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How TikTok is reshaping the music industry

Alyssa Tillman, A&E Editor March 21, 2025

     What started as a lip singing app, TikTok has emerged as a significant platform for the discovery of new music and plays a crucial role in shaping contemporary pop culture. New artists are being...

Lady Gaga glambot, image from Wikimedia Commons.

Lady Gaga’s “Mayhem”: reinvention or reiteration?

Rex Fritz, Staff Writer March 21, 2025

     Lady Gaga is known for her variety of avant-garde, controversial and quite simply—weird pop music from her early career (“Bad Romance,” “Judas” and “Applause” all come to mind),...

Lady Gaga sitting down for an
interview. Image from
Wikimedia Commons

Lady Gaga returns to SNL

Alyssa Tillman, A&E Editor March 16, 2025

     Lady Gaga returned to the Saturday Night Live stage last Saturday as both host and musical guest. Gaga has appeared as a musical guest three times on SNL, but she only did double duty once back...

Exciting movie releases this year

Claire Hall, Lifestyle Editor March 16, 2025

We aren’t even four months into 2025 and the entertainment industry is already releasing so many exciting new movies for us to look forward to. Here are a few movies to keep on your radar:    “Snow...

Shrek, Donkey and Fiona from the “Shrek” series, image
from GoodFon.

Get out of my swamp:

Claire Hall, Lifestyle Editor March 16, 2025

Our beloved swamp-loving ogre is set to return to theaters on December 3rd, 2026 with a fifth installment of the “Shrek” series. There have already been sneak peaks released on social media platforms...

“Wolf Man” movie poster, photo
from @wolfmanmovie on
Instagram

A werewolf tale that lacks bite:

Alyssa Tillman, A&E Editor February 15, 2025

   “Wolf Man” hit theaters last month, giving audiences a pretty dull addition to the werewolf genre. The film was by no means hard to sit through or unwatchable, it was just full of plain characters...

Chappell Roan accepting her
Grammy, photo from @chappellroan
on Instagram

Chappell Roan’s Grammy speech sparks industry debate

Alyssa Tillman, A&E Editor February 15, 2025

    Former artist manager Jeff Rabhan criticized Chappell Roan’s Grammy acceptance speech in a guest column for The Hollywood Reporter last Wednesday. After accepting her first Grammy win in the...

Kendrick Lamar performing at the Super Bowl Halftime show, photo from
@nfl on Instagram

Kendrick Lamar at the Super Bowl

Ethan Goodman, Staff Writer February 15, 2025

On Sunday, Feb. 9, an average of 127.7 million people tuned into this year’s Super Bowl halftime show. This marks an all-time historical high in viewership, with an increase of 3% from last year’s...

“The Heaven & Earth Grocery
Store” book cover, image from @
riverheadbooks on Instagram

Five must read books by Black authors

Alyssa Tillman, A&E Editor February 7, 2025

     Black History Month is a time to recognize the vital role that Black individuals and communities have played in shaping history, culture and society. It also serves as a platform to raise awareness...

Chappell Roan performing at The
Grammys, photo from @
recordingacademy on Instagram

A historic night at The Grammys

Amanda Eacho, Snapshot Editor February 7, 2025

     The 67th annual Grammys awards was not one to miss. The show was revamped to raise funds for MusiCares Fire Relief to help the people of Los Angeles who were affected by the recent wildfires....

“Hurry Up Tomorrow” album cover, image from @theweeknd on
Instagram

The Weeknd’s bold farewell to his iconic persona

Alyssa Tillman, A&E Editor February 7, 2025

     In a 2023 interview with W, the Weeknd claimed that Hurry Up Tomorrow would serve as a skin-shedding for his career: “The album I’m working on now is probably my last hurrah as the Weeknd,”...

TSLOCG promo poster. Image from @thesexlivesofcollegegirls
on Instagram

Five shows every college student should watch

Alyssa Tillman, A&E Editor January 31, 2025

 If you’re anything like me, you need a show to binge in your free time to get you through the semester. College life is a rollercoaster of experiences, and TV shows have a way of capturing its chaos,...

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