Archive: Arts & Entertainment

In Samuel Beckett’s HAPPY DAYS, Winnie is buried in a mound up to her waist. Her memory may or may not be failing her. The sun blasts down and she cannot escape it.   It is a lonely spot on the Earth.    Perhaps the daily routine is really just a ritual performed in anticipation of an inevitable end—death?    And, yet, Winnie begins by saying, “Another heavenly day!”

How does the human race survive?   Beckett’s forever optimistic and forever helpless Winnie demonstrates her recipe for life in a play that is a celebration and a warning, hilarious and heart breaking.

Aurora, New York - The Wells College Art Department is pleased to announce the second exhibition of the 2008-09 academic year. “Terrains of Absence” by artist Mark Iwinski will be on display in the String Room Gallery from October 8 through November 5. The exhibit is free and the public is cordially invited to view the show. An opening reception to be held on Wednesday, October 8 from 6:00-8:00 pm offers an opportunity to meet the artist; light refreshments will be served.

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Smart TalkSMART TALK
by Dr. Garrel S. Utter

ALL WHALES:  We're so thankful that the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired treats only native speakers of American English.  We have far too much of work as it is.

Here in Underbelly, Texas, locals cause no end of confusion in newly immigrated shop clerks when they ask for a quart of oil.  They say all and get a big bottle of detergent.

And well sounds like wail, which is also how they say whale. 

Try to correct this good ol' boy, and he'll tell you to go to hail. 

This is our challenge, and in the last eight years, it has grown beyond our fears.


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Called "the play for the 21st century," God's Ear comes to Cornell sparkling from its Off Broadway success. An invention of talented emerging New York City playwright Jenny Schwartz '97, the play is about a family suffering after a child dies but focuses less on the story but on the space between what's said aloud and what's unspeakable. God's Ear opens October 22 and runs through November 2 in the Cornell Schwartz Center's Class of '56 Flexible Theatre.

Guest Director Ken Rus Schmoll went to graduate school at Columbia with the playwright. "Jenny tells stories in a different way. She weaves recycled thoughts and language together that, when combined, express something unexpectedly greater than the sum of their parts," he says. "Although this play is about a universal idea of grief, it's also an examination of 'aliveness.' It is by turns humorous, nerve wracking, and moving." Schmoll directed Schwartz's earlier play Cause for Alarm at the New York International Fringe Festival.

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Smart TalkSMART TALK
by Dr. Will S. Sert

ALCOHOL ABUSE:  This nonsense term is as silly as from the desk of... - try replying, "Dear Desk..." - and speak to this question - will the question listen? 

The term alcohol abuse came up, ironically enough, as my colleague Parley Speake tipped a tankard with me one evening at the Fowler Lounge.  He remarked, "This isn't alcohol abuse, it's self abuse." 

Sipping his schooner of stout, Les Terse allowed that substance abuse of any kind made no sense.  "The substance suffers no abuse at all."

Viva Palaver, the staff psychologist here at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, said, "Way ahead of you, boys.  We shrinks have made it simple for once.  It's addiction, be it to legal drugs, illegal drugs, or texting."

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ITHACA, NY - Limited tickets are still available for a one-evening-only performance of Trajal Harrell Dance Style on October 2, 2008, at the Cornell Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. The dance company will be performing "Quartet for the End of Time," a full-evening dance work choreographed by Harrell for four dancers that takes the story of Olivier Messiaen's famous music of the same name as a foundation for investigating the antagonism between sincerity and irony in our contemporary time.

A Cappella groups unite to help United Way of Tompkins County in a concert tonight at 8:00 p.m. in Statler Hall on the Cornell University Campus.

Ten of Cornell's top a cappella groups will join together in a benefit concert for United Way of Tompkins County. The second annual "A Cappella United" will feature Cayuga's Waiters, Last Call, Nothing But Treble, Hearsay, Touchtones, Hangovers, Chordials, Class Notes, After 8, and the Callbaxx. Additionally, they will be joined by musical theater troupe Anything Goes.