Arts & Entertainment / March 26, 2024 Film cameras have seen a resurgence of popularity

by Diego Teixeira Setton–It’s been more than 20 years since digital cameras took over as the go–to way to capture an image. Digital is faster, more practical, and less expensive, but recently, it seems that film photography has made somewhat of a comeback. Social media has undoubtedly helped film, as it exposed its unique charm...

Arts & Entertainment, News / March 26, 2024 Student art show winners named

by Diego Teixeira Setton–This past Wednesday, March 20, the reception for the Morningside Student Art Show was held in Eppley Art Gallery. The top-3 artworks of each category were ranked by two guest-judges present at the event; refreshments were also available to guests. The winners in each category were: Jordan Kwarcinski, who won first place in...

Arts & Entertainment, News / March 18, 2024 Morningside hosts student art show

by Diego Teixeira Setton–Morningside is hosting a student art show from February 26 to March 2. The exposition will be held in the Eppley Auditorium Art Gallery. It will be open from 8 am to 5 pm on weekdays to all public for free. The exhibition features three different categories: studio art, photography and graphic design....

Arts & Entertainment, Morningside People / December 11, 2023 Senior art show: ‘Art as an Educator’

by Chaise Pfanstiel–Lauren Hedlund, a Morningside senior, presented her solo art show called “Art as an Educator.” Her solo show involved a reception on Monday, December 4, and continued through the week, ending Friday December 8. Students, faculty, and the public were all invited to see and purchase Hedlund’s artwork. Hedlund’s art show showcases artwork...

Arts & Entertainment / October 11, 2023 Equalizer 3: It’s not Man on Fire, unfortunately

by Alexis Spier — Denzel Washington is equalizing again. This time he’s in Italy. In Equalizer 3, Robert McCall (Denzel) travels to Sicily in search of the man who stole something. Before we see McCall on screen, the camera follows an older man with a young boy pulling up into the driveway of a large...

Arts & Entertainment, News / September 18, 2023 Coming in November: Leveling Up

by Alexis Spier–The cast for the play Leveling Up has been decided. The opening show will be performed Thursday, November 9, in Klinger Neal Theater.  Leveling Up is about three video-game loving teenagers living in Las Vegas. Playing video games becomes more than fun for one of the teens when he is hired by the...

Arts & Entertainment / December 11, 2022 We Deserve Monuments- Book Review

by Payton Miller — We Deserve Monuments- Book ReviewReleased November 29th, We Deserve Monuments has made waves in unexpected ways across social media.  We Deserve Monuments, a book by Jas Hammons, follows the story of 17 year-old Avery Anderson as she moves with her family from Washington DC to the small town of Bardell, Georgia....

Arts & Entertainment / October 23, 2022 Amsterdam Review

By Rena Ketelsen – Amsterdam (2022) is a very peculiar, funny movie with powerful, compelling performances from actors such as Margot Robbie, Christian Bale, and John David Washington. The movie, directed by David O. Russell, was released on October 7. The cast is star-studded including names like Robert De Niro, Anya Taylor-Joy, Rami Malek, and...

Arts & Entertainment / October 23, 2022 Werewolf By Night Review

By Rena Ketelsen – Werewolf By Night (2022) breaks a streak of recent disappointing Marvel Studios productions with a well-executed attempt at using a different genre and interesting, new characters. Marvel Studios’ Special Feature is a 54-minute-long special feature that was released on October 7, 2022, on Disney Plus. Unlike other recent Marvel Studios productions,...

Arts & Entertainment / October 17, 2022 She-Hulk Is Part of Marvel Trend

By Rena Ketelsen – She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022) is the introduction of Jennifer Walters aka She-Hulk (Tatiana Maslany) into the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). It is part of a streak of recent Marvel Studios productions that have been decent at best and straight-out disappointing at worst. It was preceded by Thor: Love and Thunder...

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Book Review: Blur by Steven James

By Jenni Beaver–During the last four days I have had one thing going through my mind.  “Just one more chapter.”  I’ve been reading—and I have been enthralled with—Steven James’s Blur, the story of Daniel Byers, a sixteen-year-old Wisconsin student, who, over the past few weeks, has been seeing “visions” of a girl named Emily Jackson. …

Gilmore Girls Comes to Netflix
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Gilmore Girls Comes to Netflix

By Katie Copple– They were the ideal mother/daughter pair that we idolized throughout our pre-teen years. We heard countless Gilmore-ism’s throughout the middle school hallways. It was THE SHOW to watch during its seven-season run, and on October 1st Gilmore Girls hit Netflix with all of its run-on sentences and coffee-induced glory. It has been seven…

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Hulu Series Review: Dorm Life

By Hannah Hecht– After my previous two recommendations, a political drama and a high school drama/comedy (The West Wing and Freaks and Geeks) I figured it was about time to move on to a television review that hit a little bit closer to the Morningside experience. It always seems like there is a huge gap between…

Classic Film Review: Dark City
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Classic Film Review: Dark City

By Nik Rasmussen— In 1998, I was wandering around in a movie rental business on the outskirts of Cloves, New Mexico.  The building, a doublewide trailer with an add-on in the center, housed wall-to-wall VHS movies. Between the desert dust that was visible in the sunlight shining down through the window and the strong haze of…

Classic Film Review: The Birds
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Classic Film Review: The Birds

By Nik Rasmussen– For starters, I’ve seen a lot of movies, and I mean a lot of movies; I’ve seen many, in fact, that most people are not even aware of.  Feeling the need to change up from the movies of today, I was shopping around and stumbled on the classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller The Birds. …

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