Growing up isn’t easy. At a time in your life, you come to realize that your parents and other adult figures aren’t always going to be able to protect you from the larger world, which feels especially intimidating during adolescence. When you’re on the cusp of adulthood, you find that […]
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Club Volleyball Starts Season Off Strong
Courtney Dunbar, Lisa Schendel, Zach Fields, and Kristen Bolster prepare for an incoming serve. The Volleyball Club gathered for the first time this semester on Monday with new goals and plenty of new faces. A total of fifteen students were in attendance and there’s always the possibility that more […]
Soulless corporate drones
No matter what movie you see this year, you’ll at least be able to say, “Well, it was more pleasant than ‘The Belko Experiment’.” A shockingly dull and cheap-looking film, “The Belko Experiment” is a horrific endeavor wrapped up in disgusting nihilism that is nowhere near as clever as […]
The mutant condition
Superhero movies are at their peak now, and in this age of sprawling, interconnected movie universes is missing something: the end. Free from the constraints of setting up the next film in the franchise or worrying if an actor doesn’t want to return to the role, “Logan” is allowed […]
Beauty and the Beast remake tackles classic
ldquo;The Jungle Book” and “Cinderella” were successful remixes of their animated counterparts, but the task of reimagining those films doesn’t compare to that of “Beauty and the Beast.” The original 1991 film is as perfect as the Disney formula could ever achieve. While “The Lion King” may have it beat […]
All my pasts remembered
See other reviews: Beauty and the Beast Logan The Belko Experiment “Spider-Man 3” Retrospective: Re-Examining a Superhero Epic 10 Years Later Before the Marvel and DC cinematic universes were born, there was the “Spider-Man” trilogy. Directed by Sam Raimi (“Evil Dead,” “Darkman,” “Drag Me to Hell”), the first three “Spider-Man” […]
Landfill Harmonic
Music and garbage have changed the lives of a group of Paraguayan adolescents. The group, called the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, play instruments made completely out of garbage. The director, Favio Chavez, began making instruments out of materials found in the landfill that surrounds their homes in the city of […]
One Book One Community kicks off
Musicians John Rutter, Evan Spurlock, and Tyler Aukerman play jazz music during the beginning of the event. Monroe County's One Book One Community started with smooth instrumental jazz. Every year the community chooses a book to read together, and this year's choice is "Station Eleven." The OBOC committee then plans […]
Everything is Batman
Out of any comic book character in existence, Batman’s history is the most fascinating. In comics, he started out as a murderer before being revamped into a hero who condemns killing. His stories have fluctuated from being light-hearted, cheesy romps to dark, gritty exercises that pushed the envelope of what […]
One Book kicks off with Shakespeare
The March 15 kickoff of Monroe’s One Book, One Community program will feature a presentation of Shakespeare in the Meyer Theater. The novel chosen for 2017, “Station Eleven,” by Emily St. John Mandel, is set in a post-apocalyptic Michigan. It features a troupe of Shakespearean actors and musicians struggling to […]