Category: Culture

“Playing in the Dark” Senior Thesis Production

“Most plays have this rule imbedded in them,” said Khalil Sullivan two days before opening night of “Playing in the Dark,” which he wrote and directs for his senior thesis. “A play has an action, a desire that characters want, and obstacles in the way of completing that action.”

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Humiliated by the Television

Larry is a phone salesman; he�s the kind of responsible American man that is �able to support [his] wife to stay at home and raise [his] children.� He�s been dying to get his hands on the camouflage Lambourgini of his … Read More

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The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

There’s a lot of honey in Sue Monk Kidd’s debut novel, The Secret Life of Bees.

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Freshman Fall Break in 10 Movies

Ten films, lots of hot takes — join one writer on a cinematic romp.

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Love Lessons

Wherein a Nass writer contemplates the influence of Disney on her burgeoning worldview.

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Super Smash and the Bros

I was one of the girls waiting to get to late meal. I was the one sitting on the couch, watching, completely unimpressed, as four boys sat around me fixated on a flat screen TV. They swore left and right, pressing buttons on the game controllers they gripped. My requests for them to please get up so we could leave and beat the crowds at Frist were ignored. Instead, they were busy whacking the shit out of each other in a virtual world.

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All American (Anti-) Hero

In the third episode of Netflix and Marvel’s new superhero show Daredevil, a man crushes in his enemy’s face by repeatedly smashing it with a bowling ball.

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Crazy

I decide that if only girls are crazy, I will be a boy—

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Carrying the Fire

Every now and then there comes a book which is like an arrow shot into the heart of things because it has the power to redeem the fading, diffuse enterprise of bookselling and novel-gazing both, all the misbegotten hours spent … Read More

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The Avatar and Me

On falling in love with a childhood favorite as an adult.

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On The Canada Goose Jacket, Tote Bags, and Other Manifestations of Personal Complexes

On posturing and personal complexes.

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The Bourne Escalation

Hollywood retconning just got personal.

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