“Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?” You know who. Don’t try to hide it. An older demographic is watching shows seemingly targeted towards kids, and has been for a while according to Jonah Lee Rice, author of “SpongeBob SquarePants: Pop Culture Tsunami or More.

  Conrado Ruiz, sophomore art major, plans on working for an advertising company as a graphic designer once he graduates. He needs a career option that is stable, he says. “I wouldn’t want to have to depend on selling my artwork like that (at an artist market),” Ruiz said.

Seniors say goodbye to the Wise Family Theatre

  There is something special about the stage and for Noelle Molinar and Clarissa Smith-Hernandez, senior theater arts majors, the Wise Family Theatre is not their last performance destination. “They both have amazing potential,” said Adriana Dominguez, director of audience development in UTEP’s Department of Theatre and Dance.

    Roberto Santos, lecturer for the introductory creative writing classes and host for the Barbed Wire Open Mic Series, sat down for an interview about the ever-popular events that are currently held at the Percolator every last Saturday of the month.

    “Sardines, Sardines, Sardines! Where are the bloody sardines?” They’re on stage with the hilarious cast of the meta-play “Noises Off,” being performed at the Wise Family Theatre. The play, by English playwright Michael Frayn and directed by Diane Robinson, shines a light on what happens before the curtain rises on opening day for a play and what goes on behind the stage.

Materials made from recyclable products and natural elements can be used to create something that helps the environment. According to Willie Parish, professor of sculpture in the fine arts department, Earth Day, which started in the 1970s, caused many artists to begin experimenting with environmentally friendly substitutes.

UTEP Dinner Theatre brings 1930s New York flair to the stage

 “Guys and Dolls,” by Frank Loesser, is a fast-talking, crap-shooting, zoot-suit filled New York story. From the get-go, it is a production meant to whisk the audience away to a time long passed and the UTEP Dinner Theatre rendition did not disappoint.

2012 annual exhibition features work focusing on multiple themes

Sex, politics and religion are just a few of the topics on display at the Stanlee and Gerald Ruben Center for The Visual Arts. The 2012 Annual Juried UTEP Student Art Exhibition and Eli Arenas Middle Ground opens April 12 to May 11 and it is free to the public.

With UTEP alumnus and drummer Tony Hajjar

Tony Hajjar, drummer of At the Drive-In/Sparta, takes a look back at his personal journey from escaping a Civil War in Lebanon to preparations for At the Drive In’s reunion debut April 15 and 22 at Coachella. The band is in town practicing for Coachella and Hajjar sat down with The Prospector for a one-on-one interview.

Every network on cable or otherwise is producing its own reality shows. These types of shows have replaced sitcoms, game shows and even news programs for some. The TV market is saturated with shows for almost every demographic and, living in an age when networks only air reality shows, it’s not surprising that those shows would influence ways of thinking and dressing.

Bottling vitamins lacks effectiveness

It may be common knowledge that college students are among the worst offenders when it comes to bad nutrition. Students tend to skip meals, eat on the run and even gravitate towards cheap, but unhealthy food. For many, this is where supplements come into play.

At the start of the year, McDonald’s began its ad campaign, “What We’re Made Of,” in which they featured farm suppliers, seemingly regular folk going about their work in the farm as they talk about the dedication to their craft. The ads came after the company discarded supplier Sparboe Farms for alleged inhumane practices and poor sanitary conditions last November.

HBO series’ production values are typically spot on in depicting its subjects and eras with the finesse attention to detail that is so often overlooked in television. But sometimes, authenticity comes with a price, in this case, the death of three horses and one ecosystem, to be exact.

Poppies Fest begins as flowers bloom in El Paso

Known as the crown jewel of the Franklin Mountains, the poppy flowers seem to be in full bloom just in time for the sixth annual Franklin Mountains Poppies Fest. The festival will take place March 31 at El Paso Museum of Archeology on Castner Range. “If you stop at places like the picnic area around there and you look out, you have this huge expanse of native land, it’s really enriching for people to look at that,” said Scott Cutler, curator of collections and exhibits at UTEP.

As the games begin in Gary Ross’ adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ “The Hunger Games,” 24 kids take towards stacks of battle supplies in a frantic run. These are kids ages 12-18 fighting for their lives. We learn early on that 23 will die: a disturbing thought that speaks more of desensitized audiences than the filmmakers intent to gloss it over and make good thrilling popcorn fun.

UTEP alumnus promotes boycott of turtle’s reboot

­The “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” are no longer from earth, or at least that is what Michael Bay, producer of the ninja turtles film, sets to do in his live action reboot of the classic television show scheduled to be released in 2013. During the Nickelodeon Upfront presentation that took place March 12-16 in New York City, Bay — famous for directing “The Rock” and the “Transformers” trilogy — revealed that in his remake, the turtles wouldn’t be the victims of a toxic spill but rather, characters from an alien race.