Live Review: Slowdive at Royale
It’s getting harder and harder for me to get excited about reunions. For whatever reason–the lucrative festival scene, the downfall of album sales as a viable way to make money, …
Read MoreBlog
Short posts
The Best Time to Talk About Vaginas Is All the Time
By Andrea Van Grinsven “I was worried about what we think about vaginas, and even more worried that we don’t think about them,” said Haley Jakobson (CFA ’15) as the …
Read More
Understanding Our Response to Sexist Carl’s Jr. Commercials
By Ella Torres In a room of over one hundred students, some sitting on the floor or cramped in a corner to get a seat, Esther Thorson illustrated the complexity …
Read More
Jake Gyllenhaal Stuns in “Nightcrawler”
When asked to describe himself, Lou would probably go for terms like “hard worker” or “fast learner” or something of the sort. In reality, he’s more of a starving coyote …
Read More
Album Review: Jawbreaker – 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (Reissue)
Not many punk bands are as iconic as Jawbreaker. The Bay Area group–together from 1986 to 1996–has inspired everything from amazing reggae tributes to the super great but sorta ungooglable …
Read More
Could a Lesson From New Zealand Fix America’s Gridlock?
By Michael Whitesides More and more, Americans are deciding to do something else with their time on Election Day. Only 37.8 percent of Americans voted in the 2010 midterm elections; …
Read More
Mystery of Rebirth: An Interview with Keith Lowe
By Michael Whitesides Keith Lowe is a well-known historian, lecturer, and author of numerous books about post-war Germany. He recently gave a lecture titled “The Phoenix Century — Myths of …
Read More
Excellent Cast Can’t Save ‘Fury’ From War Movie Clichés
War never ends quietly.
Read More
UROP Symposium, or These Students Are Going Places
Students, professors, and parents gathered last Friday to celebrate the work of undergrad researchers over the past summer.
Read More
Moving Up the Food Chain: How “Trash Fish” Became the Main Course
By Michelle Marino With the sustainability of world fisheries under threat and heightened attention being paid to what and how we eat, fish previously on the sidelines are now getting …
Read More
Kill the Cup, Save the Earth
We’ve all heard the “because it’s bad for the environment” answer to our questions about landfills, excessive electricity and Styrofoam–but do we all actually know why it’s so bad? This …
Read More
At The November Project, Fitness is for Everyone
By Andrea Van Grinsven Everyone is hanging out without you… at 6:30 a.m. On any given Monday, Wednesday or Friday morning, members of the November Project, a free, grassroots fitness …
Read More