Browsing: Arts and Life

Dinner and a movie.
Yes, I realize it represents a profound failure of imagination, but this was the date I had proposed to my wife for Valentine’s Day this week. But sometimes life’s obligations (not to mention two kids) limit your options for an evening out, so you flail around, punt and resort to an old standby. It still beats takeout and loading the dishwasher, right?

LOS ANGELES — Fox has X’d out “The X Factor.”
Once seen as the next “American Idol,” Fox has canceled the “The X Factor” after three seasons of shuffling judges and low ratings for the musical talent show.

The smell of wet paint crawls through the air in the Mabee Theater in the Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center. Colors blur and blend into one another on the backdrop, so there is uncertainty as to where horizontal begins and vertical ends.
The stage seems to be a character itself.

Three students in the Accelerated Ventures Program at Baylor started a business centered on the Baylor plaid: Dapper Bear Clothiers.
The Accelerated Ventures Program is a two-semester course in which students are given $5,000 to start their own business.

NBC is preparing to remake its late-night lineup as Jay Leno exits as host of “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” today and Jimmy Fallon begins as host of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” Feb. 17 (at midnight its first week following Olympics coverage, then moving back to its regular 11:35 p.m. time slot). On Feb. 24, “Late Night with Seth Meyers” (12:35 a.m.) debuts.

On Saturday some of the best high school piano talent will perform on campus.

The Baylor/Waco Piano Competition will be held from 8 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. in the Glennis McCrary Music Building and Waco Hall. This year’s event will be the 34th annual competition, and it is sponsored by the School of Music.

LOS ANGELES _ “All bad things must come to an end.” That’s how Motley Crue broke the news it was calling it quits.

The influential, and infamous, L.A. rock band turned Beacher’s Madhouse in Hollywood into a circus Tuesday morning as more than 100 media outlets packed the hot spot to hear the band’s announcement of a 72-date farewell tour.

Cinema owners have long complained about the length of movie trailers. Now they’re clamping down. New guidelines issued Monday by the National Assn. of Theatre Owners call for limiting the length of movie trailers to two minutes. The guidelines, which the trade group said were designed to “maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of the industry’s marketing efforts,” also call for restricting marketing time for trailers to 150 days prior to the release date of the film, and 120 days for all other in-theater marketing materials. Two exemptions per distributor per year would be allowed for both trailer length and marketing lead time.

International students from five continents have found a temporary home at Common Grounds. Though they met as a group for the first time less than two weeks ago, more than 25 students from around the world gathered Wednesday to support one of their group and his acoustic session.