Category: Arts & Entertainment

The Odyssey: Nolan Hits the Target Again…Straight Through Twelve Axes

Let me tell you, I’m not a morning person. It takes a lot to get me out of bed in the morning, let alone to get up early. But when The Odyssey (2026) is in theaters, and the only showing I can get to is at 7:50 a.m., an exception must be made. I hope […]

Sophia Caneira ’29

‘Cause I’m Coming Home Again: Seeing Kanye West Night One in Soldier Field

In the year of our lord, 2026, there isn’t a musical artist quite as controversial and divisive as Kanye West, or Ye, as he has proudly been referring to himself in recent times. Since the dawn of his career, Ye has been on record sporting an attitude and a loud mouth in almost any interview […]

Andrew Auclair ’29

Disco Is Not Dead

It Just Took A Nap There is a saying that tends to unite generations with varying degrees of success: “What’s old isnew again.” Obviously, gone are the days of actual disco venues where one could spend theirweekends trying to look as effortless as John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever (1977).Nonetheless, certain forms of art tend […]

Ian Gualtiere ’27

Why The Flat Screen Is Here To Stay

How Television Shows Dethroned Movies As King From Alfred Hitchcock to Martin Scorsese, Hollywood’s movies sat atop the throne of arts and entertainment for years. Yet in the late 1990s, HBO, looking to overtake its competitors, would change the television show model and alter the landscape of arts and entertainment for the foreseeable future. Before […]

Andrew Katz ’26

Stand By Me

The Last Summer Before Everything Changes Stand By Me (1986), directed by the late, great Rob Reiner, does what very few movies can do in just one hour and 29 minutes. This is not your average movie you throw on before going to bed. This is a movie that stays with you. Based on the […]

Thomas Marinelli ’26

It’s McCartney’s World

We’re Just Living In It We all know the impact of The Beatles, whose songs like “Here Comes The Sun” and “Hey Jude” prompt mass sing-alongs and connect generations with similar musical tastes. But this is not an article about the history of the band; that article would try to encompass the wide range of […]

Ian Gualtiere ’27

The Drama

Everyone’s Dream Wedding… Perhaps one of the most anticipated films of 2026 so far, Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama, starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, relied on vagueness of the plot in the promotional material. So, when I sat down in the theater, I had no idea what I was getting myself into, and reflecting on my […]

Sydney King ’26

A Step Forward, but Not a Comeback

A Commentary on Kanye West’s BULLY Following a controversial buildup, Kanye West’s 12th studio album, BULLY, was released on March 28, to a very mixed reception from fans. On one hand, there are the super-fans who celebrated its release and were ready to call it a masterpiece before even hitting play. On the other hand, […]

Andrew Auclair ’29

You Don’t Know Music…

Until You’ve Heard The Dark Side of The Moon I’m sure that at some point, everyone has seen the iconic prism refracting a beam of light into a rainbow on an all-black square and wondered what it is or where it came from. It probably wasn’t until middle school that I learned it was an […]

Thomas Marinelli ’26

America’s Love Story, or its Greatest Misrepresentation?

The world has become infatuated with the lives of Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and John F. Kennedy Jr. following the release of FX’s short series Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette. With the series concluding last week, multiple media outlets and individuals close to the couple have begun to question the accuracy of its […]

Ryan Brodigan ’29