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Weekly genomics talks geared towards educating scientists from all backgrounds in everything from physics to the history of science is another way the Center works to foster interdisciplinary collaboration...
...experimental” or “variety” weeklies often showcase local talent and upstart DJs. Institution6, a new weekly that features a collective of local amateur acts in rotation, houses itself at Phoenix Landing and, like many weeklies, claims as its founding purpose the desire to foster a community and promote great (techno) music. Founder and DJ Eric Gray says, “I believe that in addition to education, family, religion, economy and government, music is the sixth social institution.” Gray has built up a “collective” showcasing local...
Panic Room, David Fincher’s new thriller starring Jodie Foster, has something for everyone, yet the individual viewer ends up with nothing. Fincher and screenwriter David Koepp have created a thriller that is much more concerned with packing in every single convention of the horror film than actually creating any original chills...
...Foster portrays Meg Altman, a newly divorced mother who decides to purchase a newly available brownstone on the Upper West Side. Formerly owned by an eccentric millionaire, the apartment boasts a “panic room,” which is essentially a locked room deisgned to keep out invaders. However, this particular panic room houses several million dollars hidden by the millionaire and is the target of the three theives who break into Meg’s apartment her very first night...
...Lambs testifies to her competency as an actress in a thriller, she struggles with this belabored script, posturing, grimacing and trembling through each scene in an attempt to convince the audience of the horror of her situation. Yet, in order to recreate herself as a believably unlikely heroine, Foster applies an air of uncertainty to the character of Meg, attempting to portray a normal woman who is pushed to courageous limits by exceptional circumstances. Unfortunately, the resulting combination of hyperactive anxiety and vacillation results in a character who puts audience members on the edges of their seats not in terror...