Arts

You’ve spent the year with textbooks, notebooks, and novels of many kinds but maybe it’s time to have a nice relaxing read by the pool? Well, maybe your summer won’t be spent near water but wherever you are these next few months it can’t hurt to have a nice book [...]

“I keep panicking. I thought that being a reporter would mean being able to–keep some distance from the story, that it would all be really interesting and I would care a lot, but it wouldn’t be personal.” Kami Glass has finally gained permission to start her high school’s first newspaper, [...]

Rankin Hall may be known to some as the building located so far down Montgomery street that it doesn’t appear to be a part of Saint Peter’s University at first glance but, as the home to the Fine Arts & Graphic Arts departments, it has also been a place of [...]

Once studying’s out of the way, the finals have passed, and most textbooks have been sold back for a much less amount than what they were purchased for, summer will finally be here! Whether you decide to go on vacation, stay at home, or go right back to Saint Peter’s [...]

Saint Peter’s University’s drama club Argus Eyes has a knack for taking on big productions and this year is no different. The cast is eager to debut their latest production, the world renowned show, RENT. RENT is the story of a group of young friends living in the Lower East [...]

By now, many readers have at least heard of The Fault in our Stars, the YA novel by New York Times best-selling author John Green. Written in January of 2012, it has become one of John Green’s most beloved and appreciated books – mostly because of it’s two main characters, [...]

“Despite the suffrage, despite the rise of the flapper, despite the fact that women could work, could live independent lives, despite our being able to fling off corsets and adopt comfortable clothing, despite all our modern conveniences, not much had changed for women.” Describing the tale of two moths forever [...]

Gamers have continued to witness the vast changes within the gaming world. Portable game systems are no longer a concept from the past, consoles are now sleek and designed to handle more than just gaming and the games themselves have become even more cutting-edge; the graphics more stunning, the character designs more lifelike and the possibilities of ‘who,where, what [...]

A classic tale of romance, family duty and life-altering choices, topped with true sacrifices and consequence. Lucia,Lucia is centered around the life of a stylish, confident career-girl named Lucia (yes, that’s where the book title comes in) from 1950’s New York when opportunities in career seemed endless for ambitious young women such as Lucia, but [...]

A famous and curious monkey has joined forces with a certain Navi to educate and amaze, both are part of the new exhibitions at Liberty Science Center that recently opened to the public. “When they see the projection their jaws drop,” says John C., a volunteer at Liberty Science Center. [...]

Enter into the world of “The Last Girlfriend on Earth” and you’ll find yourself stumbling through story after story of pretty interesting characters, plot twists and satirical metaphors. Sirens, trolls, cavemen and dogs are all out searching for love and humans seem even more confused and out of touch with [...]

Darryl ‘D.M.C’ McDaniels, one of Hip Hop’s greatest legends and one-third of the groundbreaking Hip Hop group, Run-D.M.C, came to St. Peter’s to illustrate the true meaning of hip hop and how it has evolved throughout the years. Run-DMC is considered one of the best hip hop groups of all [...]

On February 7th at 7pm in Roy Irving Theater, Saint Peter’s University held “God of Carnage”. Bravo and Brava to Garvey Potter and Helene McGavin for directing this play!  The play was free, but I would have payed admission to watch this excellent production. The play begins with two sets [...]

17th Century Germany in the secluded village of Schongau, Bavaria. This is the setting for Oliver Potzsch’s book The Hangman’s Daughter; the first book in his A Hangman’s Daughter Tale series. Town hangman/executioner Jakob Kuisl is seen as more of a necessity than a person in Schongau. To be a [...]