Joseph DeVaughn Reviews The Heist: Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
Macklemore, I want my mind back! Ever since I started listening to The Heist, by rapper Macklemore, my mind has been owned by the wonderful music on the album. “Tonight is the night, we’ll fight till’ it’s over/ So we put our hands up like the ceiling can’t hold us,” from “Can’t hold us.” plays [...]
Record Store Day 2013
Imagine, finally walking into to the store after waiting in line for an hour, walking fastly up to the bin sitting on the makeshift counter, rustling through the stack of records, to find the last copy of your favorite band’s special release, and you are the proud owner of it. That is the beauty [...]
Beauty as Criterion for Art
A sunrise. The end of a disney movie. The mountains. A towering chrome building. A painting. The face of your lover. A poem. Often, these sorts of things would be considered “beautiful,” possessing some sort of aesthetic pleasurability that almost implies or touches upon The Divine. Beauty, colloquially, is often considered a positive quality, desirable, [...]
Stoker’s Vision On Two Screens: Nosferatu and Dracula
Good Evening, stay for the night as both the 1929 silent Nosferatu is examined side by side with Bela Lugosi’s audible 1931 Dracula. Who can forget the classic horror movies forever emulated by modern-day hopefuls? These two classics films have the same origin: Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel, Dracula. They share a story to the detail, [...]
Chris Conese Reviews: The Warrior Heir
The Warrior Heir, a novel by Cinda Williams Chima, is a fantastic read in more ways than one. I couldn’t put it down–I literally read the book in one sitting. The character interactions and emotions are so realistic that they draw you right into the story. There is however, one thing throughout this book filled [...]
Andy Hofmann Reviews “The Lake House”
Imagine: It’s 2006. First off, I’m so sorry. Seriously, 2000-2009 was honestly just pretty horrible all the time. It’s like, it was 1999, and then Y2K happened, and instead of destroying humanity, it ended up ruining every film, book, and piece of music for the next ten years. So, you’re in the thick of that. [...]
Opinion: Andy Hofmann on the Christmas Shopping Season
The Christmas Shopping season rolls around, and we’re inundated with ads. Holiday sales, Black Friday deals, time to buy presents, get the “best savings,” go to Walmart, buy the turkey, hang the lights: the ads. Santa and snow and smiling people and fireplaces and evergreen trees, we are swamped with a Commercial Christmas that cannibalises [...]
Hitman: Absolution.
If you aren’t familiar with the Hitman series, then you should highly consider picking up the first installment of the Hitman series, Hitman: Codename 47. (Released in 2000)Then proceed to buying Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, Hitman: Contracts, Hitman: Blood Money just so you can get the latest addition to the wonderful series, Hitman: Absolution. Hitman: [...]
Ashley Curtner’s Opinion on Ugg Boots
Time to break out the ugg boots and big fluffy coats, it’s winter time. Winter is great because of the fashionable wardrobe associated with this time of year. It is the one season girls can express fashion the most. In the winter time, girls take advantage and bundle up with their warm cozy boots, and [...]
Opinion: Ashley Curtner Reviews “Breaking Dawn Part 2″
The Twilight Saga has done it yet again, creating another ground breaking, life changing, heart racing, love twisting movie that many fans adore. Unlike the other Twilight Saga movies, this last one focuses more on the upcoming war the Cullens are preparing for, rather than the love triangle between Bella, Edward, and Jacob. In the [...]











