‘No Fear’- Dej Loaf

Karolena Santiago, Staff Writer

May 14, 2019

“No Fear” by Dej Loaf has reached an exciting twenty-one million views after being published on June 28, 2017. “The song is about living life how you want to,” Loaf said. The song was widely used on many platforms including Tik Tok and Instagram and is still considered a pop hit.  ...

“Russian Doll” is the best Netflix original content (Review)

Carol Etzel, Magazine Editor-in-Chief

March 15, 2019

Repeatedly experiencing your death can really put your life in perspective. 36-year-old Nadia is stuck in a time loop, forced to relive her birthday party only to die and do it all over again. With eight twenty-minute episodes, Russian Doll is the perfect size for a clever, concise storyline. ...

PewDiePie vs T-Series: The war for YouTube’s identity (Editorial)

Cameron Fritz, Publications Manager

March 12, 2019

A war is brewing in the depths of YouTube. PewDiePie, YouTube's most subscribed to video creator faces off against India’s biggest movie production company, T-series for the position of most subscribed to channel.  At the time of writing this story, T-series has passed PewDiePie on 4 separate occ...

‘The Lego Movie 2’: A brick by brick analysis (Review)

Zack Mattaboni, Staff Writer

February 22, 2019

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part was created as a sequel to the widely successful first movie, The Lego Movie, but it lent itself to many unforeseen problems. Unfortunately, The Lego Movie 2 failed at the box office compared to much smaller titles with much lower budgets. The movie was not even...

“Let’s Hurt Tonight” – OneRepublic

Carol Etzel, Magazine Editor-in-Chief

December 18, 2018

Love isn’t always easy, but if you work through the hard times, it is worth it. These topics are discussed in OneRepublic’s song “Let’s Hurt Tonight” from their album Oh My My. The song was featured in the movie Collateral Beauty starring Will Smith. It has also reached Top 100 lists in Au...

Netflix original ‘Girls Incarcerated’ shows the importance of rehabilitation (Review)

Releigh Norrell, A&E Writer

May 24, 2018

Girls Incarcerated is an eight-episode Netflix original show featuring teen inmates at Madison Juvenile Correctional Facility in Madison, Indiana. Since the show was released, the facility has been closed. This show highlights the struggles of the girls serving time in the correctional facility. The ...

‘Multiple Choice’: Test or a captivating novel? (Review)

Carol Etzel, A&E Editor

May 24, 2018

Let's just get one thing straight: I hate standardized tests, and until recently I was not the type of person to pick up a book in my free time. However, Multiple Choice left me speechless. The novel is broken into five sections: excluded term, sentence order, sentence completion, sentence eliminatio...

Overview

May 22, 2018

To gun violence, discrimination, racial tensions, murder, drug addiction, technology addiction, and death: this is America, or at least for Childish Gambino. Social media has been blowing up over the release of Donald Glover’s, better known as Childish Gambino, new song and music video “This is ...

New Weeknd album carries raw emotion (Review)

Releigh Norrell, A&E Writer

April 18, 2018

On the six-track, My Dear Melancholy, The Weeknd continues to develop his emotional and soulful R&B. Abel Tesfaye, better known by his stage name The Weeknd, had no releases in 2017. He finally released My Dear Melancholy on March 30, 2018, which was presumed to be about his past relationship...

Carlisle ‘shake’down: The search for the perfect chocolate milkshake (Video)

Carol Etzel and Treston Johnson

April 18, 2018

A&E writers Treston and Carol embarked on a journey through Carlisle in search of the perfect chocolate milkshake. They created a rubric and traveled to two of the most popular, non-chain ice cream shops in town: Massey's and Leo's....