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Irreverent mentalist casts spell over audience
Magician enamors 120 students by reading minds, making soda reappear
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Wayne Hoffman is not your traditional cape-wearing, abracadabra-chanting magician. Instead, Hoffman prefers to sport jeans, a funky white jacket and short, black spiked hair. "You wouldn't pull a rabbit out of a hat," Hoffman said. "What the hell are you going to do with a rabbit?" Hoffman, a mentalist (mind reader) and illusionist (magician) who said he has been performing since the age of seven, performed his show "Mind Candy" Feb.
Jazz Faculty play the sounds of 'The Bridge'
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When Sonny Rollins plays, the world listens. Rollins created his classic 1962 album "The Bridge" literally on a bridge in New York City. On Feb. 19, four Webster professors brought the living legend's album to the stage of the Winifred Moore Auditorium. "It was an important album of the 1960s," said Paul DeMarinis, director of jazz studies.
Symphony orchestra plays last show on Trinity Avenue
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Typically, music teachers tell students the three B's as Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, said Allen Carl Larson, conductor of the Webster University Symphony Orchestra. However, at the concert of "The Three B's" Feb.18 at the E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall on Trinity Avenue, the only B's were Britten, Barber and Beethoven.
Poet brings together Bible, animals
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In a muted southern accent, visiting poet Brian Barker read selections from his debut book "The Animal Gospels." On Feb. 20, students gathered in the Pearson House to hear Barker, who grew up in Bristol, Va., share poems about the racism and poverty he was confronted with as a young boy in the South.
A calendar of upcoming events on campus and around town
Thursday, February 22 • The Conservatory of Theatre Arts presents Ivan Turgenev's "A Month in the Country" at 7:30 p.m. in the Emerson Studio Theatre of the Loretto- Hilton Center. For more information, call ext. 7128. • The Second Annual "String Fling" starts at 7 p.
And the award goes to...
A partial list of what three of our reviewers think will and should win Oscar night
BEST PICTURE James Hansen After winning the SAG Award, this year is looking to go to a highly overrated and really quite bad film. I'm hoping Eastwood or Frears can pull some magic so a good film will win, but it's not looking likely. Prediction: "Little Miss Sunshine" Preference: "Letters From Iwo Jima" Anthony Barsanti It's no doubt this is finally the year for the man the Academy loves to shun, but that's not to say there are no superior achievements to Scorsese's overly-complex shoot-em up/kill 'em all style.
Movie Preview: 'Trudell'
Native American takes over Alcatraz, Winifred Moore
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3 out of 5 stars Who is John Trudell? The FBI labeled him as a terrorist in the 1970s, while Robert Redford has compared his aura to that of the Dalai Lama. Heather Rae's 2005 documentary "Trudell" attempts to define the man at the center of this contradiction, but it fails to provide anything more indepth than a "CliffsNotes" version of his tumultuous life.
Factory Girl
Locally Bred Director's Biopic Is Rightly Glamorous, but Little Else
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3 out of 5 stars St. Louis' own George Hickenlooper's latest, "Factory Girl" is just his latest misstep towards cinematic greatness. On the other hand, he always seems to be able to cull quality performances from his actors despite lightweight scripts. Guy Pierce is consistently good as one of the dozens of actors to portray the inescapable Andrew Warhol in an endless list of bio-pic/documentaries remembering his self-described superficial influence on American culture.
