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Theatre Archive

Theatre Extempore takes Stage Door with unexpected cast

Green River’s Drama Department, known as Theatre Extempore, will be showcasing a classic 1930’s backstage comedy known as George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber’s Stage Door starting May 28th. With a cast of 20 girls and 10 boys, the show will follow the plot of several aspiring actresses who live in a theatre together and vie for the big time on Broadway and boasts both romance and comedy.

Elle Woods adds a little pink to Seattle

What do tiny dogs, an ungodly amount of pink, and Harvard University all have in common? The latest production at the Fifth Avenue Theater, Legally Blonde: the Musical, of course! This latest feature in Seattle leaves audiences saying, “omigod you guys” as they laugh along with Elle Woods as she treats Harvard University to a healthy dose of pink in order to win back the heart of the former love of her life, Warner Huntington III.

Fashion Archive

Apple's iPad not for the new generation

Apple recently introduced the highly anticipated iPad, and will be in stores as soon as March this year. The iPad is a multimedia device on which the user can browse the web, read eBooks, send and receive e-mails, play games and much, much more.

Summer, here we come: feel and look great in the heat

Get the cutest summer styles, the perfect sunkissed glow, and be sure to join the best gym for your

Summer is everyone’s favorite time of the year…School’s out, relaxation is in clear sight, and fresh lemonade is being consumed by the gallons! But, now is the time to get your body ready for that teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini! There are so many different aspects of preparing for the hottest and most enjoyable season.

Knicks and Knacks

Need a fresh idea for a romantic, cute summer date?

For those who want a creative date but don't have much to spend

Asking someone out on a date is already nerve racking, but then figuring out what to do is worse. Are you someone who wants to figure out the perfect date without spending too much of that green from your wallet and hoping it will turn out amazing? Well, help has come! Summer time is the perfect time for adventures that will bring excitement and a lot of laughs.

How much does it really cost to say "I do?"

Weddings....there is so much to consider; here's how to have a beautiful and stressless day

Wedding bells, flying doves, and a beautiful flowing gown are all a part of every woman’s dream. What females don’t take the time to think of is how much a happy ending really costs. If a husband and wife plan to have a family and a home, then they should consider saving years in advance for their wedding because it gets pretty expensive.

Art Archive

Kurt and Warhol exhibits

Touring Pike’s Place Market, walking along the beach in Alki, and hitting up Safeco field for a Mariner’s game are each typical Summer pastimes in Seattle. These places are a given, but this summer another attraction joins that list: tributes to one of Seattle’s most endearing icons, and personal photographs and Polaroid of perhaps the most eccentric pop artists of the last 50 years.

Art as subjectivity: how can one truly define art?

From the brillant Van Gogh to the beautiful Mount Rainer, art is in the eye of the beholder

“A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line,” wrote Joseph Conrad. Understanding that art requires “justification” in the words of Conrad – deeming a piece of work as an acceptable art – it is that which pleases the senses, which satisfies individual opinions and emotions: as a subjective understanding as to what constitutes what… in this case, what constitutes art.

Painter profile: abstract art causes students to stare

A student embraces his natural ability to create abstract art and capture an audience

A pallet messily decorated with lights and darks, a cup filled with fresh paint brushes, and a mind full to the brim with abstract thoughts…oh to be an artist! Very few are blessed with the talent to turn a blank surface into something of beauty.

Books Archive

Underground Icon pens grooviest novel yet

If there are still literary events in the 21st century that reach the immortal levels of the past, the publication of a new Thomas Pynchon novel this last summer is about as close as we’re going to get. The fact that many readers quite possibly have never heard the name before –– Pynchon is a notorious recluse who has spent his entire life avoiding publicity as much as possible, and usually writes extremely dense, lengthy and challenging works –– could make an assertion like that sound ridiculously exaggerated.

Persepolis: history, politics, comedy come alive

A review of this year's One Book-One Community novel

A comic strip and a novel wrapped into one, on a young girl's perspective on the Islamic Revolution

Food Archive

Battle of the blends: Jamba or Emerald City?

