Fight Depression, Write Love
By Brandon Hyman,November 19, 2009
Jacki Christian, a high school junior, traveled five hours from Wise to JMU Monday night. Christian’s goal: to listen to and meet Jamie Tworkowski. Tworkowski is the founder of the nonprofit organization To Write Love on Her Arms (TWLOHA) that helps young people dealing with depression and self-injury. Christian follows the organization’s Web site regularly and jumped at the chance to meet Tworkowski when she saw he was visiting JMU. Christian was glad to see that Tworkowski was “really... Read more »
Picasso, Einstein Combine for Laughs
By Brandon Hyman,November 5, 2009
Einstein and Picasso walk into a bar. No, it’s not another mildly funny joke; it’s the hilarious fictional chance meeting that sparks Steve Martin’s absurd comedy “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” at the Latimer-Shaeffer Theatre. The play opens in Paris in 1904 and is set in a simple bar, the Lapin Agile, where owner Freddy (senior Dylan Morris) serves a 25-year-old, unpublished Albert Einstein (junior Grey Robertson). The plot is relatively simple, and the comedy stems from the sheer absurdity... Read more »
Former Student’s Film Attracts FEARnet
By Brandon Hyman,October 22, 2009
Patrick Cassidy, creator of the controversial JMaddy.com and former JMU student, recently had his film “Lullaby” picked up by the Lionsgate company, FEARnet. The film was produced by Jack Steinberg (“Planet of the Apes” (2001), “Whip It”). U. Va.’s student film festival played it, and friends in the movie industry showed it around. Cassidy grew up in Herndon, where he attended high school with friends and future business collaborators Shy Pahlevani, Eric Sollenberger and Collin... Read more »
Strike a Pose
By Brandon Hyman,October 15, 2009
The Girls of Madison Calendar, Shot by Carly Arnwine, Displays 12 Students from JMU Carly Arnwine has had a growing interest in photography for many years, and over the summer she came up with the idea for the Girls of Madison Calendar. To make it a reality, Arnwine arranged salacious scenes in New Jersey, Washington, D.C., Harrisonburg for 12 females students for the 2010 swimsuit calendar. Originally, there were 14, but a pair of twins on the cross country team recently backed out. Twenty percent... Read more »
Banning Books Bans Ideas
By Brandon Hyman,October 1, 2009
The thought of Banned Books Week might startle those who immediately conjure up images of mobs gathering around the smoldering ashes of “The Satanic Verses,” or dread the thought of meeting a student who has never fantasized about Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans. Luckily, we can calm down because the national event actually celebrates books that are or have once been banned. Amidst our intrepid self-exposure to “obscene” literature, we must caution ourselves against the omnipresent censors... Read more »
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