The weirdos must be heard. The New Yorker wouldn’t publish them. Rolling Stone wouldn’t publish them. I certainly wouldn’t publish them. And so they publish themselves, and bare it all for all the world at the Brooklyn Zinefest.
While Fordham’s recent mainstage play, “Swoony Planet” has a heightened poeticism in its tone, its story is rooted firmly in the ground. The play tells a thought-provoking story of immigrants in search of their place in America, couched in soaring language which is beautifully delivered by its talented cast.
Arts & Culture Co-Editor and Multimedia Manager Mike Madden attends the masters class series featuring poets Terrance Hayes and Patricia Smith.
Fordham College at Lincoln Center junior Ike Edgerton is a visual arts major that has a knack for making art that grabs peoples’ attention.
Remember sitting through 10th grade English class trying to watch your classmates attempt to act out scenes from Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” but wishing you could poke your eyes out instead? Well, thankfully, the Broadway production of “Death of a Salesman,” which opened March 15, is nothing like that experience.
Bruce Springsteen, for me, is my gringot: a storyteller that took the ugliest parts of New Jersey, and made them beautiful in song; a historian of sorts whose commentary is solely painted with romance and escape for kids of the ’70s and ’80s who are now parents themselves; a patron saint that seemed to watch over me wherever I went as I experienced shitty summer jobs, high school hierarchies and Jersey shore romances that constituted of catching footballs and Frisbees in front of girls on the beach.
Mary Bly’s mission in life is to remember. And her biggest fear is forgetting. The romantic novelists and professor of English at Fordham College at Lincoln Center is releasing her memoir, “Paris in Love,” on April 3.
“The Ungovernables” is the second triennial exhibition in the history of the New Museum. It brings together 50 artists and artist collectives from around the globe, occupying all five gallery floors. Most of the artists involved are young people working through experimental forms.
Dan McCormick, FCLC '12 and Mike O'Donnell, FCLC '13, are Treesources— a hip hop duo sewing the seeds to resurrect what was once thought to be a dying scene.
“The only thing is that it was very, very dark so I pretty much couldn’t see anything…but I didn’t mind,” John Venditti, Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC) ’13, laughed as he recalled his first time playing bass at his favorite place to perform—West Village concert venue, Sullivan Hall.
