Pencil Shavings | Tessa Blair
I want to be a dentist!” I told my mom confidently, ecstatic that at age six I already knew my calling in life. Then at age seven, I was wiser. I had really planned my future; I was going to be a poet. Later, I
Daily Archives: November 15, 2017
Blood Tangent | Sarai Nissan
I’m on the list,” I say not so surreptitiously to the grumbling face behind scratched up, filthy glass. A little surge of superiority floods my brain whenever I say it. I feel cool, like a VIP ghoul, like maybe I’m kind of important. “Can I
Stranger than Fiction | Matt Kriese
In the grand context of the world, there is an almost unapproachable plethora of issues threatening the stability of a country’s wellbeing. Questions regarding global recessions, women’s rights, and independence have haunted national news coverage for the better part of the past decade. These issues
The Minority Report | Ashley Kim
I recently attended a “Queer Faith Panel” hosted by CU Denver’s Women and Gender Center. The panel featured students and staff from the Auraria campus who identify with a queer identity and a faith identity—two things that are often autonomous of each other. Some students
Soaked in Bleach: A documentary that speaks the truth
HOW DID KURT COBAIN REALLY DIE? It’s Tuesday, April 5, 1994. Every news and radio channel is covering the same story, none with a definitive answer. It was reported that a body was found in east Seattle with self-inflicted shotgun wounds to the head. Once
Photo Booth: Queer Lives Matter
CU Denver’s very own Genders and Sexualities Alliance (GSA) held their annual Queer Lives Resource Fair and Drag Show on Nov. 2. This event served to provide helpful resources to all students of the Auraria Campus. With food and fun prizes available for raffle by checking in
Cardi B drops records and takes names
WOMEN IN HIP HOP GET NOTORIETY Cardi B is one of the few women to successfully monopolize the market on Instagram fame and use reality TV to garner her hip hop career. Born Ballcalis Almanzar, the bronx-born rapper signed to Atlantic Records after choosing to
MGMT | Little Dark Age: Music Video Review
Artist MGMT Single: Little Dark Age Release Date: 2017 MGMT and their visual identity have come to a new urbanity with a music video for the single, “Little Dark Age.” MGMT is not a stranger to the surreal and has successfully slithered their hallucinogenic tentacles
Ho99o9 | Neighborhood Watch: Single Review
Artist: Ho99o9 Single: Neighborhood Watch Release Date: 2017 In this increasingly evolutionary period of human history, it is only natural that hip hop and hard-core punk would coincide into the form of a gritty, mutinous band that goes by Ho99o9—pronounced “horror.” Following their first full
Surf rock ensemble promotes self-love
THE DRUMS PUT ON AN INTIMATE SHOW AT THE BLUEBIRD With temperatures of fall waning into the freezing cold of winter, The Drums and their dolefully optimistic surf rock brought back a taste of the summer sun to Denver on Nov. 6 at the Bluebird Theatre.