ARTEFACTO

I am not sure how to describe the feeling that overwhelms me every time AUBG elections are coming up. Whether it is senator, SG president, Student Representative, MoreHonors or Miss AUBG elections (or defacto polls, for that matter), something in the idea of "I get to decide" gets me more than excited. So, like a responsible and involved student that I am, I participate and click on someone’s name every time, and keep my fingers crossed.

While many AUBG students hurry to their classes grumpy and dissatisfied, consumed in daily routines, they often fail to notice and enjoy the charm of AUBG life. For an outsider, it seems to be different. Saskia Troycke thinks the AUBG campus is admirable, and finds Balkan culture, as well as chalga music, "interesting and different". Coming from a place near Munich, Saskia is in Bulgaria on a quest for an exciting cultural experience.

Passion, age and relationship doubts mixed successfuly in "Three Tall Women," a play by Edward Albee which was shown April 21 and 22 in the Nikola Vapcarov theatre Chamber Hall of Blagoevgrad.

Winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize, the play is currently performed at the finest theaters around the world. Professor Nedyalko Delchev embarked on the challenging task of appropriately staging such a meaningful, passionate, intelligent and well written play.

Hairspray, this year's Broadway Performance Club musical, was wonderful not only because of its success in Blagoevgrad and on the national tour, but for the unforgettable experience it gave to the cast members as well.

This opinion piece is to respond to Professor Sandra Earley's concerns about the appropriateness of the Miss AUBG competition. I believe there were some issues raised that were found inappropriate and offensive towards some members of our community. As a Senator of the Student Government (SG) of AUBG, a female and a member of the budgetary committee, hence directly connected with the accreditation of the AUBG Pageant Club, I felt I had to stand up for my beliefs.

 

When a person gets to see his friends in a university production, expectations tend to diminish and people tend to become much more appreciative towards it. This is not such kind of a review. I have been bashing movies for defacto for a while, writing about their good points and weaknesses, and I will not treat Hairspray otherwise. I will be as objective as possible, since I paid money to view this almost-successful production.

 

 

It is always fun to see a Tim Burton movie. He is one of those fascinating directors who are able to create a spectacle out of the most mundane, unoriginal situations. Furthermore, there is a method to his madness and he tries to compile similar casts for most of the movies he produces.

This movie has every possible ingredient of an acclaimed cinematographic masterpiece: director Rob Marshall, the mastermind behind critically acclaimed Memoirs of a Geisha and Chicago; an ensemble of remarkable actors; and its script is a remake of a Federico Felinni classic. So what went wrong?

 

The Journalism and Mass Communications (JMC) department acquired seven still cameras that were delivered at the beginning of January. The new Nikon D300s will be used exclusively by photojournalism students.

 

There have been many epics in the movie industry - starting with Gone with the Wind and ending with Emmerich's 2012 - but Avatar pretty much obliterates everything that has been done before.

 

"Apparently there will be no Christmas this year," defacto special correspondent from Lapland stated, after observing the situation around Santa Claus's mansion during the past days.

 

He is an exchange student from the United States who has been searching for new ways to express himself through music ever since he became passionate about playing American folk. If you ever wondered who is that guy playing the guitar and harmonica beside the river, meet Eric Halsey.

 

Sometimes there are no words to express the sadness. Sometimes there is no time to spend watching a movie as bad as New Moon. Kudos to me for not actually leaving the theatre 30 minutes after the movie started, but then again, it had some good moments, albeit a few.