Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s 9:00 p.m. on Saturday night. Dozens of photographers, painters, and enthusiasts gather in Mr. Jake Buntjer’s living room. He and Patric Bates stand back from the backdrop of paintings, pictures, and dirty glass windows to drink in the moment. “This,” said Buntjer, pointing to the floor, “is not Studio 760.” All eyes […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Despite having the overwhelming advantage in shots (25-7) and shots on goal (18-2), it took a comeback in the 80th minute to force overtime and a golden goal in the second overtime for the Lady Wolverines to pull out a huge 2-1 conference win over the Bison of Howard University Thursday night under the […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Remember the part in Mean Girls when Lindsey Lohan’s character walks into the Halloween party in her dead bride get-up while everyone else was dressed in lingerie and animal ears? That’s what we want to avoid. It’s easy to get carried away with Halloween makeup and pull out all the stops to look just […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes There is no swearing allowed inside the Haunted Forest. Or smoking. Or drinking. Lewd behavior of all kinds is frowned upon in both the Haunted Forest and the Psycho Manor. After all, this is a family establishment. You know, the kind where teenage girls get butchered right in front of you. Where blood-covered hillbillies […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes After gorging on candy intended for trick-or-treaters and watching various slasher movies, a boredom slump may set in. Don’t be alarmed. This is normal after exhausting all the traditional methods of celebrating Halloween. Luckily, there are a few courses of action that can be taken to ensure that this slump doesn’t damper Halloween entirely. […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s bound to happen. An invitation to a costume party arrives at the last minute and you’re left scrambling to throw together something reminiscent of a costume. The days of planning out a costume for the entire month of October are over. They are now filled with work schedules, essays and midterm exams. But […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Throughout history each generation has had its monumental problem that at times has seemed insurmountable and infects everyone in sight. And just when it seemed that problem could not be conquered, in rode the hero. Whether the hero was a white knight, or a man in tights with a bold S across his chest, […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes “Tis now the very witching time of night/When churchyards yawn and Hell itself breathes out contagion to this world.” Hamlet was speaking of the time between dark and light, the time when shadows are longest and the veil between this world and the next is at its thinnest. The time when “grim, grinning ghosts […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Halloween shall stand forever as a testament to humankind’s willingness to confront any danger, face any hazard and submit to any peril in its unceasing pursuit of candy and treats. Consider the premise of this, the strangest of all holidays: a person dons a costume, demeaning or unsettling; they venture, so costumed, into streets […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Steffani Nielson has spent the last year and a half putting her life back together. “I was completely broken,” she said. “Completely.” Seven years ago, Nielson married her sweetheart and they started their life together. Two children and five and a half years later their lives were rocked by a divorce, leaving her […]