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BANG: The latest game in the “Contra” series proves to be an exhilarating run-and-gun 2-D shooter.

VROOM: Nicolas Cage surprisingly and unfortunately doesn’t let himself go in this 3-D revenge flick.

This Sunday, it’s time to break out the ballots and turn on your television sets. You’re invited to the “biggest movie event of the year” - that’s right, it’s the 83rd Annual Academy Awards! Hosted by James Franco and Anne Hathaway (a choice of hosts obviously meant to attract younger audiences and boost ratings), the Oscars are coming to your home so that you can witness the celebration of 2010’s cinematic year.

ART: Visiting artist Chico MacMurtrie brings abstract forms to life at the Beall Center.

GRAMMYS: We answer America’s burning question of the week: “Who the heck is Arcade Fire?”

SIMON: Noise-rock alchemists Sonic Youth stick to sporadic sounds on their first film soundtrack.

SCI-FI: Disney’s new action thriller will please, with a hot young cast and superb special effects.

QUEEN: Arriving in her usual dramatic style, Lady Gaga unleashed “Born This Way” at the 2011 Grammys.

ELECTRONIC: The post-hardcore band enhances the listening experience of their latest album.

FIGHTING: The third entry into the “Marvel vs. Capcom” franchise offers too little features and misses the mark.

MAJESTIC: The god of epic New Age music has returned, bringing the Nineties back with him.

“The Colored Museum” premiered in 1986 under the direction of George C. Wolfe and has been brought back to passionate, captivating life by our very own Claire Trevor School of the Arts Drama Department, under the direction of Jaye Austin Williams. This play allows the audience to realize that African American slavery does not merely remain an event of the past. It’s understandable for viewers to expect “The Colored Museum” to be a heavy, dramatic performance; I was expecting to find an extended example of the interpretation of black slavery in the play. To my surprise, I laughed as many times as I gasped and grimaced during the eclectic play — “The Colored Museum” is the expression of every angle of thought and emotion, both understood and hidden, on the subject of African American oppression as well as submission into society.