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The Flaming Lips new album brings a psychedelic album to an even weirder place.

Too weird to beat The Beatles

Anne Nickoloff, Arts & Entertainment Editor October 31, 2014

It’s a wonder why The Flaming Lips felt the need to cover the entirety of The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” award-winning, culture-changing shockwave of an album… but they...

Dennis Lehane’s blood sport

Nardine Taleb, Contributing Reporter October 31, 2014

Dennis Lehane’s talk on Thursday, Oct. 23, had the audience guffawing in their seats. Not only is the thriller-novelist responsible for writing several adored books like “Shutter Island” and “The...

Footlighters’ belated Halloween celebration

Ellie Rambo, Staff Reporter October 31, 2014

The Footlighters don’t want you to forget Halloween again this year. “Everyone’s always busy with school and ends up missing it,” said student director Sam Haese. “Around Nov. 2 you look up...

Laverne Cox is a transgender actress starred on Orange is the New Black, a popular Netflix-original series.

“Orange is the New Black” star to speak on Nov. 6

Jessica Yang, Social Media Editor October 30, 2014

Laverne Cox, of “Orange is the New Black,” who plays an incarcerated, black, transgender woman, is coming to campus on Nov. 6 at 7 p.m. in the Tinkham Veale University Center. Although tickets are...

Rocky horror

Films for your fearfest

Winston Eng, Staff Reporter October 30, 2014

While I’m sure you’ll be on the lookout to catch ABC’s “Charlie Brown Great Pumpkin” special, “The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror” or your annual dose of Disney’s “Halloweentown” and...

Dennis Lehane’s tips for writing success

Anne Nickoloff, Arts & Entertainment Editor October 24, 2014

“I have a theory that you have 1,000 pages of crap in you,” said author Dennis Lehane, sitting at a table surrounded by students, “and you basically just write the crap out of you.” Before speaking...

Party in the blue spirit

Tiffany Cheung, Contributing Reporter October 21, 2014

On Oct. 16, Cleveland community gathered in Toby’s Plaza, under a huge tent which (thankfully) blocked out the rain. In the busy and bustling tent filled with blue, what stood out were two white think[box]...

All-star cast can’t save confusing plot

Winston Eng, Staff Reporter October 18, 2014

What could have been a tightly-worded, effective tool to demonstrate the social crisis overtly embedded in modern society, is no more than a confusing and honestly frustrating 119 minutes of stories which...

K.Flay

K.Flay on a Tuesday

Anne Nickoloff, Arts & Entertainment Editor October 17, 2014

Tucked in the dark back room of Mahall's 20 Lanes, a group of over 50 hipsters gathered on the evening of Oct. 14, waiting for indie rapper K.Flay to take the tiny stage. Leather jackets, piercings,...

The CWRU ghost researcher

Alex Clarke, Staff Reporter October 17, 2014

Michele Hanks went from crying on Disney World’s Pirates of the Caribbean ride, to sitting by “the hanging tree” at Chillingham Castle in England, in the middle of the night. Alone, her eyes and...

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