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Regional rock act coming up strong Friday
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Kevin
Delury
Entertainment Beat |
Special to the The Appalachian
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After a successful
first run last year, Greensboro-based emo-core act The Radio Year
will be returning to Whitewater. This time around, though, they
are bringing fellow Gate City rockers End of the Affair.
End of the Affair is only at the beginning of
what promises to be a career worth watching. With only 10 shows
under their belt, they are earning nods from established acts in
the North Carolina scene, as well as working on plans for a summer
tour with fellow Greensboro rockers Everafter.
The band is comprised of guitarists David Bryson
and Jeff Thomas, Chris Lee taking up vocals and piano, Todd Turner
on drums and Timmy Geraghty on bass guitar.
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| One-man production forms new perspective
on holidays |
Kevin Delury
Entertainment Beat |
With the holiday
season upon Appalachian State University students once again, thoughts
are turning to shopping, spending time with family, vacations and
all the general merriment that goes hand in hand with Christmastime.
For most, it is indeed the most wonderful time of the year.
But before the celebrations begin, Jes Gephart has a couple sentiments
of his own to share.
Gephart, a freshman at Appalachian, is currently preparing for a
performance of the David Sedaris play “The Santaland Diaries.”
A real-life account of Sedaris’ experiences working as a foul-mouthed,
malcontented elf in Macy’s Santaland, the one-man show is a
bleak and cynical commentary on Christmas in corporate America.
The show is bleak, cynical and hilarious. Just imagine if Jimmy
Stewart hadn’t been granted a second chance and the film was
renamed “It’s a Miserable Life.”
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| ASU Student juggles acting, school |
Stephanie Marshall
Entertainment Beat |
Jacque Lenz | The Appalachian
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Acting is to play the part of,
as if in a play, or to represent or perform by action especially
on the stage, according to Webster’s Dictionary.
Acting may seem simple to a member of the audience, but it is a
process of hard work and many hours of practice and dedication.
“Acting is living truthfully in an imaginary circumstance;
if you get lost you can always come back to that, and if you can
do that then you can act,” sophomore Scott J. Hoppmann said
Friday.
Hoppmann has been acting the role of Big Daddy in the current play
“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” but has had a long road of small
parts before obtaining this main role.
Hoppmann, a theatre major with a performance concentration, was
born in Charlotte and attended high school in Raleigh at the private
school Cardinal Gibbons.
His first feel for acting came in his second year of acting classes
and from the push and force of his friends.
“My friends got me into acting; they dragged me to an audition
for the play ‘JB,’ and I got a small part in it,”
Hoppmann said.
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