Victoria Doyle (Class of 2011), originally from Philadelphia, is a Rollins student studying music and voice performance. Doyle specializes in the jazz/lounge style, which she considers her life and passion. In addition to giving performances and singing songs by early 20th century songwriter Cole Porter, she has recorded her own album, "A Salute to Cole Porter," which compiles and pays tribute to what she considers the best works of her favorite composer.
On Thursday, Feb 25, Rollins students were treated to the red carpet experience. Campus Movie Fest held a premiere right here on campus, allowing Rollins students to see what it feels like to be a big name actor in the spotlight. The night opened with the funk/jazz/rock music of Soul Insanity.
For years prognosticators have attempted to deduce the way the Academy Awards will vote every year on Oscar night. Simply put, who is going to get those coveted little golden men? Really, the Academy Producers themselves could not care less about which films win the awards; the important thing to them is to ensure a high viewer turnout.
On May 5, 1993, three boys from West Memphis, Arkansas were reported missing after being last seen together in the Robin Hood Hills area. They were eventually found dead in a ditch in the same area. Three teenagers, Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley, and Jason Baldwin, have been convicted for the murder of the three children.
Richard Powers, Alex Schomburg, and Kelly Freas are just a few of the artists being featured at the Albin Polasek Museum & Sculpture Gardens here in Winter Park. The small exhibit features some of the top names in the pulp fiction genre, the forerunner of comic books, and the escape for thousands of people during the Great Depression.
With Oscar night nearly upon us, the annual anointing of the year's Ten Best Pictures has emerged from critics and Academy Producers alike. Unlike most lists, which seem to reflect the changing shifts in momentum and popularity for any given film, my list simply reflects what I humbly believe to be the greatest films that I have watched over the past year.
When Béla Fleck visited Rollins for a week in September two years ago, he touched the community academically, participating in banjo sound research with the physics department; didactically, teaching and playing alongside Rollins' jazz bands; and of course, musically, performing a concert in the Tiedke Music Hall that remains spoken of as legendary.