Weekly Update 4/30/2014

Here is a short list of PGSA activities and other social events for the week of April 9-April 15.  If you would like an activity to be included in future PGSA weekly updates, email them to huemill2@illinois.edu by tuesday night at 9 pm for inclusion in the wednesday update.

Wed April 30

8:00 - 9:30 Weekly Movie night in the Interaction Room: The Old Man and the Sea Edition

All is Lost. 105 minutes. 8 PM. Pizza. Interaction Room.

        "Friends, if there's an elder statesman of American acting, it's probably 77 year-old Robert Redford, most recently seen as Alexander Pierce in the new (and phenomenal) Captain America movie. With a lengthy career in acting, directing, and producing, including the founding of the Sundance Film Festival, Redford has gone from the dashing blonde all-American leading man of his youth to the bespectacled avuncular suited man of today. And so, to celebrate Redford's continued excellence, tonight, we'll be screening All is Lost, the 2013 drama directed by J. C. Chandor and starring Redford as a a lone sailor who struggles to survive both his damaged boat and a tropical storm. Redford is the only cast member and has almost no dialogue, carrying the film with his physicality and the rugged crevasses of his face like an older, nautical version of his titular role in Jeremiah Johnson. All is Lost is Chandor's sophomore feature following his debut in Margin Call, a dialogue-heavy, flawed and complicated movie; here, Chandor pulls back, tells a much simpler tale, and tells it ably."

The Wild Bohrs have a bye this week. They will still be at mug night tonight at The Blind Pig Brewery if you'd care to join them.

Thur May 1

5:30 - sunset  Game 2 of the playoffs for the Majorana Meatballs
Games are at the corner of Florida and Lincoln in Urbana, just off the Teal bus line.
What to bring:

• Red Shirt
• A Great Attitude   

Now that the Playoffs have started, we cant accept new members, but you are welcome to watch us duke it out in the semifinals of the league championship.

Fri May 2

6:00 - bar close  PGSA-Chemistry Happy Hour at the White Horse Inn location just south of Green Street in campus town.  Pull out your pokedex, and get ready to drink, dance, dingle, or Run (really? why would we do that?) with the Chemistry graduate students.   The word on the street is that they have been hyping this happy hour for a month, so it should be a good time.

Tues May 6

5:30 - sunset  Game 3 of the playoffs for the Majorana Meatballs
Games are at the corner of Florida and Lincoln in Urbana, just off the Teal bus line.
What to bring:

• Red Shirt
• A Great Attitude   

Now that the Playoffs have started, we cant accept new members, but you are welcome to watch us duke it out in the third place game or the league championship pending Thursday's Results.