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Mike Donovan | Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Culture favors the futurist, the sample-heavy synth pop, spliced together post-modern masterpieces of poetic beauty and electronic grace. The charts — and the internet news feeds — rise and fall in response to the dexterity of the musically inclined computer wiz, master of software, producer extraordinaire. Guitars, tube amps, read more→
Dessi Gomez | Monday, April 8, 2019
It’s a lot like “The Fault in Our Stars.” Except they both have cystic fibrosis instead of cancer. And Cole Sprouse is in it. That is how I would summarize “Five Feet Apart” to my friends or to anyone who hasn’t seen the movie yet. But that’s just the read more→
Carlos De Loera | Monday, April 8, 2019
“Saturday Night Live” alum Bill Hader is hilarious and one of the best cast members in the famed NBC show’s recent history. His timing, ability to doing stellar impressions and inability to keep it together during sketches made him a favorite on the show. After leaving “SNL” in 2013, read more→
Colleen Fischer | Friday, April 5, 2019
Movies exist in many planes of entertainment. The purposes of making movies are as diverse as movies themselves. There are many extraordinary pieces of film, and there are films that are less so. It might be enjoyable to poke fun at a film’s failures, but some films have read more→
Ryan Israel | Friday, April 5, 2019
A classical piano plays a familiar melody. A comforting voice begins to sing, “Mama, just killed a man / Put a gun against his head / Pulled my trigger, now he’s dead.” It’s Freddie Mercury; this is “Bohemian Rhapsody,” a classic rock song long launched back into popular culture read more→
Michelle Moufawad | Thursday, April 4, 2019
Eddy Street Commons lost a hidden gem this past month. Tucked away amongst fast food giants such as Chipotle and Five Guys was Yats, a lesser-known chain that had twice as much charm as the other joints. Though not the first, second or even third option for most students read more→
Sarah Kikel | Thursday, April 4, 2019
Okay, Paul McCartney, sure there’s nothing wrong with silly love songs — but don’t undermine music that flows like divinely-crafted poetry, songs that are so refined they resonate deep within the listener. While poetry worked into music enables poets to better disseminate their work to the public, it also read more→
Ryan Israel, Mike Donovan, Nora McGreevy, Carlos De Loera and Jim Moster | Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Volume IV: Spring 2019 by Scenecast, from The Observer Ryan Israel, Mike Donovan, Nora McGreevy, Carlos DeLoera and Jim Moster discuss their favorite podcasts, including “Philosophize This!,” “Art Curious,” “Popcast,” “Song Exploder” and “Pardon My Take.” read more→
Martin Kennedy | Wednesday, April 3, 2019
After a year-long hiatus from production, the hit comedy and three-consecutive time winner of the Emmy for Best Comedy Series “Veep” has returned for its seventh and final season. “Veep” stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus (whose fight against breast cancer delayed production of the show) as the dysfunctional and accidental Vice read more→
Chase Cummings | Wednesday, April 3, 2019
In the early 2000s, hip-hop was overwhelmed with bling-flaunting artists like 50 Cent, Juvenile and Lil Wayne who rapped about chains, sex, drugs, money and guns. Much of the music of that era may as well have been copied and pasted from one artist to the next, for when read more→