Big changes have come to NBC’s Thursday-night comedy block, and our feelings are mixed on the lineup.

I record the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade every year, because, really, I’m not going to wake up to watch it live. Still, I find myself fast-forwarding through most of the balloons and floats, because they are either old-fashioned or just plain boring.

During the middle-of-the-fall entertainment news lull, Cadenza needs to get creative with what stories to run. Our solution? Thinking of TV/movie characters that really should go to our school, if they were, well, real. Here’s what we came up with. Alex Dunphy (“Modern Family”) Wash. U. would give Alex the opportunity to explore all of [...]

THURSDAY Community NBC, 7 p.m. “Community,” returning for its third season, centers on self-obsessed fake lawyer Jeff Winger (Joel McHale) and the group of friends that he meets when forced to attend community college. The show is great at its portrayal of classic TV tropes while managing to turn them all on their head.

Students lined up outside of Graham Chapel two hours prior to Donald Glover’s Thursday-evening performance to ensure themselves seats in the later filled-to-capacity audience. “How many of you know me from my show ‘Community’?” Donald Glover asked the audience, near the start of his set. “Well this is going to be nothing like that….It’ll be a lot nerdier.

Donald Glover, a rapper and star of the television show “Community,” will be coming to Washington University for the Campus Programming Council’s Spring Comedy Show. Glover will be doing stand-up on April 7 in Graham Chapel. DC Pierson will open for him.

It’s that time of year again. What shows deserve renewals, and which have earned their place on the chopping block?

The University is starting the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative, a five-year educational program in the St. Louis region designed to educate teens currently in foster care about safe sex; including pregnancy prevention, contraception and prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The program will target approximately 600 teenage girls still in or “aging out” of foster care.

Situated in the basement of the Women’s Building, the KWUR studio is one of the most frequently visited, yet least known sites on the Washington University campus. Every day, dozens of students file into the space to broadcast their own shows to the campus community via web and 90.3 FM.

In the midst of the dinnertime bustle at South 40 House, a diverse group of students and members of the local community, including Washington University staff, sit down for a dinner that emphasizes unhurried conversation and meeting new people.