The strains of Disney classics such as “Strangers Like Me,” “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” and “Go the Distance” drifted through the Don Evans Black Box Theatre as audience members filtered in to watch TCNJ Musical Theatre’s production of “Once On This Island” on Wednesday, Nov. 17.
The show, which played from Nov. 17-Nov. 21, [...]

Back when I was in fifth grade, I really enjoyed reading. It was one of my favorite things to do. So, I looked forward to my teacher’s twice weekly readings from a novel with great excitement. Little did I know how much that practice would change my life.
That year, I was introduced to a boy [...]

It’s that time of year again — the weather is getting chilly, the leaves are turning and people are worrying about getting the flu.
But according to Janice Vermeychuk, director of Student Health Services, students at least don’t have H1N1, or the swine flu, to worry about this year.
“We have not confirmed a case of H1N1 [...]

I’d only been to one Yankee game in the new stadium. I’d only been to one Yankee game, period. It was on August 20, when the Bombers were shut out by the Seattle Mariners, six to zip. So, that was disappointing.
I was ready for the sports team I’ve supported since the basinet to redeem themselves. [...]

For anyone who has ever watched any sort of improvisational comedy, whether it be the TV show “Whose Line is it Anyway?” or a live show, they know it’s essential for the troupe to draw on current events that will matter to the audience.
“In this game, they’ll be kissing for 34 hours straight hours,” Jeffrey [...]

The “Southern Vampire” book series is the series on which that “True Blood” is based. I know that doesn’t raise the integrity level, but the two are nothing alike. While I am a guilty watcher of the HBO paranormal melodrama, Charlaine Harris’ mystery book series is the real treasure.
Unfortunately, the TV show left out the [...]

Images and ideas abounded in the Business Building Lounge last Thursday April 15 when David Venturo, professor of English, dissected two famous poems — Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “The Windhover” and Emily Dickinson’s “I heard a fly buzz—when I died.”
“Thank you so much for being here on a day Wordsworth would have said ‘You could be [...]

Images and ideas abounded in the Business Building Lounge last Thursday April 15 when David Venturo, professor of English, dissected two famous poems — Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “The Windhover” and Emily Dickinson’s “I heard a fly buzz—when I died.”
“Thank you so much for being here on a day Wordsworth would have said ‘You could be [...]

Images and ideas abounded in the Business Building Lounge last Thursday April 15 when David Venturo, professor of English, dissected two famous poems — Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “The Windhover” and Emily Dickinson’s “I heard a fly buzz—when I died.”
“Thank you so much for being here on a day Wordsworth would have said ‘You could be [...]

Cop Shop is one of The Signal’s most popular columns.
As much as The Signal staff is unwilling to admit it, many people only read The Signal for Cop Shop. Besides the occasional funny moment (“We’re smoking pot” and the clown loose in Eickhoff Hall come to mind), the incidents reported in Cop Shop are serious [...]

I shouldn’t have worn my Mickey Mouse T-shirt. As soon as I got in line to pick up my ticket for TCNJ Musical Theater (TMT)’s “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” on April 8, two “children” (a.k.a. performers from the show) latched onto me and called me “Mickey.”
Then the Mickey Mouse Club theme song [...]

Due to the horrors of the Holocaust, a whole new body of literature has emerged in the world’s cultural spectrum. Masterpieces like “Night” by Elie Weisel and “The Diary of Anne Frank” have permeated society and left a lasting mark. Professor of English Ellen Friedman is attempting to connect with this literature with her family [...]

So, they beat us.
Yes, it’s true. Canada reigns supreme in the hockey arena. Now they won’t have to kick their players out of the country and hang their heads in shame in front of the world. They at least have their hockey.
And five more gold medals than the U.S. Now, I don’t play favorites when [...]

The future of the musical is starting to worry me.
Green Day’s “American Idiot” has officially been turned into a musical and is headed to Broadway. It’s opening in the St. James Theatre on April 20. It draws from songs from both 2004’s “American Idiot” and 2009’s “21st Century Breakdown” and follows a long line of [...]