By Andrew Brown
Josh Tickell and Rebecca Harrell are amongst the leading voices in the campaign for green energy. Just don’t call them environmentalists.
Allow Tickell to explain: “The danger of saying that I’m an environmentalist is that everybody immediately has a picture of what that means. People classify the environmental movement as a reactionary one. Activism [...]

By Charles Cartagena
In Michael Bay’s second installment of the Transformer’s live-action series, Revenge of the Fallen, Optimus Prime leads the audience through an opening flashback thousands of years into the past, when life on Earth is threatened for the first time by visiting Decepticons.
Prime, voiced by Peter Cullen, takes the audience into the present day [...]

By Heather Fiore
From the classroom to Broadway, one Rider student is taking his life on tour.
A sophomore musical theater major who lives on the Lawrenceville campus, Rich Crandle recently received probably one of the most important phone calls to help kick off his professional career.
“Since getting the phone call, I have been on cloud nine,” [...]

By Katherine Johnson
What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas, especially when it comes to bachelor parties, as the men in The Hangover learn.
The hysterical comedy is about a group of guys who take a trip to Las Vegas for their friend Doug’s bachelor party, a night they truly cannot remember.
After waking up the [...]

By Kaitlin MacRae
As Rider continues its efforts to go green, the Energy and Sustainability Steering Committee (ESSC) is sponsoring a Green Film Series to emphasize the importance of environmental awareness and the harmful impact we continue to have on our world.
Set to run from September until April 2010, the educational films are meant to establish [...]

By Lacey Colby
It is a difficult task to remake a long-standing series according to contemporary standards while remaining faithful to the original material. The filmmakers of the Star Trek reboot had to face the possible alienation of the large fan base devoted to the old plot lines if they chose the more contemporary approach of [...]

By Brandi Lukas
Peace, love and music. Forty years ago, the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair transformed a small farm in Bethel, N.Y., into a cultural phenomenon in August 1969.
As young men, two of Rider’s sociology professors, Dr. Jeffrey R. Halpern and Dr. Barry E. Truchil, traveled from different parts of New York to the Woodstock [...]

By Kaitlin MacRae
It’s no secret that Hollywood loves remakes. Countless adaptations and variations of stories are told again and again, each version unique to the creative force behind it. Lisa Ann Wetzel, a sophomore arts administration major, brought her own novel spin to a classic story, scripting and performing in an unconventional take on “Sleeping [...]

By Jess Scanlon
A documentary film by senior Patty Wittenburg will be shown at the internationally renowed Cannes Film Festival this summer.
“I found out three weeks ago and I was really excited,” Wittenburg said. “I leave the night of my graduation for France, which is exciting, but also a little nerve- wracking.”
The documentary is not competing [...]

By Paul Mullin
It’s around noontime on a sunny Saturday, and a small wedding reception is getting underway. It isn’t the most glamorous setting, but the guests are dancing and so is the happy couple. Then an orange maintenance crane crosses through the scene — back-up beeper blaring loud and clear — and there is a [...]