Arts & Entertainment

It’s a rainy day in Southwest Virginia. I woke up with the aching residuals of a chest cold and a gruff mood that carried into lunchtime. The wet air outside hung like a warning, not a smile in sight. As I reclined for a moment to check news updates, I expected stories that matched the…

The following blog post contains 13 Reasons Why spoilers. Typically I allow hype for streaming series to die down before I divulge into them. And to say there was hype surrounding 13 Reasons Why would be a massive understatement. I honestly couldn’t open an app without some sort of review or spoiler popping up. I never read the novel,…

The following article contains Orange is the New Black and The Real Housewives of New Jersey spoilers. There has been a lot of prison in my week thus far. After a couple weeks of slacking, I resumed watching the new season of Orange is the New Black after I got off work on Sunday. I…

Last Sunday’s American Music Awards dawned the return of Selena Gomez into the spotlight. After a few months off, Selena’s AMA red carpet appearance was her first since a low-profile stint in rehab. Gomez was reportedly struggling with issues of anxiety related to her performance schedule (among other things). As she dazzled in red, the…

Returning to my second year at university has welcomed back a year’s worth of traditions. Communal living, shower shoes, deliciously starchy dining hall meals. After living at a quiet house all summer, the youthful atmosphere feels equally right and familiar. Being surrounded by students like myself in age makes campus feel current. Ideas, trends and…

I was so excited to kick off the month with my article 13 Feminist Horror Flicks To Watch This October, certain I had planted a seed of femi-wisdom into the Halloween season. That excitement remained until a dear friend of mine politely inquired why my list was so white. To my own disbelief, I scrolled through my work to…

I’m unashamed. I’m not embarrassed. I’m even proud. I love Halloween. For many, October is a month-long celebration of all things oogey and boogey. Culturally, Halloween allows us to enjoy the subversive, spooky side of life without the expectations of normalcy we experience the other 364 days. What other time is Frankenstein slapped on Kit-Kat…

The following article contains It (2017) spoilers. I felt like I waited my whole life to see Andrés Muschetti’s 2017 adaption of Stephen King’s legendary It. When the trailer surfaced earlier in the year, the anticipation to relive this childhood nightmare burned inside of me until I sat in the theater Saturday night. Finally, finally this integral part of…

Picture an elementary-level drawing of a tornado. Anyone with a pen could accurately begin with wide loops or squiggles at the top, decreasing in size until it reaches a slim base. If you’ve ever witnessed tornado footage, or perhaps the way the toilet flushes, you can understand a spiral continuously winds until it reaches a…