Author: Mike Williams

Opinions

Photoblog inspires new, brighter outlook

While parents like to blame online communities as another outlet for procrastination (they’re half right), I prefer to think of them as platforms to make new discoveries. The Internet recently led me to the photoblog “Humans of New York.” I’m so glad I stumbled onto it because quite honestly, it changed the way I look at a lot of things.

Opinions

History may predict results of crucial World Cup match

#495174877 / gettyimages.com by Austin Coats, sports editor If the popular adage that “history repeats itself” is indeed true, expect a win from the United States in today’s match against Germany. As it turns out, multiple aspects of this match are comparable to aspects of both World Wars. In both, Germany made itself a world […]

Entertainment

Lush sounds of “Ultraviolence” leave listener in languorous haze

by Shilpa Saravanan, editor-in-chief Lana Del Rey’s latest record, “Ultraviolence,” seems at first to be merely a continuation of the ethereal, faux-retro style that Del Rey employed with significant success on her previous two studio albums. Indeed, lyrically, little has changed. Del Rey remains as decadent, dark and dangerously self-aware as […]