Album Review: Animals-Pink Floyd (1977)

Album Review: Animals-Pink Floyd (1977)

By Wyatt McElroy October 9, 2020

  Released in 1977, Pink Floyd’s ‘Animals’ exudes the anti-establishment aggression prevalent in the 70’s punk scene while staying true to Floyd’s progressive rock roots. The album opens...

Book Review: Wicked

Book Review: Wicked

By Robert Mullins, Reporter June 11, 2020

Lately, I have taken a break from my classics to read a more contemporary novel. This week, I am reading Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire. It is a revisionist...

Book Review: The Sun Also Rises

Book Review: The Sun Also Rises

By Robert Mullins, Reporter May 29, 2020

Published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises is Ernest Hemingway’s debut novel. It depicts a group of American and British acquaintances who travel to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona, Spain. The novel...

Book Review: The Scarlet Letter

Book Review: The Scarlet Letter

By Robert Mullins, Reporter May 8, 2020

In The Scarlet Letter by Nathanial Hawthorne, Hester Prynne is a Puritan woman accused of having an amorous relationship outside of her marriage. This claim is only substantiated by the birth of...

Future Diary: Not a Very Good Show

Future Diary: Not a Very Good Show

By Aidan Higgins, Editor April 26, 2020

Once in a blue moon, the cruel, heartless television gods who reign down from the heavens above find themselves overcome with compassion and bless their earthly subjects with a television show that is...

How the Nature vs Nurture Debate Contradicts Free Will

How the Nature vs Nurture Debate Contradicts Free Will

By Aidan Higgins, Editor February 27, 2020

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the psychological argument I have alluded to in the title, the nature versus nurture debate is an intellectual conflict that has been waged across various fields...

Who Done It?: A Review of Clue

By Justin Caulfield, Assistant Reporter December 12, 2019

Clue on Stage is an interesting and intriguing play made by the Mercy and Xavier High School Drama Club, based on the Paramount movie from 1985. The play includes the iconic characters from the board game...

Madden NFL 20 Review

Madden NFL 20 Review

By Sam Rector, Assistant Reporter November 21, 2019

A few months ago, the video game Madden NFL 20 was released by EA Sports for PS4, XBox, and Microsoft Windows. People have grown wary of the franchise and EA in general, but I’m here to tell you this...

The Egg

The Egg

By Aidan Higgins, Senior Reporter October 3, 2019

PLEASE NOTE: It is recommended that the reader reads The Egg prior to reading this article. “Treat others as you would treat them if they were you…for they very well may be.” In essence, this...

My Favorite Games of 2018

My Favorite Games of 2018

By Kevin Galasso, Editor January 24, 2019

When I look back at 2018 in terms of video games, I see a year that was full of both ups and downs. While there were many great games that released in 2018, there was also a lot of subpar and disappointing...

Rap Just Isnt What it Used to Be

Rap Just Isn’t What it Used to Be

By Aidan Higgins, Assistant Reporter January 17, 2019

"Like you seen him twirl, then he drop, n**** / And we keep them 9 millis on my block, n**** / And Monte keep it on him, he done dropped n***** / And Trigger he be wildin', he some hot n***** / Tones known...

Xavier and Mercys Anon(ymous): Captivating and Emotional

Xavier and Mercy’s Anon(ymous): Captivating and Emotional

By Laurenz Mosquito, Senior Reporter December 3, 2018

"Where I come from"—these are the words that stick with you after seeing Xavier and Mercy's production of Naomi Iizuka's Anon(ymous). Full of potent imagery and well-placed humor, the play proves to...

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