Written by: Sofia Tas-Castro Way back when I was 11 years old, I started listening to rap music. At the time I didn’t have the money to buy the full songs on iTunes so I would either listen to the samples the app gave me or I would look…
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Sweet and Sour Take on Wonka
Written By: Kamila Ciebielski The 2023 Wonka film was surprising to say the least, unexpectedly diverging from the 2005 and 1971 adaptations of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Rather than exploring the story line of Tim Burton’s 2005 version — the mysterious story of a strict dentist father who…
An Underrated Film: Collateral (2004)
Written by: Jules Dowling Cinema has always been bursting with new material, but in the age of streaming platforms and fast, innovative technology, there are an insane amount of films being released and consumed. So, it can be understood how hard it has become to weed through all the…
Sex in Murakami’s “Norwegian Wood” (Minor Spoilers)
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…
Cavetown’s “little vice” EP Review
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…
Best on Screen Feminist Monologues
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…
Reviewing Sam Evian’s New Album Plunge, Song by Song
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…
4 (Underrated) Modern Musicians With a Retro-Inspired Sound
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…
Manadrome (2023): The Fine Line Between Promoting and Dismantling Toxic Masculinity
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,…
Appreciating the Culinary Art of Ice Cream
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…