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“Hard Candy” Directed by David Slade Lions Gate Films In the age of MySpace, Facebook and instant messaging, the online predator has replaced the friendly stranger with candy at the local park as the scourge of every parent’s nightmares. Read more...

Though she currently resides in Los Angeles, Esther Baker-Tarpaga is hardly here to stay. Baker-Tarpaga, a third-year graduate student in dance, splits her time between Africa, the U.S. Read more...

When trying to characterize her dance style, Maria Gillespie, choreographer and artistic director for the Oni Dance company and dance instructor in the world arts and culture department, said, “I couldn’t say it in one word.” To an outsider, modern and postmodern dancers may seem to use an incomprehensible language. Read more...

If one were to scan the titles of movies opening this Friday, that person would find a group of adjectives appealing to a somewhat degenerate nature: scary, wild (admittedly used as a noun in the movie’s name), hard, notorious, kinky. Read more...

Famed comedian Jack Benny was known for his notoriously self-deprecating humor. It’s appropriate, then, that a recipient of an award named after Benny might resort to similar strategies. Read more...

After announcing himself in the third person on a loudspeaker backstage at his April 5 show, Bill Bailey energetically strode out to his microphone, settled amid an array of unlikely musical instruments, and concisely informed the audience that “there are three jokes in this show.” He promptly began the first with, “Three blokes walk into a pub” trailing off midway through, unapologetically explaining that he always seems to lose faith in his jokes halfway through. Read more...