Your favorite smoothie brands battle to the death for bragging rights, find out who takes the crown

Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time for the boxing gloves to come flying off because it is the final match up between smoothie blends. It’s an on-going battle, so it’s finally time to see who comes out on top: Jamba Juice or Emerald City Smoothie. 1 comment

Cookies bring students together

Giraffes,monkeys, elephants, oh my! Cheer up your friend with a cookie

Oreos, chocolate chip, snicker doodles, Samoa and especially Animal Crackers, those are the good things in life. Since they were invented long ago, cookies have been bringing people of all ages happiness. As a matter of fact, if there was one thing that could bring everyone together, something to maybe even catalyze world peace, I think that thing would be cookies.

Lea Hill Food Market opens

The new Lea Hill Food Market that’s located right up the street from Green River Community College (GRCC) is trying to sell foods that the students here can enjoy, and they’ve asked The Current for help. Luckily, we were able to discover that all over campus, students’ consensus is that they want variety. 1 comment

Music Archive

Electrical curveball changes venue for KGRG’s Summer Riot Concert

KGRG's most ambitious concert relocates after campus wide black-out scheduled for June 19. Capital projects shut down the campus to redirect power to the new Salish Hall Building.

Try questioning the survival of a music genre for homework

Poetics of Hip Hop students give modern sound a second look

Helmed by Jennifer Whetham, the Poetics of Hip Hop is a class that teaches students that there is more meaning to the genre and culture of hip hop than what is initially shown on the surface; that rap and hip hop is at its best, raw poetry. The class environment consists of discussions and dissections of hip hop song lyrics like “Bitches Ain’t Shit” by Dr.

Teachers make time to jam during inservice day

A bespectacled Ken Marr gently taps his brown new balance shoes in time to guitar strumming. Numerous chords echo across the hall. A curious venue, the guest will be greeted at the door of two deadhead skeletons holding signs with two self-incriminating jokes, “what did the deadhead say when he ran out of pot? What do you call a deadhead that just broke up with his girlfriend?” Among the workshops during in-service day of April 20, there was a jam session from 10:15-11:30 hosted by chemistry teacher, Ken Marr.

Rock for Haiti benefits venue not charity

On Wednesday night, April 25th five local punk rock bands raged in the name of charity. It was the “Rock for Haiti Benefit Show” at Seattle’s El Corazon. The line-up showcased a group of fiery, energy-packed bands playing combinations of hardcore, punk rock, and metal.

Latest KGRG concert a raging success

With Grammy’s right around the corner, who will win Song of the Year

The Annual Grammy Awards are coming up this January 31st at 8pm on CBS and that can only mean one thing, endless speculation on who should win, who will win, and the outrage in the end when the one who you wanted to win doesn’t. This Songwriter’s Award is important to acknowledge because a song wouldn’t be a song without words.

VMA: Very Morose Achievement

Kids, teens, and adults alike each anticipated the popular and extravagant VMA ceremony that took place of September thirteenth of this year. Hosted by MTV, the famous event sent many musicians home with an award (or a few) for a well-created music video.

Hottest summer artist: Pop, rock, hip-hop and country

dd some new songs to your iPod for summer fun; Taylor Swift, Green Day, Taking Back Sunday,

Are you going on a road trip this summer and don’t know what songs to add to your iPod? Have a summer barbeque that needs a soundtrack to keep the party alive? Artists have been releasing several awesome albums lately which are perfect for any summertime occasion.

I love college, what a concept

Roth's new hit single is a mix of hip hop and alternative sure to please

I love college, what a concept. Sure college has its ups and downs: ups being that one receives a valid education, more leniency than previous education facilities, and just more freedom. The downs being possibly the stress of an extra work load among others.

Tech Archive

Revolutionary game developer

Corvus Elrod is a game designer and semionaut who explores and create games while communicating stories through game mechanics; the rules defining how a player interacts within a game’s playspace. Elrod is a staple at many gaming events and conferences such as the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle and the Game Developers Conference.

Game Prose

It’s amazing when you realize that the world you live in is much larger than you once believed. Infants only know the places they are guided to by their mother and father until they are able to walk, for instance. As they develop, they learn that life contains things much more exciting than eating, sleeping, and pooping.

