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-3 posts tagged "irony"
Aidan O'Malley | Tuesday, March 1, 2022
“Your YEAR of cringe? What about the other 20??” Silence. It’s my Inside Column and I get to tell the jokes. Recently, I’ve realized my most fundamental character trait — my greatest blessing, but my worst curse — is self-awareness. Actually, I’ve thought this for a while. I’m not sure why, where or from what
Nora McGreevy | Tuesday, February 28, 2017
We can all identify at least one thing that surprised us about the 89th Academy Awards. It’s hard to be alive in the United States with functional Internet access and not possess at least an inkling of Sunday night’s dramatics: mayhem, Steve Harvey memes, justified anger, public statements of apology, awkward celebrity interviews and the New
Allie Tollaksen | Sunday, September 7, 2014
When recapping some of the biggest pop culture moments of this summer in Scene for this semester’s first issue, I couldn’t resist putting the laughably bad made-for-TV movie “Sharknado 2” on the list. Sure, it wasn’t quality programming in the traditional sense, but it didn’t claim to be — the SyFy network made the low-budget, self-aware mess