We talk about the monumental event that was The Grammy Awards this year. We breakdown winners, losers, performances, and performers. Obviously we talk about Beyonce. And Lady Gaga. And Metallica. And Agent Orange. A lot happened. We live-tweeted the event over at @ByteBSU if you need a catch up on all the incredible happenings this year. Be sure to follow us on iTunes!
Matt and Nolan give you the latest details about the current happenings in entertainment news, including the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild DLC, rumors and speculation regarding the iPhone 8, Microsoft calling for a digital Geneva Convention, and Steams transition from Greenlight to Steam Direct.
Warning: This review may contain spoilers for all previous episodes of this series. If episode 5, “Mysterious Connections”, offered a slight change of pace (as noted in last week’s review), then “A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing” offers a drastic change that will be welcomed by fans who have stayed with Kyoto Saga thus far.
Niantic announced a new update this week that will add 80 new Pokémon from the second generation of games for players to collect and battle. The update will offer cheaper storage expansion for the next two weeks. New Pokémon from Pokemon Gold, Silver and Crystal coming to the game such as Chikorita, Espeon, and Umbreon will be found in the wild. New evolutionary items and berries will be added to enhance collections and increase challenge during battles. Additional features include Nanab Berries and Pinap Berries, which trainers use to slow Pokemon to prevent them from running away and collect double the candy on successful catches respectively. There will be additional customization features for trainers as well. Buying storage space will cost 50 percent less than normal, making upgrades 100 Poke Coins or 99 cents per purchase. The discount will begin from afternoon PST on February 16 and continue through February 28. Currently, maximum capacity is set to 1,000 Pokémon and each upgrade will give players 50 more slots. It will cost player around $15 to get maximum capacity. All Pokémon Go players will have access to the update by the end of the week.
The Deadbeat Club returns to talk Camera Obscura’s 2009 album My Maudlin Career. We talk strings, whether or not they’re overused or overdone, the track by track breakdown, similarities of songs, folksy-ness vs country-ness, and much more on the exciting return of The Deadbeat Club! Give our iTunes some love.
Disney and YouTube are distancing themselves from YouTube star Felix Kjellberg, better known as PewDiePie, after a string of anti-Semitic videos. The videos, beginning in August 2016, featured images such as: the attempted resurrection of Adolf Hitler, a man dressed as Jesus Christ saying “Hitler did absolutely nothing wrong,” and, most recently, a video of two south-east Asian men holding up a sign saying “Death to all Jews,” which Kjellberg paid them to do. Sunday, Kjellberg made a post to his Tumblr, saying his videos should be taken as “serious political commentary” and he is “in no way supporting any kind of hateful attitudes,” though no apology was given in the post.
The Illusionists are a group of seven stars who have mastered various aspects of magic.
To celebrate its achievements as one of the most active musical organizations in Delaware County for the past 29 years, America’s Hometown Band will perform a free concert at 4 p.m. Sunday in Emens Auditorium.
The opening reception of the show is Feb. 25 from 6 to 8 p.m. in the School of Art Atrium Gallery, located in Art and Journalism Building Room 101.
Mikey Higgins is a junior animation major and creates "Ball State of Mind" for the Daily News.
A girl with a liver transplant is stuck at home from school and a boy shows up reading Walt Whitman. This is the start of the Cave Theatre’s show, “I and You.”
The next Cave Theatre production is a case of art intimidating life for its actors.
It seems like politics are the only thing people have opinions on anymore. You look on social media or at the news and people are always talking about the latest and greatest (or, perhaps, worst) in government.
Celebrities interfering with politics dates back far before the president ever blocked anyone on Twitter, but it has become more prevalent in light of the current state of things.
Rooster Teeth’s hit show, RWBY, historically has had problems with pacing, storytelling, and its animation. Volume three had remedied many of these problems with an incredible season that had a real impact. However, volume four has returned to its past problems with pacing and storytelling, but in new aspects. While previous volumes had characters that felt too flat, this new volume tried a bit too much with its characters spread throughout the world of Remnant.
With the Grammy’s fast approaching, we discuss the unique myriad of performers slated to appear at this Sunday’s award’s show. We also couldn’t help but notice that Nickelback wanted to put in their two cents (five cents?) on recent political issues in their new single Feed the Machine. Imagine Dragons’ new single titled Believer is what we believe to be better execution of lyrics and sound. On top of everything, one of our favorite bands Twenty-one Pilots have ended the Blurryface era with a music video for the song heavydirtysoul. We’re pretty hyped about that.
The 59th Grammy Awards aired last night. Catch up on the highlights from the show here.
Still haven't seen the commercials from Super Bowl LI? It's not too late.
All five of Ball State’s a cappella groups will perform for 12 minutes each, along with groups from Notre Dame, Indiana University and Murray State University.
Jesse McCartney will be performing on campus at 7:30 p.m. April 18, Emens Auditorium announced this morning.
