This semester, I have been hard at work—along with the rest of the University’s Theater Department—on creating a show that speaks to the present moment, to the conditions under which we are living. I auditioned for “SLABBER” in August because I was hoping to kick-start my theater journey at the University, but also because I was desperate to […]
Episode six of the fourth season of “Fargo” is coming out next Monday, and I do not have any sense of anticipation to watch it. This is a problem for a show that is supposed to be an engaging and subversive crime-drama. Apart from the dark, quirky comedy and examination of the bleak American capitalist […]
Over the past few months, I’ve been acting in “The MonoLogOn,” a series of eight student-written monologues based on the theme of “the masks we wear.” The production was created by Anna Tjeltveit ’23 and Jaydie Halperin ’23 and will be live streamed on YouTube on Oct. 23 and Oct. 24 at 7 p.m. Each monologue was […]
An increasingly unpopular president faced with civil unrest. A contentious election on the horizon. Mass protests met with police brutality. This is where writer and director Aaron Sorkin’s new film “The Trial of the Chicago 7” begins, in the summer of 1968. But, in many ways, this could describe the year that we have experienced […]
Bryson Tiller dropped his third studio album, “A N N I V E R S A R Y,” earlier this month. The singer-songwriter started making waves in 2014 with his hit song “Don’t,” which received millions of streams on Soundcloud. It would soon be the lead single for his critically acclaimed album “T R A […]
Now that the semester is in full swing, it can be hard to find time to read for fun. But in a pandemic that limits our travel to unfamiliar places and contact with strangers, books can provide some rare adventure and a much-needed reprieve from the blue light of our communication devices. If you’re mourning […]
Mar. 9, 2020 It is my first full day of spring break, and my mind is fried from juggling an endless array of tasks that I now know will never come into fruition: extended midterm deadlines, production strikes, summer internship applications. Despite my mental exhaustion, I want to be there for my dad. When our […]
Content Warning: Abortion, self harm, sexual assault/abuse. “I’d like to see Roe v. Wade overturned and consigned to the ash heap of history,” Vice President Mike Pence stated in a Fox News interview in 2016. The rights that my Filipina-American mother had access to as a teenager in the 1980s (in the decade following 1973’s […]
“The Social Network,” director David Fincher’s acclaimed 2010 film about the founding of Facebook, charts the roots of the social media behemoth that would envelop and shape the following decade. But it starts small. The opening scene of the film sees a college-aged Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) having an awkward conversation with his girlfriend, Erica […]
Singer and musician Joji delivered his second studio album “Nectar” on Sept. 25th, two years after his debut album “BALLADS 1.” Originally set to be released in Jul., the project’s release was delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Fans who waited to see how the rising artist would follow up his first album were not […]