This weekend, Connector Arts and Entertainment editors Regina Alongi and Jen Desrosiers will be at Boston Calling with media and photo passes, respectively. We will be live updating this page from the concerts — that’s right, every noteworthy stage dive and booty shake will be posted here as it happens! Keep this post bookmarked and…
Live review: All Time Low returned to Tsongas Center for ‘Future Hearts Tour’
Jen Desrosiers Connector Editor Even if you’re not a fan, it’s still fairly easy to see why Baltimore-based pop-punk band All Time Low has made quite a big name for themselves since their arrival on the scene in 2005. Over the years, the band had gone from playing at small, no-name venues to large scale…
S.I.S.T.E.R.S. talks ‘Vaginas’
Mariah Alix Connector Staff On Weds., April 8, Fox Common Nightlife hosted S.I.S.T.E.R.S.’ production of “The Vagina Monologues” by Eve Ensler. The play consists of a series of monologues based on interviews of women of all ages, races and sexual orientations. Readers included Tonia Greene, Leslie Garcia, Ashley Cochran, Nicole Hamel and Lucky Thatch.…
Hawkapella presents fifth annual Night of A Cappella this Saturday
Lindy Reed Connector Staff UMass Lowell’s very own all-male a cappella group, Hawkapella, will be hosting their Fifth Annual Night of A Cappella concert this Sat. April 18 in Maloney Hall at University Crossing. The best part? This concert is free. Hawkapella hosted their last concert two weeks ago in University Suites. They performed a…
English dept. presents ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan’
UMass Lowell’s Theatre Arts Program will be presenting “Lady Windermere’s Fan” in the Comley-Lane Theatre at Mahoney Hall this week. The play, having been first published in 1893, is Oscar Wilde’s first hit comedy. It centers around titular character Lady Windermere who thinks her husband is having an affair with another woman. After she confronts…
Third annual Chords for Cancer big success
Melanie Case Connector Staff On Sat. April 11, music performance major Jessica Hall hosted her third annual cancer benefit show, Chords for Cancer. All proceeds from the show are donated to the UMass Memorial Cancer Center of Excellence, located in Worcester, Mass. The show was hosted in Lowell in The Onyx Room at Western Avenue…
Horror flick ‘It Follows’ graces theater screens
Zachary Zuber Connector Contributor If there is one film fans of the horror genre or movies in general should see this year, it is “It Follows,” directed by up-and-comer David Robert Mitchell. A critical darling with a 95 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the film debuted last year at the Cannes Film Festival and was…
All Time Low returns to Tsongas Center April 15 for ‘Future Hearts Tour’
Jen Desrosiers Connector Editor This year has been a busy one for American pop-punk band All Time Low between the release of their newest single, “Something’s Gotta Give,” and the announcement of their sixth studio album, Future Hearts, set to be released on Tues. April 7 through Hopeless Records. In honor of the release of…
