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Why Are Studios Deleting Finished Movies?

Let’s talk about the atrocious phenomenon in Hollywood where a studio will fund a movie, write, direct, and edit it, and then delete the entire thing, erasing all of the work put into the project and spitting in the faces of those who contributed.  I hate this. Why do they do this? Well, it’s movie […]

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Arts and Culture Music

WCCS Winter Playlist

By Michael Kanyongolo and John Morris  To listen to more of Michael and John’s favorite music, tune in to “No Static At All” on Thursdays from 7-8 at wheatoncollgeradio.com  Michael’s Winter Picks Here Comes the Moon – George Harrison If Here Comes the Sun is the perfect soundtrack for a sunny summer day, Here Comes […]

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Arts and Culture Music

WCCS Winter Playlist

By Michael Kanyongolo and John Morris  To listen to more of Michael and John’s favorite music, tune in to “No Static At All” on Thursdays from 7-8 at wheatoncollgeradio.com  Michael’s Winter Picks Here Comes the Moon – George Harrison If Here Comes the Sun is the perfect soundtrack for a sunny summer day, Here Comes […]

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Arts and Culture

6  Winter Break Book Recommendations 

One of my favorite reads this year was Claire Dederer’s searching book, part memoir and part piece of cultural criticism. She examines our post Me Too society, but looks more deeply at the question of “can you separate the art from the artist?”, instead interrogating what it means to live in an age where we […]

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Arts and Culture Film

Actors and AI: What the end of the SAG-AFTRA Strike Means for the Television and Film Industry

At long last, the 118 day actor’s strike has ended, following the end of the WGA writer’s strike which ended in late September. For those of you who don’t know the motivation behind the two strikes- as always, they lie in pay and benefits, and now concerns over streaming and artificial intelligence.  Streaming essentially took […]

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Arts and Culture Poetry

The Making of a Poetry Festival

The Many Voices, Many American Poetries Festival took place this past weekend, marking the first event of its kind on Wheaton’s campus. The festival included round table discussions held by visiting poets, a showcase that featured undergraduate students from the Boston area and Wheaton alum, as well as a poetry reading by a local arts […]

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Arts and Culture Film

Killers of the Flower Moon Review: A Masterfully Told Tragedy

I was rather shocked to learn that 80 year old director Martin Scorsese had another movie set to release so soon after 2020’s “The Irishman.” “Irishman” was a movie filled with themes of what it’s like to see the world change around you as you grow old. Seemingly the perfect film for a director with […]

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Arts and Culture Wheaton

Do Wheaton College Artists Dream of Electric Sheep?

A Conversation on A.I Art In the past few months, it has been nearly impossible to escape the A.I. conversation. Almost every American industry has had conversations on what their futures hold with the growing strength of online predictive algorithms like Open AI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard. One such group that has had especially fascinating […]

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Music

WCCS Fall Playlist

A playlist to soundtrack the fall semester – Brought to you by WCCS, your campus radio station. (wheatoncollegeradio.com)

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WCCS Fall Playlist

A playlist to soundtrack the fall semester – Brought to you by WCCS, your campus radio station. (wheatoncollegeradio.com) By John Morris and Michael Kanyongolo John’s Fall Picks “Summer Breeze, Pts. 1&2” – The Isley Brothers It’s hard to cover a song that is already so well-known and loved. You would be hard pressed to find […]