Recreational Sports Report

It is officially basketball season in Lee Hall, as intramural basketball has opened in three different divisions. Twenty-three teams are competing in the men’s competitive division, while the men’s recreational league fields 11. The co-rec competitive division is compiled of…

Clarkson kicks off Christmas spirit with ‘Red’

In recent years, it has become increasingly popular for singers to release Christmas albums. With Colbie Caillat to Cee Lo Green releasing albums in recent years, it seemed as though it was only a matter of time till Kelly Clarkson…

Mix between reality TV, narrative in ‘Grandpa’

From the creators of “Jackass” comes “Bad Grandpa,” a raunchy roadtrip comedy full of hidden cameras and real reactions. Irving Zisman (Johnny Knoxville “Jackass Number Two”) has to get his grandson Billy (Jackson Nicoll “Fun Size”) to North Carolina to…

VH1 film highlights life of R&B trio

After watching the biopic “CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story,” one might think it would actually be a curse to have been born a stunning, driven, talented black girl with big dreams. The movie revealed how the industry tore up a group…

TV Spotlight

This show continues to follow its storytelling by going back into the past. As we see into the past of Captain Hook (portrayed by Colin O’Donoghue, “The Rite”), we learn more about who he really is. It’s always really enjoyable…

Caribbean direction in Arcade Fire’s broad album, ‘Reflektor’

How do you top a Grammy Award-winning opus like “The Suburbs?” Canadian musical collective Arcade Fire has attempted to do just that with their genre-bending, border-smashing fourth album “Reflektor,” a record completely unlike their previous works. While still displaying an…

Documentary reveals child abuse in African cocoa industry

Imagine being taken away from your family and all that you know, and thrown into a foreign land with empty promises of wealth and prosperity. Imagine being 11 years old and being forced to work on plantation for little to…

A-list cast, aimless plot fail to deliver in ‘The Counselor’

As the credits roll, “The Counselor” claims that 13,000 jobs were created during the making of the film. From briefly reading the credits, it is easy to conclude that a large part of the crew were Latino workers from Mexico….

Creative Writing

Cheated for the better By Sarah Fessler It started with the words, “I think its time we talk about this.” The elephant in the room was starting to get antsy. It had been three weeks since that day and no…

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