C2M Entertainment Editor Helena Okolicsanyi

Top 5 weekend picks September 13

Every week Connect2Mason will offer five entertainment picks for your weekend. Ranging from on-campus to off-campus events, Connect2Mason's Top 5 will give you a jump start on your weekend. Here are the Top 5 picks for this weekend:

Band Ingram Hill returns to the road with new album

This past Thursday, the Memphis-based band Ingram Hill played at Jammin' Java in Vienna,Va. Formed in the summer of 2000, the band has always considered itself meant for the road, "We love making records, but we’ve always been a touring band. It’s always been our bread and butter and our existence as a road band.” 

State of the Union: Juxtaposition of past and present

“Photography is a way of collecting. It is the ultimate ideal of nostalgia.” That’s exactly how California-based photographer Gregg Segal sums up the focus of his work  Segal’s set of photographs titled “State of the Union” contrasts two distinct eras of an “idealized Civil War embodied by Civil War reenactors versus the commercialism of contemporary life,” as detailed on his website.

Top 5 weekend picks

Every week Connect2Mason will offer five entertainment picks for your weekend. Ranging from on-campus to off-campus events, Connect2Mason's Top 5 will give you a jump start on your weekend. Here are the Top 5 picks for this weekend:

Wale headlines GMU fall concert

Tickets for D.C.-based rapper Wale went on sale Monday at the Patriot Center and the Office of Student Involvement. He will be performing at the Patriot Center on September 20th. Wale first came to the George Mason in 2008 where he performed a free concert for students in Dewberry Hall as part of Homecoming Week. He has since performed at arena venues such as the Verizon Center in D.C. and Merriweather Post Pavilion in Maryland.