Month: March 2024

Written by: Katherine Jimenez   College burnout, two scholarship projects, and a whole lot of expectations put me in a reading slump I thought I would never survive. But in December 2023 one of my favorite professors gifted me a copy of a book I had been dying to read…

Written By: Sophia Ciraldo   Robbie Skinner (Cavetown) is a singer-songwriter who writes indie/bedroom-pop music. I’ve followed his career for six years and was lucky enough to see him perform live in 2021. Over that period, he has released three albums, four EPs, and a handful of singles. His latest…

Written By: Sky Cummings   To be loved is to be understood. We pick our favorite movies and books based on the characters we most relate to, whose words speak to our very souls. We love them, and perhaps more importantly, we feel loved by them. It’s comforting to hear…

Written By: Krista Mitchell   Last Friday, March 22, 2024, the moment I had been waiting for finally arrived: Sam Evian released his fourth studio album Plunge. I saw him live last October as an opener for Tennis, and after looking him up after the concert, I found myself immediately…

Written by: Krista Mitchell   As a fan of classic rock and other bygone music eras, I used to be quick to write off modern music as simply not as complex, meaningful, and beautiful as the music that came before it. In the past few years, however, I’ve discovered several…

Written by: Chloe Goodin   When I first finished watching Manadrome (2023), I was slightly concerned. First, because I had just finished a dream-like thriller that displays the mind of a fragile young man escaping fatherhood by turning to an all male cult of celibacy, and second, because my father,…

Written by: Alexus Lowe I’ve been working at an ice cream shop for roughly two years now. When I first started the fall of my freshman year, I remember being constantly asked by customers: “When are you guys going to start back selling cakes?”. The answer at the time was…

Written By: Veronica Borowski     “The Peasants” also known as Chłopi in the original Polish language, is a 2023 film based on the polish novel by the same title (Chłopi) written by Władysław Reymont. The movie consists of at least 40,000 handmade oil paintings, and they accomplished that by…