Weekly EP: Seeing sounds with Jack Garratt
This summer is shaping up to be a career-skyrocketing one for musician Jack Garratt. Releasing his latest EP, the notably bearded artist will open for Mumford & Sons for two dates in Canada. With a sound that is both synthetic…
Nightwish takes new direction on ‘Endless Forms Most Beautiful’
Nightwish is the kind of band that seems to have sparked an entire subgenre of female-fronted symphonic metal. They have been one of the “go-to” bands for music that is not only epic and ecliptic, but captivating and beautiful….
‘The Comedians’ misses mark, lacks narrative direction
“The Comedians” premiered Thursday April 9 on the FX network. The show received just under one million viewers in its first episode, according to Nielsen ratings. The show is decent, yet lacks the actors’ true comedic styles and a sense…
‘Marvel’s Daredevil’ violent, gritty portrayal of superheroics
Most people look visibly puzzled or just outright laugh when you mention Marvel Comics’ Daredevil as a character. He’s a blind lawyer by day who dresses like a crimson luchador and protects an ugly, irrelevant neighborhood by night. Hell,…
Fifth season of ‘Game of Thrones’ amps up intrigue, danger
The fifth season of Game of Thrones premiered April 12 at 9 p.m. with viewers glued to their TVs and computers anticipating another heartbreaking thrill ride of a season. The first episode, titled “The Wars To Come,” sets the tone…
End of an era imminent during final ‘Mad Men’ season
The first episodes of the final season, or eighth and ninth, if you want to get technical, of “Mad Men” are entitled “Severance” and “New Business,” respectively. Yet, in these mildly surreal, elegiac episodes nothing is really severed and old…
Eighth season of singing competition ‘The Voice’ heats up
From the beginning, the eighth season of “The Voice” has continued to heighten expectations. Spectacular auditions lent themselves to great battles and even better knockouts. Now, with only eight contestants left, it seems as though the top music competition will…
Creative Writing: A Happy Melancholia
Squeaking my sneakers out of the train station, I find the Colosseum above my eyes, a beautiful representation of the circle of life where many perished by blood, today camera flashes adorn its walls. They say that the Romans…
Four students rescued by Coast Guard from Lake Ontario
[su_youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_EsCJMGxQs” width=”1080″ height=”720″] Four Oswego State students are safe onshore after the U.S. Coast Guard had to be called in to rescue them. The students were found adrift miles out, off the shoreline of SUNY Oswego as the day…
Police killing of black man caught on tape
On April 1, a video surfaced on Instagram that showed a 21-year-old male by the name of Samir Hill dominating a pair of on-duty Philadelphia police officers in a game of pick-up basketball. While the officers were embarrassed by the…
