Pop Culture Catch Up: Katy Perry steals most popular person on Twitter title
November 16, 2013Sorry Biebs, Katy Perry just passed you!
Sorry Biebs, Katy Perry just passed you!
Returning to his home state, comedian Jim Gaffigan made a stop to campus Friday on his White Bread tour.
Instead of checking out a book on Nov. 6, Jess Cooney, a senior telecommunications major, stood in Bracken Library hoping to win a ticket to see Jim Gaffigan Friday night.
Beatlemania surged throughout John R. Emens Auditorium Tuesday night when four men posing as John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr played tribute to some of the most monumental moments in music history.
At a local paint shop, two high school boys tossed a baseball when a bad throw or catch later, it was smothered in paint.
It started with singing along to vinyl and ended with performing in front of live crowds. Steve Landes is a second generation Beatles fan.
Through family secrets and mystery, “Psalms of a Questionable Nature” explores the relationship between two sisters who are complete strangers as they connect over tragedy.
For fans of comedian Jim Gaffigan, John R. Emens Auditorium hosted a scavenger hunt this week where people had a chance to win a pair of free tickets every day. Today was the last day of the hunt and the winning voucher was found at Shafer Tower.
Magician Jim Munroe creates artful illusions for his life work, at some points doing stunts involving knives. But he also is clear with the audience that the magic is not real — there is always something going on behind the scenes.
Women in lingerie and fishnet tights greeted students at the doors of Pruis Hall on Halloween night.
It took 57 phone calls for journalist Wil Haygood to find Eugene Allen, a butler who worked at the White House during eight different presidencies. In 2008, Haygood found him and his wife just in time and interviewed them days before she died in her sleep. Two years later, Allen died at age 90.
Men, step away from the overused pirate costume. Ladies, steer clear of the perpetual trap of being the stereotypical “sexy fill-in-the-blank.” Sequined devil horns aside, here’s the best of 2013’s costumes, from Ball State trademarks to meth cooks.
Tarantulas are the heaviest, hairiest, scariest spiders on the planet. They have fangs, claws and barbs. They can regrow body parts and be as big as dinner plates, and the females eat the males after mating. But there are many people who call these creepy critters a pet or a passion and insist their beauty is worth the risk of a bite.
Ball State’s Japanese Animation Society has powered up TVs and video players for 21 years to get together and enjoy anime.
A sold-out crowd listened on as Hayes performed hit songs including “Wanted,” “Storm Warning” and “Everybody’s Got Somebody But Me.” He played guitar and piano during the night, but he also managed to set time aside to talk to the crowd.
Strother Theatre’s “Frankenstein” began with no set script. More than 40 cast and crew members worked together to transform the original novel by Mary Shelley into a devised piece that tells the story in a new way.
John R. Emens Auditorium celebrated 50 years of laughter Tuesday night as smash hit musical “Hello, Dolly!” filled the building with comedy, love and music.
Over the summer, I received multiple emails from Ticketmaster about the History of The Eagles tour. At first, I deleted them, blaming my lack of money and friends interested in the band for not attending.
Jason Mraz casually strolled on stage in John R. Emens Auditorium sporting a trucker hat and tucked-in collared shirt, eating a piece of bread slathered in peanut butter.
For the students who may have done a double take and wondered if they just saw Jason Mraz, they were probably right.
