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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Horoscopes

Aries You might not be very happy about the attitude of a coworker today and may feel the need to confront the issue. You’re not sure if you really want to stir things up so much that you lose your…

“The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass”

[slideshow_deploy id=’14569′] The Syracuse Vocal Ensemble made its way to Oswego State to showcase its unique musical stylings this past Sunday, playing to a packed Sheldon Hall Ballroom. The performance, entitled “The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass,” was a blending…

Tyler art gallery opens faculty exhibition

The annual Faculty Art show opened this past Friday in the galleries of Tyler Hall, offering a free showcase of the personal works of the professors of the Art Department at Oswego State. The works span many forms of media,…

Stallone, Schwarzenegger radiate brawn

Sylvester Stallone (“Bullet to the Head”) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (“The Last Stand”) make a promising team in “Escape Plan,” bringing the audience the action they paid for. Stallone plays the lead role of a former lawyer now structural engineer, Ray…

Sibling pop band debut subpar album

It’s rare to find siblings who share a gift for music. Acts such as The Jackson 5, Arcade Fire and Kings of Leon have gained major commercial success but, even with these examples, it is rare to find four siblings…