To the average college student, the potential of being handed $1000 is like Willy Wonka handing you a check instead of a golden ticket. “Here you go. Do whatever you want!” It’s freedom. Keeping in mind the vast possibilities of what one could do with $1000, many would choose travel, gadgets or luxury. But if […]
Stepping into the square shaped Noorda Theatre, I didn’t know what to expect from The Story Stone, an original UVU Theater department production. The half-filled seats surrounded the minimalist decorated circular stage, allowing the collective audience a 360-degree perspective of the actors. The first scene presented an atmospheric introduction of tribal chants accompanied by auxiliary […]
God bless Jamba Juice. The employees there have come to know me by name and exactly when I’ll be stopping by for my morning fresh-squeezed juice. I converted to a vegetarian diet over the summer, partly for health reasons and partly due to personal choice. Since returning to campus I often get frustrated as I […]
As I’ve been playing the new Grand Theft Auto and working on my review, I’ve had to experience some very violent content. As a person who enjoys playing video games, it’s content that I am relatively used to seeing. Some people would tell you that this has turned me into some kind of monster that […]
Marisha Pessl’s new book Night Film revolves around the mysterious, untimely death of Ashley Cordova, the piano-prodigy daughter of a reclusive cult-followed Lynch/Kubrick/Polanski-type film director, Stanislas Cordova. Although at a surface level it might seem to trot out the “Female Relative of a Male Professional” trope that an astonishing amount of novels deploy, the frictions […]
I’m having trouble pinning down exactly what makes this game so good. It’s hard to determine what really makes this game stand out against all the other great games of this generation. It shares a massive living world with Skyrim, the action is better than any Call of Duty or Uncharted, and the characters are […]
In the summer of 2001, Dreamwork’s Shrek movie shook up the animation medium with their fresh and new twist on the fairytale genre that has captured the imaginations of generations. The Shrek movies took the tropes of the classic hero tale and turned it on its head with quick wit and cultural references. Not only […]
Walking down the hall in the PE building, you pass that dance room that everyone has at least paused to stare at–if not for just a few extra seconds–to see who might be practicing in there, from ballerinas to ballroom dancers. Whether you are a dancer or not, we all love to see dancers right? […]
Former Utah Valley State College student Steven Greenstreet documented some of the last visible demonstrations of activism on campus with his camera. His documentary, “This Divided State,” portrays passionate disputes between Utah Valley’s most conservative Republicans and defenders of free speech. The clash was fueled by the acts of the student body president and vice […]
Less than three weeks after the grand opening celebration of Taco Bell on September 6, the restaurant has made an estimated $2,500 per day in sales. “I hope [sales] will increase as we add breakfast to our menu in one week and as we get faster at our line service,” said Val Brown, director of […]