Arts & Living

This, in addition to the standard questions that every singer/songwriter must deal with when participating in the recording process-How does this sound? What could I do to make this better? Should I add another part here, or should I keep it sparse? Am I ever going to see the

We in the arts section are familiar with your dilemma, and suggest that you take some time during winter break to indulge yourself in more aesthetically pleasing escapist endeavors. Much like the summer movie season, studio execs waste no time in producing mountains of releases for the winter holidays. In

The concert began with a group called Reks, which was indeed a wreck. Their enunciation was so poor that I was unable to write down ONE line of their racket. (They kept chucking copies of their CD single into the audience; were they trying to hurt us?) Reks was followed

It is also a 500-page black and white graphic novel-and the Hughes brothers’ “From Hell,” the screen adaptation of Moore’s comic, suffers painfully in comparison. Johnny Depp stars as Inspector Fred Abberline, a psychic detective who sees the Ripper’s murders in absinthe- and laudanum-drenched hallucinations; Heather Graham plays

“The Myth and Madness of Ophelia” is a collection of over 60 representations of Shakespeare’s Ophelia through various media, such as paintings, photographs, prints and movies. (Opens Fri. and runs until Dec. 16, Mead Art Museum. Opening lecture on Fri. at 4:30 p.m. in Stirn Auditorium. Free.

Lynch concocts several storylines from the outset, baiting his audience to settle in comfortably to a standard film noir that ties the stories together in a clever conclusion. But don’t be fooled into putting your feet up; you’ll have to cling to your Junior Mints to survive, as