Tag Archives: stage

‘A Cool Dip’ Flooded With Ideas

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Shelley DuBois

William Jackson Harper and Myra Lucretia Taylor in A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick. If you were to rank the oldest, most powerful motifs in storytelling, God and water would be right up there with love and death. … Continue reading →

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Rescue Robots Act On The Side

Posted on February 5, 2010 by Shelley DuBois

Turns out, robots have hobbies too. Cast members of Texas A&M University’s latest production of  A Midsummer Night’s Dream shared the stage with several robotic fairies that, during the production, buzzed around the actors and audience. The robots took time … Continue reading →

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Note Selection: Darwin Inspired Music

Posted on November 18, 2009 by Laura Pelcher

2009 has been a big year for Charles Darwin as it marks his 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of the release of On the Origin Of Species. He’s been getting a lot of attention in the science community this … Continue reading →

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Singing to the Beat of Their Neighbor’s Drum

Posted on October 2, 2009 by Laura Pelcher

We all have neighbors and it’s easy for disputes to come up. When this happens, communicating is key to moving past the issue, but what if you don’t speak the same language as your neighbor? In a diverse ecosystem like … Continue reading →

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Andrew Bird’s New Album Sings of Natural History

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Laura Pelcher

Andrew Bird has become one of my favorite musicians, I’ve been quietly soothed by his gentle and melodic tunes, enthralled by the complexity with which he layers his songs and overall impressed with his matured skill. The music itself was … Continue reading →

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Things That Crawl In the Night

Posted on September 15, 2009 by Laura Pelcher

In a tribute to David Bowie and his album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972), a newly discovered spider, decidedly from Earth, has been named Heteropoda davidbowie. The spider, as reported in The … Continue reading →

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Philosophizing Physics

Posted on September 9, 2009 by Laura Pelcher

We are all the suns of our own universes, yet I’m not sure I would have had the audacity, or maybe the wisdom, to extend the metaphor to a personal theory of wave particle duality or to a life-sized paradigm … Continue reading →

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DJ Spooky’s Terra Nova

Posted on September 1, 2009 by Laura Pelcher

Terra Nova Performance DJ Spooky, aka Paul D. Miller, traveled to Antarctica in a research vessel to explore the land with no country. Gathering sound and image data, he mixes hiphop, soundscapes, video projections and live music by the International … Continue reading →

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