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, [...]
By NICK SIRIANNO Help is on the way! No need to worry, y’all because Springfest is only two weeks away. You might even say that “Paradise waits on the crest of a wave,” the wave being the twenty-five person Chinese dragon that will be squirming through the crowd like a squirrel in the trees. Springfest [...]
By RICHARD BOHAN This week, the weather’s constant mood swings made me dig up a favorite of mine, Penny Sparkle by Blonde Redhead; an album that is equally sunshine as it is rain. Released in the summer of 2010, Penny Sparkle was the final death-knell for the band’s Sonic Youth influenced, art-rock past. Even 23—the [...]
By RICHARD BOHAN It’s not just an art mash-up, re:WORKS is an ambitious exhibition by seven SYE students that plays with the concepts of time and space, and experiential nature of art. The basic premise behind the re:WORKS exhibition is that each senior in the SYE curate two to six works from St. Lawrence University’s [...]
By JAMES MELVILLE Something relevant! Ha. Classic misdirection. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call–New Orleans (2009): Plot: After injuring his back when rescuing a convict (Nick Gomez) caught in a flood after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans detective Terence McDonagh (Nicolas Cage) gets promoted to Lieutenant. Six months later, he’s addicted to any kind of drug that [...]
