By JAMES MELVILLE Did you enjoy the intimate poignancy of last week’s review? No. It made me sad and uncomfortable. Well, you’re in luck. I’m just reviewing The Avengers this week. Also a little drunk. Woo bonus issue! The Avengers (2012): The Plot: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes—and for some reason Black Widow and Hawkeye—have to fight [...]
By NICK SIRIANNO Never before have I felt the ease of life roll over the Adirondack earth as smoothly as it has for the past four years. St. Lawrence is like no place on earth, nothing compares, nothing. When I graduate, I’ll become a part of an alumni network that at any given moment will [...]
By WILL STANDISH This week, rock connoisseur Will Standish ‘14 brings you his pick for the perfect album to start off a summer even more bodacious than the last. It’s the end of another semester, you’ve survived your final exams, packed your bags, and as you kick back and prepare for what promises to be [...]
By JAMES MELVILLE Well, James, I guess this is it. What do you mean, disembodied voice? It’s the last issue of the semester, and you’re graduating. You won’t be writing for the paper anymore. I might never see you again. Technically, it’s the second to last issue. I’m just treating it like the finale, since [...]
By RILEY SPELLMAN On March 26th, Viebranz visiting Professor of Creative Writing, Mark Slouka, read at SLU, from his fiction and nonfiction. His work is insightful and personal, and his prose is stunning and fluid. Slouka’s literature and responses last Thursday suggest that he is a family man, and also intrigued by moments of confusion [...]
By NICK SIRIANNO Sex pheromones are nature’s silent way of saying, “hey there, want to make babies?” There are many kinds of pheromones; alarm, epideictic, signal, release, food trail, etc. But the sex pheromones are obviously the most interesting. What I find most interesting about pheromones is that they have a domino effect across species. [...]
By JAMES MELVILLE Hey, disembodied voice, guess what? What, James? You’ve become a reoccurring character in this column! Wow, does this mean I’ll get paid? Not likely, man. I mean, I do most of the work around here. Pretty much all of it, actually. Touché, sir. Touché. 3:10 to Yuma (2007): The Plot: Dan Evans [...]
By JAMES MELVILLE This week, our Arts & Entertainment Editor shares his top five tunes to play while surfing that wave of energy straight through to graduation. Were you planning on getting drunk this weekend? That’s adorable. As if any of us had the time. Alcohol is a depressant. That shit slows you down. What’s [...]
By JAMES MELVILLE Hey, James. Yeah, disembodied voice? You know what’s worse than the Holocaust? Uh…not much, man. No, stupid. That orange fence on the quad for Springfest. Dude. What? That’s really offensive. But it’s taking our freeeeeddddooooommmsssss. That’s what you sound like when you complain about minor inconveniences to your Sacred Day of Getting [...]
By JAMES MELVILLE Do people actually read these introductions, or do they just skip to the review? If you’re reading this, clap your hands and say “I do believe in intros. Also, James Melville is super handsome and cool. When I grow up, I want to be just like him.” I probably won’t hear you, [...]
