While Natalie Portman’s character insisted in Garden State that listening to The Shins’ “New Slang” would “change your life,” it may not hold true for The Shins’ newest album. Wincing the Night Away will not alter any listener’s day or week, let alone his/her life.

12:15 p.m. marks the infamous Blanchard peak hour, and they’re holding up signs under midday snowfall for Professor Roger Babb’s Theater Arts seminar. It’s seven o’clock on a weeknight, and they’re wrapping up a mid-semester project in the Black Box Theater.

The music industry isn’t exactly known for promoting musical talent (ahem, Britney Spears) so it’s a rare treat when a major label like DreamWorks Records signs a five record deal with a band such as Ours.
Ours spent four years after being signed in 1997 meticulously crafting and cultivating their twelve track gem debut, Distorted Lullabies.

Since Harry Potter first appeared on the silver screen in 2001, we have fantasized and dreamed about Daniel Radcliffe, the boy who gave a face to that name we all know and love.
Despite talent and extraordinarily good looks, Radcliffe has attempted to maintain a normal life; his parents made sure from the start that he kept a low profile, though it hasn’t been easy staying out of the limelight while playing a household name like Harry Potter.

There was nothing I could do to stop it. I felt my muscles tense and my breathing quicken, my cheeks flushing with frustration. I wanted to jump on the next flight back to the good old U.S. of A and dismiss this experience as a misguided decision to search for adventure.

The weekend has finally arrived and you and your (21 and older) friends yearn to get off campus to ease the anxiety and tension of your Mount Holyoke-filled lives. A deafening and crowded dive packed with sketchy men and Budweiser, however, is not exactly what you had in mind.

Best Actor
On Sunday night, Peter O’Toole, one the greatest living screen actors, could become the most-nominated actor never to win an Academy Award.
The fact that O’Toole has never won a competitive Academy Award (he received an honorary Oscar in 2003) is a crime.

During the summer of 1998, current Mount Holyoke Professor Jenny Perlin stumbled across a life-changing find at a yard sale in a form of a 1915 bestseller priced at a mere quarter.
This quirky publication, entitled “Perseverance & How To Develop It,” advised counting grains of rice, transferring water by spoon from one bowl to another and untangling a knot as a forms mind-exercises for success.

If the Northampton band Winterpills were submitting their debut album, The Light Divides, for a final project in a class called, say, Musical Redundancy, they would pass the course with flying colors. If they submitted The Light Divides in a class entitled Musical Potency, a very average C would be exactly what they deserve.

Butterflies, astrological signs, collages, comic books, maps and other assortments of pop culture bombard you as you enter the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum.