Raya seeks the help of the legendary dragon, Sisu. “Raya and the Last Dragon” © 2021 Disney. All Rights Reserved. As a gay, mixed East and Southeast Asian woman, growing up, representation was far and few between. I loved Disney princesses, but for years rejected Mulan because I felt pigeon-holed into believing she was the […]
The amount of time I spent watching Hallmark movies this holiday season is…embarrassing to say the least. However, there’s a certain kind of joy that comes from the predictability and cheesiness of a good Hallmark movie. So I watched and ranked all of them, so you don’t have to. There’s too many of these and […]
The trend I’ve been waiting for is also the bane of my existence You may have seen it popping up on Tik Tok and Instagram – high waisted dresses, reinvented ball gowns, visible corsets and bustier tops, formal gloves and pearl-encrusted headbands: Regency-Core, the newest fashion trend to hit runways and teens alike. A simple […]
On Wednesday, December 2, the music department will be live streaming a digital Christmas Collegium. It will involve choral society, brass choir, flute choir, orchestra, symphonic band, and jazz ensemble. As with all other performances and in general most things this year, it will be different from any Christmas Collegium of the past, simply due […]
On October 16th, the cast recording of Grace McLean’s off-Broadway musical, In The Green, was released. The album can only be described as an hour-long spiritual ascension that will leave you with absolutely no idea what is happening, but you won’t care. It tells the story of Hildegard von Bingen, one of the most important […]
What is Alex Trebek? On Saturday, November 7, beloved host of “Jeopardy!” Alex Trebek, passed away at the age of 80 of pancreatic cancer, which he revealed to be diagnosed with back in March 2019. It was announced by the “Jeopardy!” twitter that he passed peacefully at home surrounded by family and friends. Trebek had […]
On Wednesday September 16, Adele Marsland presented “From Archival Print to Modern Score: Making a Critical Edition of Two Seventeenth-Century Italian Motets” to the music department as the finale of her summer research program. Her project, supported by the J.E.A. Crake Foundation, was to transcribe two of Arcangelo Borsaro’s motets from seventeenth-century musical notation into […]
Schitt’s Creek sweeps the Emmys. In a surprise turn of events, the final season of Schitt’s Creek’s broke records for winning nine awards overall–sweeping the majority of the comedy categories. These included all four comedic acting categories, writing, and best series, against popular favourites such as The Good Place and Dead To Me. This is […]
Celebrating Autumn Moon Festival in Sackville On Thursday, October 1st, a full moon hung over Waterfowl Park. Seemingly unremarkable to most, for me it was Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, a holiday that I usually spend laughing, surrounded by family. Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, although named slightly differently depending on the country, is a festival celebrated by Chinese, […]