The George Foster Peabody Awards have been considered a standard of electronic media excellence for the last 72 years. On May 20, writers, reporters, editors, producers, directors and all manner of media magnates will gather […]

The George Foster Peabody Awards have been considered a standard of electronic media excellence for the last 72 years. On May 20, writers, reporters, editors, producers, directors and all manner of media magnates will gather […]
Drexel became one of the first schools in the country to launch its own student-run record label tied to a degree program when MAD Dragon Records was born in 2003. The fledgling company entered the […]
Four humanoid robots stole the spotlight on YouTube last year with their take on the Beatles’ “Come Together.” Now the Drexel engineers responsible are giving a behind-the-scenes look at how the music video…well, came together. […]
As Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of “The Great Gatsby” hits theaters today, we’ll finally get to witness for ourselves the kaleidoscopic display of pearls, feathers and sequins that has been splashed across TV screens and magazines […]
If the stars in the sky could play music, what would it sound like? One Drexel engineer used a bit of star data and a special piano to turn the twinkling of the stars into […]
What happens when you mix four jazz virtuosos with new technology aimed at breaking their sweet sound down to its elements? Creating a smartphone app that strives to pictorially “explain” the intricacies of a musical […]
Playing an 8-bit video game on an 85,360-square-foot monitor in front of an entire city – perhaps the dream of anyone who grew up during the golden age of the arcade in the 1970s and […]
“It’s like they just forget about us when we get old.” This isn’t a statement you would expect to hear from a 12-year-old boy, and yet, for hundreds of youth in the Mantua section of […]
The final word on the year’s best movies is annually handed down by the Academy of Motion Pictures in the form of little, gold “Oscar” statuettes. And while the stars are still the most recognizable part of these […]
As symbolized by the second inauguration of President Barack Obama on Martin Luther King Jr. day, many consider America to have entered an era of racial reconciliation. But in this so-called “post-racial” society, what does […]