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New Deacon album captures ‘pure joy’

It is not uncommon for participating audience members in a Dan Deacon show to pronounce the experience the best of their lives. In the past, Deacon managed this feat one-handed, looming over a table of electronics that propelled his entire live act – as well as his exuberant 2007 album “Spiderman of the Rings.

Issues arise when students restrict directory information

It’s as easy as a click of a mouse. For University students, keeping one’s cell phone number off the Internet doesn’t just mean keeping potential stalkers at bay. It can also mean the omission of one’s name from a dean’s list or commencement program. When students opt to restrict their University directory information in OASIS, the decision and its implications fall under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, a federal law instituted in 1974 that serves to protect “the privacy of student education records,” as stated by the U.

Is that Natalie Portman?

Style Files returns, as fashion guru Valentina Tapia takes her camera to the world, showcasing the ins and outs of what people are wearing.

Musican, speaker to ‘provoke’ at 40 Watt

Growling out seminal punk songs in just a pair of black shorts may have been the best preparation for Henry Rollins’ later endeavors. The former Black Flag front man, known in that context for his unmitigated, muscle-bound intensity, cites his time with the group as a foundation for all of his activities heretofore.

Yo La Tengo plays in tour’s ‘third leg’

Touring in a band for over two decades may yield experience with the lifestyle, but it doesn’t make it any less strange.

“I think it would be weird if a bunch of people driving around the country didn’t seem alien in some way,” said Ira Kaplan, a founding member of Hoboken, N.

New year gives University fresh looks for fashion

Bedazzled in the spirit of infinite shimmering sequins, 2008 has descended upon us, forever darkening 2007. All of that is to say, party time, 2K8! In addition to all a new calendar year entails – renewed senses of hope for the future, abandoned vices (soon to be lovingly, quickly embraced anew), and empty bottles of cheap champagne – the new year means the second false start in fashion’s Spring 2008 season, and the end of concerning oneself with fall and winter fashion.

Christmas day delivers new, ‘debatable’ film

Denzel Washington knows full well that he has clout at the box office, he said Thursday in a conference call.

“Tell everybody at the University of Georgia Denzel said they have to go to (“The Great Debaters”). There’ll be an exam in January,” said the Oscar winner of his second directorial effort.

Dinosaur Jr. to play ‘loud, fuzzed out’ rock

Neil Young may be the godfather of grunge, but according to Gordon Lamb, he owes that to Dinosaur Jr.

“In the early ’90s when (Dinosaur Jr.) was so enormously huge, (bassist Lou Barlow’s) vocal style pretty much (sounded like Neil Young),” said Lamb, a columnist for Flagpole and music blogger at 24hourpartypooper.

Exhibit features decades of style

Of the 20th century’s many antiquated fashions, the “monobosom” might be the trend best left behind. Beginning Saturday and running through March 10 in the Rowland and Letitia Radford Collection Study Gallery at the Georgia Museum of Art, “Shaping the Silhouette: A Glimpse into 20th-Century Fashion” will feature an outfit from each individual decade of the last hundred years.

Big blog buzz ushers ‘smut pop’ to Georgia

On the blog buzz scale of hype, “smut pop” band Black Kids risks exploding the meter. “I kind of feel there was a knob that adjusted the rate at which we’re getting known,” said Reggie Youngblood, lead vocalist of the Jacksonville, Fla., quintet in a telephone interview.

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