Arts & Entertainment

By MEGAN ZIEGLER STAFF WRITER Over winter break I revisited an author that introduced me to reading fiction and prepared me for the world of dramatic high school girls. In Dare Me, Megan Abbot takes you back to that terrifying high school…

By STEVEN YARDLEY COLUMNIST Java is a conversation paver.  A large majority of SLU students share the common ground of a Java show experience. Personal history with the barn is often hilarious. Everyone has their own individual…

By JACQUI COLT COLUMNIST     Hello friends!  Well, I do not know about you, but all of this talk of local veggies has been making me awfully thirsty. Let us talk about something truly wonderful:  DRINKING LOCALLY! There are a few options…

By LEIGH VASSALLO COLUMIST On the surface, Into the Woods simply looked like a different take on the classical fairytales, including: Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Jack and the Beanstalk. There is music, amazing…

By COLIN BALDWIN STAFF WRITER In 2013, Breaking Bad, one of the most critically and commercially popular television shows of the past decade came to a close after five seasons on the air.  When citing groundbreaking television, many…

By JAKOB HAND COLUMNIST Although it is best classified as a historical drama, “Selma” is a film about a debate we are still having in the United States. Focusing on the activities of Martin Luther King Jr., played brilliantly by David…

By SARA MINOGUE STAFF WRITER “People are ten times more likely to post a negative comment or give negative feedback than they are to give positive feedback – that goes for just about everything in life.” – Elite Daily We have all seen…

By TESSA YANG COLUMNIST    In Gish Jen’s second novel, Mona in the Promised Land, protagonist Mona Chang grows up in Scarsdale, New York, struggling to establish her own place in the vibrant counterculture of the 1960s. Most of the…