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Songland Renewed for Second Season

Pulling Back the Curtain on the Songwriting Process by Grace Whitman ’22 A&E Staff Ever since the year 2002, when American Idol began on Fox, America has been in love with singing competition shows. These shows seek to discover the best vocal singers in the country through a series of nationwide auditions. The power is […]

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Post Malone Releases Hollywood’s Bleeding

A Diverse New Project Born from Collaboration by Daniel O’Neill ’21 A&E Staff Post Malone is arguably one of the most influential and successful artists in music right now. Although initially branded as a sure one-hit wonder after his debut single “White Iverson,” he has managed to prove everyone wrong. This is in part due […]

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Administration Responds to Education Department Backlash

by Hannah Langley ’21 News Co-Editor Over the past few years, the Providence College community has been working hard to create a better sense of equality and diversity. Despite these initiatives, however, recent controversy has arisen surrounding the practices of the PC elementary and special education department.  On Sept. 18, an email was sent to […]

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Green Day, Fall Out Boy, and Weezer

Bands Announce Joint World Tour by Julia Vaccarella ’20 A&E Staff For anyone nostalgic for the 2000’s alternative-punk sound, three popular bands have recently announced a joint tour, which will commence next summer. Green Day, Fall Out Boy, and Weezer, have decided to team up to put on a show for fans. Decades ago, rock […]

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Ambition

by Clara Howard ’20 Freshman year English class, my teacher asked us to open Macbeth and ever since then, his lady has meant “ambition” to me. And ever since then I’ve been told I should act like my life has one track that’ll bring me straight to the throne otherwise known as a job I’d […]

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Internal Beauty

by Grace O’Connor ’22 She looked down at the picture longingly as she walked down the beach. Her fingers wiped off the thin layer of dust as they brushed over the creases on the photo. Her smile was big and bright and her eyes had this twinkle of hope. Looking at the photo of when […]

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The Dark

by Jay Willett ’20 Adrenaline, the veins on my temple popped, blood pumped away from the brain and into the legs. Don’t look back, otherwise, it’ll get you. Though the basement was finished, and the carpet bristled under my pacing feet, it was a dungeon, miles underneath Celtic gravel. Stripped of sight, the setting of […]

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Questions

by Sarah Heavren ’21 What is a poem? It’s a series of words. Its lines contain more Than a rhyme to be heard. What is a painting? It is meant to express A certain idea That shouldn’t be suppressed. What is a story? It’s something to be told. It’s happy or sad Based off how […]

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Magic

by Sam Pellman ’20 I turned around one more time and swallowed back the tears that were forming. I’d be back in four months, but why did that feel like an eternity in this moment? No, I can’t cry, I won’t. The car ride was silent. No one knew what to say. I was leaving […]

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The Other World

by Erin Venuti ’20 In the third grade, your world is very small. There’s the house, the grocery store, the dance studio. Most importantly, there’s that brick building with the linoleum floors and the bright fluorescent lights to which you’re transported each morning in your mom’s trusted minivan. This is the elementary school. This was […]

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