Culture

‘Petals, Pours and Picasso’: A night of scavenging for flowers

I am always down for a scavenger hunt, and so when I heard the Memorial Art Gallery (MAG) was hosting an event called “Petals, Pours, and Picasso” where the main activity of the night was a scavenger hunt, I immediately signed up. Read More

“WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA” might be the best pop you hear this year

Slayyyter is but one of many pop artists utilizing club aesthetics in her music as the 2020s march into untold chaos, and it’s not hard to see why. Read More

Project Hail Mary review: “Grace Rocky save stars,” Lord Miller save movies

It’s a simple story executed with so much spirit, mixing the scale and stakes of films like “Interstellar” and “2001: A Space Odyssey” with the adventure and innocent charm of “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” and “The Iron Giant.” Read More

One Oscar after another: The 98th Academy Awards recap

Although Kalshi and Polymarket predicted 19 of the 24 2026 Oscar winners correctly, the 98th Academy Awards March 15 were still full of surprises, heartfelt moments, laughs, and even more hardware for the most awarded films of the last few months. Read More

Novels, novels, everywhere, but none are fun, I think

It’s no secret that reading for pleasure has been linked to a host of emotional and mental health benefits. With national readership plummeting across the past decade, a question arises: What role should campus libraries play in leisure reading? Read More

‘Pillion’: ‘a seat or place behind the person riding a motorcycle where a passenger can sit.’

Marketed as a ‘Dom-Com,’ the plot focuses on the first relationship of Colin, a barbershop-quartet-singing parking lot attendant, after he is approached by brooding biker, Ray. Read More

A night at the Stardew symphony

While a one-way ticket to Pelican Town wasn’t precisely in my cards, an evening of music with the “Stardew Valley: Symphony of Seasons" concert was. Read More

‘Scream 7’: slashes through its own parody

As the heavily anticipated release of the seventh installment of the 30 year franchise, “Scream 7” had high expectations to live up to, especially given all the heavy spoilers that the film hinted towards in the trailers. Read More

‘Wuthering Heights,’ an album soaring higher than its film

Charli leaves behind the cigarettes and drugs that characterized the Brat-inspired era in favor of haunting strings and an “elegant and brutal” attitude, a phrase adopted by Charli and her co-producer on the album Finn Keane from Todd Haynes’ “Velvet Underground” documentary. Read More

‘Lux’: the saints’ album, three months later

The artist (in the truest sense of the word) described her album in a press release in October as an “emotional arc of feminine mystique, transformation, and transcendence,” and that is what one experiences upon listening. Read More