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Thor: Ragnarok: Marvel Tries Something New With The God of Thunder

“Thor: Ragnarok”: Marvel Tries Something New With The God of Thunder

Emmanuel Lebron, Arts & Entertainment Editor November 18, 2017

The Thor movies are no one’s favorite. I watched but couldn’t tell you what happened in the last one. "Thor: Ragnarok" even pokes fun at this with a playful, cameo filled reenactment of the end of...

Wicked, a Magical Broadway Experience

“Wicked,” a Magical Broadway Experience

Diana Sanchez June 4, 2017

“Wicked”—a fitting name for the Broadway show I went to see this spring. The protagonist is draped in a melancholy black lace dress, a black hat and a matching cape set off by skin as green as the...

An Interview with Helene Stapinski, the woman behind Five-Finger Discount

An Interview with Helene Stapinski, the woman behind Five-Finger Discount

Suhas Vittal, Contributing Writer April 26, 2017

Helene Stapinski is the author of The Five-Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History and the star of the documentary by the same name that recently aired on PBS. Her book is a memoir about her life in...

Missy Elliot: The Age of Queering Hip Hop

Missy Elliot: The Age of Queering Hip Hop

Yasmine Tadross April 8, 2017
In mid-March the Speicher-Rubin Women's Center for Equity and Diversity hosted an event centered around how Missy Elliot deconstructs the hip hop narrative and allows people within the genre to embrace other facets of identity outside of just a racial one.
Manga and War at NJCU

Manga and War at NJCU

Emmanuel Lebron, Arts & Entertainment Editor February 14, 2017

  Your eyes are immediately drawn to a brightly colored sketch of a young girl in a military outfit roasting a marshmallow nearly as big as she is. Across from it, a heavily inked and detailed...

Big winners from the 59th Annual Grammy Awards

Imani Rivers February 13, 2017

Whether you watched the Grammy’s to see Chance the Rapper respectively win Best Rap Album or you watched it to see Beyoncé perform while pregnant with twins, the 59th Annual Grammy’s didn’t fail...

With February comes The Black Maria Film Festival

February 5, 2017

The Black Maria Film Festival launches its 36th Annual Tour in NJ with a series of five distinctive programs throughout the month of February 2017. Each program will be presented in-person by Festival...

A Social Justice, Sci-Fi Tribute: “Octavia’s Brood” Honors a Legacy

A Social Justice, Sci-Fi Tribute: “Octavia’s Brood” Honors a Legacy

David E. Melgar May 27, 2016

Octavia Butler was an iconic black American sci-fi writer, winning multiple Hugo and Nebula awards for her work. A unique voice in science fiction, she was honored in last year’s acclaimed anthology...

Worlds Worst

World’s Worst

Emmanuel Lebron, Arts & Entertainment Editor May 4, 2016

"Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It’s an alien demi-god fighting a masked murderer?" I wanted this to be incredible. Like a lot of people, when I was younger I grew up on Batman:...

Hairspray: Behind the Scenes

Hairspray: Behind the Scenes

Madeline Rubin April 5, 2016

It was 8:30 on a blustery Monday night. A gust of wind pushed me inside Karnoutsos and, windswept, I took the elevator to the basement. Before the doors opened, I could hear laughter and singing coming...

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Jerry Lawson: The Guy who Made your Childhood Possible

Ian Anderson, contributor March 18, 2016

There is nothing more nostalgic than having to blow the dust out of your Super Nintendo cartridge in order to make it work. After sliding it into the console with surgical precision, you wait for the Nintendo...

Hollywood Royalty at NJCU

Hollywood Royalty at NJCU

February 26, 2016

Christine Vachon is already well known in Hollywood as an acclaimed film producer but her latest movie – “Carol” has racked up an amazing six Oscar nominations this year. On March 21, Vachon will...

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