Oswegonian Staff Picks: A (belated) top 5 music albums of 2013

1. Kanye West was almost normal. With a celebrity baby and a series of appearances on E!, hip-hop’s most bombastic weirdo appeared primed to finally settle down. This, of course, was not to be. West instead launched singles by projecting…

51 annual Juried Student Art Exhibition opens in Tyler Hall

At the Jan. 31 opening of the Juried Student Art Exhibition in Tyler Art Gallery, a small crowd walked among the large, diverse collection. The artists admired the work of their peers, feeling no small satisfaction at having been selected…

Beyoncé challenges industry guidelines with surprise album

Beyoncé’s new album has been on fans’ lips like liquor, “like, like, liquor.” The 32-year-old songstress keeps her audience engaged and lustful for this first-of-its-kind surprise “visual album” released on Dec. 13, 2013. In her self-titled album “Beyoncé ” she…

Creative Writing: Shealene Guerrero

You make my lips curl And I loved the way your lips curled when I kissed you. I miss you. I wanna take a risk for you, but I get nervous. I just wanna slip up and kiss you again…

This Week’s Cartoon

Diverse sounds in ‘Catching Fire’ soundtrack

A follow-up to the first “The Hunger Games” soundtrack, “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” should soon be met with similar success. Varying greatly from the first album, the resulting “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack,” is…

Living Writers Series: Owen Benjamin

  Owen Benjamin visited Oswego State to speak to students about his success as a comedian Monday and got quite a few laughs. The talk was for the Living Writers Series class with Donna Steiner in the Campus Center auditorium…

TV Spotlight

Live Bait This week we went back in time to before the breakout in the prison happened. We saw where The Governor (David Morrissey) was hiding all this time. After losing his mind and going on a killing rampage to…

‘12 Years A Slave’ excels, retells compelling slave narrative

Every Oscar season there seems to be a clear front-runner. Last year was “Argo,” the year before it was “The Artist” and the year before that “The King’s Speech,” and so on. It’s rare that these top contenders for the…

Winter Movie Preview: A little bit of something for everyone

Saving Mr. Banks Dec. 20 Director of The Blind Side, John Lee Hancock, tells us the story of how author P. L. Travers (Emma Travers) had difficulties with Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) during the production of her novel, “Mary Poppins”….