The Good Bowl
By Hana Uman,March 4, 2010
Local and organic products combine with vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free choices to create A Bowl of Good Café. Co-owner Katrina Didot has sold natural products for more than four years and opened the Café in August. For no more than $7, Harrisonburg locals are now able to travel from continent to continent simply by stepping into a restaurant only a few minutes away. Customers sit around dark wooden tables and chairs, drinking fair-trade coffee from Nicaragua, munching on coconut chicken from... Read more »
A Personal Apology to Akron/Family
By Jeff Wade,March 4, 2010
Two years ago, I bailed on the band’s show early after they jammed for 45 minutes. It wasn’t the North Carolina-based trio’s fault. If it’s anyone’s fault, it’s mine. Then again, it was 2008, and Akron/Family wasn’t the only thing to be undeservedly bailed on. But hey, that was the “Love is Simple” tour. It’s 2010, and the band currently on the tail end of the “Set ’Em Wild, Set ’Em Free” tour and deserve another listen. Akron/Family is the type of band that sees music... Read more »
O’ Bread, O’ Cheese!
By Jamie Lose,March 4, 2010
I’ve been having a difficult time rationalizing the proper funding that should go into a college diet while taking into consideration what is supposedly healthy, yummy and appropriate in portion size. It took me roughly one or two trips to Food Lion to realize I can’t go around grabbing food in quantities with the freedom of D-Hall. As it turns out, food costs money in the real world; money I have strategically put away for more important things like adult onesies at Target and crazy straws... Read more »
Editor Obsession
By Anna Young, Managing EditorMarch 4, 2010
If you are an avid member of the Colbert nation, you know it made its way to snowy Vancouver for Stephen Colbert’s Vancouverage 2010 of the Winter Olympics. With his snarky commentary and blithe bantering interviews, Colbert carried his classy style all the way to the British Columbia city. I’m not one to closely follow the Winter Olympics, but somehow Colbert made me care that some guy named Apolo Ohno won his seventh speed skating medal. Filmed live in the Colbert Report International Broadcast... Read more »
This is Why We’re Hot: Story Amended
By Jamie Lose,March 1, 2010
Mozaic Dance Hosts Teams for Workshops and Competition Have you ever walked into a crowded room and knew without doubt or suspicion that by some divine right you were fundamentally and intrinsically the most un-cool person there? This weekend I was given this opportunity. With more neon Nike’s and swagger than one room could hold, this weekend’s hip-hop event, Kodachrome, brought all kinds of sexy back. The event is held in a different location each month. This weekend sponsored by Mozaic, JMU’s... Read more »
Cool-Aid Benefit Concert Brings Bands Together to Fight Cancer
By Amber Logsdon,March 1, 2010
According to the American Cancer Society in 2009, almost 1.5 million new cases of cancer were reported. In response to these alarming numbers, WXJM and Alpha Phi Omega felt the need to step in and do something to fix it. “A lot of our members, either through family members or otherwise, are affected by cancer,” said Jennifer Bailey, a sophomore elementary education major and fundraising chair of APO. By combining both fundraising and up-and-coming acts on the music scene, WXJM and APO created... Read more »
Impending Doom of Senioritis
By Michael Larrick, The BreezeMarch 1, 2010
With spring break less than a week away, the reality that I’m actually going to graduate from college in May is starting to set in. Because I usually tend to avoid the challenges life sets in front of me for as long as possible, I’ve developed an acute case of senioritis. This is a very different case than the one we all experienced during our senior year of high school. That one occurred because you were moving on to what people told you would be the best time of your life: college — a magical... Read more »
Pavement’s Greatest Hits Leads Down Confusing Road
By Jeff Wade,March 1, 2010
Describing the sound of Pavement 20 years ago would have been a nebulous task, filled with unwarranted reference and comparison to The Velvet Underground and The Fall. It has gotten much easier to describe as the band’s brand of cryptic but emotive and evocative lyricism over ragged hooks has become prototypical indie rock. Since their breakup at the beginning of the millennium, Pavement’s star status has risen to the point that bands from The National to The Hold Steady have paid tribute to... Read more »
Sweeping Down The Plain
By Elyse Krachman,February 25, 2010
Exuberant characters, an authentic set and energetic performances, bring this classic musical to life, taking the audience back to 1906 in the rural town of Claremore, Okla. By the time the first notes of “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’” were sung Monday night, the audience had no chance at resisting the almost tangible charm of the School of Theatre and Dance’s production of “Oklahoma!” The theatre’s production of “Oklahoma!” boasts a gorgeous set. Corn stalks line the back of the... Read more »
Harpist Makes Near Perfect Album
By Jeff Wade,February 25, 2010
For the most part, the record reviews I like to pitch for this paper are based on artists that may not be popular but could very easily catch on given wider exposure. Then there is Joanna Newsom, a female singer-songwriter/harp player whose latest album “Have One on Me,” is an 18-song, three-disk, two-hour affair. Newsom has a knack for making songs as pretty as she is, but previous efforts made it difficult for some to immediately see this. Barriers of entry included a distinctive and polarizing... Read more »
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