October Staff Picks: Spooky Movie Reviews

Featured: Hocus Pocus 2 Review by Tianna Bongiovanni If you are anything like me, you hold your breath when a major film studio announces the making of a sequel because, from my personal experience, they tend to let me down. By no means is it an easy task – expectations run high and the pressure … Read moreOctober Staff Picks: Spooky Movie Reviews

FALL: Comfort amongst change

Fall is a season that’s the backdrop of many songs, movies, celebrations, and memories which we hold incredibly dear to us. So of course it deserves to be written about as well. Now that it’s made its annual visit into our lives of course I mulled over it as deeply as I could and tried to bring its cold crisp feeling to the surface.

The Renewed Importance of Persepolis Amid Iranian Protests

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is an autobiographical comic book that follows the journey of its author, Marjane, as she grows up in Iran during the Islamic revolution in the 80s and 90s. The book is now more important than ever as the current human rights protests in Iran remind us that the people of Iran are still fighting for their rights and humanity, just as Marjane did 40 years ago.