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'Clueless' makes sense

In many ways, Cher Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone) is anything but clueless: She can put together a totally kickin’ outfit (with the help of a computerized closet organizer, of course). She knows exactly how to convince a stubborn teacher to raise her grade (help him fall in love, obviously). And she has a talent for making snarky comebacks (“Shouldn’t you go to school on the East coast?


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'Blue' is still brilliant

The 90s were a strange decade for music. It seems the catharsis for the laughable panache of hair metal, the unmistakable sheen of shameless power-pop outfits, and the homebrewed sincerity of hip-hop’s early years split into two dominant camps.


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Semi-Charmed Decade

“Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone?” Joni Mitchell asked in her 1970 single “Big Yellow Taxi.” Mitchell may have been singing about paving paradise to put up a parking lot, but her message applies just as well to the way in which we, as a society, tend to approach pop culture.


News

I love the '90s

Before the time of Facebook and Twitter, of rip-off 3-D films and BlueRay, of Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift, there were the ’90s.


News

Our Rom-Com reality

With romantic comedy after romantic comedy promoting casual relationships, it seems that our films have crept into our real-life relationships and gotten in the way of this little thing called “love.”


News

Jack and the Giant Slayer falls flat

While the fantasy genre is alive and kicking, however, many of its offspring are not. Jack the Giant Slayer displays all the trappings of a engaging epic, but none of the fun or charm.


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Lessons from Taylor Swift videos

Don’t lie: whether you love her or hate her, you’ve probably seen at least one (or ten) Taylor Swift music videos. No matter how many times you’ve watched them, however, you may be missing out on some of the valuable life lessons Swift espouses through her videos.


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The Princess Bride

The Paramount Theater chose the perfect lazy Sunday afternoon movie to showcase this past weekend. Rob Reiner’s classic film The Princess Bride tells a story within a story, as it opens with a grandfather reading his (somewhat) bratty grandson a fairy tale, which becomes the main plotline for the rest of the film.


A&E

'God' that's good theater

Par for the course, the University’s Drama department’s most recent production proved that big emotion can spring from the smallest of stages.


A&E

Extreme makeover: Clemons edition

If you’ve ever stowed yourself away in Clemons Library during the wee hours of the morning, writing papers or studying for finals, you know what I mean when I say that Clemons can start to look and feel a little like a tomb around 3 a.m.


A&E

'Harlem Shake' rattles nerves

The word “meme” is tossed around quite a bit these days, but most people are unaware that the term, meaning an idea that spreads from individual to individual, was originally coined as an analogy to biological units like genes that self-replicate, mutate and spread.

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Since the Contemplative Commons opening April 4, the building has hosted events for the University community. Sam Cole, Commons’ Assistant Director of Student Engagement, discusses how the Contemplative Sciences Center is molding itself to meet students’ needs and provide a wide range of opportunities for students to discover contemplative practices that can help them thrive at the University.