Arts

Artist: Charles Schillings Title: It's about..... Label: Pschent Style: Acid Jazz/House The DJ/producer Charles Schillings graces us with yet another 11-track acoustic/electronic masterpiece to remind the public that there is still undiscovered territory's in today's musical genres.

We at the Concordian are with you all summer long, keeping the Concordia community up to date with the latest news, features, sports and entertainment. Our next issue is June 5.

With finals and last minute papers looming yonder, rejuvenation of sanity and spirit is imperative lest you want to completely FREAK OUT. A little birdie told me of a wonderful alternative to non-prescription drugs and so ladies and gentleman I offer you a stirring and melancholic aesthetic experience for the bargain price of 6 whole dollars (bring your student card and a Walkman/Discman with appropriate contemplative music).

The still obscure practice of textile arts is alive and well in Montreal, thanks in part to two innovative and avant-garde artists, Naomi London and Mindy Yan Miller. Traditionally, textile arts consisted of knitting, quilting, and tapestries, but recently artists have looked to the medium with a deeper more profound vision and have subsequently taken the art form to new levels.

You cannot have a good film without a second act. Such is the case with Barry Sonnenfeld's Big Trouble. Tim Allen stars in this ensemble comedy that seemed to display potential, yet only burns off that opening act energy by jumping straight into the climax.

Frank Zappa materialized at the Hive on Friday night. "An Evening in the Spirit of Frank Zappa" revived his music, his eccentricities and made even his mirror image appear on stage. The class that followed the Frank Zappa course at Concordia's Music department, under Michael Pinsonneault's guidance, successfully brought the rock star's spirit back into this realm by putting on a performance that followed his style and approach.

Anyone who would attempt to summarize Death to Smoochy in one adjective would be ambitious yet unsuccessful. Robin Williams and Edward Norton will cause an abandonment of all prior preconceptions about these two actors and enthusiastically deliver a film that is absolutely a new genre in its' own right.

It is not common to discover a director in Hollywood who can consistently deliver a good film. Such is the case with the experimental and exceptional David Fincher. In his latest film, Panic Room, Fincher creates a superbly suspenseful and eerie piece of entertainment all the while breaking new ground in terms of technological achievement.

With the release of Danny De Vito's newest directing effort Death to Smoochy last Friday. I had the chance to converse with Mr. De Vito and the film's star Robin Williams prior to the film's release. Both stars had plenty to say about their collaboration and their unanimous respect for one another in what proves to be a step downward in the morality ladder for the characters Williams usually portrays.

A press conference was just one of a series of events that took place last week as members of Concordia's HITMAKERS 2002 production team engaged in a five day artistic crusade to create and produce a rock group with STAR POWER. During last Thursday's press conference, in the Vav gallery, Jen Raso and members of the HITMAKERS production team ran through the exhaustive list of events that went into creating their rock sensation, The VAV.

Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal opened its fourth program of the season called Evening Trilogy on Thursday night at Place des Art's Theatre Maisonneuve. Evening Trilogy is a program consisting of two original works and a classic piece by famed choreographer Jiri Kylian.

Everyone's favourite half human/half-bloodsucker vampire killer is back in this sequel to 1998's hit film Blade. Picking up two years after the events of the first film, Blade (Wesley Snipes) is once again on the rampage, killing any vamp he crosses paths with.