Volume II Issue II: September 23, 2016 |
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT |
Next online issue: October 7, 2016
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Comic Strip: Edwin's Daily Life #2BY IHEANYI OKERE
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Doom: A Short Game for a Fun TimeBY LIAM McABEE
DOOM is a brand new gory, shoot-em up, first person shooter where you play as the Doom Slayer. The Doom Slayer is an ancient being who fights against the demon hordes slaying them relentlessly until one day the demon prophets devised a plan to capture and seal the Doom Slayer and seal him away in a tomb because they couldn't kill him. The game starts with you waking up on mars and escaping from the restraints holding you down and killing the nearby Imps around you with a conveniently placed pistol. Then after you kill the imps you leave the room to discover your armor conveniently placed right outside the room in a machine. The game then goes on to explain who you are exactly and then to explain why you’re on mars and why there are demons on mars. You then go around the game discovering all the secret little things they had hidden all around the areas and killing all the demons that you can possibly can...
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Column: You and ICookie-Cutter Hollywood BY MAYA SANCHEZ
It’s paradoxical, almost, how America is praised for being the melting pot of the world, accepting all cultures and beliefs and embracing diversity, when most of the people in the American media portray the same type of character. Yup, you guessed it. White and Male and Straight. While there is nothing bad about those characteristics, since you most certainly can’t help the way that you were born, it is not an accurate representation of the current America. Yet the media, Hollywood and television have not changed their presets. For the past two years when the Grammys have aired, the hashtag #GrammysSoWhite would appear, showcasing how the nominees all happen to share one constant: the color of their skin tone. One of the arguments that is made is that they nominations are given to people that earn it, so it can’t possibly be biased. But that argument itself holds fallacies. First of all, Hollywood doesn’t give many roles to minorities, and the roles that are given are often stereotyped into gross models of what that minority “should” be. How are we as actors and writers of color supposed to succeed in a creative world that doesn’t want to hear our stories? And even if they do want our story to be heard, it’s always their version of the story, not our own. It’s no surprise that Hollywood is known for its whitewashing, consistently casting white actors in roles for people of color. The argument against racebending is about the hypocrisy that occurs when white people are not “allowed” to take minority roles, but it is perfectly okay for minorities to “take” white roles... |
Comic Strip: Artem #2By
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Freaks and Geeks EntertainsBY LAURYN BEST
Freaks and Geeks is an American dramedy (drama/comedy) set in the year of 1980 but produced in 1999. Created by Paul Feig and produced by Judd Apatow, it centered around the life of Lindsay Weir (Linda Cardellini), her younger brother Sam (John Francis Daley) and a cast of self proclaimed freaks and geeks. It featured actors James Franco, Seth Rogen, and Jason Segel,who went on to become household names, before fame touched them. From the surface it could be seen as another try-hard teen sitcom that only trivialized, or overdramatized, the daily struggles teens face and make adults the butt of every joke, but it’s so much more than that. Lindsey, Sam and their friends just lived. They had their favorite hang out spots, they talked to their counselor for advice, they had crushes, they got in fights with each other, they made mistakes: they were unapologetically human. Unfortunately, the show was cancelled after 18 episodes, but the impact it had of its viewers did not lessen. It remains a cult classic, as it brings nostalgia to the older generations and opens up a different world to the current one. So if you find yourself looking for a good show to binge watch on Netflix this weekend choose Freaks and Geeks; you won’t regret it. |
Yugioh Still Attracts Young PlayersBY JAYLEN ALLAN
Yugioh is action packed card game with an intense strategy to win. Many people play this game it requires a deck of 40-60 cards per person. The game starts with a simple shuffle of the player's deck. Next each player draws 5 cards as a starting hand to decide who goes first there are a number of ways. One way is to look at the bottom card and whose first letter comes first in the alphabet gets to choose who goes in what order. The first thing to happen is the person draws a card... Kubo Swings Into ActionBY MAYA SANCHEZ
Kubo and the Two Strings, made by the same stop-motion animation studio that brought Coraline (2009), ParaNorman (2012), and The Boxtrolls (2014), opens with mesmerizing colors and breathtaking art. Kubo, a young boy with immense magical powers, uses his powers to entertain the town that he lives in, choosing to tell stories about evil moon kings and about the heroic samurai that saves the day. But stories always find their base in reality, and Kubo’s dead father is the samurai that he spins tales about. After breaking one of his mother’s rules by staying out after dark, Kubo gets hunted down by the Moon King – his grandfather. Kubo’s mother sacrifices herself and sends Kubo away with the last of her magic, making an artistically beautiful scene as well as a heart wrenching one. Thrust into an unknown quest to gather his father’s legendary armor and defeat the Moon King once and for all, Kubo is accompanied by Monkey and Beetle, who turn out to be his mother and father respectively. Kubo has an excellent exposition, choosing to tell the stories of the characters not through their words but by their actions and through the atmosphere of each scene. Colors play an important part in completing the mood of this movie, each color symbolizing something else. But sometimes... |