Music aficionados love nothing more than to brag about unknown groups they enjoy in no small part because of the credibility that comes from having obscure taste. Just about everyone has at least one friend who loves to complain that they liked bands “before they were cool,” and distance themselves from those groups once they…
The Book Club
In the blink of an eye, we have suddenly found ourselves with the last edition of The Book Club for this term. It feels like just yesterday I was writing my first recommendations for my favorite books for you all. I’ve loved writing this column and sharing book recommendations from both other Lawrentians and myself,…
Department of Theatre Arts performs The Domino Effect
The Lawrence University Department of Theatre Arts performed The Domino Effect starting on Thursday, May 20. Photo by Alana Melvin. This past weekend the Lawrence University Department of Theatre Arts performed their version of The Domino Effect, a play written by Fin Kennedy. The production was directed by Kathy Privatt and stage managed by junior…
Lydia Hellevik’s EP
For Lydia Hellevik, a junior in the Bachelor of Musical Arts program for Jazz and Contemporary Improvisation, writing songs is her way of releasing “whatever is burning on my mind.” This made releasing an EP, in lieu of a junior recital, a perfect choice for her. Her EP, Egotypical, highlights her creativity and songwriting skills…
Movies, Movies, Movies
Army of the Dead, 2021, directed by Zack Snyder – 3/5 Stars On the heels of one of Zack Snyder’s highest moments of his career, the release of his four-hour cut of Justice League on HBO Max, he has released another passion project this month, Army of the Dead. While this new zombie extravaganza doesn’t…
Creative Writing Club Serial Story: Episode Eight
They kept the windows rolled up, the air conditioning locked on the coldest setting. While the red trees stood tall and silent, the car’s tires buzzed against the road. Lizzie spent the drive out of the park doing the same thing she’d done on the drive in. Her eyes were fixed to one spot, digging…
An overview of Netflix’s celebrating AAPI stories collection
At the beginning of May, I opened Netflix to a splash of graduated colors announcing a new featured collection, “Celebrate Asian American & Pacific Islander Stories.” The unapologetic mouthful truly surprised me — we don’t get featured. We don’t get recognized. We don’t get celebrated. But here we are, even if it took a year of…
Creative Writing Club Serial Story: Episode Seven
While looking at the map, Lizzie noticed that every trail in the park, including the path she tread upon ended in the same crossroad: the heart of El Diablo. She felt like prey that was guided though the furrows like lambs to the slaughter, to be drowned and dined upon by El Ahogado. “Look,…
The Book Club
As we slowly approach the end of the school year, I find myself looking back not only on the past few months, but the past few school years. While taking my trip down memory lane, I came up with this week’s prompt – books we all, or at least most of us, had to read…
Album Review: Days of the New
Most people have never heard of the band Days of the New, but they were quite the sensation for a short time in the late 90s. Their first self-titled album went platinum on its release in 1997, selling some 1.5 million copies and dominating American rock charts with singles “Touch, Peel And Stand,” “Shelf in…