by Vonne Slayden For my COVID isolation period, I resolved to watch a lot of films. At first, I had planned to watch all the Academy Award nominees available, treating the task with soldierly determination. I began by alternating the often long, quiet and muted-color-palette …
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The Moth returns for the spring
by Gianna Hayes Students huddled into Boo Bears last Tuesday, Jan. 30, to share poetry and prose. The space was small, requiring chairs and benches to be moved, but that didn’t stop the sizable gathering that arrived to hear the different works read by 12 …
Ride the Stallion or bless the Barbie
by Nemsie Gonzalez If you haven’t already seen icon Nicki Minaj’s meltdowns on TikTok, X, Instagram live or Spotify, I encourage you to stop reading right now and listen to “Bigfoot.” And no, you should not listen to the acoustic version. You’ll find that the …
The Oscar nominations and Barbie: Honored or snubbed?
by Tori DiPasquale The Academy Awards are often a site for social and political debate. Recall: the slap, the wrongful win of “La La Land,” “Parasite” winning best picture (angering then-President Trump) and, going way back, like Sacheen Littlefeather accepting the best actor award on …
Cheers to bottles, bathtubs and beautiful people
By: Alex Markland ’26 In Emerald Fennell’s “Saltburn,” Oliver Quick, played by Barry Keoghan, makes passionate and aggressive love to a gravesite. This scene consists of a single shot which lasts for one minute and 50 seconds. Most of the discourse surrounding “Saltburn” centers on …
But you better not kill the groove
By: Ama Toure Ban D My return to Ohio, despite being grounded by four-wheel drive, was quite turbulent. It started with me, a bum-esque jobless 22 year old living in my mother’s basement, used to sleeping in however long the hangover from the previous night …