, instilling in its audiences the importance of love and friendship. A poignant take [...]

By Katherine Johnson
True love knows no boundaries, especially when one person has the ability to jump through time to visit the one he loves, as is the case in The Time Traveler’s Wife.
In the movie, based on the novel by Audrey Niffenegger, Claire Abshire (Rachel McAdams, The Notebook) is a young girl who is swept [...]

By Allie Ward
“How can you measure the life of a woman or a man?”
That’s the pivotal question in the rock opera Rent, a gritty yet heartwarming story of a group of people in New York City’s East Village wrestling with poverty, disease, success and love.
With music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson, the musical is based [...]

By Kaitlin MacRae
At first glance, comedian Greg Giraldo may come off as the type of guy who could throw a few punches. But a few minutes into conversation, his talent and obvious gift for comedy become evident, and the nice guy he is shines through.
Giraldo performed for a packed BLC Theater last Friday, Nov. 6, [...]

By Heather Fiore
Before most of us were born, the first G.I. Joe action figures exploded into toy stores. Over 40 years and countless toys later, the G.I. Joe franchise revives itself in the new movie, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.
Inspired by Hasbro’s most famous line of action figures, the movie follows the lives of [...]