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Play is exaggerated comedy: Actors give larger-than-life performance in ‘Dead Man’s Cell Phone’

Noah Berman • May 5, 2011

There’s a scene in Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall” in which Alvy Singer (Allen’s character) pulls a pretentious film-goer out of line and introduces him to the director he’d been critiquing. The...

Reconciliation, not retaliation, is the true American response

Noah Berman • May 5, 2011

It’s weird to think that Osama bin Laden no longer exists. He’s been this quasi-mythical figure of looming evil throughout almost half of my life, the “icon” of international terrorism. He...

OMG is no big deal, LOL

Noah Berman • April 14, 2011

A recent issue published in The University News addressed the recent addition of various internet-acronyms to the Oxford English Dictionary. I quote: “We need to see a difference between what real words...

There is no class like a small class

Noah Berman • April 7, 2011

This was originally written in response to a call for letters from students at my former high school; apparently, the St. Louis Public School district is planning on establishing a 120-member...

Let Us Introduce You: Morris Kalliny

Noah Berman • March 3, 2011

There is a Stephen King novel called “Cell,” in which a signal, transmitted via cell phone, turns almost everyone into crazed zombies. Saint Louis University professor Morris Kalliny studies a different...

SLU Monologues Slideshow

Noah Berman • March 3, 2011

Photos of real stories written and performed by the SLU Community.

Academy fails to acknowledge craft of filmmaking

Noah Berman • March 3, 2011

I have never really cared for awards. This isn’t out of bitterness or a personal surplus, rather, I just honestly don’t care. I would much rather be out creating than winning awards for things I’ve...

Fannee Doolee supports unions, not Scott Walker

Noah Berman • March 3, 2011

Reader, did you watch the incredibly excellent PBS show called “ZOOM?” Do you remember a feature called “Fannee Doolee”? If not - I’m sorry for your childhood - but it’s a word game that goes...

Video: Snow Day 2011

Noah Berman • February 4, 2011

Video by Noah Berman, with additional reporting by Jonathan Ernst.

Members of The White Stripes go their seperate ways

Noah Berman • February 4, 2011

“The White Stripes belong to you now and you can do with it whatever you want.” It is difficult to describe a world in which The White Stripes will no longer perform. It is still fresh news - the...

Wikileaks is super, but Julian Assange is not the hero we need

Noah Berman • February 4, 2011

In the months that have passed since “Cablegate” began, my stance on Wikileaks has not changed. I still believe the intent behind Wikileaks to be good; governments, especially democracies, need...

Post-speech, citizens ask: “What’s next?”

Noah Berman • January 27, 2011

The fake twitter account of a fake president - Josiah Bartlet from The West Wing - suggested that if the (real) president ended his State of the Union address with the (fake) president’s catch phrase...