Pillbox - The Tartan

Senior communication design major Sam Ahmed (right) garnered audience sympathy with his nuanced performance.

Scotch‘n’Soda play disturbs and amuses

The play works as a heady cocktail of guffaw-inducing one liners on one side and gut-wrenchingly painful moments on the other.

Author Jesymn Ward spoke about race and society in relation to her novels and memoirs last Monday at the Carnegie Music Hall.

Jesmyn Ward spins stories

When author Jesmyn Ward finished her speech on Mon., Feb. 5, she received a standing ovation that seemed to last for hours. Audience members were clapping, cheering, and some had tears in their eyes.

Advice for awkward people

I’ve been trying to get a girl to notice me for some time now.

Calendar

Monday 2.16.15 Dickson Prize in Science - Presentation and Lecture. McConomy Auditorium. 4:30 p.m. Joseph M. DeSimone of the University of North Carolina...

This sinful pie is so delicious that it is guaranteed to make you cry a little when you have finished it. But that’s okay because it only takes about 15 minutes to make yourself another. Go ahead, you deserve it.

Pie that’s almost as cold as your heart

The theme of this week’s dessert installment is “eat your feelings.”

Movies in McConomy

Interstellar is an epically beautiful film that stretches the imagination and the mind to its fullest.

Fabric piece “Feel Images (Hug)” contributes to the eerie feel of the exhibit with its paradoxical representation of empathy and distance.

Distant Feel exhibit leaves audience puzzled

Spanning one small room, the exhibit featured just three complete pieces, offering a limited and strange glimpse into Catala’s vision of sentiment in the modern day.

Though melodramatic and poorly executed, 50 Shades of Grey managed to pull in a whopping $81.7 million this past weekend, perhaps due to its convenient Valentine’s Day release.

Fifty Shades of Grey painful for Ana and audiences alike

Fifty Shades of Grey is what you’d expect. I’ll admit before I get into the nitty-gritty of the movie that I didn’t read the book, but I think in this case that may have been to my advantage.

Sam Smith, who touched hearts with his single “Stay with Me,” was rewarded handsomely at the Grammys.

Beck, Sam Smith win big at Grammys

Though I stand with the American public insofar as I have a very deep and real love for Beyoncé and her music, I am frustrated by the response at this year’s Grammys.

A Web of Rights: the latest Sony-Marvel agreement

This past week, it was announced that Marvel and Sony had finally reached a new deal over the rights to Spider-Man.

Fashion expert Lauren Conrad is known as an A-list best dresser, and to prove it wrote a book to help readers and fans learn how to dress like her.

Read up on fashion while you’re snowed in

People interested in fashion generally have a couple of sources of inspiration that they normally check out every now and then, like fashion magazines, blogs, and even everyday outfits worn by others.