Student Reviews

Album Review: Kill the Moonlight

Last year, I was watching one of my favorite television shows, Showtime’s Shameless, when I ran into a song at the end of an episode that was relatively catchy. I was surprised that I actually enjoyed the song since...

The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask Review

Trotting through a lush, green forest, Epona follows her master, Link, through a foggy and mystifying forest filled with massive trees and busy creatures stirring in the silence of the environment. From behind a tree, the silhouette of a...

Album Review: Emergency & I by The Dismemberment Plan

Artists experiencing alienation from their surroundings is nothing special.  What makes an artist great is his total sense of self-awareness and ability to communicate his thoughts and emotions.  Unfortunately, mindsets that lend themselves to self-awareness often result in an...

New Third Generation iPad Review

The iPad 2 has already been deemed one of the best, if not the best, tablet available on the market since its release.  From the first generation iPad, the iPad 2 unveiled a brand new design, a more powerful...

Album Review: Regret by Modern

Sometime a couple years ago, an adolescent boy decided to create music in addition to fulfilling his academic obligations. Painstakingly saving his money, he purchased a turntable, a balanced pair of headphones, and also pirated audio software. Initially, the boy...

Book Review: Legend by Marie Lu

When one thinks of Los Angeles, California, sunny beaches, multilingual communities, and burdening taxes probably come to mind. In the world of Legend, an apocalyptic fiction book by author Marie Lu, there is barely any of the sprawling metropolis...

Oscar Nominated Films Hugo and The Artist Tell Similar Tales

It is fairly common for Hollywood to release at least a few films each year about, well, films. Possibly nothing is more characteristic of American cinema than its frequent vanity-driven practice of looking at itself in the mirror, praising...

Book Review: American Sniper

Exhaling through his nose, aiming through the scope of his rifle, Navy SEAL Chris Kyle pulled the trigger. The bullet leapt out of the rifle, screamed through the air, and directly hit its target: a woman. The women, a...

Book Review: Scar Tissue

  “Under the bridge downtown is where I drew some blood/Under the bridge I could not get enough/Under the bridge forgot about my love/Under the bridge I gave my life away.”   Perhaps no other set of lyrics that Anthony Kiedis—the lead...