About Love… technically fulfills the assertions of its title, though largely without the bubblegum nonsense of Hollywood sentimentality. The collection of six short films playing at Citizen Jane Film Festival instead focuses on discontent. The inexplicable desire to remain attached, the elasticity of love’s juggled definition and the unshakeable strive for emotional ideals in the face of relationship reality – the uglier truths hidden behind slow-motion lip-locks.
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Bob Forrest is best known for his appearances on Dr. Drew Pinsky’s reality show, Celebrity Rehab, where he tries to lead addicted musicians and actors like Tom Sizemore, Steven Adler, and Shifty Shellshock to sobriety. However, in Keirda Bahruth’s 2011 documentary, Bob and the Monster, we see a different side of Forrest. This movie examines his life prior to reality TV.
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This week is the 30th anniversary of banned books week. To celebrate, the MU bookstore is giving out free copies of banned books. Here are the titles you can pick up and why they’re infamous.
Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence:
Declared obscene in 1922 in the U.S. because of [...]
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This Saturday, October 1st, Columbia will be participating in the fourth annual Worldwide Photo Walk with a walk of their own starting at Flat Branch Park South at 9 A.M. The entire walk will last from until 11 A.M so be sure to bring some water, all the [...]
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Enjoy an evening with actress, author and disability rights advocate Marlee Matlin as she shared her story as a deaf woman in the entertainment business during Celebrate Ability Week at MU.
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Move over Clovers, there’s a new natural food store in town.
Natural Grocers, owned by Colorado-based Vitamin Cottage, opened its first Missouri store on Tuesday, and Vox stopped by yesterday to check it out.
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With the Citizen Jane Film Festival kicking off tomorrow and Jennifer Miller, a gender-challenging bearded lady, gracing the cover of this week’s issue of Vox, there are a lot of excitingly bizarre weekend happenings to look forward to here in Columbia. Going along with Citizen Jane’s circus-inspired theme, Miller herself will serve as [...]
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Today’s edition of Vox was published with two different covers. Our readers who pick up the magazine on a newsstand will receive the first cover pictured above (Bearded Lady Tells All!) and our readers who get the magazine inside the Columbia Missourian will receive the second cover pictured [...]
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Radiohead played Saturday Night Live and The Colbert Report earlier this week, showing off reworked versions of songs from its latest release The King of Limbs.
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Rock climber Aron Ralston will speak at MU tonight, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. in Jesse Hall.
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Animal brutality or cultural tradition? The art of bullfighting has been banned in the Catalonian region after the final fight was performed on Sunday in Barcelona.
According to The Telegraph, a petition was signed by 180,000 people last year as a movement to ban the fights. However, there is still the [...]
Continue Reading →The Relationship & Sexual Violence Prevention Center at MU will host “Rock Against Rape,” a benefit to raise awareness for Rape Awareness Month.
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Mizzou Homecoming got a plug on last night’s episode of NCIS. In “Restless,” a navy soldier drops dead from multiple stab wounds upon entering his homecoming party. While combing the scene, Jimmy Palmer tells the team where Homecoming originated.
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What do soccer, mutants and massive, furry beasts have in common? All three can be found on shelves this week.
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I attended the Citizen Jane Film Festival for the first time last year. I was in a class where we learned how to write art reviews and had been assigned to cover a film, Cooked by documentarian Judith Helfand, for Vox. Even as a woman, I was intimidated by the festival because the intense aura of girl power surrounding it. I thought it was going to be hours of women patting themselves on the back for being women and making films.
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Autumn has long been a muse for artists, so it’s no surprise that the change of seasons has brought with it the return of the “Hearing Voices/Seeing Visions” art and literary reading series at Orr Street Studios.
The series gives visual artists an opportunity to discuss topics such as the creative process, inspiration [...]
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In my four years in central Missouri, I have found Columbia to be full of energetic and passionate people. If you are looking to donate and help others, you might want to look into volunteering at the Food Bank for Central and Northeast Missouri. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, there are currently [...]
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Attention shoppers! Natural Grocers, a Colorado-based organic and natural grocery store, is opening their first Missouri store in Columbia this Tuesday.
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Recently launched Herograph is a little bit of Instagram, a little bit of Twitter, a little bit of good ol’ Street Fighter and a whole lot of fun.
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All it took was a moment of epiphany for Brad Pitt to ditch his degree here at the University of Missouri for Hollywood.
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