Michael Jackson's passing on June 25th came as a shock to the millions of people around the world who had experienced the King of Pop's music. Some remember Jackson as the cute and captivating lead singer of Jackson 5, others recall him as the innovative dancer who slid across the floor with the Moonwalk, forever changing the art of dance.
Name: Gilbert Reyes, Major: Double Major, Anthropology and Dance Caught listening to: Collapsing Bridges - Luke Pickett
As the first decade of the 21st Century enters its twilight months, Judd Apatow is emerging as an iconic comedic director for a generation. Well, like a rosy-faced 15-year-old boy copping to the ultimate semi-pubescent sin, I'll admit it: before seeing his latest offering, Funny People, I was an Apatow virgin.
In some ways, it was the impossibly rainy summer of 2009 that drove the final stake through the heart of my childhood. And by my childhood, I mean the 1980's (and you could stretch that a bit into the early 90's, too, if you really want). From that blissfully uneasy perch, that nexus of still-novel independence and turbo-charged vitality-my mid-20's-I watched it happen.
"I'm living alone!" Gabe chanted, stomping up the stairs to his bedroom. My mother, assuming her eight-year-old son was having another temper tantrum, rushed to "restrain" Gabe, which meant embracing him in a bear hug until he stopped flailing around. "He's cool, mom," I called after her.
Michael Thomas, novelist, Hunter English Professor, and alumnus, was awarded the $140,000 Dublin LiteraryAward for his first novel, Man Gone Down, published in 2007. Thomas' novel was chosen out of 145 books from around the world, and a pool of finalists that included Pulitzer Prize Winner Junot Diaz.