Reading Time: 3 minutes Illustration by Rebecca Cho Ben Roden Asst. Features Editor Let me get this out of the way: “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” isn’t a great film. The effects are impressive and the acting is solid, and there are hip little jokes where you’d expect hip little jokes to be, but in all the ways that […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Photo by Julie Ostler Missy Jensen Senior Staff Writer @missyjensen19 UVU students Aaron Gates, an English Writing Studies major, and UVU alumni Jack Garcia who majored in English with an emphasis in Creative Studies, have successfully created their own LGBT literary journal, peculiar. The two are looking forward to the second issue, to be published […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Lee Thomas Lifestyle Editor “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” is a film with a clear agenda. The filmmakers are helping make the world a more tolerant place by creating this exciting and relatable story about a host of gender fluid characters. The filmmakers not only thwart classical Hollywood cinema by challenging gender and sexuality norms, […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Alanna Cottam Copy Editor/Senior Staff Writer Each semester, Utah Valley University’s School of the Arts creates a schedule of events to entertain, educate, and delight students and this semester is no different. Highlights from the Theatre, Music, and Dance programs for Spring 2016 include: Jan. 14–30, Mother Hicks, Noorda Regional Theatre, presented by the Theatre […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Photo courtesy of Senator Films Mark Hanni Staff Writer “One Girl. One City. One Night. One Take.” This is the tagline for “Victoria”, German director Sebastian Schipper’s fourth film. Unlike last year’s “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)”, “Victoria” was actually filmed in one long shot, without any editing tricks. While this may seem […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Photo courtesy of Multicultural Club Cultural Rhythms is a free monthly event held by the Multicultural Student Council. The event provides a space where people can get together and learn about different cultures through dancing. The event is free and open to everyone. The first half hour is set aside for dance instruction then the […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Photo credit: Collin Cooper | Photo Senior Staff | @coop.97 Fred Adams, founder of the Utah Shakespearean Foundation, was the guest speaker at this month’s Master Mind Lecture for the Center for the Advancement of Leadership program. Adams spoke about having a focused vision and how the Shakespeare Festival started in Cedar City. Adams, originally […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Photo credit: Sony Pictures Classics Ben Roden Asst. Lifestyle Editor Norway is full of natural treasures. There is ice. There are fjords. And there’s Director Bent Hamer. Hamer’s drama/comedy/character study “O’ Horten” was originally released in 2007, and has spent the last few years navigating the mystical and convoluted path that every foreign film must […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Lee Thomas Lifestyle Editor Norman Rockwell is one of America’s most treasured artists of the twentieth century. His work, now on display at Brigham Young University’s Museum of Art in the “American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell” exhibit, is at once nostalgic, commercial and questioning of the status quo. Rockwell’s art transcends generations and […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Photo credit: Collin Cooper | Photo Senior Staff | @coop.97 With over 30,000 students and new construction going on every year, it can be hard to know what resources are available to students. However, there are labs, tutoring and printing services all around campus that students can use to help ace their classes. […]