25 Little Known Facts About Buffy the Vampire Slayer
by: Nico Lang 1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer came out at an interesting time in the horror genre. Joss Whedon stated that he wrote Buffy as a response to the helpless damsels in distress […]
Category Archives: Art/Culture
Before The Story: Jen Bosworth
by: Adam Guerino Before The Story is a blog series about artist interviews and personal stories about becoming an artist. A luminary in the live-lit scene in Chicago, Jen Bosworth has not […]
Girls (Without Color): How Lena Dunham Addresses Race
by Ange Concepcion Let’s suppose I tell you there’s a show about a 20-something year old college educated female, Hannah, newly cut off from her parents, set in New York […]
Separation Anxiety: Our Need to Disassociate and Why We Don’t Have To
by: Sara Hughes I was killing time, as people sometimes do, cruising Reddit. Within /r/DoesAnybodyElse I clicked on an interesting forum. Basically, they asked if anyone else found it difficult […]
We’re Not Really Going To Kill The Heckler: A Defense of Crass Humor
by: Mariann Devlin I’m hard to offend. Even when I do draw the line between funny and not-funny, it’s usually on account of the joke being tired and unoriginal, not […]
Reflection In Each Frame: Why I Take Photos
by: Amanda Owens It was my favorite shirt, slightly childish, perhaps, with it’s frills and pastel designs, but I felt pretty. I remember sitting on a bench outside the cafeteria […]
Home Sweet Homeland: The Marriage of Politics and Media
by: Kera Mouge Lebanon’s Tourism Minister Fadi Abboud threatened to sue the producers of American television series “Homeland” on October 19, 2012 for their negative depiction of Beirut as a […]
The Show’s Over: Why I Was a Theatre Kid
by: Addison Bell The first musical I saw was Grease. I can’t remember how old I was, but I was in elementary school. My class walked up the street to watch […]
Five Actors Who’ve Never Been Nominated for Oscars – But Should.
by: Philip Siegel This year, Richard Gere and Ewen McGregor have strong shots of getting nominated for an Oscar. Gere is winning raves for playing a Bernie Madoff type in […]
Social Networking and Why I “Like” Phenomena
by Sophie Turton Sometimes I toy with the idea of saying ta-ta to Facebook and Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr. Other times I purr around the notion of becoming a vegan, […]
