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Abby Patrick | Wednesday, January 19, 2022
I honestly don’t know what to write this column about. Typically I only have to write one of these per semester, and I usually pick a later date, storing up ideas until then, to make sure that when my turn comes, I have something halfway decent to say, something interesting and inspiring enough (to me)
Aidan Thomas | Wednesday, January 19, 2022
A newsroom is an interesting place, and ours is no different. The Observer is made up of four different primary departments — Sports, News, Scene and Viewpoint — that work together to produce the content you all read. Despite their penchant for collaboration, though, writers for these various departments vary greatly in their interests and
Claire Lyons, Aidan O'Malley, Rachel Hartmann, Nia Sylva, Sophia Michetti, Anna Falk, Joyce Fu, Allison Thornton, Alysa Guffey and Mia Mei | Monday, December 6, 2021
Every year, the cultured denizens of The Observer’s culture section come together to rank the best albums of the year. The process is long and tiring, involving a complicated Excel spreadsheet (the formulas for which we barely comprehend). Often, there are casualties — this year, there were several. Right on the outskirts of our top-10
Emma Kirner | Friday, November 19, 2021
Feeling Hungry? Eat cereal for dessert! Honestly, this was the best decision I made this past week. Well, it wasn’t really a decision but a happening. I was sitting there staring into space in my seat at SDH during lunch, when it hit me. Literally. A full bowl of Lucky Charms rained down from the
Maggie Clark | Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Taylor Swift rarely ceases to surprise or amaze me. I have been an avid “Swiftie” since 2012, yet my expectations of her artistry has been exceeded with every song, music video or album release since then. The Friday release of “Red (Taylor’s Version)” was no different. Not only was I blown away by the album
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Dear Matthew Carranza and Brian Conlon, I have to admit, when I read your joint Letter to the Editor in the Nov. 15 publication of The Observer, I laughed. I’m sure you realize the impracticality of boiling an entire music artist down to 10 songs that will be completely uncontested, especially considering Taylor Swift has
Letter to the Editor | Monday, November 15, 2021
1. “You Belong With Me” She wears short skirts, I wear T-shirts, Taylor wrote an absolute banger, and we want to see this in concert. This song is absolutely iconic, from the music video, to sing-along lyrics, to the controversy it caused with Kanye, to so much more. It encapsulates everything that we love about
Bella Laufenberg | Monday, November 15, 2021
You’ve seen the videos on TikTok, the captions, the comments — “In an unfortunate turn of events, I will now be relating to Taylor Swift’s re-release of ‘Red.’” How sad, I thought to myself. What poor girls that their boyfriends dumped them and now they must experience the most anticipated release of the year fresh
John Clark | Monday, November 15, 2021
“Red,” in my humble opinion, was Taylor Swift’s magnum opus. The album was originally released at a critical point in my life, and one of my fondest memories is going to see Swift perform it on tour just a few weeks after burying my father. That concert brought me joy at a time when I
Ellie Konfrst | Tuesday, November 9, 2021
When I was growing up, my family went on a lot of road trips. Some were reasonable, only a few hours away in Illinois, and some were a bit more intense, like the semi-regular fourteen hour drive we took to see family in Georgia. In general, if we could drive, we drove. In return for