Last year at this time I was sitting in my godparents’ house in Tallahassee, Fla. I left my life, my house, my parents, my friends and my school for six months. When I left I didn’t really tell anyone,...
"Chinese schools are crazy; Chinese kids are so smart; Chinese people are so good at math..."
I have been hit with these statements ever since I moved to America after living in China for 17 years....
Media is all around us. If something is not written about, portrayed in a movie or tv show, namedropped in a video game, or even sung about on the radio, it ceases to exist in the public’s eye.
Hollywood...
Recently, while visiting an Applebee’s, I noticed an older gentlemen sitting in a tiny booth with his wife. Or rather, I noticed his hat, which read, “WWII Veteran.” Immediately, I was struck with...
Zac Johnson, Entertainment Editor
• February 25, 2015
Brick and Mortar opened up the Motion City Soundtrack’s Commit this to Memory tour at the Granada theater in Lawrence Sunday night. Recently Brick and Mortar has started to get some airplay with their...
Abraham Lincoln once said, “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” If you spend your life viewing everything in a negative light, it will be much...
Zac Johnson, Entertainment Editor
• February 20, 2015
As the lights dimmed and the curtain rose, the Thursday night crowd was greeted with the sights and sounds of Cinderella the Musical.
The performance overall was fantastic, and each actor seemed to...
The recent hashtag #20beautifulwomen has been surfacing all over Instagram captions and tweets, especially within the last week. Upon posting her own selfie with a caption about what makes her feel beautiful,...
The beautiful mess of raw, quirky music from three underground northeastern bands enveloped the cozy Granada theater and its inhabitants late Monday night. The concert’s main attraction was Jukebox the...
Enveloped in creased brown paper, it unexpectedly appeared amongst a crowd of roaring seniors. Bleachers thundered with excitement, amplifying the suspense rippling through the room.
It was the climax;...
What’s often been argued about my generation is that we’re not engaged with the world around us, be that in our government or nation. And while it’s not always easy to keep an ear to the ground and...
I was going to write this about Boy Scouts. I was going to talk about what Boy Scouts includes, such as the act of camping and earning badges. Boy Scouts of America is, after all, a great organization...
