Campus Couture
Last Friday, fashion design students showcased their original designs at the annual COD fashion extravaganza. A true delight, ‘Sketches’ boasted a range in construction from separates to knits to gowns. TV personality from Project Runway, Suede, lectured and chatted with the promising student-designers before the show, in addition to adding a little incentive for [...]
Read More →Festival season is upon us! We’ve done all the re-con on the hottest weekend concerts of the summer
Summer Camp When: May 23-26 Where: Three Sisters Park – Chillicothe, IL Who: moe., Umphrey’s McGee, Trey Anastasio Band, EOTO, STS9, Zeds Dead, Big Gigantic, Diplo, Griz What to expect: Funky jam-band lovers, ‘scamp’ lifers, lots of dreads and Grassroots hats; look for the glowstick path into the forest and come Monday morning watch for [...]
Read More →A little perspective: Three COD educators share why Boston Bombing is relevant to campus
Eric Hahn Courier Advisor; Chicago Tribune editor/designer What makes this relevant to you, as the advisor of the Courier? The fact that the students are interested in it; as an advisor, my job is to guide but also to make sure the staff does what they want – writes about what they want. The [...]
Read More →An evening with Kirby Dick, Director of Academy Award nominated documentary, The Invisible War
With no knowledge of the film’s subject matter, I took my seat in SRC 2000 excited to finally see the latest work from the director of Outrage and This Film Is Not Yet Rated. After a brief introduction by the movie’s director, Kirby Dick, Rotten Tomatoes’ 2012 Film of the Year began. To say [...]
Read More →Daft Punk breaks silence… kind of.
Despite their work on the score of Disney movie “Tron: Legacy,” that now seems like merely a blip in music time, French robot-duo Daft Punk is now ready to party with us. And a funky, disco party we shall have! The release of a new album Random Access Memories is on its way, and after [...]
Read More →Fate of Chicago’s Congress Theater to be decided Tuesday morning
After the threat of an emergency shutdown last week, one of the city’s most historic venues scrambles to reconcile “hazardous and dangerous conditions” On Friday, Chicago attorneys asked a judge for the immediate shutdown of one of the most important concert venues in the area, citing dangerous conditions that may cancel several tour dates [...]
Read More →COD student rapper known as Spirit of Truth, promotes “awareness and awakening”with self-produced album debut
I’ll be totally honest; usually when people send me music I can anticipate Garage Band loops for six minutes, but Spirit of Truth’s Spiritual Warfare album production is total quality. But don’t just take my word for it; the comment section of the album’s UGHH.com page (Underground Hip Hop) is brimming with praise. The [...]
Read More →8×8 exhibition in the Wings Gallery participating artists list
Disp. No. Name 1 Patsy R. Davis 2 Rachel Livingston 3 Marihel Gonzalez 4 Joshua Glasoa 5 Oscar Ayala 6 Laura Ramirez 7 Christopher Pitlock 8 Mirjana Ursulesku 9 Jorge Davila 10 Dana Swasko 11 Nathan Kegler 12 Laura Warner 13 Meredith Vaura 14 Saulius Pakstys 15 Alex Bauer 16 Hstuart Cunningham 17 Ashley Pegeron [...]
Read More →Your Emails, My Answer: What’s a DJ set anyway?
Festival season is just around the corner and it is beyond awesome that I have been receiving emails from students asking me to teach them a little bit about the dance music world. Friends, here are the Cliff Notes of Electronica 101. Far too much time had past since we had seen our favorite glow-in-the-dark [...]
Read More →When’s the last time you really went to the movies?
The After Hours Film Society is a not-for-profit cultural organization that seeks to encourage the appreciation of cinema, both as an art and as a medium of information and education. The group’s mission statement says it all: to provide the suburban community with first class foreign, art and independent films that otherwise would not be [...]
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