With 2023 coming to an end, it’s easy to assume that a lot of the year’s heavy-hitter film releases have already come and left theaters. However, this couldn’t be further from the truth thanks to the release of Emma Seligman’s sophomore dark comedy, Bottoms. The film follows highschool students PJ (Rachel Sennott) and Josie (Ayo […]
By Elsie Carson and Lily Maguire “Get naked or get out!” Those five words were bright and bold on the Art Haus wall in their living room for years. First painted on in 2019, the words became the motto for Art Haus. One didn’t actually have to get naked or get out, but these words […]
Jurassic Park, Terminator, Mission Impossible, James Bond, Fast and Furious, Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean, The MCU, The DCU, Transformers, Lord of the Rings, the number of major movie franchises seems to grow larger and larger with each passing year. Stale ideas being remixed and recast until the final product has only a small […]
Spring has always been seen as the season of floral dresses, light clothing, and pastel color palettes. However, our Spring feels currently like an extended winter with sporadic, short-lived warm days in Norton. In light of the erratic weather, here are Wheaton’s must-haves and trends. 1. Leather Leather, either faux or genuine, has been seen […]
The Motherless by Elihu Vedder – Wheaton College Massachusetts Its gold frame warmly hugging the subject within, Elihu Vedder’s small oil painting depicts a young girl sitting in a barn looking over three baby chicks. The implication is that she is not just watching them, but caring for them. The title “The Motherless” applies not […]
Succession. The struggle for power and lasting influence that each member of the fictional Roy family faces can be neatly summed in the show’s one word title. And what a struggle it is. The Roys are the family that sits at the center of Succession and are essentially the show’s fictional equivalent of the real […]
There’s a point in Raiders of the Lost Ark where Rene Belloq, the film’s villain, claims that he and Indiana Jones are distorted mirror images of each other, that all it would take would be one bad day to turn the film’s morally-ambiguous hero into a villain. This scene, to a certain extent, is the […]
Today, the Brit Awards is one of the most progressive awards shows, so why did they move backward? Events such as the Brits, the Grammys, or even the iHeart Radio Awards are all crucial pieces of pop cul- ture in the music industry, so during the spring of every year, fan bases are fighting to […]
In the 21st century, the negative influence of social media is everywhere, all the time. Open any social media app, and after a few clicks between Instagram posts or a few minutes spent scrolling down the TikTok explore page, you have been exposed to the darkness of the world, but do you realize it? Social […]
In an extreme coincidence, I found out that David Crosby died while holding his haunting 1971 debut solo album “If I Could Only Remember My Name” in a record store. My reaction to the news of his untimely passing was, strangely enough, laughter. I couldn’t believe it. David Crosby was a 1960s and 70s folk/rock […]