This week at Mason
Monday, Feb. 20 Midterm progress reports Screening: “Ex Machina” | JC Cinema | 6 p.m. | Free Tuesday, Feb. 21 Hispanic Student Association Karaoke Night | The Hub Ballroom | 7 p.m. | Free Improv Jam | JC Georges…
Tag: music
A Valentine’s Day mixtape
No more mushy love songs. Here are five tracks that won’t make your crush blush. BY MACKENZIE REAGAN, CO-EDITOR-IN-CHIEF While cheesy love songs have their place—high school dances, first dances at weddings, weeknight karaoke—for the most part, they’re…
Check out this week’s on-campus events
Monday, Feb. 13 Last day to drop classes (33 percent tuition penalty) “The 13th” film screening | JC Cinema | 4:30 p.m. | Free Tuesday, Feb. 14 Valentine’s Day Paul Mitchell Fashion Show Event | The Hub Ballroom | 2…
Sweater Beats Comes Home to DC
BY DINANDA PRAMESTI, STAFF WRITER On the night of Nov. 23, I got a lucky chance to sit down with DJ Sweater Beats. His real name is Antonio, but people call him Sweaters — or, as a tour member calls…
Troye Sivan plays at EagleBank Arena
Invalid Displayed Gallery BY MACKENZIE REAGAN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Death, taxes, heartthrobs. These three things are the precious few constants in an ever-evolving society. Just like death and taxes will always exist, so too will there always be a market for…
Local band debuts second album
BY KATYA BEISEL, STAFF WRITER At a concert Nov. 5 in Fat Tuesday’s at University Mall, local band Stone Driver celebrated the release of its second album, “Rocks,” where they played new tracks as well as old favorites from their…
Concert time: Jazz in Washington, D.C.
BY KELLY FOSTER, STAFF WRITER For recent events across the Washington D.C. area and around the Mason community, The Carmel Institute of Russian Culture and History offered a chance for students to hear musicians Igor Butman and Wynton Marsalis play…
Avett Brothers get psyched
BY MACKENZIE REAGAN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Casting directors for biopics have a difficult choice to make: do they cast Actor A, who looks just like the subject, or Actor B, who might never be mistaken for the subject but embodies their “essence?”…
Two country stars collide
BY BENJAMIN LAWLER, STAFF WRITER On Oct. 8, Alabama and The Charlie Daniels Band took the stage for a three-hour show. Both are icons in the country music genre, and both of them playing at the same place was…
Music Program gives old instruments new life
Basma Humadi, Staff Writer A new outreach program is spreading tunes in a new way by collecting used musical instruments for children and students to give them a second life. Instruments in the Attic, first sprouted in 2007 when Mason alumnus…