Casey Chan-Smutko: Halloween News Editor Just because “The Nightmare Before Christmas” has the word Christmas in it does not make it a Christmas movie. I’ve watched this movie a thousand times exclusively on Halloween because it is a Halloween movie. You could argue that Jack Skellington goes to Christmas Land to become Santa Claus, but…
At the end of November, Netflix released the long awaited “Scott Pilgrim Takes Off,” an eight-episode anime-inspired series set in Scott Pilgrim’s Toronto. It’s actually quite surprising how long it took for an anime-inspired series to come from Scott Pilgrim. Bryan Lee O’Malley first wrote Scott Pilgrim as a series of graphic novels, beginning in…
We are very fortunate to live during the ‘golden age’ of television. Think about it: countless television shows, spanning all different decades and genres, all at our fingertips, with the help of a couple convenient streaming services. We could have lived through the Bubonic Plague or the Potato Famine, but nope, we get TV instead….
Founded in Tallahassee, Florida in 2005, the band Mayday Parade has gone on to become a staple in the pop-punk genre. In 2005, the band released their first EP, “Tales Told By Dead Friends.” The EP features six songs, including “Three Cheers for Five Years.” Following the release of this EP, the band released two…
For a select group of students that began their collegiate career in the midst of Covid-19, many high school memories replay occasionally to the soundtrack of numerous Brockhampton songs. A 13-year-old Kevin Abstract posted onto a Kanye West fan forum in 2009 asking for artists that would be interested in starting a band, according to…
If you don’t know who André 3000 is, he’s best known as a member of Outkast where he raps and sings in hit songs like “Hey Ya!” and “Ms. Jackson.” 20 years later, he released his first solo album “New Blue Sun.” “New Blue Sun” is made up of eight songs ranging from three minutes…
In a vibrant world of live music, where a concert can create special memories, recent tragedies have shone light on the importance of concert safety. Incidents like the 2021 Astroworld Festival, headlined by Travis Scott, serves as a remainder for risks associated with large-scale events. On Nov. 17, 2023, a Taylor Swift fan died shortly…
64 years before the 74th annual Hunger Games, Coriolanus Snow, future president of Panem, was made to be a mentor for the runt tribute, Lucy Gray Baird. Ever since then, the Hunger Games has been a bloodbath aimed at squashing any hope of rebellion against the Capitol from the districts. “The Ballad of Songbirds and…
Anthony Tinaro, a studio art major at Providence College, and Owen Tienry, a film media and communications major from the University of Rhode Island, are collaborating on a fantasy comic. The comic, titled “The Pirate Knight,” was written and illustrated by Tinaro, while Tierney focuses on the marketing and production aspects of the project. The…
Juliana Lepore – Editor-in-Chief My Spotify auto-curated playlists have still been dominating my music taste this month, and one song that it’s been pushing on me is “Love Lost” by Mac Miller. Whenever it comes on in my car, I’m immediately put into a more funky mood. Mac Miller is a good artist to get…