Arts & Entertainment

The Alexander String Quartet wowed students, faculty and community members during its week-long residency at St. Lawrence University last week. The world-premiere ensemble was founded in New York City, New York in 1981 and is currently…

A skeletal feline… A polka-dotted bald lad… A boogying Northface puffer model tearing up the dance floor… Meatball au d’oeuvres… An anarchist Margaret Thatcher… To quote three of the esteemed Java Barn housemates, "I think this might be my…

In the early 2000s, Pedro Almodóvar turned down an offer to direct “Brokeback Mountain” out of fear that Hollywood wouldn’t be ready for what his much more unabashedly gay and colorful interpretation would have been. As someone who likes…

'Tis the season for classic horror films, and Andrew Fleming's "The Craft" is more relevant than ever. "The Craft" is a spellbinding story of four girls who get caught up in a world of dark magic and confusing adolescence.…

I’ve written this quintet to selfishly talk about some of my favorite girl-coded horror films. To provide a superficial sense of thematic unity, I used the following criteria: No excessive gore or violence: a film for the ladies…

Without a Java show this week, what is a poor musical lover boy to do? Listen to everything else possible, of course. A slew of new releases arrived last Friday with an anxious mix of pop grooves, hip-hop highlights…

SLU Funk hit the St. Lawrence University music scene with stride and pride with a raucous opus of brass-boosted bronze soldiers and harmonious vocalizing virtuosos. The ensemble already has quite the semester under their belt after…

Yorgos Lanthimos's 2018 feature "The Favourite" is a film that I think deserves more flowers. Sure, it got some when it was released, and Olivia Colman won a well-deserved Oscar for Best Actress. But to me, it is not enough! I tend to like…