Game developers ‘Respawn’ from Infinity Ward courtroom drama

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 had the biggest release of any entertainment product ever on its first day last November making over five-hundred million dollars. The game was developed by Infinity ward and published by Activision. It currently stands as the second best selling game of all time just under Wii sports. 5 comments

Is MAG a bigger hit than Call of Duty?

The video game takes place in the year 2025, three PMC (private military contractors) battle it out to see who gets the biggest paycheck. These “Big Three” companies are named Valor Company Inc., S.V.E.R (Seryi Volk Executive Response), and Raven Industries.

Apple's iPad not for the new generation

Bayonetta, a feminine hero or a damsel in distress

Are women in video games powerful or just pitiful?

The video game Bayonetta was released on Playstation 3 and Microsoft Xbox 360 on Tuesday January 4. It is an action video game about a witch fighting both the forces of heaven and hell. Bayonetta, the leading character in the game is hardly realistic as a woman.

Players wait anxiously for new Wii games

2010 is set to be the biggest year the Ninendo Wii has had since its launch in 2006. At Nintendo's media summit back in February, Nintendo showcased every high-profile game coming out in the first half of this year. With the years' halfway mark only three months away, it's time to take out the Nintendo Wii from closets and get ready for an onslaught of new games. 1 comment

These shoes cost three hundred dollars!

Shoes, cute tops and muffins are what fill the screen of imaginative spirit Liam Kyle Sullivan’s pop

I was recently introduced to some amazingly strange youtube videos. You may know Liam Kyle Sullivan’s videos as the “Shoes” video, the “Let me borrow that top” video, and the “muffins” video.

Movies Archive

Countdown to Avengers

Marvel comics, the company that created superheroes including Spiderman, X-Men, and The Hulk, successfully catapults America’s favorite superheroes to the big screen. Unfortunately, Marvel’s promotional methods consist primarily of stirring the public with restless hype for the Avengers movie in 2012.

Iron Man 2 a great summer flick

Iron Man 2 is one of the best written and directed movies based on a comic book in many years, and it deserves five stars two thumbs up. Everything about this movie was terrific, from its story to its fight scenes. The sequel had a great story that answered many questions fans had about the film, for example; how can someone have radioactive metal in their body and survive. 2 comments

The Last Airbender

M. Night Shyamalan and his adaptation of the hit animated series Avatar: the Last Airbender, debutes July 2, 2010. In the show, there are four nations, which all use an element called “bending.” It is a mixture of magic and martial arts, the odds are against Aang and his companions as they fight their way through hordes of Fire Nation soldiers to achieve Aang’s purpose as the Avatar, a person with emense power, able to bring peace and harmony to the world.

Bollywood a smash hit on campus

On Friday, April 9th, Shub Gill hosted a Bollywood workshop in the main gym of Green River Community College (GRCC). Shub Gill, a teacher at Rhythms of India Dance School, taught several people chorography to the song Jai Ho. The Hindi song Jai ho was first popularized in the movie Slumdog Millionaire and became more main-stream through the release of the English version sang by the The Pussycat Dolls.

Green River students talk about their favorite TV shows

It is common knowledge Green River hosts a very well rounded student body and that isn’t in reference to size or shape. With so many differing cultures interacting on a daily basis, of course there are a handful and more of different shows being watched on TV.

Striped pajamas: page turner, inspiring film

Two young boys make an unlikely friendship

Remembering historical happenings through books and movies are the values of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. World War II and the events of the Holocaust are interesting enough to read about from the perspective of an adult; but to experience it firsthand as a child must have been astonishing and devastating.

S. Darko: disappointing sequel

Different actors and a not so interesting plot line make the sequel a bust

The most amazing movie of all time has been widely agreed upon: Donnie Darko. Is the long awaited sequel going to live up to it’s successor? What made Donnie Darko so great was that the movie worked on so many different levels.

Space: the final frontier revisited

The Star Trek traditions and themes shine through in the latest blockbuster

On May 9th, 2009 the world was reintroduced to U. S. S. Enterprise and its fabled crew in the movie aptly named Star Trek. At the helm of this great space adventure is the womanizing James T. Kirk and the ever calculating Vulcan, Spock.