Culture
Baseball
CT watches: Red Wings
While looking for something to do on a Friday evening, five of us at the Campus Times made our way down to ESL Ballpark April 17 to catch a Rochester Red Wings game. Our group boasted a Mets fan, a Yankees fan, a Padres fan, a Twins fan, and one person more familiar with cricket than with baseball. Read More
Fashion
Timeless Threads: Creative Arts Club Annual Fashion Showcase
Dazzling lights. Live music. Eight young fashionistas, each wearing unique and brilliant outfits, were featured on the runway for Creative Art Club (CAC)’s 2026 Fashion Show. Read More
Drag Queen
Drag Queen LaWhore Vagistan Explores South Asian Aunties
Far from being a mere trope in “backwardness” and an embarrassing relative that “barges in and out,” the Aunty, in Khubchandani’s analysis, are “nodes of structural repair.” Read More
Artemis II
Not everyone can be an expert, and that’s okay.
My feed filled instantly with influencers explaining the mission. Some of them had millions of followers. Their videos were polished, confident, and loaded with terms like "trans-lunar injection" and “free-return trajectory.” They spoke with the authority of people who had studied astrophysics and literal rocket science their entire lives. Read More
exhibition
Catching FIRE!! in a Rare Books Exhibition
As a result of a collaboration between classes in the English and the History departments, as well as the Rare Books Library at URochester, FIRE!!, a new exhibition, will be on display starting May 4, 2026. Read More
Live Music
‘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
Album Review
“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
film
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
Academy Awards
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
Mental Health
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