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Welcome back to the Ink’s Weekly Arts Roundup! For those of you who haven’t read it before, the Arts Roundup highlights a specific arts event in the Princeton area each Thursday, and also lists locations, dates, times, and ticket prices for other events that will occur throughout the weekend.

While this weekend is a fairly quiet one in terms of campus events, largely thanks to tonight’s final round of a cappella callbacks, McCarter Theatre offers a host of amazing performances for students and townies alike.  Originally built for Triangle back in the ’30s, the space is now privately owned–though it does still sport the Triangle logo on the end of each row of seats, which is pretty darn cool.  In addition to the Matthews Theater, Triangle’s original space, McCarter has expanded to include the smaller Berlind Theater, which it co-owns with the University.

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Get Him to the Greek didn’t do much for me. But it may have jumpstarted a new comedy career — I mean, to the extent that six syllables can jumpstart a career. In one scene, Russell Brand’s woozy rockstar character makes a Today Show appearance, and he is followed by none other than our own Nobel Laureate/NYT columnist/professor of economics/demigod Paul Krugman. Jonah Hill, who plays Brand’s agent, bumps into the professor backstage and conveys his father’s appreciation of Krugman’s work. The scene brought a jolt of, um, comedic energy to the movie, according to a lot of people on the internet. I thought it was pretty funny. Here is some sketchy camcorder footage of the scene, courtesy of New York‘s Daily Intel blog:

For those too lazy to look, these are Professor Krugman’s nuggets of deadpan humor:

1. Uh, yeah.

2. Thank you.

3. Oh boy.