What does silence sound like? Alloy Orchestra comes to Cornell this weekend to play their soundtrack to three silent film classics. Arts and Entertainment Editor Zachary Zahos '15 corresponded with Alloy director Ken Winokur about inspiration, influences and working with dead directors. 

The Indigo Girls play the State Theatre on October 30. Danyoung Kim '16 talks to band member Emily Saliers about making music and campaigning for gay rights.

Punch Brothers played The State Theatre on Sept. 29. Banjo player Noam Pikelny talks to Associate Editor Ruby Perlmutter '13 about banjos, playing in the super group and Ithaca. 

Sam Green, an Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker, will present his newest “live documentary,” The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller, at Cornell Cinema Saturday night alongside rock band Yo La Tengo. The Sun spoke over the phone with Green about the “live documentary” experience, journalism’s decline, The Weather Underground’s Bill Ayers and the magic of Cornell Cinema.

In post-apocalyptic America, a young orphan is punished for a crime she hasn't committed. This summer, Cornell alumnus Lisa Stasse '04 released her debut novel The Forsaken, which has drawn comparisons to Lord of the Flies and The Hunger Games. Her novel was inspired by a nightmare, she tells Arielle Cruz '15. 

After two weeks of covering the Republican and Democratic National conventions, The Daily Show correspondent John Oliver delivered a killer stand-up set at Bailey Hall on Saturday. Zachary Zahos '15 and Julia Moser '15 talked to the exhausted but irrepressible British comedian about his Cambridge Footlight days, the political media circus and the ever-lovable Herman Cain.

The always-amusing, best-selling author Gary Shteyngart is coming to Cornell on Sept. 7. The once-prospective Cornellian talks to Alice Wang '15 about his new black comedy novel, literary crushes and predicting the future.

The Sun sat down with Philip Moore, singer and guitarist for indie-folk band Bowerbirds, and talked about the band's artistic progression, success and celebrity encounters. 

Liza Sobel '12 interviews Scott Tucker, who is leaving Cornell after 17 years as the Priscilla Edwards Browning Director of Choral Music to serve as Artistic Director for The Choral Arts Society of Washington. 

Zachary Zahos '15 and Gina Cargas '14 talk with 90s childhood hero Kenan Thompson about the old days, starstruck compliments from Tom Hanks and the answer to our country's economic woes.